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Addictive game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: March 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Read a review of this game in the local paper.
Decided to try it and see if it would be suitable for the
grandkids (13,12 & 9). I ordered their copy two days after
I started playing my own. Forming words is easy and you can try
for a word you think will work. Somtimes you'll find a word
you didn't know. Now I find myself looking up these words
to see their meaning. The grandchildren took to it immediately
and now the race is on for highest scores in the classic
game and the action game. A WINNER. Wish they had put the title
you achieve along iwth your name and score in the game's Hall of Fame.

Bookworm Deluxe - Better then playing online

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I've been playing Bookworm online for a couple of years and was tired of the interruptions from ads and the freezing in the middle of the game, so I decided to purchase it. However, I didn't want to download it, I wanted a disk and found it at Amazon. The game is much more fun - no ads, no freezing. The sounds and graphics are better too! The game comes with a "Classic" and "Action" version and when you quit in the middle of a game, Bookworm Deluxe will save it so you can either continue the game where you left off or you can choose to start a new game.

It's a Great Game, at a very reasonable price and I'm very satisfied with this purchase.

For word nerds of all ages!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: December 18, 2006
Author: Amazon User

The premise of Bookworm is simple: create words of at least three letters out of a board of letter-tiles. Sometimes a "burning" tile enters the board when you create a word (the longer the words you create, the less likely this is), and you have to use it up before it reaches the bottom of the board or the entire library will burn down. If you run out of good options you can click on the bookworm to scramble the tiles, but this brings more burning tiles onto the board. Unlike paper word puzzles of this type, you don't have to pick out letters that are all in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line; words can bend and swerve all over the place.

In the action game version, burning tiles continually enter the board at an ever-increasing rate. The bookworm also provides definitions for many odder little words and keeps a "hall of fame" for high scores complete with your longest and best-scoring words.

The music for Bookworm is silly, whimsical synth--entertaining now and then, but eventually you'll want to turn it off from the options menu (easy enough to do). The graphics are deliberately simple and silly as well--a grid of Scrabble-like letter tiles, a bow-tied and bespectacled bookworm (whose bookshelf you fill up by completing words on the board), and so on. The bookworm encourages you when you make particularly long words, warns you when burning tiles get too close to the bottom of the board, and (all too adorably) burps when you give him a word to eat that includes two or more burning tiles.

This is a great game for both young and old--educational as well as fun!

I Love Bookworm Deluxe!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: August 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. I love crossword puzzles too. Word puzzles like these are great for exercising the brain (we middle-agers need that). But most important, they are FUN! I've played Bookworm for a few years, and lost my downloaded copy when a disk went bad. I am glad the game is now out on CDROM! It's fun to play, addicting, and educational -- what more could you want out of a game? I highly recommend Bookworm Deluxe!!

Bookworm keeps your brain working!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is not only fun to play but it keeps my brain and my memory working.

Bookworm Delux

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is very habit forming. Games such as Bookworm keep the mind young and the young learn how to spell more words ... a fun way to learn! I bought two because I knew my friend would love it too!

words galore

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This is my favorite word game. I find it really taxes my brain and keeps me alert. My husband has alzheimers and it helps him pull up words in his memory.

Bookworm - Not a "Bah Humbug"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Order this game today if you like to play word games and keep your mind active! I have used this game in the classroom (middle school) - Students love it. I have now purchased it for home use and find that it is a great way to spend a few minutes or a few hours. This game surely keeps you on your toes trying to better your own scores. This game is for a wide range of ages - don't delay! (Now don't blame me if you don't finish your ironing.)

My 6 year old is addicted to this!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 30, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My younger son (6 year old) is so addicted to this game that he likes playing the action version of this game. I was so surprised to see that a couple of months after he started, his level of score in the action version of the game has reached over 500,000 (yes, half a million!). I was totally stunned. He is able to learn new words with this game, remembers and searches for them at a very high speed in the action game. It is amazing to watch the little fingers chew away the red tiles with 4, 5, 6 letter words in succession.

Even when I sit on this game I can go at it for over 2 hours at a time. It so happens that I got it on clearance in the Target software aisle for 10 bucks. Worth every 1/100 th of each penny I spent on this!!

I Love This Word Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My sister introduced me to this game and I can't stop playing it. Forming words from letter tiles isn't as easy as you would think. You can go up, down and sideways.
You're rewarded for longer words and ones using difficult letters (Z,K,X,Qu). Short words result in quick scores, but soon burning tiles start falling. As you hustle to work those into words, the game has an urgency even though in the classic version you have time to ponder your next move.
There's also an action version you can select from the menu and the tiles keep moving while you try to make words. Not easy!
As the score goes up, you move to different levels. It's good that you can save the game to return as sometimes I'm playing for three or more hours. Hard to stop, once you start.
There are sound effects and an engaging background tune. I had to turn those off, as I found the tune running through my mind all day. Maybe that's part of what makes the game addictive. Probably not, as I still return to it often even without the music.
Update: my computer crashed while Bookworm was running. Now the game won't open. I'm not sure how to resolve this, but guess I must contact the company. Very frustrating, as it won't let me reinstall from the disk either. I'd only had it for a week.

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