Okay... here's a cool, addictive game for your Windows Phone. Wordrix is a Boggle styles game for your Windows Phone that has you finding words amongst an assortment of letters.
As you create words, you earn points and the letters are replenished. You have two game modes, Local and Online with settings to allow you to customize the appearance of the game.
To read more on Wordrix, follow the break.
App Layout
Wordrix's main menu is rather self explanatory. You have buttons to launch either the Local or Online game, to access the game's instructions, settings, about screen and to change your player name.
From the Settings Menu you can turn the sound off or change your game theme. There are five to choose from ranging from Classic Dark to Old School (notebook paper).
Local Games are a series of games played against the clock. You have three game choices where you race the clock to see how high a score you can achieve and three game choices to see how fast you can achieve a preset score.
Online Games sends you to the Wordrix server where everyone present plays with the same set of tiles. Your given two minutes to play to see who can rack up the most points.
Each game mode has leaderboards listing the daily, weekly and personal bests for the game.
Game Play
Game Play is simple. From the 5x5 grid of letters, you draw a line connecting the letters to form a word. You can connect at angles, horizontally and vertically. Once you create a word, lift your finger, points are added, the word appears at the bottom of the screen and the letters used are replaced with new.
The two minutes in the Online Game goes quick and you'll be surprised how few words you find when you first enter the arena. The Local Games are equally challenging but knowing that you aren't competing against others takes a little bit of the pressure off you.
Wordrix can make you feel stupid, having words as plain as the nose on your face staring at you. You'll catch yourself saying "doh" time and time again. And I think that is what draws you back to the game. Something so simple as finding words in a bunch of letters shouldn't be that hard. Right?
Overall Impression
If you like word puzzles, Wordix is a must have game for your Windows Phone. If you don't like word puzzles, Wordix might change your opinion.
The game ran smoothly, was entertaining, and addictive. It's a great game to pass the time with whether you need to blow five minutes or thirty.
Wordix comes in two versions; a free, ad-supported version and a paid ($.99), ad-free version (links opens up Zune).
