Bookworm Deluxe (Jewel Case)

List Price: $9.99 Discount Price: $8.45

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Customer Reviews:

WORD-RECOGNITION FUN!! [Posted on 2007-11-27]
This is a excellent educational tool for preschoolers and adults wishing to hone their vocabulary - and a great TV-alternative.

Words have to be recognized and formed from a wall of letters that get refreshed as you progress. Target-words offer extra points whereas, repeatedly forming easy small words is "punished" with the appearance of burning letter-tiles that, if let to reach the bottom, end the game.

This is a perfect example of what has come to be known as Casual Gaming. It would be a good idea to download the 60-min trial version from a site, such as REFLEXIVE (you can Google it), and decide for yourself whether this is indeed your cup of tea.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!

an old favorite [Posted on 2008-01-24]
This game kinda keeps my mind challenged. I play a bit of scrabble and it helps with that. I like that they give you challenge words to make and that there are a lot of new words I've learned. No game is perfect, some words it doesn't accept. It does stop "bad" words and it is very easy to catch on. Great for 8+ and a good one to play while someone on the phone has put you on hold. Speakerphone & Bookworm deluxe make a good combo :)I've seen whole families play and the best word I witnessed was reunited.

Initially Addictive [Posted on 2008-01-30]
When you first start, this game can be very addictive especially in the Action Game (timed). However, if you're a real word fanatic, after several weeks you'll notice that some of the accepted words are not real words. They don't exist in even the Oxford Dictionary, while others are not only arcane, but are from or in Old High German or Scottish, and I even found one that was Icelandic.

While I'm not that much of a purist, you can rack up 7 million points based upon words that won't even come up in the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle! (By the way, the maximum score according to the folks at PopGames is 3 billion. You can't do that in the timed mode without getting into everything from slang to abbreviations to a great deal of luck.)

Bookworm Deluxe is still fun, but I do wish they had gone "legit" (which is a word according to the makers, but an abbreviated one or slang according to everyone else. Still, it would make a great gift for that someone who loves screwing around with words.

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