The only verdict I can confidently make is that the main menu music sounds like something straight out of a low-budget horror movie, and there's a weird-looking green worm with a bow tie, and it's smarter than me.

It keeps watching, with a snarky, Dreamworks grin on its face, his expression practically screaming, "Go on, keep trying. You know you ain't gonna make it because I'm better than you. You're going to BURN."

I scramble and the hellfire rains down on the board, devouring the letters one by one, slowly directing me towards my inevitable end, all whilst I'm being watched, mentally tortured, bombarded with the definitions of words I've never heard before.

"You may take me down, you overgrown gummyworm," I say, using my last vestige of breath, as I chain the word "PAIN", awarding me with 400PTS, the library enveloped in a mass of blazing inferno, soon all to become ashes, "BUT YOU'RE GOING DOWN WITH ME."

But I'm fighting a never-ending battle. That worm is still there, I know it. It's still alive.

And it hungers.

Good for tuning up word skills and passing the time, it's easy to lose track of how long you've been playing.

It's the best scrabble game forever.

I love this game. It's perfect for when you just want to chill with something relaxing and it also challenges your mind and keeps you thinking. It starts off really easy to gain points and gets progressively harder as you move up in levels. I love trying to beat my record of points.

This game is okay. As a way to exercise your brain, I recommend it, but as an exciting experience, I would say this is about as fun as painting a picture of the Mona Lisa, with a straw brush.

This is not my kind of game, at all, and yet I still recommend it. Why? Because, for a certain group of gamers, this game could easily be a blast. The best comparison I could really make is that it's like a combination of Scrabble and a word search, and if you like both of those things you're almost certain to enjoy this game. Basically, you are given a screen of letters and need to string together letters to form the best words you can, with longer words and the use of rarer letters earning more points. Each time you form a word, the letters you used disappear, leaving the others to collapse down and new letters to come from above to refill the screen. You get bonus points for forming the bonus words or using the special colored tiles to form a word. But, beware, there are also red tiles, and if they reach the bottom without being used, the game is over. Therefore, this is a great game for anyone really into words or needing/wanting some more practice to increase their vocabulary or English skills. There is a lot of really great opportunity here to challenge yourself as well, since the only real limit is what letters you get and what words you know (or can guess). I have to admit, even not being into word games, I did get a small surge of satisfaction each time that I found a high-scoring word, so I'm sure that those who do enjoy such games will really love it. So, yes, I do recommend it, for a very particular set of gamers.

Pop cap classic never seems to get old.
Becomes really hard in the later rounds would recommend this to any age.
10/10

The other reviewers have .4 to 1.3 hours logged and give this game praise for YOU to buy it... Look at my hours logged, listen to me, buy it.

Oh PopCap, how you steal the hours of my life away...
Haven't you already done enough? Leave my free time alone!! I have so little of it to start with!!! I had only recently shaken my PvZ addiction, then the Steam Sale had to push this on me. Stay away from this game if you want to get anything done!

If you are going to buy any Popcap game, this is the bad boy you want.
I remember playing this when I was little and finding it so much fun, I guess it’s a good game for kids. It tests your knowledge and it’s just a challenge to see what you can come up with.
This game is a real classic in my eyes, I love it, it has no fancy graphics and it isn’t pushing my computer to the best of its ability’s but it’s fun.
The only fault I could find with this game would be that I think, not sure, but think that it is americanised, so it has words I don’t know and doesn’t pick up some words that I do. But it is easily worked around.
It’s a good little puzzle game, and from what Popcap games I have seen so far, it’s one of their best.
Worth a go if you are a puzzle game lover.