This eliminates the problem of Wordament becoming another annoying chore on your to-do list, along with Letterpress, SongPop, Draw Something, Words With Friends, Scramble With Friends, Hanging With Friends, Every Other Idea Anyone's Ever Had for a Game With Friends, etc. At the same time, there's no pressure to take your own turn. There's also a 'Frenemies' leaderboard showing your friends' high scores of the day, in case you're not online at the same time.īecause the game isn't turn-based, there's no waiting around for opponents to have their go. At the end of each round, players are shown a leaderboard displaying where they stand in the global ranking, how they compare to any Xbox Live friends playing and which words they missed. Thousands of players from around the world compete simultaneously, all on the same grid and with the same two-minute time limit. The twist is that Wordament is a massively multiplayer online word game. The game is played on a grid (Boggle, then) of letter tiles with different point values (Scrabble, then), and the object of the game is to spell out as many words and score as many points as possible (every word game ever, then). There are much better reasons to write about Wordament: it's brilliant, it's addictive and it's unique. Frankly, I couldn't care less whether this is the first iOS game to feature a gif of Microsoft and Apple sixty-nining while Sony and Nintendo high-five over their backs. What do you mean, 'DONER' isn't a word?Įxciting stuff! Except it isn't, obviously it's just an excuse to write about Wordament and justify why we haven't bothered before now.

It's the first iOS game to feature Xbox Live Achievements.

In other words, players sign in with their gamertags and there's no Game Center business at all. But the iOS version came out just last month, complete with Xbox Live functionality. It was first released for the Windows Phone platform in April 2011.

And by cool kids, I mean other middle-aged women and people who have never found anything useful to do with their English Literature degree other than play video games about spelling.Īctually, Wordament isn't new at all. I'll be over here, playing the next big thing while I hang out with the cool kids. What's that you say? Still playing Letterpress? That's great, Grandad, glad you can fit it in between jousting and lute practice. Turn-based word games are so last season.

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