Bluster

Bluster Breeze through vocabulary building with Bluster! This word matching game develops vocabulary and word understanding for school-aged children, or anyone brave enough to battle the elements. Shine bright in single-player mode as you learn and practice important word skills. Match rhyming words, prefixes and suffixes, synonyms, homophones, adjectives, and more.  Collaborate with a friend in team mode. The multi-touch iPad screen allows both players to play simultaneously, so you can work together to weather the vocabulary storm. Switch to versus mode and play head-to-head for the ultimate test of your lightning quickness. Disrupt your opponent with weather attacks like tornadoes and blizzards - it’s thunderous fun and just might give you the edge you need to reign supreme! Bluster includes over 800 vocabulary words. Players choose a skill to practice and then try to make matches of three. Ten matches wins a round. Features: • Three different play modes - including two-player action. • A variety of grade level appropriate content. • Engaging animated gameplay with sound effects. • Head-to-head and High Scores tables.

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Werd Smith

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Words with friends

Words Words With Friends is the fun, free social word game where your skills are tested. Find the best opponent for you by browsing players’ profiles in Community Match. Think fast and challenge your friends with NEW Fast Play, make your move within 12 hours on a smaller gameboard with fewer tiles. May the Best Friend Win.™

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Word Abacus

Word Abacus Test your word pool in this addictive word puzzle game! Find English words by linking adjacent letter beads left, right, up, or down. Shift the letter beads like an abacus to increase word possibilities. There's no time pressure. Relax and focus. It's only about your skill. You think your vocabulary is outstanding? Compare your high score with players all over the English-speaking world.

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Word Solitaire

Word Solitaire Look northwards and to the stars for a dazzling display of word creation and traditional solitaire! Drag letters onto each other to arrange them into words. Flip over cards to expose more letters and complete the level by using all provided letters in the creation of words.

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