Posted on April 12, 2010 at 6:48 am

Wordjong

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We have all played Mahjong games on our iPods and computers, and right when we have begun to think that the game has offered us all that it has to offer, it appears again with a whole new twist to it, taking us by surprise and making us falling in love again. As you might have guessed this game is a mixture of Mahjong tile games and Scrabble. First off, WordJong is pretty straightforward – which incidentally, doesn’t win it too many points. It presumes a little too much. It presumes that you exactly what you’re getting into and that you know what Mahjong Solitaire. It throws you into the deep end, assuming you know how to float and a lot of people really, really don’t know how to float in WordJong. Even though that this game doesn’t feature a tutorial (which would be a huge plus) it has an ingame instruction manual that surprisingly can be quite helpful, so we can forgive and let go the minor tutorial issue.  So how does this game work. Well it’s pretty simple once you get the hang of it. You spell a word with the available tiles, except the tiles aren’t on Scrabble rack, but on a Mahjong Solitaire setup. It takes its point cue from Scrabble, with more different letters, putting more into the bank when you use them successfully. Luckily, the dictionary in the game is pretty robust, catching onto some pretty obscure words. Like any word game, sometimes adding suffixes and prefixes leads to some rejected words, but that hardly ever happens. All in all this is a fun game, that’s a sort of mixture of all word games around the world, which makes this game rather interesting and challenging to play. Although at times it can be frustrating, this game can become our best friend on our times of boredom.

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