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Exercise your brain with these word games for iPhone
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Word games can help you keep your spelling and vocab skills sharp. Here are the best ones to play on your iPhone.
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Download these awesome iPad word games
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We've rounded up some of the best word games in the App Store to load up onto your iPad. These will test your puzzle-solving skills, trivia knowledge, and sheer reflexes. We've got plenty more of the best iPad games gathered for your perusal, too. Like working with letters? Check out these word games! Puzzlejuice Puzzlejuice is a Tetris-style word puzzle game from the...
Solve word puzzles with Decoder Ring Gold
Touch screens are perfect for newspaper-style games like Sudoku and crosswords. Why not make a game that combines both of those games then? That’s what Decoder Ring Gold from Chicago-based developer Babaroga sets out to do. Sequel to 2009’s Decoder Ring, the Gold version is a fun little freemium app for iPhone and iPad that should especially appeal to word game fans. Free –...
Say the Same Thing for iPhone review: Try to guess the same word as your friends in this hilarious word game
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Say the Same Thing is a fun turn-by-turn word game by the band OK Go where you must try to guess the same word as your friend, a random stranger, or a member of the band. It's refreshingly fun and is sure to get those creative juices flowing. Free - Download now
Letterpress updated, adds shake to shuffle, high contrast theme, more
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Letterpress by Atebits, the word game darling of geeks everywhere, has been updated to version 1.3. New features include the ability to shake to shuffle letters (credited to developer Loren Brichter's wife -- don't ask about the dance!), a new high-contrast theme, the ability to view replays in Safari or Chrome, and some behind the scenes awesomizing of an undisclosed nature. If you're...
Wordament, the first Xbox Live game from Microsoft, hits - and misses on - the iPhone
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Microsoft has just released Wordament, their first XBox Live game for the iPhone. Wordament is really well regarded on Windows Phone, but the iPhone version is... disappointing, especially coming from one of the biggest, best software developers in the world, and one that owns its own mobile and gaming platforms. It doesn't support the iPhone 5 screen size, it doesn't properly support...
Get a Letterpress t-shirt, help support the Red Cross
The fine folks at United Pixel Workers have produced at Letterpress t-shirt in both light and dark theme variants. If you buy one -- or more -- Letterpress developer Loren Brichter of Atebits will donate his share (about $5) to the Red Cross. Great game. Great shirt. Great cause.
Letterpress vs. Words With Friends vs. Scrabble: best word play games for iPhone shootout!
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Whether you're a hardcore iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad gamer or just need something to kill time or secretly make meetings less deathly dull, word games are not only addictive but available by the truck load in the App Store. Letterpress, Words With Friends, and Scrabble are all equally addictive and, frankly, no-brainer buys. But even if they're cheap or free, no one has unlimited time...
Letterpress by Atebits review
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Letterpress is deceptively simple. A five-by-five grid of letters is laid out on the screen. You and your opponent have full visibility to the board, and must make words out of the letters provided. As you do, those letters are colored in—blue for your letters, red for theirs—and each move steals letters back, affecting the letter-count score at the top of the screen. Things get...
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