App-lesauce iPhone App Reviews

By: Little Red Bike Media
Site: http://wordtower.me/
Release Date: June 13, 2009
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Word Tower Lite is a mashup of Scrabble and Tetris. The game begins with the screen partially full of random letters. Players must place the falling letters in the desired places to make words, then trace through the created words with their finger to get the points and make the words disappear.

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Later levels introduce the star blocks, which net the player triple points, and the snow flakes. If the player fails to shake their iDevice while the snowflake is falling, the snowflake will turn into an ice block, which will remain frozen, blocking progress until the end of the level. If they do shake the device, then the letters are randomly rearranged. The level ends then the player can get the key and the keyhole, which spawn at the end of the level, to touch. I will give Word Tower Lite a 6 out of 10.

By: Jamie Grove
Site: http://www.jamiegrove.com/wordflipper
Release Date: May 29, 2009

Wordflipper is a cross between Boggle and Tap-Tap Revolution. At the start of the game the letters come spinning up to you on a wheel. Once the wheel stops, you start a timed round trying to make the most words out of the letters provided. Once you have made a word, Wordflipper makes use of the accelerometer and makes you "flip" your iPhone/iPod Touch in the direction indicated by the arrow. The longer the word, the more "flips" you have to perform before going on to the next word.

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This game has two features that I really like:

1) the use of the accelerometer in a word game is great.

2) the ability to reuse letters as many times as you can opens up longer and longer words.

I will give Wordflipper a 7 out of 10.