You, Me and Words - Review - Reynolds Mucked

You lot, Me and Words joins the salubrious listing of Bungle blazon games on the Windows Telephone Marketplace. But there's something different near You, Me and Words that sets information technology autonomously from the other games such as Wordrix and Word Loonshit.

For starters, instead of a 4x4 grid of letters, You, Me and Words has a 3x3 filigree. If my math is correct, that means you accept seven fewer letters to build words off of. You also don't accept to link the letters together, y'all but tap the letters in sequence to build the give-and-take.

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You, Me and Words Menu, Bookmarks and Game

The chief menu of the You, Me and Words displays your ranking and game performance as well every bit options to play the game (uh duh), view the online leaderboards, view your bookmarked words (more than on this in a second) and admission the assistance and options menu.

The Help and Options Menu has settings to change your screen name as it would announced on the leaderboard, view a help/how-to section and read near the developer and game version.

You, Me and Words Help and About

The game itself is simple. There are over 6,000 dissimilar games or rounds where you have a 3x3 grid of letters that you lot accept to create words out of. Just tap the letter to build the discussion and tap the "POP" button to annals that word.

Each alphabetic character has a prepare value and the sum of these points for each word is added to your score. You lot take ii minutes to create equally many words as possible and the number of possible words are displayed in between the timer and score fields. Caryatid yourself. It'south rather humbling to see that nine letters tin can create hundreds of words.

At the end of each circular you have a score summary that lists the words the collection of messages created. Tap on a give-and-take and the definition and employ examples are displayed to the right of the screen. You have button controls to kickoff a new game, bookmark the highlighted word or review your score. Bookmarked words volition appear on your Bookmark Page which is accessible from the Master Menu.

You, Me and Words Round Scoring

When you are fix to play the next round, yous decided when to start it. Just printing the next game button and a new game is launched. I really liked this feature. Similar games automatically launch y'all into the next round when y'all'd rather look through the words and definitions from the circular you merely completed.

Your score folio shows your score and how it ranks against others who take played the same grid of messages. The overall leaderboards that are accessible from the main menu will show how you rank based on your cumulative scores from all games played.

Overall impression... I liked Yous, Me and Words. I like how you lot tin can utilize any letter on the grid regardless if it'south connected to the next letter. I like how you lot're competing confronting other players scores merely the circular is not dependent on playing against them at the same fourth dimension. If y'all want to take your time and review the words, read the definitions and bookmark words yous can.

You, Me and Words may not have friends lists, chat, and other features alternative games have but it does its job actually well. I do wish in that location was a style to juggle the messages to give you a fresh perspective on things but maybe with the next update. At that place's as well the 3x3 grid. While a 4x4 filigree of letters is challenging in its own right, a 3x3 is more challenging to find words from.

If y'all like discussion games or are just looking for a unlike twist on the Boggle styled games, You, Me and Words is worth checking out. You, Me and Words was recently updated to Mango (and the blood-red "New for 7.5" tags don't show up in the game) so you'll need to be running Windows Phone 7.5.

You, Me and Words is a gratis, advertising-supported game that you lot can find over here at the Windows Phone Marketplace.