


Tapping any of these words will demonstrate how it can be located on the letter grid.Īfter a few seconds, the results screen shifts to the leaderboard for the last round. At the bottom, two columns list of the words you found, as well as high-scoring words you didn’t find. For the first half, you can browse some personal stats like number of words found and average word length. This down time has two distinct phases highlighting the results of the previous round. People who speak English as a second language will benefit the most when their native languages are offered, but any multilingual person should enjoy playing in his or her own second language.Ĥ5 seconds elapse between teach two minute game. As of this writing, the in-game dictionary can be switched to Spanish or Dutch (both in beta form), with more languages on the way. In case special rounds didn’t add enough variety already, Wordament even features alternate languages to play with. Locating every word in a themed set unlocks its own Achievement, too. Themed puzzles look identical to normal ones, but offer scoring bonuses for finding words based on a specific theme like fairy tales or sports words. Find them all (never easy) and you’ll get an Achievement. The number of possible digram words remaining is displayed at the top of the screen, creating an optional objective besides just hunting for points. Words spelled with these tiles get an extra scoring bonus. Digram tiles have two letters instead of one, such as –er or –at. Every few games, a Diagram or Themed puzzle pops up, signified by a sound effect at the start of the round. Words with four or five letters get a 1.5x bonus, six or seven letters 2.0x, and 8+ letters 3.0x. It adds the value of each letter to assign the word’s final point value. Wordament uses a Scrabble-style system in which each letter has a point value based on its rarity. Boggle simply awards points by the number of letters in each word, regardless of the actual letters.

More significantly, both games have different scoring systems. For one thing, rounds last only two minutes instead of three. Wordament differs from Boggle in many ways beyond the number of simultaneous players.
