Stop stealing my Letters!!!

Stop stealing my Letters!!! - Time Waster

by Christina Clark Aug 6th 2008

This is a simple and quick time waster for you word nerds from Lunchtimers. Or even for those of you that always like to slip a naughty word into a scrabble game.

Remember those refrigerator magnets you had when you were a kid that were all letters? Letters is the same concept in your browser with one fun twist. Instead of just you playing with the letters you have to share with whoever else is logged in. When I tried it there were 12 people sharing letters.

Every time I got close to spelling out "Download Squad Rules" someone kept stealing my letters, moving them around and trying to put them into their own words. Of course when someone named Kevin tried to proclaim he was god, I took the time to change it to goofy which seemed to annoy him since the next thing he came up with was who?

There were plenty of people using their letters to spell out naughty words and plenty of others who would immediately try and change those naughty words into something nicer.

See what you can spell before someone steals your letters.

Tags: game, letters, time waster, TimeWaster

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

giggity said 10:47AM on 8-06-2008

I wonder how long it took them to get that screenshot.

Dann said 2:58PM on 8-06-2008

Photoshoped?

Christina Clark said 2:59PM on 8-06-2008

It took me about 10 minutes to get all the letters together and then keep taking the R back from the person who was stealing it from me. And, I had a really quick finger ready for the screen capture as soon as I got it all in place.

ntw1103 said 11:40AM on 8-06-2008

It depends on a few things. If could have gone really fast or really slow.
I have a Tablet PC, so when I am on there I am a lot faster than most of the people. but if you get a bunch of people, and they all grab a letter, you can spell what ever you want :).
also, while I was on, there wasn't 1 single "naughty word" :D
Tablet PCs FTW

Spykie said 3:00PM on 8-06-2008

omg, hilarious; 50 people playing atm.

Napalm said 3:01PM on 8-06-2008

It just highlights whats wrong with the internet. People would rather make words with the letters you are using than make words with the hundreds of other letters on the table, all just to annoy you.

James said 1:59PM on 8-06-2008

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/

Canonical example of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, I think.

kevjohn said 11:31AM on 8-08-2008

My name is Kevin and I am A god, but I swear that wasn't me.

ryaninc said 5:14PM on 8-08-2008

I thought I would lose interest in this game after a minute, but it held my attention for a solid 10 minutes. It was mostly chaos, but someone spelled YO, so I added DAWG, then someone else added HOLLA and finally someone else added AT YA. :-)

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