The iPhone has paved the way for a new generation of puzzle and word games. To come up with a number, taking into account the thousands of games released for the device, is almost too daunting to consider.
Educational whilst fun, WordFu published by ngmoco and developed by Demiurge Studios is designed for quick play dressed up in a creative martial arts theme and will definitely tax your brain.
There are two parts to the game, rarely lasting more that a few minutes. Firstly, you start with selecting nine letters by rolling and flicking lettered dice to get a good spread of consonants and vowels to boost your word-making potential. You only have twenty seconds to do so too.
On completion of the letter selection, you enter the game itself. Now you start off with 45 seconds to recall and form as many words from the English dictionary as you can submitting each word by shaking the iPhone. You can reuse the letters as many times as you like unless you’re playing in “Shaolin Mode,” where you can only use each letter once to form a word and the longer the word the more points earned.
If you are good under pressure then you’ll start getting white bonus power-up dice to use. One gives you double word score, one freezes the timer for a while and the last lets you flick one of the dice to, hopefully, reveal a new letter. Used properly, the power-up can take your score to new heights and submitting words sets the timer back a few seconds, the game will always be limited to a handful of minutes at the most.
We have had the game for only a few days now, but we are totally hooked on it. We don’t know if in a months time it will have the same appeal however we do highly recommend it.
Platform: iPhone
Category: Puzzle/Word
Price: 59p
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