Concept
This free amazon game for kindle owners is fun and excellent training for coordination, speed of reactions, and comprehension. Sixty letters are placed in a rack, nine appear on the screen. When any of the nine are gone, other letters of the sixty soon take their place. The goal of the game is to look at the letters and select letters that make up word and to get a high score doing so. Some letters and longer words have higher scores. If there are nine letters in the rack and you don't use two or more of them to make a word, the letter on the left will be lost and a new letter will take its place. The game is set up to be helpful and fun. There are instructions that are very clear. They should be read before playing.
If you have difficulties finding words, you may use the Shuffled Row solver by Arron Hardy.
Reviews
Sure, Jeff Bezos may be keen on keeping Kindle a "purpose-built reading device" (for now, at any rate), but that doesn't mean you can't have a little multimedia fun, right? Amazon has published two diction-centric games, Shuffled Row and Every Word, free of charge and available now for delivery via Whispernet...
The gist of the game is that you are presented with a set of letters near the top of the display, with additional letters added periodically. Once the “rack” fills up with nine letters, it will start dropping the first letter off to make room for the next...
Shuffled Row is sort of a mashup between Scrabble, Boggle, and Bananagrams, but with the twist of there being some guy standing there swiping your letters if you don’t use them fast enough...
Well, we've all wondered (ok, at least I have) where the apps are, once Amazon released a developer's kit. It appears that two of them are now in the Kindle store and both are (currently free) games! The pictures show them being played on the newest Kindle, but I don't see any mention of which Kindle is required in the descriptions...
