The 
team behind Words With Friends and Scramble With Friends has a new game out – and they’re hoping to devour the last minutes of your free time.
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The fall of Zynga: Can the social game giant pull it together?
Over 
the past year, no tech company has had ups and downs quite like Zynga.
In the days leading up to its debut on Wall Street last December, the social game kingpin was heralded as The Next Big Thing, an unstoppable force in an evolving industry, with proponents pointing to the enduring draw of games like Farmville, Mafia Wars, and Words With Friends. Lately, though, the company’s stock has taken a brutal beatdown and those proponents have changed their tune.
Zynga Expands Its Social Circle With Words With Friends
It’s 
kind of hard to believe now, but when it first came out, Words With Friends really wasn’t all that popular.
The videogame — which is, in many ways, a twist on digital Scrabble — did ok for its first year, but it was only after musician John Mayer called it “the new Twitter” in an Oct. 5, 2009 Tweet, that things began to explode — and the growth rate has been phenomenal ever since.
Survey: ‘Words With Friends’ spells L-O-V-E
Forget 
singles bars — if you want to find love on Valentine’s Day, you might have better luck on your iPhone.
A study of over 118,000 Words With Friends players found that scoring isn’t necessarily limited to the game. One in 10 players, in fact, said the title has directly led to a hookup at some point.
Game Review: Words With Friends (Facebook)
Phone app fans of word 
games likely already knows about Words With Friends — but adding the popular Scrabble-like game to Facebook should make dwell times on the site soar. You can play multiple opponents simultaneously. And the more games you have going, the more likely you are to stick around. At its heart, the Facebook version is basically the same as the mobile version, but adds a couple new features like Brag Feeds (letting you gloat about triple word scores) and the ability to challenge friends directly through their news feeds. For word aficionados, this is one Facebook that will be hard to resist.
Chris Morris: Journalist 