Help for Challenging Your Friends

Challenge one or more of your friends to play a word game and compete with each other to get the highest score. All challenge participants play the same game and scores and standings of all players are shown after the game is played. Play with your friends or find others with similar skills.

Video Tutorial for Challenging Friends

How to Create a Challenge

Click on the Challenge icon to create a challenge. There are a few ways to invite other players to take a challenge. You can invite a Wordplays member using their screen name, you can send an invitation to someone on Facebook, or you can challenge anyone using their email address.

When a challenge is created using a screen name or email address, an email is sent to each opponent. That email will contain a link that can be followed by each player to play the selected game.

Facebook users will get a Facebook message when they visit Facebook.

Players with open challenges will see an alert message when signed in at Wordplays.com letting them know they have been challenged to play a game.

Viewing Open Challenges

You can view open challenges by clicking View Open Challenges.

Challenges that you have not yet played will be displayed in the topmost table. You can play these challenges by clicking Play. Click on the name of the opponent to see other players and the date each player took the challenge.

Play

User's creating a challenge will be prompted with a Play button immediately after creating a challenge which can be clicked to take the challenge they've just created.

A challenge can be taken by any player by:

• clicking on the Play Button in the Challenge e-mail,
• clicking on the link in the Wordplays alert,
• clicking on the Play Button when viewing open challenges.

Decline

If you're invited to take a challenge and don't wish to particpate you can decline a challenge. Simply click the button to notify the challenger you will not participate. There is no penalty for declining a game.

Awaiting Other Players

Challenges you've played that are awaiting other players are shown below open challenges. Click on the Opponent's name to view details about a challenge and optionally poke players.

Poke

Once you've played a challenge you can poke other players to remind them to play. Players can be poked one day after the challenge was created and can only be poked once per day.

Past Challenges

Challenges that have been played by all players are shown at the bottom of the View Challenges page. Your standing in the challenge is shown. Click on the opponent's name to show the scores and standings of all players, and to request a Rematch.

Block

Challenges from specific opponents can be blocked. Just click the button. You can unblock the player later. If a player abuses the Challenge system please send feedback.

Unblock

Blocks on challenges can be removed by clicking the button in the open challenge list. If there are no entries in the open challenges list, blocks can be removed by clicking Unblock Players at the bottom of the View Challenges page.

Opting Out of Challenges

It is possible to block all challenges from all players. To block challenges, visit the registraton page and check "Block Challenges". You can also opt out of all challenges by clicking the Opt Out link in the Challenge e-mail.

Trouble Creating a Challenge

A challenge can be created for a Wordplay's member, Facebook user, or anyone with a valid email address.

The recipient of a challenge is notified by email and will also see a message at the top of any Wordplays web page indicating that a challenge is pending.

Even if a challenge was created successfully the email notification may not be delivered. This can happen if the email address provided by the challenger is invalid, the email address provided by a Wordplays member during registration is not valid, or there was some other issue when delivering mail over the internet.

A warning will be displayed when an email is sent using a screen name and the Wordplays member has an unverified email address.

If any screen name or email address is provided when creating a challenge that is known to be invalid, the challenge will not be created.

If the person being challenged is a Wordpays member with an invalid email address, they will only be notified of the challenge when they visit Wordplays.com.

Anybody can block challenges, even those who are not registered at Wordplays. Challenges cannot be created if any of the players have blocked challenges.

You cannot challenge yourself. When creating a challenge, you are automatically included as a player and do not need to provide your own screen name or email address.

Create a challenge!