![]() Rather than giving you letters and expecting you to make words, Word Slinger gives you words to fit together in a grid scattered with special prize squares that you must cover to get the prize. If you like gridded word games, but you're not quite that much into anagrams, GameHouse's older game Word Slinger might be more your speed. So it you're not a tournament player, expect to lose. Despite finding the matches more of a challenge than I expected, I can't stop playing. I haven't even tried Intermediate (level 3) much less Master or Genius (levels 7 and 8). Beginner kicked my arse, as did Apprentice. So I expect when I get a computer Scrabble game that I'm at least better than the beginner profile. No one who has been trounced soundly once wants to venture tiles against me again. I'm a fairly good Scrabble player, not tournament level, but good enough that I can't get another human to play with me. GameHouse Scrabble is playable and addictive, but I'm afraid it's smarter than me. It crashed once in about 6 hours of play for no discernible reason. The game is also unstable on rare occasions. You can only play with someone sitting at the same computer as you. But perhaps Scrabble's largest shortcoming is the lack of LAN or Internet play. The one I recall off hand can't be said in polite company, but it's a word for driving a hard bargain. The dictionary is extensive, but I've managed to find several words that would be in a regular dictionary but don't seem to be acceptable. Scrabble has a nice soundtrack that you'll want to turn down after about five minutes so it doesn't get annoying. The instructions are clear as are the rules, and somewhere in the game, I found a list of acceptable two letter words (but drat, I can't find it again!). There's also a nice, highly-configurable hint function called Word Assist and if you switch away from the window, the game clock (if it's running) pauses automatically. Custom Tournament allows you to change the tournament play time limit. Tournament allows you to play against any one of eight different levels of computer player or against a human player. This is no challenge for the computer, but it might be for you. ![]() In Blitz, you have 25 seconds for each play. There are several ways to play: solitaire, untimed, and three tournament modes: Blitz, Tournament, and Custom Tournament. GameHouse's Scrabble is new, pretty, colorful, and slick. I am a complete failure at most modern computer games. I can't even survive on Tetris for more than 10 or 15 lines on level 9. Can I confess something? It's the shame of my geeky existence, but I have no eye-hand coordination to speak of.
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