If you can’t find any words, shake the iPhone a few times and Bookworm offers you the chance to scramble up the tiles. This makes for a fun game play mechanic which forces the player to either search for longer words, or risk the consequences in dealing with an inferno closing in on Lex’s books. The shorter the word you enter, the higher the risk of new tiles being on fire. These tiles can be cleared like any other letter on the board by using them in a word. If one of them reaches the bottom and sets your library on fire, it’s game over. These tiles start at the top, and slowly burn their way towards the bottom with each word that doesn’t include the flaming letter. Fill up a shelf and you graduate to the next level, picking up a snazzy new title on the way.Īfter you rank up a few times, a new type of letter will appear: The dreaded burning tile. Each word fills up Lex’s bookshelves, represented below the play field along with your current score. Using these special letters to create other words sends your score skyrocketing. If you manage to find a huge word, green, golden or diamond-like tiles will appear. The length of the word you just entered determines the type of new tiles that are spawned. Lex eats them, and sometimes offers a definition of the previous word as more tiles fall from the top. Tapping the selected word removes the tiles from the board. Lex, the Bookworm mascot accompanies you throughout the game, showing you the score of the current word you have selected. ![]() The tiles are large enough that accurately tapping them with your finger isn’t an issue and you can then either select the rest of your word by tapping adjacent tiles or dragging your finger through them. ![]() After hours of playing the new iPhone port of this PopCap classic, I can confidently say there is a new king in town.īookworm uses the same formula of most word games, offering a field of random tiles from A to Z, (with ‘Qu’ combined in to one tile) that players must search through to find words. Prior to Bookworm’s arrival, every other word game was a mere steward to the throne. PopCap’s Bookworm is to word games as Bejeweled 2 is to match three games–often imitated, never duplicated.
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