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Bookworm | | From: PopCap Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Seller: cargolargo
Rating:  84 reviews
Sales Rank: 513
Platform: Nintendo DS
Genre: puzzle_games
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Edition: Standard
Number Of Items: 1
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.2 x 5.4 x 0.6
Multi-Cartridge Multiplayer
MPN: NDS-BW-EN
Model: NDS-BW-EN
UPC: 899274001789
EAN: 0899274001789
ASIN: B002KJCVYW
Publication Date: November 30, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Boost scores and advance faster with Bonus Words and Reward Tiles and save your high scores and track your progress with the Lex-Ray. | | • | Form words from 20 themed book collections and unlock 18 rooms to build your customized libraries. | | • | Flex your lexicon in three game modes ? classic, action and wireless multiplayer. | | • | Pick up and play -- it's easy to start working wordy wonders in seconds. | | • | Unlimited levels to keep you rising up the ranks in the Hall of Fame. |
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Product Description
Spell F-U-N on the run in an all-new Bookworm for the DS !Bookworm for Nintendo DS/DSiWare lets you expand your vocabulary on the go in this portable version of this PopCap classic. Drag your stylus across adjacent letters to form words for points bonus tiles and just for the fun of it. Be careful! If a fire tile reaches the bottom row of tiles it s game over for you and Lex. Bookworm for Nintendo DS and DSiWare features all of the action and visual polish that Popcap customers have come to expect while providing new content and game-play tweaks especially for the handheld. Key Features: Enjoy three brain-boosting game modes: Classic Action and Multiplayer. Find all of the words in 20 collection books. Customize your game backgrounds with the libraries you ve built. Pick up and play start working wordy wonders in seconds. Unlimited levels to keep you rising up the ranks in the Hall of Fame. Boost scores and advance faster with Bonus Words and Reward Tiles. Learn the meanings of words you may not know along the way. Save your high scores and best words for posterity. Take the mind-sharpening fun of this hit word game anywhere you go! Build 18 uniquely themed library rooms that range from Technology to Children s Books.Game ModesSingle-player Modes: Classic Drag your stylus over adjacent letter tiles to spell words. Longer words will generate more points and bonus tiles. Shorter words will generate fire tiles. If a fire tile reaches the bottom of the board it s game over for you and Lex. Action Action mode is much like classic mode but it moves at a faster pace. Fire tiles drop in from the top at random intervals forcing you to get rid of them quicker. Shorter words still generate fire tiles as well making this truly an Action mode.Multiplayer Modes:Bookworm on the Nintendo DS offers both a single cart and multi-cart multiplayer experience via an ad-hoc connection (i.e. you
Amazon.com Product Description
A high-energy word puzzle game hosted by Lex the bookworm, Bookworm for DS/DSi challenges players use their vocabulary to create words from a play area of cascading individual letters. Time is of the essence though, as the play area contains red glowing letter tiles, that if unused will "burn down" the player's library if they reach the bottom of the screen, ending the game. The DS/DSi version of Bookworm contains the the same addictive action gamers have craved since the game appeared for PC, but also includes improvements like a wireless multiplayer mode and unlimited levels. Bookworm Comes to DS and DSi
Have an appetite for words? Then join Lex the Bookworm in the hit word puzzle game Bookworm created by PopCap for your Nintendo DS and DSi. Link letter tiles left, right, up and down to spell words and keep your bookworm smiling. In addition, players can spell words to fill your bookshelves, unlock 20 themed folios and build out 18 unique library rooms. Boost your score using bonus words and Word of the Day, then track your progress with the all-new Lex-Ray to see how big your Bookworm brain can be.  Join your pal Lex in
Bookworm for DS. | Game Modes
Work wordy wonders in three game modes: start with Classic for the most popular Bookworm experience. When you’re ready to test your skills, speed through the fast-paced Action mode. And if you want to compete with friends, match wits in Multiplayer mode. No matter which mode you like best, you’ll relax and tune up your brain every time you play. Key Game Features - Form words from 20 themed book collections
- Unlock 18 rooms to build your library.
- Flex your lexicon in three game modes – classic, action and wireless multiplayer.
- Customize your game backgrounds with your libraries.
- Pick up and play -- it's easy to start working wordy wonders in seconds.
- Unlimited levels to keep you rising up the ranks in the Hall of Fame.
- Boost scores and advance faster with Bonus Words and Reward Tiles.
- Save your high scores and track your progress with the Lex-Ray.
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18 unlockable rooms.
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Built-in stats functionality.
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Unlimited levels.
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| Customer Reviews:
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 No spell check needed August 8, 2010
Giggles 66 (Aurora, IL= Yes, here U.S.A.)
I have this on my PC,Facebook & now here on my Nintendo. I love to spell things. I love certain word games.If
you like Scrabble is is up your alley but without the points on the squares. Inside you get a house and try to fill each floor with books of subjects. Also it has a word counter up to 12 letter words. Each 3-4-5-6-7 letter words you make you click on submit. The more words you spell you'll get a green square on the correfct spelling, the higher you'll get gold or blue.But your trying to make words before the letters catch on fire, the longer you take the library will burn up. It's better to take care of the flaming words before you get trapped in a corner. Then you get a word to find to get extra points & a word of the day for more points if you find it in your puzzle.
 Satisfied July 29, 2010
Deb
I was going to return because I didn't realize it was for a Nintendo. But I went out and bought one and am really having fun with Bookworm.
Bookworm you take with you. July 11, 2010
S. Brosseau (Massachusetts)
This game had been popular on the PC for quite some time. the DS version somehow has improved upon this game. If you liked the PC version you will like this one even better. The classic game mode can last pretty long, maybe too long for a portable. it's good game overall. The only drawback is you need more that one gamepak to enjoy ALL the features of multiplayer.
Crazy fun. Though I should have a shmancier word for it June 24, 2010
B. Caruso (SW Florida, USA)
A wonderful DS version of the popular online game. I found that this was an incredible vocabulary builder and a fun spelling game for my son (6 years old, has Asperger's and a pretty extensive vocabulary for a 6 year old) and a fun word game on par with Scrabble, albeit it a solo (as we don't have a 2nd DS) word game, without the annoying feature that I have found in digital Scrabble where common words aren't recognized. My husband was familiar with the online version of BookWorm before we got the DS version and he described it as "like Scrabble if the set is on fire" and he did say that the DS version offers more of an educational twist offering up definitions during game play (but not in an invasive and annoying manner).
This is a fun game for adults and kids and it's nice to have a game in common.
This is definitely going in our errand bag so we have something fun and educational and at times challenging, to keep us happy and occupied in doctors offices and keeping kiddo occupied during boring car rides to prevent the trying onslaught of "are we there yet?"
If you like Bananagrams or Scrabble, you will probably like Bookworm.
If you like Boggle then... June 18, 2010
D_Strasse (Charlotte, NC)
...you'll love this game.
Boggle, now that takes me back. I remeber my parents playing Boggle when I was a kid and this game very similar. In this case though, rather than simply making words from an available list of letters in a grid to rack up points, you have to string them together on the screen.
What can I say, you either like this kind of game or you don't. Benefits of this version are:
*Unlockable books. Enter a word and unlock the book it is found in, thereby showing you the rest of the words in that book.
*Unlockable backgrounds. Fill out a bookcase and unlock "rooms" in separate libraries.
*Trackable statistics: Keep track of how many words you created of specific lengths, biggest point score, etc.
*Real time saving: Exit the game at any point without having to manually save progress.
*Definitions: Definitions of the words you spell are provided. It is a nice feature but I didn't spend much time looking at them, especially if I had a burning letter on the board.
Nitpicks:
*No left hand option. I'm left handed and this is a more than a nitpick for me, and a real bummer. Sure, I could work around it but it seems to me like a major omission.
*No gameplay mode without burning tiles. For some people the pressure of having burning tiles even in the "classic" gameplay option might be unwelcome. I can see some people just wanting to leisurely make words all day long and that isn't available.
All in all perfectly paced puzzler with hours of content for fans of this type of gameplay - you know who you are ;)
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