I'm playing a different game (board, card, pen/paper, verbal, drinking, party, arcade, carnival, recess, sport, etc.) every day for a year! Detailed posts will be shared here on the blog. For more consistent (but shorter) posts, check out www.instagram.com/oneyearofgames
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Baikoh
I know I've mentioned before that I prefer games to be escapism, not necessarily a challenge... so this one stressed me out a little. But it was still fun.
The letter tiles fall from the top at random, and you tap on them to spell words and make the used letters disappear. The letters you use don't have to be touching or in any kind of order or anything. If you make words that don't exist, though, you get a layer of letters (one on every column) after your third non-word guess.
There are also some traps, which is the really annoying part. I mostly ran across the ice trap. You get a random letter that is icy, and if it sits there too long, it freezes adjacent letters, too. You have to use a frozen letter multiple times before it thaws and disappears, and if you use up letters underneath a letter that has frozen to the one next to it, it won't fall down (because it's attached to the one next to it). Annoying.
It's a really nice looking game though. I wish the letter blocks weren't all different colors (maybe three shades would work best: consonants, vowels, and tricky letters like Q/X/Z) because it makes it harder to tell which ones you've selected.
Labels:
phone,
video game,
words
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