Tag: WORDS

I'm a sucker for spelling games, and Bookworm Adventures is by far the best I've played in a long time. If you read Penny Arcade, you've heard of this one already. It's a turn-based RPG for Windows that works like most RPGs' battle modes: You face off against a series of enemies, increasing your power and gaining new items and abilities as you win battles. The twist, of course, is that you do ...

This one is seriously hurting my head. Funny Farm is a web-based puzzle game that's been making the rounds recently. It's kind of a big game of word association. You start out on a mostly blank board that has one box labeled "On the farm" and a few blank boxes connected to it. The blank boxes conceal words that are related to the words connected to it, and guessing a word reveals it and more ...

iSnoop's Fridge or (magnetic words) has been on the web for a long time, but I noticed it's gone all Web 2.0 on us and is using ajax now. No need to refresh your browser, as before. I'm glad the author didn't resort to flash. There are other versions of this on the web, some done in Java, some aren't using whole words, just letters, etc. But I like this one the best, because it looks like a ...

I'm a sucker for word games, and Wordslider is no exception. In Wordslider the object is to drag around the letter blocks on the screen in order to form words in the given word list. In that sense it's more of a puzzle game than a word game (since having a good vocabulary or spelling skills won't  really help you), but it is challenging, addicting, and fun. ...