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- Price: $1.99 (Get It)
- Version: 1.0
- Developer: Semi Secret Software
Wurdle is a word puzzle that has you dragging your fingers across connecting letters to form words. The longer the word is, the greater the points. Each round can be set to last 1 minute, 2 minutes, or 3 minutes. At the end of the round, the total score is added to the scoreboard. There are both a local scoreboard and a global scoreboard, with a Top 500 list available at the developer’s website. Wurdle challenges your vocabulary and spatial reasoning abilities. A similar game to Wurdle that I reviewed is Imangi, although the mechanics are different.
As soon as you load up the game, you’re plunged straight into a round. In the bottom right corner is a button to go into the settings for the game. In there you’ll be able to read instructions on how to play Wurdle, change the colors of the tiles (Sunset, Red, Grey, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Green, Pink, or a picture available in your iPhone’s Camera Roll), turn on/off sound effects, length of time per round (1:00, 2:00, 3:00), board grid size (4×4, 5×5, 6×6, 7×7, or 8×8), minimum word length (3, 4, or 5), and dictionary to use (TWL – used for official Scrabble tournaments in USA, Canada, Thailand, and Israel, or SOWPODS – used for Scrabble tournaments in other English-speaking countries.) Finally, you can check out the online scores which takes you to the above linked webpage.
To play, you simply use your fingers to select the letters, then slide it across connecting letters to form a word. You can go in any direction; up, down, left, right, diagonal. The screen flashes when a recognized word is formed, and when you release your finger, it’ll submit the word to the list of words you’ve found so far in that particular round. To scramble the board, you simply shake your iPhone/iPod Touch and it’ll rearrange the tiles so you can find more words.
After a round completes, you’re presented with your total score, type your name in, longest word for that round, and the option whether or not to submit your score online to the global scoreboard. Then you’re presented with a list of your top scores for that round length, and the longest words you’ve discovered overall. Currently my longest word is bistro.
The graphics are pleasing to the eyes. It’s not flashy or 3D, but it works well. The selection of different colored tiles are nice, and the ability to use any photo from your Camera Roll is a great touch. At the bottom of the board is a digital sheet of paper that looks slightly crumpled, where words you’ve found are added. Personally I’m not fond of the crumpled paper look, it just looks amateurish against all the polished tiles. An update to allow for different backgrounds to be chosen would be a nice thing to have.
The sound, while minimal, works very well when dragging your finger across letters. The more letters you choose, the sound changes pitch. It’s subtle, but effective. There’s no music, but you can play your own music when loading up the game.
Wurdle is a great word puzzle game that has an incredible amount of replay value. Wurdle is about as perfect as a word puzzle on the iPhone/iPod Touch can get. It loads up fast and gets you playing right away, has a lot of options to choose from, and is easy and fun to play.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with this. Even if you’re only remotely interested it’s worth picking up for $1.99.
I paid and downloaded this app, but my iTunes app went GPF. When I restarted the iTunes app, I see Wurdle in the Applications folder, but I don’t know how to “move” it to my iPod Touch. Help!
yum: Simply plug in your iPod Touch and hit the Sync button, and it’ll move it over onto it.
I like the game, but the tiles won’t stop shuffling on my iphone. How do I fix this?
Keith: The latest 1.1 update allows you to change the sensitivity for the shuffle. You’ll want to lower that sensitivity so it doesn’t shuffle constantly for you.
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we love this game!
I absolutely love this game. As a kid I played Boggle with my friends and family, this game takes me back to those memories. It made my list of favorite iPhone apps.
My husband and I are completely additcted to this game!
OMG!!! my mom bought this game and let m play for a while…. it ended up being like 1 hr!!!! this game is TOTALLY worth 1.99!!!
I have not been able to get the ‘shake’ feature to work. I have checked settings, and my AND my husbands both will not shuffle tiles by shaking. Help??
My boyfriend and I are also addicted to this game. In fact, he beat 5000 points on the 2 minute limit today. Anyone have a high score better than that?
my five highest scores for 5×5 on 2:00 are: 6640, 6160, 6040, 5800, and 5240. it’s all about finding the good ones where you can get several words ending in -er, -ers, -es, -s, and -ed. if you can get that with a tt or nn nearby, you’re golden. as for the shaking, the feature doesn’t seem to work very well. you can triple tap the screen to shuffle, but the shuffle sucks because it looks like it gives you new letters as well.
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my high score on the 2:00 for 5×5 is 7180, the key is shuffling the board, it subtracts 100 points from your score but gives you entirely new letters to make words from
this game is rlly addicting and 4.9 out of 5 stars. definetly worth 1.99!!!!!
High score is 9120 on 5×5 for 2:00, rest of my scores are in the high 8,000s.
While shuffling is important, the real key to the game is being patient and choosing which boards to play. I sometimes go 50 new games before actually playing a board.
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I put this on my touch to see what it was and my wife now takes it whenever it is free. I have a suggestion based on her comments. There are a number of words (obviously) that are not readily known and you can touch the word to see the definition. Wish it would stay in place till you read and understood (then touch to close) rather than staying up for a brief time. Other than that nice app.
ever since your updated version of the game came out I will be playing and all at once the game just shuts off. Usually right in the middle of a game. Do I need to download an update or what? Please help, this is severly hindering my play
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