There's nothing more frustrating when playing a word game than entering a word you know is a legitimate word, only to have the game reject it. It had no problem recognizing oddball words like gout, nix, and muddy, which is exactly what you'd want. The dictionary in this free online Bookworm game is fairly extensive. You are surely an inspiration for the rest of us. ![]() Thanks so much for the guidance, Les, and for the screen image showing you at Level 106. "The number of times I've had to 'refresh' the screen as well has been remarkably few." "It's really a question of trying all options, even if you think it's not a word. There are a number of American words that we wouldn't use over here, and some very old fashioned words that are mostly now out of use here. "Some different words appear to be able to be generated as well now, but the words that are available are really odd in their origination. The increases per level are interesting to log, they go up quite predictably for a while, but then there's a bit of a blip, and you get very few, or a lot more than expected. "At this level the increase per 'level up' is now 1 million plus. "The words have now got noticeably more difficult to find, being slightly more mis-aligned than on previous levels. LES: "Well, here's another one for you to see, this time I've gone through the 100 level mark, now on level 106, and the running total is now as you can see, 50,779,990, with no real sign of it ending. UPDATE: Les has now reached Level 149, with over 100 million points! Following are some tips and observations he made: Les was kind enough to share his thoughts about the game at higher levels. To date, Les has reached a score of 50,779,990. Advice from a Bookworm MasterĪ visitor named Les has out-achieved the vast majority of Bookworm players. I wish the developer had included that feature. Unfortunately you just have to keep the Bookworm window open as long as you can. There is no way to save your Bookworm game session. Once the bookshelf is full, you'll level up automatically. Submit either by double-clicking the last letter of the word or by clicking the SUBMIT button.Īs you form words and accumulate points, you'll notice the bookshelf above the bookworm starts to fill with books. The trick is the letters you use have to be touching each other (see screen image above, where I spell the word "snoop").Īfter clicking the letters you want, submit the word to the scoreboard. To form words, click the letters you see on the board.įor example, if you see the letter C, O, T you can click them one by one to make the word "cot". If you like this game, you might also enjoy Scrabble Sprint. As with most word games, it trains verbal fluency and concentration. So far, he has made it to level 106 in this Bookwork game, with over 50 million points ! (See a screen image of his score below.)īookworm is a great brain game. See if you can top that.īut few are in the same league as visitor Les. She has reached Level 24 with 2,002,400 points. But a visitor from Australia named Leanne has put me to shame. This is the only fault I have ever found with the game, except that if you were playing the game while an electrical power failure occurred, your accumulative game score would be lost and you had to start a new game.The best I've done is reach Level 5 with 42,380 points. After playing one continuous game for 2 years 4 months and attaining a score of 2,143,231,760, I noted that the game began to deduct points for correctly inputting a word instead of adding points as it should have done. Since EA Games is now controlling Bookworm Deluxe, which I assume is a very popular word game, will EA Games consider making improvements to the game in the future? I realize this might be a difficult task, as the1.02 version of the game that we have been playing over 12 years is so wonderful already. As before the problem began, the previous game is always saved to be expanded upon the next time, even after powering down the computer. ![]() I told my wife Nancy whenever you play the game, always click Yes when the User Account Control question "Do you want to allow this app from an unknown publisher to make changes to your PC?" appears on screen each time. After selecting Run This Program as an Administrator, according to your advice, I selected Windows 7 because there was no Windows 10 option that long ago. Thanks to your five consecutive working days of thoughtful advice emailed to me, I finally got Bookworm Deluxe Version 1.02 working!įollowing my installation of Bookworm Deluxe using the original 12-year-old disc, I right-clicked on the shortcut that was created during installation and selected Properties and then Compatibility.
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