Kotaku
A day doesn't go by that someone asks me for my Friend Code and just inevitably I reply, "I have no clue."
Not only can I not remember strings of random numbers, phone numbers included, but even if I could I think I wouldn't out of spite because I detest Nintendo's malicious online match-making system. Yes, I said it, malicious.
But Stephen Totilo doesn't have the same hang-ups I do. Instead of endlessly whining about the friend codes and how much they suck he's actually gone on a hunt for a way to fix them.
Apparently over the weekend he had an epiphany of sorts and realized that he might be able to turn friend codes into friend sentences using the old phone number to word trick.
Hunting around on the Internet he discovered PhoneSpell.org which can handle six to ten numbers and convert them automatically into a sentence of sorts. To get it to work you have to break your code into a couple of tries. When Totilo did this his code, 3536 6979 4706 2132, became ELF ON OX 7 YIP 06.
WTF? How does that help anyone? I still hate friend codes, hot elf on ox sex or not.
