WORD is just another name for Nothing Left to Lose

WORD is an app. An app on my iphone and other peoples' phones and pods and pads. And an amuse-gueule* for people with an itch for word games and a nano-rush of adrenaline. Old scrabble heads who are looking for something to supplement scrabulous or lexulous love it. All you need is the app (free), a friend or 'friend' and a network. 

It's a crossword game like scrabble with a different board layout and somewhat different letter values. And it's fun. Especially if you win. I have three regular opponents: my son, a friend, and another friend with whom I play Word using a paid-for app where there are no pop-ups, worth the $ 2.50 or whatever it was, so you can home/hone in for the, um, kill without distractions.

On the free-app version you receive uninvited ads for finding new partners, disguising your voice with a death-rattle, playing new, transmogrified word games, tricking your girlfriend/boyfriend into responding to sexy siren stalkers, you name it. Ideal for some ADHD candidates, not so ideal for those pretending not to have ADHD. In any event, I have the habit. I do not invite unknowns for a match, but have played the odd game when invited. I know my opponents and have the occasional brief dialogue-SMSs incorporated into the body of the game. You can know if it's snowing in South Salem in an instant.

How u s e l e s s can this be? (I'm not referring to learning about snow in South Salem).
Well......quite. 
And that's the fun of it.  
It's useless, and it's naughty and fun to do something you know is useless, no money won or lost, gaming when you have nothing to lose but a few minutes (hours?) and your verbal-acrobatic pride.
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*amuse-gueule: pre-appetizer tidbit usually offered up in fancier restaurants. Known more politely as amuse-bouche, as gueule is a coarse word for mouth. (Are the French the only ones to make a dirty word out of mouth? In the UK it's gob, but it doesn't have the impact of gueule).