It is balance we work on. For those that don’t want to buy coins the Free Coins tapjoy options such as downloading apps for coins are quite popular.

Most of the core features of the game are free to play. It allows free multiplayer games and you earn coins while playing or can do some of the free coins options such as Tapjoy. The paid version also removes ads, provides bonus coins and does not require tickets for Chumbot games. For people who want to utilize all of the features and customizations in can take extra coins. Creating and running quality games such as Word Chums takes hundreds of thousands of dollars so at some point we hope it is interesting enough for people to spend money on or do free coins offers. Thanks for playing!

If you would like to upgrade to the paid version you can tap settings (top right on main word chums page) and select upgrade. Thanks for your support!

I put our info on the word list below since we are not sure that people read the status on this. Sorry if you are receiving this again. You can remove your votes from this topic to not receive future updates.

The short answer is we try to closely match the Websters Scrabble valid word list since its been around the longest for Word Games. I put a couple of the definitions for recent words mentioned below. The link to their dictionary is also below.

HET
a Hebrew letter

SAKI [8 pts] , (SAKIS)
a Japanese liquor

We use a standard word list for validation called ENABLE2k. People and Chumbots use the exact same list..except some of the easier Chumbots can’t use parts of the list. It’s used by quite a few games and you can search on it if interested. However it only has words and not definitions. We look definitions up via a service called Wordnik.com which does not have nearly as many definitions. In an upcoming update we are going to research many of the most unusual words and create a list of their definitions we can use in game. Scrabble’s list is copyrighted so we cannot copy it. The link for their list is below in case you are curious.

If you would like to suggest words to add or delete just send us a support request.

Thanks for playing and spreading the word!

This is the link for Scrabble’s official list (They have access to an official Scrabble dictionary for definitions):
http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/en_US/search.cfm

We see that they have more definitions than Wordnik.com here: (but we can’t access it from within Word Chums)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/