Apple Thoughts: Giant Crayon Word Soup: More Fun Than Alphabet Soup

Figure 1: A new game of Wordsoup begins!

Close your eyes. I want you to imagine the name Pocketmac. They're the company behind Pocketmac for Blackberry and Pocketmac for Windows Mobile. Essentially, if you have either of those kinds of devices, you've run into Pocketmac. Now what if I told you they were now making games under the Giant Crayon brand?

Their first release is Giant Crayon Wordsoup, a game that is based pretty squarely on a few other games we've come to know and love in the "make a list of words from one group of letters" genre, but with a pretty nice twist which I'll get to later.

Figure 2: Just a few more words to go!

Play progresses exactly as you would expect it to. You fill in letters from the bottom into the blanks at the top, and you keep doing that until all the words are filled in. In the upper right corner is a circle that fills as time elapses, below that an "Enter" button in case you want to control the entry of letters with your mouse, and a jumble button that jumbles the stickies with the letters on them in the hopes that you'll find a few words by shuffling letters.

When you finish the six letter word, you're allowed to proceed to the next round.

Figure 3: Time to move it along!

When you've finished the round, you move on to a new group of six letters and start all over again. When you run out of completed levels, you're done. If you do well enough, you get to have the glory of having your name in the High Score list.

Figure 4: That's what you're striving for, folks.