21 February 2012

Kanagram - A letter order game


A smart, entertaining game where you have to find out words with scrambled letters. Kanagram suits everyone who likes games like Scrabble or wants to do a workout with her or his brain cells.While some words are easy to find out, other make you rack your brain!

How to play it?

Kanagram is very easy to play. First you choose a category - there you find topics like professions, inventions computers, sports, etc - or you select a level (easy, medium, hard). Unfortunately it's not possible to select a topic and a difficult level. 

Now you have a bunch of scrambled letters and need to fill them to the empty fields in the right order. Your one and only opponent is the time - you get 2 minutes (changeable in settings) to solve the puzzle. 


If you feel you can't find the word, use the light bulb button which gives you a hint. For example the word "telephone" offers you following hint: A vocal communication device.
In case you can't solve it at all, press the magic want button and the right result will be shown - and you might find yourself wondering why you couldn't find this out... but that's the incentive to do it better next time! 

-Don't forget to have a look at our other reviewed apps like MeeCast or Fahrplan-

Settings

Kanagram comes with a few settings. "Resolve time in seconds" let you set a time limit (up to 5 minutes) and "Hint appearance in seconds" the moment where the game gives you a hint. If you don't want an automatic hint, you have set its appearance time higher than the time limit you play with. 

There's also an option to turn on/off sound. I prefer to turn it off, since even when my N9 was in silent mode I could hear the game.

Even though it seems that you can choose a language, there's nothing else than English available at this time. But it can be a nice challenge for non-English speakers to test their knowledge in this language. If it's to hard for you to find any words, select the category "Easy.


Get it now from Nokia Store

Kanagram is a great game, especially if you want to play it now and then for a few minutes. The simple gameplay is very appealing, but some kind of statistic of how many words the player got right or wrong are missing. Also more languages to choose would be nice - but future version might add all that to this brand-new game for Nokia N9.

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