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Hard to Guess Hanging with Friends Words (8 Letters)

gmichaelguy — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:27:46 +0000

I analyzed all the words in the Hanging with Friends dictionary to determine which words I think are the hardest to guess. I included a rating of each word in my Hanging with Friends Word Builder. Most words are rated 0 since they can be easily guessed using my Hanging with Friends Word Solver with or without using a lifeline.

Here are the words I determined to be the hardest to guess. I’m posting them in separate posts based on word size.

Zynga gives you the last vowel for free AND only 4 strikes to guess the remaining 7 letters. In hangman, 8 letter words are often easy to guess since there are so many letters you can sometimes just get lucky and guess a correct letter and get another clue. But Zynga’s strike rule is extremely punitive for 8 letter words. As a result, 8 letter words are extremely difficult to guess, IF you can pick a good word like the ones below.

You’ll note that we finally see an appearance of my top score I give to a word. There are three words tied for the honors of hardest to guess Hanging with Friends words

So here are my top 14 Eight Letter Hanging with Friends words.

word	Score***
fuddling	100
puzzling	100
vuggiest	100
buggiest	76
burriest	76
cuttling	76
huddling	76
puckered	76
ruddiest	76
rumpling	76
shammers	76
shudders	76
thumbing	76
trucking	76

** The Score column lists my own rating (out of 100) at how hard this word is to guess. I can’t tell you how I determined what that number is–it’s my own secret recipe but it involves some math! This isn’t the points you’d earn.You can’t cheat using my Hanging with Friends Word Solver to guess these words. You’ll have to be more clever.

Hard to Guess Hanging with Friends Words (7 Letters)

gmichaelguy — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:25:14 +0000

Here are the words I determined to be the hardest to guess. I’m posting them in separate posts based on word size.

Zynga gives you the last vowel for free AND 5 strikes to guess the remaining 6 letters

So here are my top 12 Seven Letter Hanging with Friends words.

word	Score***
bucking	96
jazzing	96
yucking	96
buzzing	81
ducking	81
fulling	81
huffing	81
jelling	81
mucking	81
waxwing	81
yeuking	81
yukking	81

Hard to Guess Hanging with Friends Words (6 Letters)

gmichaelguy — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 13:22:34 +0000

Here are the words I determined to be the hardest to guess. I’m posting them in separate posts based on word size.

Zynga gives you the last vowel for free AND 6 strikes to guess the remaining 5 letters

So here are my top 9 Six Letter Hanging with Friends words.

word	Score***
waived	84
baking	70
buzzed	70
jazzed	70
jogged	70
joking	70
jugged	70
willed	70
yucked	70

Hard to Guess Hanging with Friends Words (5 Letters)

gmichaelguy — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:18:21 +0000

Here are the words I determined to be the hardest to guess. I’m posting them in separate posts based on word size.

Zynga gives you the last vowel for free AND 7 strikes to guess the remaining 4 letters

So here are my top 26 Five Letter Hanging with Friends words.

word	Score***
fazes	82
baked	68
cited	68
japes	68
waves	68
yowes	68
zaxes	68
babes	55
bayed	55
coxes	55
faves	55
foxed	55
foxes	55
fykes	55
hajes	55
hazed	55
hiker	55
howes	55
jakes	55
jiver	55
joker	55
jokes	55
joyed	55
piped	55
waxes	55
wizes	55

You can’t cheat using my Hanging with Friends Word Solver to guess these words. You’ll have to be more clever.

Hard to Guess Hanging with Friends Words (4 Letters)

gmichaelguy — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:14:50 +0000

Here are the words I determined to be the hardest to guess. I’m posting them in separate posts based on word size.

In hangman, 4 letter words are usually harder to guess than longer words. But since Zynga gives you the last vowel for free AND 8 strikes to guess the remaining 3 letters, they actually often become quite easy to guess. And of course you can always use 9 strikes with the Revive lifeline or narrow it more with the 4 Suspects lifeline.

So here are my top 12 Four Letter Hanging with Friends words.

word	Score**
kafs	73
fyke	59
hawk	59
jake	59
jape	59
jars	59
joke	59
lacs	59
mice	59
mime	59
wave	59
wite	59

You can’t cheat using my Hanging with Friends Word Solver to guess these words. You’ll have to be more clever.

iOS 4.0.9 TW Bonus Frequency (Is DL the new TW?)

gmichaelguy — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:51:49 +0000

After the recent iOS 4.0.9 update, many people took to Facebook to complain that the TW bonus was becoming scarcer than before. Formerly, this was the most common bonus people received. Many speculated this was a decision made by Zynga since the Hanging with Friends Coin Store opened, and it now allows coin purchases with cash. I wasn’t concerned about the why as much as determining if it is true. That’s where my site has some good value since I’ve got lots of hard core stats to use for such questions.

The 4.0.9 hit the iOS app store on 10/13. For the data I have collected below after 10/15, there’s no guarantee that the data is ALL from an iOS device with 4.0.9 installed, but you’ll see that there’s a really big change in the tw regardless. One should note this is just a small sample in the wide world of Hanging with Friends, but I think it’s big enough to make some casual observations.

Here are the details in a nice data table (or four!).

Distribution of 1,157 Games on or after 10/8/2011, but before 10/12/2011. This is BEFORE 4.0.9 update released.
Location	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total
dw	1.0%	0.9%	0.8%	1.8%	2.3%	2.7%	3.5%	2.9%	16.0%
dl	1.3%	0.9%	1.6%	4.3%	3.4%	3.5%	5.4%	4.7%	25.1%
tw	3.2%	1.2%	2.5%	4.7%	5.4%	4.8%	8.0%	7.8%	37.4%
tl	0.6%	1.3%	1.6%	2.9%	3.4%	3.2%	3.7%	4.8%	21.5%
Total	6.1%	4.2%	6.5%	13.7%	14.4%	14.2%	20.7%	20.2%	100.0%

Compare the above table to what seems to be happening after the update.

Distribution of 1,445 Games on or after 10/15/2011, but before 10/19/2011. This is AFTER 4.0.9 update released.
Location	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total	Change
dw	0.8%	0.5%	1.0%	1.5%	2.0%	2.0%	3.1%	2.0%	12.9%	–
dl	1.9%	2.8%	2.1%	4.0%	5.8%	4.1%	8.2%	5.7%	34.6%	+
tw	1.5%	1.0%	1.5%	2.7%	2.0%	2.6%	3.5%	4.1%	18.7%	–
tl	1.9%	2.1%	2.2%	4.3%	4.4%	3.5%	6.9%	8.5%	33.8%	+
Total	6.0%	6.4%	6.7%	12.5%	14.3%	12.2%	21.7%	20.3%	100.0%

It certainly looks like TW (the highest) took a dive and DL (the lowest) took over the lead. The TL also got a boost, while DW took a dive. There doesn’t seem to be any significant change in bonus placement, however.

So is this a conspiracy to buy more coins with cash? Well let’s see how this plays out with coin accumulation.

My Word Builder/Word Generator always finds the highest points word possible for a given set of letters and bonus. If someone always picks the highest points words (never mind that you’ll probably lose because they are likely also easier to guess!), what would happen? Using the same sample I used for the above calculations, here’s how many points and coins you would earn.

Maximum Possible Points and Coin Accumulation for 1,157 Games on or after 10/8/2011, but before 10/12/2011. This is BEFORE 4.0.9 update released.
Total Top Points	40,463
Coins	4,046.3
Words Per Coin	0.285940242
Words Per 1000 Coins	285.9402417

And here’s the after update.

Maximum Possible Points and Coin Accumulation for 1,445 Games on or after 10/15/2011, but before 10/19/2011. This is AFTER 4.0.9 update released.
Total Top Points	43,344
Coins	4,334.4
Words Per Coin	0.333379476
Words Per 1000 Coins	333.3794758

The upshot seems to be there’s now a 14.2% tax on coins. That is, you’ve got to play about 14.2% longer to earn 1,000 coins (or any number of coins) than before the 4.0.9 iOS update.

Conspiracy for cash? That’s for you to decide. But personally I like Zynga, and I think they’re good guys (and gals). But it is a business trying to earn a profit. If they don’t make a profit, they likely won’t keep the game going for you to play. But you can still just play longer and keep your cash.

Updated: Check out a final word from Zynga.