Put your vast vocabulary to good use with this cool Java game from PopCap Games called Bookworm. It’s a Java game where you have to select words like in a word jumble. The more letters in a word, the more points and so on. Hard-to-use letters have higher value. If you link a few longer words together, you’ll be granted gold or green blocks, which multiply the value of the word score. If you link too many short words (like 3 or 4 letters), you’ll get flaming blocks that eat through one letter each round until they reach the bottom and burn your library.
Things to look out for:
It’s possible to play scrupulously and get insanely high scores. I would recommend a strategy of always getting rid of fire blocks as quickly as possible, even if you have to use short words. They just multiply otherwise. Then it will gift you with a golden or green block.
And now to explain the accompanying graphic. The reason I know so much about this game is that Kath and I went through an addiction of sorts in which we didn’t shut the iMac off for 4 nights because we were always playing the same game. The score you see there is built up over 4 nights, making about 500,000 points per night. It finally got shut off by accident, but, honestly, good riddance.
The most we managed to score on a single word is (from lowest to highest):
Enjoy.