Bookworm is a combination of Scrabble and Bejeweled, in which you create words by selecting letters from adjacent tiles. Completed words are converted to points and removed from the board. New tiles fall in from the top to fill in the empty tile positions. Watch out for fiery letter tiles that will burn through your other tiles one at a time. Bookworm Deluxe Game. The goal of Bookworm Deluxe is to make words to feed the hungry Bookworm, while watching out for burning letters that could ignite your library! In both game types, Classic and Action, you must create words by linking letters on the board together. To select a letter, just click on it.
Genre: Puzzle
Developer: PopCap Games
Game Description: Create words by linking letters to feed our hungry green friend, Lex the Bookworm. Bigger words mean bigger bonuses but get rid of burning tiles before they get you.
Platforms: Mac, iPhone/iPod, PC, Basic Mobile, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi
Price: $1.99
If you like playing word games like Scrabble or Boggle, then you’ll love Bookworm Deluxe! It’s a highly addictive game that’ll keep you coming back for more. The basic premise of the game is to create words from letters that drop down onto your screen. Link letters by clicking on them and hitting submit or double clicking the final letter in the word chain when done. To link letters, they have to be next to one another to qualify, so you need a really good eye to scrounge for words out of the jumble on your screen. Words need to be a minimum of three letters and, like Scrabble, the longer the words, the higher the score. Each time you make a word, they peel off the screen and fly into the mouth of Lex the Bookworm, allowing fresh letters to drop down to replace them. When you create longer words, different coloured bonus tiles appear, which, when used in a word, increase your score dramatically. You can also score extra points with bonus words that appear beneath Lex in the sidebar. No worries about whether or not you have created a “real” word, just check out the side bar – if your word has a score beneath it, it’s real. If not, deselect by clicking a tile not connected to your word, and try again.
If you keep making only three-letter words, red-hot burning tiles start to appear thick and fast on your screen. To slow down the rate of the burning tiles, create words that are four or more letters in length. Once the red tiles appear, try to get rid of them as fast as possible by using them in words. The longer you leave burning tiles, the quicker they start to descend by burning up the tile beneath them (each time you submit a new word, the red tiles immediately destroy the letter beneath them). Once a burning tile hits the bottom of the screen, it’s game over. So keep on top of them at all costs! Naturally, as each level progresses, the red tiles fall faster and faster, so you will literally be handling hot potatoes to keep progressing.
Bookworm Deluxe Mobile
Bookworm Deluxe comes with two modes – Classic Game, which is basically relaxed play but is by no means easy, and Action Mode, which is a faster, more challenging version of the game where burning tiles come fast and furious. The game comes with a funky tune and has a highly amusing ranking system for each level that you complete. As soon as you reach the ranking score for each level, a progress screen appears providing details of your best and longest words for that round, allowing you to move up to the next level.
Bookworm Deluxe For Mobile Phones
The mobile platforms have a welcome addition – a library of “books” of different themes, each having a list of bonus words that you need to “tick off” which earns you extra points.
Bookworm Deluxe For Mobile
All in all, Bookworm Deluxe is a great game for women and a wonderful way to while away the day. It’s also perfect for playing when you have spare time between tasks, as you can pause and leave the game at any phase. The mobile version is a must have for when standing in a queue or sitting in a waiting room. Extremely addictive, this game has kept me up until the early hours of the morning on many occasions, gaining a five star rating from me!