Words With Friends Cheating

I started playing Facebook's version of Scrabble about 3 months ago and must admit that I'm addicted. I figured there were probably online sites to aid players in cheating. This seems to be the case in just about every game, unfortunately. There were a couple opponents I had who I'd regularly beat by 150-200 points at least. I commended them for trying but was a combined 31-0 against these two individuals. Then, all of a sudden, they finally learned how to play and went from consistently losing by 200 points to coming within a few, if not winning. Due to the sudden drastic improvement and also the strange words they were playing, I started to get a little suspicious. When I confronted them both, they both admitted they started using a scrabble dictionary along with an online site known as word cheats, where you can give the program all of your letters and it will relay to you all of the possible words you can form with said letters.

Naturally, this kind of bugged me. I can't say I care for cheating in any sense. It's one thing to lose to a person fairly. It's quite another to lose to a person who's been cheating.

One such opponent said, "Wow, how did I win?"

I then confronted her on my suspicions, which she admitted were true and yet she still didn't seem to understand why she won, saying, "It was probably more luck than anything."

Yeah, that's it. Find a program to spell out all the words you can make with the letters in one's possession while the other uses no such program and the person using said program manages to win. No, that had nothing to do with it.

After I confronted her about the cheating, she seemed irritated and said she'd try to refrain from it, but that it wasn't really cheating, because she knew the majority of the words anyway. Yet she said that she used a program called "word CHEATS". She then said that she had been using the program the entire time, even during her string of 16 consecutive losses to start our series. If that's true, that's pretty sad. In any case, she said that she's just gotten better, with strategizing for the colored squares.

Really? Yes, she may have improved when it comes to strategy, in finding ways to make plays on the colored squares and trying to find ways to prevent me from doing likewise. However, the fact remains that she's using a site to come up with all of her words. How is that not cheating? If she hadn't been using the site, she may have played on the colored squares, but only spelled out the word "dame". With the program, she elongated that word to "damewort". That can make a big difference. ...and I really think that if we were in an actual scrabble tournament, the judges would allow us to sign online, go to a program called "word cheats" and play our word based off that.

She then said that if she didn't use that site it would take "forever" for her to come up with the words. Again, really? If that's true, should she even be playing the game? She contradicted herself by claiming she comes up with most of the words by herself, yet also said if she did so, it'd take "forever". In other words, she uses the program quite regularly and likely wouldn't have much success without it.

So, we'll see where things go from here. I suspect two other opponents of using this same program or a similar one. Part of me wants to just not play them again, yet another part of me wants a challenge. The best case scenario for me would be to face a challenge against someone who wasn't cheating. I'm just asking for too much, though, aren't I? I don't even understand how it could be fun to win by cheating. Why even play? Perhaps I'm just strange like that...