Playing scrabble online and someone cheated!!?

i played scrabble online (facebook apps), someone played a word which is not connected to other words, its "floating". he made his turn on the triple word score. how did he do that? the apps is not accepting invalid turn. but he did that. i lost.|||I can't tell you about this application in particular.


In several gaming systems I have seen, some operations are done on the client end (the user's machine) which can be circumvented by a clever user of software. One approach is to get a simple packet sniffer to figure out what's going in and out of your machine, and .... I have never done this ... figure out how to manipulate what's going out of your machine. In this case, the server may be assuming that nobody will send an invalid play, because the client software is supposed to check for invalid plays. Then when someone cheats by manipulating the data, the server accepts it, because it hasn't been program to check everything that's sent to it. The rationalization the programmers use is that: it's just a game (although sometimes they even screw up when it's money involved, like online poker etc!), and there are so many ways to cheat, regardless (especially in scrabble, right?) The ones who cheat are just having fun I guess ....





Also you didn't make a screen shot or anything. The description of the problem isn't very specific. Is there any way you can show more specifically what happened?|||They could have easily used an Scrabble solver. They have a Scrabble solver on a2zwordfinder.com|||Let me call the Scrabble police.|||The WAAAHHHHmbulance is on its way!