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First Look: Word Flow
I'm always on the lookout for applications to keep me entertained when I have little snatches of time that need filling: Waiting in a long line at the post office or for a movie to start, or being caught out at lunch without a book to read while eating.
Word Flow is an interesting puzzle game that allows you to slide letters around a board to create words. Once your word is ready, tap the beginning and last letter of the word you've created. It's like Boggle with the ability to control where letters go. You have three timed versions you can play: One minute, three minutes and 10 minutes. Three minutes is the sweet spot for me. With the one minute version, you barely have time to string some words together before time is up. With the 10-minute version, I lost interest after about five minutes.
Overall, Word Flow is a fairly decent game, but definitely not my favorite of available word games on the iPhone. The graphic response is not as smooth as other programs, and two versions of the game are either too short or too long.
Word Flow (link opens iTunes) is currently available for $.99USD.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Leon said 2:22PM on 12-18-2008
Did anyone else notice the word fetus (4th column, 4th row?)
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Scott said 2:32PM on 12-18-2008
I saw that.
Mike said 4:57PM on 12-18-2008
It's german.... Das Fetus.
Ho0ber said 4:12PM on 12-18-2008
I saw it as "das fetus"
Sounds like a good film.
Ryan said 2:46PM on 12-18-2008
I saw 'GOO'...
Is this any different than Wurdle?
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alansky said 5:28PM on 12-18-2008
In Wurdle, you can't rearrange the letters to form words.
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Keith said 10:20AM on 12-19-2008
If you like Word Flow, check out our game Imangi. Speed Imangi is basically the same as Word Flow game play, and in addition we offer many more game play modes, daily challenges, online high scores, and support for most major languages.
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bbq pancho said 1:00PM on 12-23-2008
thanks for the heads up on this. it looks and sounds like fun. it will fit nicely right next to Word Warp
https://buy.itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/tellAFriend?type=14&id=291374609.
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