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Words With Friends: Replacement Letters Bug

Nobody else seems to be mentioning this online, but I don’t think I am mad…

When you put down a word and the game gives you new letters “from the bag”, it is taking a look and deciding which replacement letters to give you. It isn’t random.

I’ve played enough games now to notice that when you put down a small number of letters – 1, 2 or 3 – more often than should be by chance you either get the same letters back or the same type of letters. Put three vowels down and get three vowels back.

I understand how someone could mistakenly think this was a bug if they only focused on when it pissed them off. I don’t think I am guilty of that.

For example, I just played one letter, an H. It gave me an H back. So I played that H, and I got another back. 🙁