From the Dark Side
by Tiny Ruisch
If you like playing word games, you’ll probably love Wordiest. It is a great word game available for both Android and iTunes. After about a week, I’ve already played over one hundred games.
Wordiest is similar to Scrabble. You have to make two words out of fourteen tiles. The letter tiles each have different values. Each game, some of the letters have bonus values randomly assigned to them. The strategy of the game is to make the highest score you can. You don’t have to use all of your letters, but the more you use, the higher you score.
It isn’t as simple as making the longest word. You need to strategically use your bonus word multiplier letters with the high point letters to make higher scoring words. As shown in figure 1, words you make are defined and tallied before you submit them. It is easy to shuffle tiles and see if there are higher scores that can be made.
Although there is no time limit, you a
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re competing against 100 other players with the same set of letters. When you submit your two words, a graph appears that details how you match up to other players. Figure 2 shows the graph, the two words you submitted, your score and overall rating. Long pressing on any of the four graph sections will show you the words and highest scoring words of that particular group.
The game has a really simple interface. As you make words, the definition pops up underneath. It is easy to experiment and find words that you didn’t even know. You learn as you play. I’ve found myself copying a few words which may appear in a future Mind Bender puzzle.
Wordiest is free from the Google Play Store. As with many other apps, a contribution to the programmer will remove adds. The ads in this game are very unobtrusive. As shown in figure 2, they take up only a small portion at the very top of the screen.
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Download Wordiest from the Google Play Store and give it a try. I think you’ll like it.