Nope, no friends needed... I'm with you I really dislike games like words with friends and the like. Mostly because you're rarely ever playing with 'friends' but rather random people who give up but don't concede the game.

But it did seem to have a good variety of questions, so it wasn't just repeating the same ones, should be good to kill a bit of time, but no competition to speak of so it does get boring after a while