Among the board games that have sprouted ever since i've unearthed their great power as a time killer, i favor Scrabble over Chess most of the time. My 3rd best is the Games of the General. Late last night, time flies as i was overindulging with this newly discovered internet-app cum web-app from the Chrome Webstore.
Segway, I recently discovered the Google Chrome Webstore (GCW) a month ago but i haven't had the time to create a sole post about it. To put it all in a perspective, the GCW is like the App Store (for those who are well-versed about iPhone stuff) or could be simply analogized as a market place for web applications exclusively for Google Chrome. I've shopped a ton (free apps only) late last week but those were just an aftermath of panicky shopping and i ended up now with the apps like below:
Going back to the Scrabble-thought in the memory lane, i just wanna share to you this great online board game called Word2 (read as Word-Square; heck! i can't find the html code for Superscript). True! the concept is the same as Scrabble, only this time, you are playing in the midst of online populace who are logged in to this networked game of words. Taking turns to play ain't a worry because it all depends on how you flip your tiles to form a word and connect it to the existing lay-out. The biggest twist on this though is, you can only add your word of choice on those tiles of words you've been through (which can be easily spotted as bold tiles - see the image below).
As you can see above, my tiles are the ones in bold letters: "RESTATES", "TIMID", "PLAIN", while the ones that are grayed out "STAND", "DING" were someone else's. So, i can only add my new words to the ones i'm working on.
Sounds ridiculous, but come to think of it, this varied rule is kinda strategic. Your opponent is your own self. This narrows down the tendencies to add words by two things:
1. Your set of tiles (see image below)
2. & Your creativity and ingenuity in forming words
Just like scrabble standard, the number of tiles on set are 7 letters. If you're doomed, like there's no way around to plug even just a vowel or a consonant to those words you've formed on the board, you can always click SWAP TILES, rendering your life by a negative 1. The default life is 2, but you could add up by forming words on the board with the STAR-sign.
Actually, the game is simple, just what i've said, your worst enemy would be yourself. If you ran out of words and keep on clicking SWAP Tiles, think again.
The color coded blocks on the board are like scrabble's Triple word, Double Word and so on. If you played all your 7 tiles at once, you'd hit a jackpot!!!
If you want to expand your vocabulary in the English lang, i can only emphasize enough to try and play this, make sure u don't cheat by going to wordsmith.org plunging to look for anagrams of your tiles. (hahaha).