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Bookworm Deluxe Review (continued)
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Manufacturer: MumboJumbo
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ESRB Rating: Everyone
Platform(s): Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Release Date: November 13, 2006
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
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Date: 2006-12-18
For word nerds of all ages!
The premise of Bookworm is simple: create words of at least three letters out of a board of letter-tiles. Sometimes a "burning" tile enters the board when you create a word (the longer the words you create, the less likely this is), and you have to use it up before it reaches the bottom of the board or the entire library will burn down. If you run out of good options you can click on the bookworm to scramble the tiles, but this brings more burning tiles onto the board. Unlike paper word puzzles of this type, you don't have to pick out letters that are all in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal line; words can bend and swerve all over the place.
In the action game version, burning tiles continually enter the board at an ever-increasing rate. The bookworm also provides definitions for many odder little words and keeps a "hall of fame" for high scores complete with your longest and best-scoring words.
The music for Bookworm is silly, whimsical synth--entertaining now and then, but eventually you'll want to turn it off from the options menu (easy enough to do). The graphics are deliberately simple and silly as well--a grid of Scrabble-like letter tiles, a bow-tied and bespectacled bookworm (whose bookshelf you fill up by completing words on the board), and so on. The bookworm encourages you when you make particularly long words, warns you when burning tiles get too close to the bottom of the board, and (all too adorably) burps when you give him a word to eat that includes two or more burning tiles.
This is a great game for both young and old--educational as well as fun!
Date: 2006-11-30
My 6 year old is addicted to this!!
My younger son (6 year old) is so addicted to this game that he likes playing the action version of this game. I was so surprised to see that a couple of months after he started, his level of score in the action version of the game has reached over 500,000 (yes, half a million!). I was totally stunned. He is able to learn new words with this game, remembers and searches for them at a very high speed in the action game. It is amazing to watch the little fingers chew away the red tiles with 4, 5, 6 letter words in succession.
Even when I sit on this game I can go at it for over 2 hours at a time. It so happens that I got it on clearance in the Target software aisle for 10 bucks. Worth every 1/100 th of each penny I spent on this!!
Date: 2006-11-25
Very addicting!
Very addictive. We put the disk in and it worked. No plugins needed. Win 98 is a good computer to use the disk. I heard some reports about Win XP. I like the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)"music". Very challenging. And action game isn't that bad after all. Try not to scramble though, but if you have to, you can. I highly recommend Bookworm Deluxe to people who are studying for the spelling bee, people who want to learn words, people who want a challenge, or people who just want plain addicting fun. Lex the bookworm sure is funny! This game is rated E for everyone (and eating words!). Don't listen to the people that say don't buy this product. Buy it now!
Date: 2006-11-11
Bookworm keeps your brain working!
This game is not only fun to play but it keeps my brain and my memory working.
Date: 2006-11-10
Loads of FUN!
I love this game, I can spend hours playing it, it's a good teaching tool to learn to spell better, I've been amazed by learning some of the new words & what they mean. It's a really fun spelling/word game.
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