Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 07:24 pm
Book-Man – Education Game Review
Book-Man is a Education/Casual/Word game from Farlex, Inc., first launched in 5th February 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 269+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Book-Man Stand Out
Help Book-Man navigate mysterious mazes to collect letters while avoiding the diabolical Blots!
Spell the word to win each level while racking up points and grabbing helpful bonuses.
Outsmart the Blots by casting Slow-Down spells and uncovering hidden letters!
Keep your streak going and earn extra points with Daily Challenges.
Get the word game that’s packed with classic arcade action!
Get Book-Man!
From the creators of TheFreeDictionary.com, the massively popular online dictionary.
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Book-Man is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th September 2024
Recent improvements include:
Added support for the latest iOS version.
Download & Availability
Book-Man is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We are quite satisfied with this gaming system. It helps a lot.
We are having fun clocking the app.
A pretty decent game. Its fun and kind of addicting. The only complaint we have is the control of our bookmanI dont know if its because of our phone or if its the fault of the game. Our bookman quite frequently didnt follow our directional movements/commands and many a time would cause the bookman to go through walls and then throw us out of the game to our home pagevery aggravating ( but at least it didnt cause us to lose a life ). Still worth playing though.
Nice version of pacman. Great for youngers, fun for olders. Liked the music and the challenges. We finished it after a while. Definitely it is not quite long. Hope the developers create more levels.
It is an excellent game, but it could be easier to control your man. It doesnt always do or go where we are trying to put it.
You can tool around, having fun playing without having to invest a lot of time or effort.
Very fun. Reminiscent of Miss Pac-Man.
We really like the game, but we would also prefer to have different ways to get to what we need to. The Pac-Man style is rather slow so something to speed it up maybe just a notch would help mix it up a little.
We enjoy this farlex dictionary syndicate.
We like this game cuz if ur someone with anxiety issues Ive noticed it helps us get our mind off things playing this game..its also fun stimulates ur brain and passes time.
Its a great game to focus your concentration Excellent.
We like it but it could use some different book heroes.
Enjoyable, educational for a retiree like ourselves.
We play this all day we cant even stop ourselves.
We enjoy learning and achieving new levels and more. We would rather it not be a pac man style of game maybe mix it up and try different styles and types of game.
IOS is great for some of us- not so much for android. Fix the android bugs. Wify wants to play and to do that you have to get busy. We would like to see more keys in the game… Theyre so hard to come by. We would also like to see a hyper drive to speed up our Book-Man. Would be neat dont you think.
Its pretty fun but Ive finished 9 words and to move on to the next level we need a key and while you can obviously buy keys, we would imagine theres also a way you can earn them. We like the game but Im stuck on level 9 because Id really rather not pay to move on. Is there a way to earn keys for those of us who dont wish to purchase them.
Not up to the quality of the other apps in the free dictionary game.
There are times during the play when out of the clear blue, the Book-Man will freeze up while the destroyers continue to look for him/her. Sometimes, it can become so frustrating that those who are somewhat deficient in self-control might be inclined to hurl their device against a wall, or into the campfire, lol Cant discern whether its a bug, or an intentionally written part of some subroutine. In either case, unresponsiveness is the reason that for many years, Ive rejected the option to play video games. At times, Im tempted to return to our place of serenity within our old personally established boundaries. At age 71, we feel that the ever increasing rate at which humanity employs technology to multiply the velocity for hurling themselves toward their own end is a phenomenon to which Id prefer neither to be a contributor, nor to encourage participation. __.
We thought Id give this game a shot since it ties into the Free Dictionary app. So far, we enjoy it. But there is one problem: although we have a key, we cant unlock the next level. We need some help in doing that.
This game NEEDS an UPGRADE! Please and thank you.
Not sure how to not loose our mind or lives! Can you please give direction as to how to play before we just delete? We have asked several friends and they dont know either! Whats the deal here.
love the game… Best language learner thing… Beat zone one in all five languages… Then zone two came along in english… Beat it… Then zone two in four more languages… Beat it… MUST have more zones… This game helped learn origin linguistics dependencies of english-russian-french-spanish-german words warps evolutions… PLEASE add more languages… Rosetta stone got nothing on this… We can now see / hear / spell food things where they speak these five languages… … … On technical side… Game good… Code good… Minor glitches… Irrelevant… Entertainment value great… Keep it up… High five… Craving more levels… :).
SECOND REVIEW It is much better now that we've figured most of it out. But we'll still hold our judgements to see what happens in coming days.. So far though it is worth a download. We mean it's free right, how can you go wrong, if you don't like it delete it! FIRST REVIEW Just downloaded the game today on our iPhone X and iPad Pro, tried to play it and have no control over game note are there any instructions other than swipe the board the direction you want the "game piece" to move and if it can't go that way then eventually when it can it will! Just what does that mean? We've tried swiping and it seems to ignore any direction we swipe. When you open the game there's no instructions so you're left to just swiping until you have lost all all your lives! What kind of context of game is that???? Anybody know how to play the game? Even the help button you can get to for further info gives no more than we have just typed here! NONSENSE.
We are not that smart to play a game without knowing how!!! Are you.
We love this game! The music is great and gameplay is fun. It can be a little nerve racking at times trying to outrace the black blobs but thats part of the fun. It is addictive we find ourselves playing this several times a day and this is the first game we play daily.
It's not bug-free, but it's playable and enjoyable enough. We've learned a few good words from it. We'd recommend it to anyone who wants a huge neuron boost in the Free Dictionary app, and probably not to anyone else.
Protagonist often gets stuck at the end of a row or column unable to turn and only able to go back the direction it came from. Sometimes have to approach the corner three or four times before the turn is allowed, especially annoying when a blot is on tail. Ad load too high, out of lives, not willing to spend money to continue playing. Deleting.
It help us a lot to learn faster and so much easier and keep us company for no boring moment.
Trying to play a n an iPad. The media cement stinks.
App tries to login when we open it, immediately followed by login failed. Dictionary works great, Book-man not so much. Very frustrating. Anyone know solution to this.
You can play and learn English at the same time.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.3.2
- Size: 47.62 MB
- iOS: 16.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, PT, RU, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Farlex, Inc.
Last updated: 26th September 2024 | Genre: Education, Casual | Developer: Farlex, Inc.