At times one feels bored and those are the times when one feels blessed to have a smartphone. Today’s smartphone app market is buzzing with new and innovative apps. keeping in line, the smartphone gaming industry is booming as well. You have a variety of games to choose from and download. Here are our top 7 picks for word gaming apps for the Android OS.
SCRABBLE Free
The most widely played and classic word game is now available for Android smartphone users. It is a cross platform app which supports multiplayer, which means that you can challenge your buddies with iPhones. It also supports Facebook integration so that you can post your high scores on the website. The game can pick random opponents from the internet or you can play your friends in a 2-player Pass ‘n’ Play mode. Android OS 2.2 or above is required to use all features of this game.
Download Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ca.jamdat.flight.scrabblefreeWords With Friends Free
Touted as the best smartphone word game, ‘Words With Friends’ now comes as a freeware on Android. It is a cross platform game that supports iPhone and iPad as well. Get lost and addicted in this word building and triple score seeking bonanza of pure fun. ‘Words With Friends’ also supports chat so that you can talk to your friends while playing. Zynga Terms of Service have to be agreed upon before playing this game.
Download Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zynga.words&feature=related_appsWords With Help For Friends
Words with Help for Friends was actually designed to get the highest scoring words when playing Words with Friends. This app uses the actual dictionary of the original game so as to ensure that it returns words that are valid and high scoring. It uses the best search algorithms in the Android industry to get the words needed. It will help you with a single line, or if need be, the entire board! The words also come with definitions so that you can increase your own personal vocabulary. It also has an “in game” mode so that you can get help while playing ‘Words with Friends’.
Download link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.epekware.wordhelpforfriends&feature=related_appsWordsmith Free
Wordsmith is a crossword style gaming app. It supports up to 4 players and is turn based. The concept is extremely simplistic and that’s what makes it fun. The letters have to be placed on a 15 by 15 tile board with Scrabble style DW, DL, TW, TL tiles. The words have to be created horizontally or vertically for points to be scored. The player with the most points wins. The score preview feature helps keep track of scores before a move is made. A very addictive game for serious players.
Download Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.secondbreakfast.games.wordsmith.free&feature=related_apps
Wordfeud FREE
WordFeud is perhaps one of the few games that will let you play against 8 million users. It is a cross platform game that supports multiplayer and is available on both Android and iOS. You can challenge games or the game can pick a random opponent for you. 30 separate games can be set up at the same time! Words are to be created and placed on a 15 by 15 tile board and points are earned by creativity and letter placement on tiles like Double Word, Double Letter, Triple Word, Triple Letter etc. It is like Scrabble but with a new twist!
Download Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hbwares.wordfeud.free&feature=related_appsTouchy Words
Mix up Shuffled Row, Deep Leap and Scrabble on a touch screen interface and what you get is Touchy Words! It is a freeware. The aim of the game is simple: find words using 64 letters and try to get the highest score. The letters come one after the other in a row. A timer starts as new letters appear, and a new letter appears when the timer ends and so on. When a row reaches a total of 9 letters, the oldest letter will be replaced by a new one. The score is kept on how long the word is and how many points a letter carries. The longer the word, the more the score.
Download Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=touchy.words&feature=also_installed7 Little Words
This app was actually featured in O, The Oprah Magazine, in the September 2011 issue! If anagram games, crosswords and word finds are your forte then you will simply adore ‘7 Little Words’. Each small puzzle will have 7 mystery words, 7 clues and 20 groups of letters. You will have to find the mystery words using the clues and letter groups. It is a challenging yet fun game that is easy to learn. Watch hours of boredom fade away with this nifty game.
Download link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blueoxtech.sevenlittlewords&feature=related_apps
