GridWordz

GridWordz is a word strategy game The unique, addictive, brain-teasing game to examine your skills as a wordsmith. This game will test your ability to make as many words as possible from randomly or strategically selected letters. PLAYER v PLAYER Select a friend via Facebook, or GridWordz can find an opponent for you. Simply outscore your opponent. Real time scoring is shown at the top of your screen. The outcome of any match game depends on your skill at constructing words and how you strategise to stop your opponent from creating good lines of words. Can you outfox your opponents and become a top wordsmith? Accumulate XP points to unlock new grids and access new challenges. SINGLE PLAYER Beat target scores to unlock, and climb up the tiers. Each tier is made up of 5 grids that you play to accumulate a score for that tier. Random letters are dealt to you; have fun and use your skill to place the letters on your grid to construct words, scoring as many points as possible. How high you can go? GRIDWORDZ ORIGINS A Victorian parlour game modernised for the 21st century When I was a child I used to stay with a friend, Randolph, whose parents were wonderfully eccentric and ‘old fashioned’, his mother was an ex-ballerina from the Royal Ballet and his father was a retired naval officer with the most magnificent beard. Reading ‘worthy’ books, meritorious discussion, and parlour games were the norm around the dining table. There was no TV in the house, switching the radio on in the kitchen was only for the BBC world news, Radio 4 plays and the shipping forecast! The home-computer age was still in the distant future. One of our intellectual ‘battlegrounds’ was a fantastic word game that we played using pencils and bits of paper. I still have some ‘results’ from those battles ‘yellowing away’ in my old desk draw. Recently I thought that we should give our old word game a second life, so we have developed it as an App for more people to enjoy. It has been on a long journey from a Victorian dining table to your Smart Phone. I dearly hope you like it. H Jarndyce *