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Two of the things we like are word and polished games, the strength of the two combined is easily a winner for us (see Lexic). How does the next game hold up?

Wordology ($0.99 – On Sale; Free)

With so many word games in the store, you either have to have a great amount of polish on your word game or have ground breaking twists for it (See Word Fu). Wordology more than accomplishes the previous, and that’s exactly why we’re taking an in depth look at it.

Gameplay

In Wordology, you are free to create a word using any letter on your board even if they’re not close together. The goal is to create words and clear out the letter tiles. Special tiles get introduced including the ones that increase the time speed, or the one’s that give you more points.

The game also cleverly adds a little peek button(eye button, lower left edge of screens) that lets you view the words underneath the uppermost tile to assist you in building strategies for longer words:

Design

As you can tell from the screenshots we’ve posted thus far, the game’s graphics are detailed and crisp. We like how the submit button is actually a coffee cup. It gives out a familiar laid back feel to the game. It’s almost like the game is telling you to play it during those morning coffee sips or pretty much whenever you want to relax. The wooden background and minimality of buttons present on the gameboard itself lend a distinct look to the game.

Options are accessible through the “i” button on the lower right corner, which brings up a few screens including their elegant Awards hall:

The overall theme is carried out all through out the game including every game stipulation: How To and Stats screens.

Conclusion

Wordology doesn’t really offer anything new, game mechanic wise, but it doesn’t really need to. The amount of polish and detail reflects a clear direction where the developers want to take their game.

At the end of the day, Wordology more than provides you a fun and simple word game. It will tide you over for those wee hours of the game where you want to just both relax and still manage to get that brain working.

Contest

Cerebral Gardens has graced us with a couple of codes to giveaway. To do so, simply comment below after having tried the lite version. The lite version comes with the first 2 levels. It should give you a great feel to the game. Tell us why you’d like to own the full version, and you might just win yourself a copy. Contest closes, April 5 7PM.