Solingo: The Ultimate Word Game ?
Do you study the dictionary night and day just to prove to all your fellow geeks that you are indeed their fearless leader? Do you have a need to drastically improve your vocabulary? Are you in search of a more adult cousin to the childhood favourite where you got to hang someone if you did not know the proper word?
Whichever the case, Solingo, by Rob North and hosted at GTDS.net, has you covered (and no one has to die when you cannot sphell).
Solingo is a breath of fresh air from other word games as it involves more than just hammering out as many words as you can to get points. It actually makes you think about what the proper response should be. Often times, you will find kicking yourself to be the only relief from not knowing the painfully solution to some of the puzzles. Be warned, however, there is a noticeable difference between “easy” and “hard.”
The game plays in a similar manner to the old Hasbro game Mastermind but rather than breaking a code made with coloured pegs of plastic, you are trying to make a five-letter word. As a means of taunting you, the game even tells you how many five-letter words start with the letter you are given. For example, there are 1,057 five-letter words which begin with the letter S and 420 beginning with the letter R.
At the start of play, you are given the first letter of the word and you must find the other four. The point value of the puzzle goes down with each guess but, luckily, using one of your three hints (which replenish slowly as you complete puzzles) does not cost any points. Using a hint will grant you a missing letter but will not grant you the final letter of the puzzle. That part you have to do on your own. After typing in a guess, you will see letters with a blue square, red square, or orange circle around them. These are there to help you know which letters to keep typing and which letters not to use again.
You will notice with your very first puzzle that the first letter has a red background. This is not because it is the first letter but rather because it is the correct letter for that spot. This tells you when you type your guess, make sure that letter stays where it is in the word.
Letters with a blue square behind them are not even in the word you are trying to guess so do not try typing them again some place else in the word; if there is blue it is not going to be in the word. Letters with an orange circle behind them are in the puzzle but not in the right spot in the puzzle.
Whether you are a fan of word games or puzzle games; Solingo is perfect for biding time while you wait on whatever it is you wait on. Be careful though as the game can get very addictive and while grabbing a dictionary is tempting, it is truly your problem solving skills that will merit high scores.
The only enhancement I would like to see is for the puzzles to become progressively more difficult as you complete them (perhaps with rarer words appearing).
Play Solingo now at: http://www.gtds.net/Solingo/
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