WWF Anonymous

My name is Barbara and I am a Words with Friends addict.  I can stay away for days at a time—but only when I don’t hear my phone go “buzz-buzz-ding” alerting me that someone wants to play.  My favorite opponents are players who beat me a lot because then I have a challenge.  I must save face, no one can be smarter than me, not with words!  It’s no fun to continually beat someone—or to be continually beaten. 

I know it’s not a test of intelligence; it’s like doing a crossword puzzle—you begin to know the words that are acceptable, even though you’ve never heard them before.  You can also google any combination of letters you have to see if they are “legal”.  I guess that’s cheating, but the standard has been set.

The options for playing are with a Facebook Friend, or a Random Opponent.  It seems that my Facebook Friends have either found lives, or are intimidated by me (I choose to believe the latter), so I now have a Random Opponent who seems to like playing with me.  This Random Person goes by the name Hessie26.

I find myself wondering a lot lately as to who Hessie26 is in real life.  I can start a chat in the game, but she/he might not respond, or the responses might be uninformative.  Plus, if I did get answers it would destroy all the stories I have been creating:

1.       Hessie is an old Jewish lady (the name sounds that way to me), born in 1926 (she’s 87), who is physically incapacitated but with a sharp mind.  She was a scholar and a writer who won many awards and honors.  She had no children, so she spends a lot of time alone and only gets out when a friend is able to take her to a lecture or exhibit.

2.       Hessie is an annoyingly cute and bright 26 year old who expects to be the best at everything she does.  She is currently working on her PhD in Transformational Psychopharmacology but gets bored with idle time so multi-tasks a great deal.  She is currently playing 31 games of Words with Friends.

3.       Hessie is a precocious 9 year old (the 26 is for her birthday, May 26) with few friends so she is usually on line either studying or playing games.  She has won several championships in chess and Sudoku and plays word games to relax.

I have won 2 games with Hessie, who has won 3.  Current game is going well, but I can’t get complacent because Hessie is a player that is liable to hit me with a 96 point word when I am down to vowels and one “t”.  Exciting, right?  Or maybe I should just get a life.