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WordJong - Good Nintendo DS Word Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Excellent word game for the Nintendo DS. Many hours of addictive fun.

Only negative is that you must use up every single letter to end each game. There should be a way to end the game with a few letters remaining, by paying a penalty (reducing point score). Otherwise, a totally enjoying and addictive word game.

Great fun!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

My husband bought me this game as my first DS game. What a great choice! It's fairly simple to learn the basics but a challenge to "win." I've been able to complete the games but only occasionally beat the games "high score" for the daily games. I admit I haven't tried most of them more than once but with a new puzzle for each day, I wish I had more time to play.

I love Wordjong!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I've played this game online and loved it. I was a bit hesitant about buying the game for the DS as I thought the letters might be too small to see, but my worries where unfounded. I can see detail just fine. The play is the same as the original game but it has added features, such as when you complete a level you are offered a fortune cookie and you are awarded higher rankings when you advance. I also bought Brain Age2 for mental exercise. It's fine, but Wordjong is more fun for me. I recommend this game.

Gift for Mother's Day

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

We purchased a Nintendo DS and this game and Touchmaster for my 71 year old Mom. She had a few of the hand held card games, but were not lit so we got her the Ninetendo DS. I purchased Word Jong because Mom always enjoyed Scrabble and UpWords. Once she started playing she loved it, she has now moved up through the ranks and is now in the Diamond division. She is always striving to make longer words and to better her score. Yesterday on the Daily Game she had a higher score than the Master.

Cool

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 06, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I love Scrabble type game. WordJong is very challenging. I've only played it a couple times. (hard to play it when my family has touchmaster in the DS) But I have really enjoyed playing it when i have. I highly recommend it to anyone that likes scrabble games. The neat thing is theres new puzzles daily.

Very Addictive

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I bought this for my DS lite and am I hooked!! You get daily puzzles to solve and you can even play against some of the characters. I would have given it 5 stars but only 1 person can play this...It will not record individual scores..Too bad...It would be nice to see how you stand up against other people that you know

Love, LOVE this addictive word creation game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 02, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It reminds me a bit of the game "book worm" on Yahoo games. You are given a bunch of tiles and use them to create words. The initial setup looks exactly as it does on the front cover. Once you use a tile it's gone, and a new tile underneath or touching the other is revealed. You have to earn wild tiles or bomb tiles by creating words with so many letters.
There are 3 modes:

Temple ~ Which is standard mode where you are given puzzle after puzzle and earn a new rank after scoring a certain amount of points; and you must use all tiles; if you complete the puzzle with a leftover, you have to try again

Daily Puzzle ~ You are given points to beat and go through the stack

Battle ~ You earn points to go against higher opponents and try to beat them with the higher points to earn the next level of opponent.

Overall, a fabulous game. Anyone who loves word games will truly enjoy this one! I am dreading it ever ending....

Mah Jong + Crosswords + Brain Age

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is a WONDERFUL game. ANyone who loves words will love this! It's more fun than crosswords, mah jong AND Brain Age all combined!

Addicting!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 12, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I wasn't sure I'd like this game since, as an approaching 50 year old, I'm new to the whole Nintendo thing. However, I love word games and this is a lot of fun and addicting. The graphics are beautiful. I like that you are able to undo moves if you see that you're not going to be able to clear all of the tiles. It's a great way to unwind.

Very fun and forgiving

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 18, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is like Scrabble "lite" meets mahjong "lite", so you can work your brain without beating your brain.

There are three nice single player modes: A "Daily Puzzle" mode, a "Temple Challenge" mode where you attain a higher rank as you complete more puzzles, and a "Battle Mode" which is a turn-based competition on a single board against computer opponents of increasing difficulty.

Another reviewer said that the game supplies a lot of vowels, and this is true, so it's pretty much a given you will be able to clear most of the puzzles if you use your "wild card" tiles wisely.

I don't really think the ease of the game is a limitation, though. I like the ability (in Temple Challenge Mode) to be able to take back my moves, including getting my "wild card" back. This gives me the chance to try different word combinations to successfully complete the puzzle, and that's a good thing. Not too many games give you a second chance like that, so if you "try try again" you won't get frustrated.

Please note that when you use the "wild card" tile, the game doesn't display a list of 26 letters to choose from, it just checks its internal dictionary for a spelling match once you have completed entering the word.
That's a bit different than other electronic Scrabble-type games.

The game seems to have a pretty extensive dictionary, too.

The "fortune cookie" perk in "Temple Challenge Mode" gets a little stale
(ha-ha) too quick. They could have come up with better, less redundant fortunes, but that's a minor quibble.

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