Wordfeud is a
multiplayer mobile word game
Word games (also called word game puzzles or word search games) are spoken, board, or video games often designed to test ability with language or to explore its properties.
Word games are generally used as a source of entertainment, but can ad ...
developed by Håkon Bertheussen in 2010. Based on the principle of
Scrabble
''Scrabble'' is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left t ...
, it allows players to play games with up to 30 friends and random opponents simultaneously. It received positive reviews from
TechRadar
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and
PCWorld
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.
By 2011, the game had nearly eight million users worldwide. In July 2020, Norwegian news site ''
Dagens Næringsliv'' reported that the game had made Bertheussen a multimillionaire.
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Mobile games
Word games
Scrabble variants
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