Welcome back to our Featured Apps!
Summer in our house is a great time to unwind and play games. Every year we drag out the board games and have some good old fashioned family fun time. This summer, we continue the laughs and comrarderie, but with a little bit of a technology twist. What a hit it has been.
Our first featured app today is Scrabble. The Scrabble App on the iPad is gorgeous!
There are several ways to play: single game against the computer, with your facebook friends, against those in your local network, pass and play mode, and party play.
Our favorite is the pass and play mode. In the pass and play mode you can add up to four players. The beauty of playing scrabble this way is that the App does all the work. It distributes the tiles to each player, it keeps score, and it has a built in dictionary. The one feature that we like best is the best word feature. Each player can use the best word feature up to four times. We have a family rule that only the little kids can use it! It helps keep those early readers engaged in the game, so they can keep up with the more word savvy competitive adults. And, there is no cheating on the adults’ part because the little heart below each player’s name shows how many times the best word is used. The adults in our family have enjoyed some healthy competition while gathered around the scrabble board, and this App is helping us break in a new generation of scrabble lovers.
The Scrabble App is available on both the iPhone ($2.99) and the iPad (9.99) The iPad App is a bit pricey, but we have definitely gotten our money’s worth!
Our Second Featured Word Game App is Chicktionary!
Look out, this game is addictive! In each game, you are given a set of seven scrambled letters nested in the chicken’s bellies. The object of the game is to fill every egg crate with a word made from the letters provided. Sounds easy, no? Well, think again. It can be a real challenge trying to fill those crates. You can shuffle the letters by dragging them around to see a new perspective. There are two modes of play, the timed version where you try to get as many words as you can in a given amount of time, or long play where you need to get all the words with no time limit. It really doesn’t matter if you are 7 or 70, you will easily get hooked into finding all the words to fill your egg crate. This game also has some built in features to help the little ones. Beak sneak, shows you one letter placement in each egg crate and free bird gives you a free word in one egg crate. Another great feature is the dictionary. If you create a word but don’t know the meaning, you can tap on that word and it will take you to an online dictionary.
Chicktionary is available for FREE right now on both the iPhone and the iPad, so you might wnat to get it while you can.
Let us know what you think about our featured apps and if you are enjoying the games as much as we are! Also check out our posts on geocaching and the ifish pond!
