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Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Not just boasting a cute interface alone, this fun and deceptively simple game tests your typing speed, your English vocabulary and how fast your brain can process an anagram of letters and arrange it into words recognized by the English dictionary. (Options for the dictionary vary; Scrabble players can even take on the TWL98 or SOWPODS dictionaries.)
Basically, you are given 6 letters and it recognizes words from 3 letters onwards. A time constraint of a minute and 30 seconds is given and you are to work out as many words as possible during that time period. (Fortunately, you can work around that: 4-lettered words and above gives you bonus time.)

All the possible words that can be formed are indicated in the blanks beside the cute-faced clock. Can you think of what other words there would be?
If you figure out a 6-lettered word (e.g. RNDIFE un-shuffled gives you FRIEND), you get a bonus round where you are to figure out whose name is it, out of all your friends on Facebook, that is hidden in another 6 letters and earn some extra points!

Oh yea! I managed to guess who it was within the time limit! In case you are wondering why my friend is called “Fan”, it’s because we are to guess a friend’s first name, and for many of us it turns out to be our surname.
You get to compete with your other friends that have added this app (you can invite more of your friends on Facebook to join in the fun) based on scores to see who has the biggest vocabulary of them all. You will be likened to certain ranks of people based on your score, ranging to that of a toddler to an anagram cyborg.

With a little help from my elder sister (with my horrible typing speed this rank is just not possible for me T_T) I’m 3rd among my friends and I supposedly have a vocabulary of a lawyer. (Supposedly.)
Think you can do better? Start challenging now!


Contributed by : Ng Qianning(083218W) of PS0803
Posted up by : Desiree Lau(071224N) of MB0704

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