Sunday, December 28, 2025

It’s All Code

I’ve been playing Boggle With Friends since February 16, 2011. In my journey to reach Level 100, I began to see a pattern:

- the majority of my opponents are also Level 100

- many of them have also been playing the game for over a decade in its many incarnations

- each of their profile pictures features a dog, including mine

I began ‘collecting’ Players who matched the description above into my Friends list. There are over 250 now assembled.

The Chat feature of the game isn’t functional anymore, but messages ARE being sent if you carefully examine the results page after a game:

After a recent game, I read down the list of words, and removed all but every 4th letter to reveal this message:

“<NAME_REDACTED> IS DEAD”

I recorded further confirmation of this message when the 4th video I scrolled on TikTok after writing this post was from <NAME_REDACTED>