But it's not just the game itself that makes Bookworm so special. You just want to get those things off the screen as quickly as possible, so you accept words like 'ego' and 'toe' just to survive. Here, fire tiles are more plentiful and force you to abandon your greedy quest for eight-letter words. Casual mode has no timer on it, making it perfectly suitable for newcomers or leisure players. I want to complete all of these collections. There are a number of different word categories, such as colors, insects, and clothing items that you can fill out by finding any of the ten words in each collection. Bookworm offers a very clever game-inside-a-game that keeps me hooked. Spell a word with these colorful tiles are you bank bonus books. However, there are also good tiles, such a green and yellow point multipliers. If the fire tile reaches the bottom, the game ends in blazing failure. With each turn, the fire tile burns down the screen one space. For example: if you spell too many short words, fire tiles appear on-screen. The higher your level, the harder the game and the more words you must discover in order to move on to the next tier.īookworm Matters are complicated by special tiles. Every time to fill a shelf, you level up. Completed words add to a library of books at the bottom of the screen. However, eagle-eyes players will soon have seven- and eight-letter words snaking across the screen. At first, you'll breeze through a few three- and four-letter words so to get the hang of the game. Tiles must be adjacent to each other to spell a word. In each mode, you must find words in a series of lettered tiles that fill the screen. Bookworm offers two modes: Classic and Timed. It's a simple feature that no puzzle game at this point should be without. If you're spelling right along and, well, life calls, you can immediately rejoin your game from the title screen. But thanks to a very smart insta-save feature, Bookworm can be enjoyed in tapas-sized portions, too. This is a game you can really dig into for hours on end - and trust me, that's precisely how I played it the first time I synced up my iPhone after downloading Bookworm. Now, there are currently a huge number of word games in the App Store, such as the fun Textropolis or the pulse-racing WordFu, but Bookworm handily out-spells them all.

If you fancy yourself a connoisseur of words or even just like a good brain-tickling challenge, Bookworm deserves to be on your iDevice as of yesterday. While I'm personally bummed that PopCap went all the way back to the worm's humble roots instead of porting over the unbeatable Bookworm Adventures (spelling + RPG = awesome), there is no way around the obviously timeless enjoyment of this casual classic.

PopCap's Bookworm series finally makes an overdue stop on the App Store.

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