Train of Thought
Welcome aboard the Train of Thought! Travel across the USA aboard its expansive railroad network. Each station presents you with a puzzle, consisting of a set of words that has been chopped up and needs to be put back together based on clues. Practice your vocabulary, from common words with cryptic clues all the way up to those top-shelf ones we rarely use.
TEXTTWIST
This game is a play on words. This is how to play it:
Use
six jumbled letters to build as many words as you can before time runs out.
It is a tad similar to Scrabble because you are required to use the letters
given however, in texttwist,if you find a word that uses all the letters, you
can advance to the next round!
TextTwist is an addictive, fun test of both your vocabulary and your ability to spot patterns, almost like Sudoku.
This game gets its name from the twist button, which rearranges the letters on the player’s ‘rack’, so that he or she might find a better word when stumped. Twisting can be used an unlimited number of times per game. When one is really and truly blank, you can choose to pass and skip to the next round in some game modes, however a player only get two passes per game. There really are no rules for the number of players as you can play from solo games to teams of 3 or 5.
There are some words that are excluded from the game:Archaic words (thee, thyself), foreign forms of currency, proper names, obscenities, slang, 1 or 2 letter words, words with foreign characters, hyphenated words, foreign words (i.e. siesta), plural forms of color (greys, pinks) It is very much an American game in that words that have u in it are considered mispelt such as colour, favour they prefer the player to use the American spelling such as color, favor.
There are different game modes:
Standard: In this mode, players have two minutes per round to find as many words as possible. Each word you locate appears on the box of the screen. You are only allowed to find a set of words of each length – for instance, five three – letter words, four 4 – letter words and so on, though the numbers vary by the assortment of letters provided. The true objective of this mode is to find the longest word possible with the letters gives. If you have five letters to work with, the longest word possible would be a five letter word
Letter Mania: Here you need to spell multiple words in order to reach a certain target number of letters within the time limit. The target number increases steadily as players reach new rounds.
Lightning: The objective of each round is to find five specific words from their corresponding letter sets with a time limit of one minute and twenty seconds. If you don’t select any letters, the letters of the target word will slowly be revealed. Finding the word without letting all the letters appear results in a small time bonus.
Daily Word: A daily challenge to find a 7 – letter word. You can also find a single word with three, four, five and six letters for additional points. After finding the target seven letter word, either the game ends or you can go back to find the shorter words. The only drawback with this mode is that it makes the player wait 24 hours before they get the next word.
As it is with most if not all games, there are newer and newer versions coming out. Texttwist 2 is out and the one difference/improvement on this is that it has more words, harder words.