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I can only really recommend this, based on the low price. It's good features include its word-meaning popup. and the sound effects and music are very pleasant. I do think the game would benefit from further refinement. For example, the way the letters accidentally stick together is annoying and so is the way you can easily slide a partially formed word onto the submit area and it grabs the 'and' when you were trying to make 'salamander'! The database of acceptable words needs improving, too. For example, it readily accepted 'pulling' but not 'flipping' or 'quipping' and it accepted 'print' but not 'flint'! The game could benefit from being more interesting, such as, perhaps giving you an additional score for making sentences from the consecutive words you submit.

[h1]New Review[/h1] The game has had a substantial update that fixes the issues in my old review! Along with other improvements as well. This now makes the game very easy to recommend. Features that help me to recommend this game are: + It's easy to understand and there's a tutorial. + No loading screens. + Word list is comprehensive. + It helps with learning alternative uses of words (and confirming existing understanding). + Two control schemes to suit everyone. + Fully keyboard controllable. + Very active developer. + Light/dark colour schemes. Also worth saying that this game has a very informative trailer, which does an excellent job of explaining the game. My old review is below for posterity, but please note that it is no longer relevant to the current version of the game. [h1]Old Review[/h1] This is close to being a good game, but I just can't recommend it because the interface is broken and frustratingly slow. Positives + Easy to understand. + No loading screens. + Word list is comprehensive. Negatives - Words very frequently don't register that they've been dropped in the scoring/break areas. This gets annoying quickly, especially after dropping it for the third/fourth time. - Can't type the word. This feels like a bizarre oversight for a game about words. The game is entirely about words and it doesn't use the keyboard. - Very easy to accidentally join up the wrong letters. - No attempt at kerning is made for the words. - Can only join to the end of a word. Frequently I'll see the letters in the arrangement of a word, so I drag the first letter over to the second letter, but it doesn't allow them to be connected in that way. - A challenge frequently pops up. It's good to have the challenges, but it would have been better to display the challenge at the top/bottom of the screen. That would be less intrusive and the player can see it at all times. - Doesn't accept profanity and no way to toggle that. The odd thing is that I think it would have been easier to write a better interface. Like this: * Type the letters of the word. * Each letter could be faded as it's used. * The word being created could be displayed at the top of the screen. * Press enter to submit the word. * Press backspace to delete the last letter. * Press delete to abandon the word and start again. That would be faster, more intuitive, fixes the bugs and makes full use of the keyboard.