Wheel of Fortune is a popular game show in which contestants spin a wheel, buy letters, and try to solve a hangman-style puzzle. Ubisoft just brought the game to Xbox One with authentic gameplay, online multiplayer, and customizable characters.
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Tonight on Mixer, we played Letter Quest Remastered, the stellar word game/RPG from Bacon Bandit and Digerati. Read on for quick impressions and contest winners.
Word games aren't common on Xbox One, making the release of Spellspire all the more special. You play as a wizard and climb a 100-floor tower, battling enemies by spelling words and stopping to buy upgrades along the way.
Word games are a fantastic way to help pass the time. They can be entertaining and educational at the same time. The Windows Store is packed full of word games and these are some of the best the Store has to offer.
Letter Quest Remastered combines Scrabble-style spelling and role-playing, resulting in a unique game for Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Vita, and Steam. Read our detailed review to learn how surprisingly fun spelling can be!
Anagramble is a Windows Phone word game that gives you two minutes, thirty words and the task of finding anagrams within those words. Anagrams are words created by re-arranging the letters of a word. For example an anagram for Mary would be Army. Available for 512MB devices, Anagramble is a simple word game that comes across as a fun time waster of a game for your Windows Phone. There...
Spell-O-Mania is a Windows Phone game that will test your spelling bee skills in simple fashion. The game offers a wide range of words with helpful hints such as word length, meaning and origin. A Cortana-like voice guides you through game play, delivering not only the word to be spelled but also your hints. Spell-O-Mania doesn't have many bells and whistles but does a nice job of...
We haven’t mentioned the Windows Phone game Trine’s Hangman in some time. For those not familiar, Trine’s Hangman is a fantastic rendition of the classic hangman word games. The lifetime game mode tracks and saves your gaming progress, you can customize your gaming background images, and overall Trine’s Hangman is just a fun game to have in your Windows Phone gaming library. Trine’s...
The other day we mentioned the release of Hangman Pro for Windows 8. It is an entertaining and challenging game, well suited for tablets, and is also available for our smaller screens of our Windows Phones. Hangman Pro for Windows Phone is patterned very similar to the Windows 8 version with a respectable list of word categories, one or two player game modes, and global leaderboards...
Word Soup is a relatively new word game for Windows Phone 8 that has had a fair amount of success over on iOS and Android platforms. Word Soup is a puzzle game where you are given a sea of letters and have to find hidden words within. The game does have a bit of a "find-a-word" puzzle game feel to it but with more pep. Word Soup includes three single player modes, two two-player...
7 Little Words is a relatively new word game for Windows Phone 8 that has had decent success over on the iOS and Android platforms. In the short time we have spent with the game, 7 Little Words should have similar success here on the Windows Phone platform. The game is simple. Each puzzle has seven clues used to solve seven words and twenty letter groups that will be used to build...
Wordgo is a word game for Windows Phone 8 that calls upon you to guess the correct word through the process of elimination. The fewer tries it takes for you to solve the puzzle, the better your score. As you get warmer with your guesses, correct letters will be revealed and if you get stuck, hints are available that will push you in the right direction. Wordgo isn't a complicated game...
Wordament is a game of many firsts. It was the first game with Xbox Live on iOS and on the web to offer achievements. It started as an internal project between two Microsoft employees, but was quickly bought by Microsoft once the potential was realized. It hasn’t seen an update on Windows Phone for quite some time, so let’s check out what’s new as of today. The last update for...
Windows Phone and Windows 8 gamers should be familiar with Babaroga, the studio behind Shuffle Party and Zombies!!!. Babaroga has been a big supporter of the mobile Windows ecosystem since Windows Phone 7 launched. Though they seem to have grown away from Xbox-enabled games (like so many other developers), Babaroga still produces Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 games as indie titles....
We made mention of Polyhegrams a few months ago. It's a Windows Phone game from LateNight Apps that was developed through the AppCampus and it just went live in the Windows Phone Store. For those not familiar, the AppCampus is a joint venture between Microsoft, the Aalto University of Finland and Nokia to promote quality platform development of apps such as Polyhegrams, Dark Lands, and...
Not too long ago paid version of the Windows Phone game Ruzzle was unleashed on the Windows Phone Store. With the release, there was promises from the developer that a free version was in the works. That promise was met today with the release of Ruzzle Free. Ruzzle Free is a boggle-styled word game for both Windows Phone 7.x and 8 devices. You are tasked with finding as many words as...
Wordament is a boggle styled Xbox Windows Phone game where you have to create words from a 4x4 grid of letters. You earn points based on the letters used and compete against thousands of other Wordament players to earn the most points. Wordament was recently updated to version 2.5 and adds the ability to login with your Facebook account so you can play against your Facebook friends. ...
Wordness is an interesting Windows Phone 8 word game. It has a Scrabble feel to it in that you have to create words from a 5x5 tile board of letters. It has an Othello feel to it in that you compete for ownership of the letter tiles. You take possession of the tiles (or own them) when you use them in a word. On top of challenging game play, Wordness pits you against online opponents....
What's the Word? is a nice Windows Phone puzzle game to pass the time with. What's the Word? presents you with four pictures and you are tasked with figuring out what common descriptive word they share. I have to admit the puzzles start out really easy but slowly pick up speed and can be somewhat challenging. What's the Word? is a rather simple game and an equally simple lay out. The...
Wordemic is a word game for your Windows Phone that is played like scrabble but you compete online against others much like you do with Wordament. You build as many words as possible in scrabble fashion before the clock strikes zero. You then get to see how your score compares to others who are playing with the same letter sets. Wordemic starts out slow but quickly grows on you. It's a...