Boggle/Upwords/Hangman/Word Hunter Collection

List Price: $19.99 Discount Price: $4.59

Features:

• Scrabble
• Boggle
• Hangman
• Word Hunter

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

A pleasant surprise! [Posted on 2007-08-28]
I usually shy away from Valuesoft, but what a pleasant surprise here! No problems installing the collection on my XP system, no noticeable bugs, thoughtful options... and some great games! For this price, you can't go wrong if you like word games.

In my opinion, Upwords is the clear pick of the litter. Extremely addictive! While the game can be played the classic way, several options allow you to spice it up: unlimited tile stacking (instead of the usual 5-tile high), colored tiles (where letter tiles are of different colors, and forming words in the same color doubles your points), time limit, etc. I found the AI to be a decent opponent, even though I didn't know some of the words it used. Another nice touch is that the game displays your current word(s) score before you commit to it -- and if one of the words shown has a score of zero, it means it's not in the game's dictionary.

Boggle is fun too. You can play it solitaire, or with AI player(s), and with or without a time limit. The board can be the classic 4x4 cubes, the Big 5x5 cubes board, or the Mega board with 6x6 cubes. Here again, several options allow you to modify the standard play to spice things up (multi-use letters, disallow "s" plurals, minimum word length, and more).

Word Hunter is similar to a game called Super Text Twist. Your are given 8 letters forming an anagram, and a certain amount of words to find between 3 to 8 letters. I found the game quite entertaining. Perfect for a quick game if you don't have time for something more meaty.

Hangman didn't hold my attention very long, but maybe younger players would enjoy it. One option lets you change the classic hangman character into a spider -- with 8 legs, it allows for more wrong guesses. Other options allows you to make the game more difficult, for instance by disallowing vowel guesses.

Pros:
- Infinite replay value.
- Single player, multiplayer hotseat/network/LAN (haven't tried any multiplayer games yet)
- Adjustable AI players difficulty.
- Music and/or sound effects can be turned off.
- Can be played without the CD in the drive.
- According to my CD, it's compatible with Windows Vista too.

Cons:
- Can't save a game in progress (not a big deal, although it would have been nice for Upwords).
- Can't edit the dictionary used by the game (Upwords refused the word "zen" for instance, which I found irritating).
- None of the games save high scores.

All in all, a great value for very entertaining games (Upwords alone is worth it!)

GrannyRocker [Posted on 2007-09-10]
I'm kind of new at on line games so I didn't know what to expect. But these games far exceeded my expectations! There are 4 games, but I only like 2 of them. I love word games so I ordered another game pack. I didn't like the second one at all cause it had all sorts of games, but no word games. Boggle & Hangman are my favs & I play them all the time. Thanks again, Amazon. I'm your customer for life!

I'm addicted! [Posted on 2007-09-23]
I love Boggle and UpWords so when I saw this collection I snapped it up. I'm now completely addicted to UpWords and it's worth the money just for that game. I have tried Hangman and Word Hunt and they can be a nice change of pace.

My one problem with these games is that none of them save high scores, which I do find pretty annoying. But that's a minor thing and certainly shouldn't stop anyone who likes Boggle or UpWords in particular.

Don't buy [Posted on 2007-12-06]
This product DOES NOT play others over the internet,An the valusoft support team doesn't explain things well to people that are not computer savvy. This product might be good if you want to play another in the same household, But I couldn't tell you since I'm the only one in my household with a computer. So I sent it back......

Very fun games [Posted on 2008-05-21]
These games are so fun to play. I mostly play Upwords. I play it for at least an hour a day.

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