iGame

Someone asked me a while ago to do a blog post about iPhone apps that I use regularly, but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Today I will give a brief rundown on a subset of that collection. Here are the games that I play regularly on my iPhone:

Words With Friends: This is my latest discovery, and I'm hooked. It's just like Scrabble, and you can play with anyone. In fact, if you'd like to play a round with me, just download it (the ad-supported version is free, although I got hooked so fast that I gladly plunked down my $2.99 for the version without the "I Was a Fat Slob" ads every few minutes) and then start a game with me ("wisekaren"). It's fun, really! And there's a chat panel too, so we can whine about our lousy tiles and woo-hoo when we hit the triple-word space. Please, please, pretty please, won't you play with me?

Word Warp: When there is no one around to play Words With Friends with me, I play Word Warp alone. This one is also free! It's an anagram game where you have to find as many words with 3 or more letters from the 6 letters given. To move on to the next level, you must find at least one 6-letter word before time runs out. You can adjust the time, but I use the default of 2 minutes. I recently downloaded Word Warp Xtreme but am so far not too fond of the interface.

Drop7: Oh. My. God. What did I do all day before I got this? You drop numbered balls into columns and try to make them disappear before you get to the top. It's not timed, so it's just a leisurely planning-ahead type game. I love this game. I might have a wee bit of an addiction problem with it is all I'm saying. This one also cost a whopping $2.99.

So those are the game I play when I should be working, while I'm waiting for the water to boil, when I'm a few minutes early to pick up the kids, and so on. Other favorite games I still play occasionally are Tris, SET, Unblock Me, and Sol Free (solitaire). I also have a few new games I downloaded for the kids but haven't tried yet, like Tap Tap Revenge, Bouncedown, and Ramp Champ.

Comments

[Elena]

Word Warp sounds a bit like Word Twist which I play on Facebook every day with a cyber friend who lives in Colorado. We've gotten so expert at it that we play with seven letters. Woo-hoo!

[amy]

Karen,

I am still hooked on SET, which is all because of you! I'll try the scrabble one; but i'm not a whiz at it...yet.

[Alissa]

Love Drop7!! I downloaded when you tweeted about it and now my boys and I play nonstop. Words With Friends sounds great!

[nina]

I would love to play Words With Friends with you. Please send me an iPhone and then we'll be all set.

[Kelly]

I'll check out the Words With Friends. Have you tried Bookworm?

[Jeananne]

I absolutely LOVE games but vowed that I would never download one on my iPhone. Strange, hey? Some apps that I couldn't live without are Grocery iQ (I always have my grocery list with me -- and you can organize the isles to match the stores you frequent); pUniverse (what's in the sky tonight? -- or, amateur astronomy on steroids); and FileMagnet (literally makes your iPhone a 14GB thumb drive).

[Kelly]

Bookworm is like Pathwords in that there are letter tiles on the board. You click on connecting tiles to form words. New letters fall from top. After a certain point, tiles will be on fire and start to fall towards the bottom. Once a tile "burns" up at the lowest postion, game over. I think it is $2.99.