We go nuts over puzzle games that put our near-limitless lexicon to good use, so we take every opportunity to highlight releases like Bob Fossil's Word Wrap. His homebrew project digitizes the word hunt games found in daily newspapers where you have to form as many words as possible with a restricted set of letters. The end result is not only fun, but it manages to improve on the traditional pencil/paper experience.You spell out your text by tapping the characters on the touchscreen, sending them to the top screen's list of completed words. Jumbling the letters to get a new perspective of your selection has also been simplified with a "wrap" button. Call us lazy if you want, but this setup beats the pants out of having to write everything out by hand!
There are two Time Attack styles where you can work against the clock by either finding the longest word or collecting a specified amount of words. There's also an Endless option where you can sift through the shuffled letters at your own pace. Each mode comes with three difficulty levels, but being the word geniuses we are, it's "go hard or go home" for us.
[Via Drunken Coders]
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4-24-2007 @ 1:20PM
Liam said...
"Near-limitless lexicon"? That's practically oxymoronic! I hope you intended the irony...
Also, "Bob Fossil" is the name of the Zoo manager in The Mighty Boosh, lol
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4-24-2007 @ 1:22PM
Liam said...
Just remembered -it was called the Zooniverse!
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4-24-2007 @ 4:00PM
Rob said...
I don't like cricket!
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4-24-2007 @ 6:44PM
americankgb said...
What's up with Phoenix Wright in the background of that picture?
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4-24-2007 @ 7:34PM
james said...
Sounds like Text Twist (http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/texttwist.jsp) ... (read: Sounds awesome!)
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