Word games are serious business in the casual space. Games like Text Twist and its popular Facebook counterpart Word Twist have hundreds of thousands of players. Remember the big brouhaha when Scrabulous was being taken away? People are passionate about their word games. So what makes Word Whomp Underground so different from the others? Believe it or not, its story.
Whenever I'm on the subway, I always see someone with a folded up newspaper, pen in hand, veins popping out of their forehead, trying to scrawl numbers into a grid - they're playing Sudoku. While I understood the basics of how to do it, I have to admit I never understood the point of the challenge, or how to even begin. Sudoku for Dummies is here, but will it make me a logic whiz?To briefly summarize, the point of Sudoku is to fill in the numbers one through nine in each of the nine three-by-three squares (making a large grid of 81 spaces). Each number can be written only once per square, and only once per row or column across all squares. Simple, right? How wrong I was.
What happens when bingo and lottery scratch tickets collide? The answer is Lottso! Deluxe, a new downloadable version of one of the most popular games on the online gaming portal, Pogo.com.Unless I just don't "get" the appeal for a game that requires very little skill, or perhaps it would be much more fun if there was real money to be won, but Lottso! Deluxe is a mediocre digital diversion at best.