Common Sense Media Review
By Chris Morris
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Addictive word game safer to play with your own friends.
Parents Need to Know
Why Age 14+?
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Scramble With Friends
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What's It About?
Taking turns with another player (online friends or random opponents), kids string together adjoining letters to create words on the Boggle-like board in Scramble With Friends. While kids might find a few words that are spelled out left to right, they'll also have to search diagonally and in a grid pattern, zigzagging across the screen to produce words. They can use word length and each letter's point value to maximize scores. Rounds are two minutes, and after three rounds the player with the higher score wins.
Is It Any Good?
Picking up SCRAMBLE WITH FRIENDS can be really bad for your productivity. And we say that in the nicest way possible. Taking a page from the classic board game Boggle and another from Words With Friends, this spelling game is addictive, entertaining, and wonderfully social. It can also be tricky if you have trouble making order out of chaos. The 16 letters on screen can taunt you as you search for words -- especially those that are more than three or four letters. Playing the game with friends from your Facebook or Twitter adds a degree of fun, since you're playing with friends, not strangers (it also adds a degree of safety). The free version is as fun as the paid version, but if you're planning to have several games going at once -- and you likely will before too long -- cough up the money for the paid version. It will save you money in the long run.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Play the game with your kids, since it is, by design, a two-player title.
After playing rounds with your kid, look at the word lists. Did either of you learn new words? Encourage kids to look up words they spelled out but don't know the meaning of.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Subjects : Hobbies : board games , Language & Reading : letter or word recognition , reading , vocabulary
- Skills : Creativity : developing novel solutions , Tech Skills : social media , Self-Direction : time management , Thinking & Reasoning : solving puzzles
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- Release date : January 12, 2012
- Genre : Puzzle Games
- Publisher : Zynga
- Version : 1.1.4.12
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 4.0 or later
- Last updated : November 11, 2020
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