# Words with friends--inviting people to play?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-friends-inviting-people-to-play/672782>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 31, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-friends-inviting-people-to-play/672782 "2013-10-31T21:06:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![TSBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/77aa72/32.png) [@TSBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TSBG)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-friends-inviting-people-to-play/672782/1 "2013-10-31T21:06:29Z")

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I just received an invitation to play WWF from someone I don’t talk to any more. It could be his way of reaching out to reconnect, but I am suspicious that perhaps he merely receives some in-game benefit for getting more people to sign up. Can anyone shed some light? About possible benefits for signing people up, that is, not on his motivations…

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2013, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-with-friends-inviting-people-to-play/672782/2 "2013-11-01T06:03:00Z")

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There is no benefit at all to inviting people to play. It isn’t farmville or a game where you have to recruit players.

There’s a chance the person clicked on your name by accident. It isn’t hard to do. Or perhaps they just wanted to play the game with someone they knew.

I play WWF with random people all the time as well as friends I know in real life.