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WordWhile – Entertainment Game Review
WordWhile is a Entertainment/Word/Family game from Gregory McDonald, first launched in 21st June 2017.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 162+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes WordWhile Stand Out
Nursery rhymes, tongue twisters, proverbs, great prose and poetry. These timeless texts are missing words. Tap the author's word and feel clever. Don’t know it? Don’t sweat it! Our ”Wrong answers” are usually pretty funny. Now you can even add your own!
Nearly 5,000 timeless words in 50 playable texts with over 1,500 missing words and 15,000 hand-crafted Novel alternatives to select…or avoid.
- RELAX in Zen Mode or THRILL to Timed Mode
- LAUGH at the Silly solutions
- REFLECT on the Tricky ones and the source texts
- CREATE custom solutions
- READ the original texts
- SAVE your completed texts however you filled those gaps
- REVIEW your saved versions
- COMPARE your solution to the author's
- ADMIRE the classy Victorian styling
- ENJOY a growing collection of playable texts (see below)
FUN FOR AGES 10+ :
- DISCOVER classic texts playfully with your kids
- GIGGLE at the puns, crazy rhymes, category errors,…
- GROW from ACCESSIBLE texts like proverbs and nursery rhymes to literary gems from Shakespeare, Dickens, Byron, Wordsworth and more
- BOOKISH KIDS love it, even if (especially because?) it’s not “made for kids”
CLASSROOM and LIBRARY FRIENDLY :
- Unlimited player profiles on the same device
- No ads or in-app purchases
- Works offline
- No links or sharing outside the app
SILLY FUN or EXTREME LITERARY SPORT :
- Think you know these texts cold? Try picking the wrong Tricky word on purpose every time with a time limit. We call that 100% Novel. It can be brutal!
- Have you got the endurance to complete the Virtuoso Race on “Once more unto the breach”? How about the “Major-General’s Song”?
- Achievements for all modes of play, text collections and challenge categories. How many can you earn?
WARNING: possible side effects of playing WordWhile include: increased vocabulary, improved memory, greater familiarity with literary classics, learning poems and famous speeches by heart…and laughter. The WordWhile Editorial Team assumes no responsibility for any learning incurred as a result of playing WordWhile…but the laughing is entirely our fault.
WHICH TIMELESS TEXTS?
The collection of playable texts is growing and any new texts will come to you as free updates. That is worth repeating: when WordWhile gets an update, take a look at "What's New". There are always new texts to try.
1) “Proverbs”: over 40 well-known proverbs divided into eight playable texts
2) “Shakespeare: Speeches and Sonnets”: "To be or not to be", "O Romeo", "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" and five others
3) "Children's Classics" — 8 nursery rhymes, tongue twisters and several "Poems Every Child Should Know" including "Jabberwocky" (ADDED September 2017)
4) "Pickin's from Dickens": "Please, sir, I want some more", "It was the best of times", and 10 more (ADDED September 2017)
5) "Selected Poems": "How do I love thee", "She walks in beauty", "Death, be not proud" and 5 more (ADDED Winter 2017)
6) "Love, sweet love": "Roses are red", quotes from Fitzgerald's "Tender is the Night", Hamlet's love letter to Ophelia, Hugo, Austen, Burns (8 texts, ADDED Valentine's Day 2018)
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, WordWhile is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th July 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Correcting a few typos and pesky bugs pointed out by my longtime friend CD—stout fellow!
Download & Availability
WordWhile 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:
Will be really neat when the collection grows larger we suggest adding a rate us button spin side the settings, so its easier for users to get to the app page. There was at least 30% of ,e about to just not do it, cuz were all lazy.
We have never enjoyed poetry as much as we do with this app! Although we completed all the content in one day.we need more!!! Especially Shakespeare.
Any literature nerd will be positively giddy about this little game! The visual style is lovely and sets the mood perfectly. Its a game that simultaneously celebrates fine works of literature while not taking itself too seriously. In fact, the player can decide exactly how serious they want to be! Recommend 100%.
What a little gem! The illustrations are fantastic, and the content is great. Relaxing /challenging modes, and a fun gameplay scheme. Id buy extra content packs in a heartbeat. Great job.
We adored this game; we only wish there were more quotations or in app purchases.
Great app very stimulating and entertaining.
As an English major with a love of Mad Libs and silly jokes, this game couldnt be more up our alley. We can quiz ourselves on classic texts, read and remember things we havent read in a long time, and let our kids play along with us and learn some of these texts. Plus, we can make up silly versions and then read them aloud in funny voices until our daughters roll their eyes at us and thats worth the price of the game all on its own. We would love to see some more classic childrens lit (Anne of Green Gables, Secret Garden, Black Beauty, Treasure Island, etc.) and maybe some really tough challenges (a little Gertrude Stein?) It would also be cool to play with more plays than just Shakespeares. Marlowe, Shaw, Chekov, Ibsen, Strindbergall would be great! Thanks for the great game.
How fun! We have done about 10 of these so far. They start easy. It is very satisfying to discover that we do remember some of the Shakespeare we used to memorize because we were so in awe of him. But then they start to get harder. But its okay because even the wrong answers are fun. We just go back and redo until Im satisfied with our percentage of right answers. There are a whole bunch of achievements to work toward, including things like getting every answer wrong, which we suspect is hard to do. We love word games but sometimes we get tired of the same sorts of games showing up in the apple store. What a rare and pleasant surprise to find one that is unlike any other that Ive found.
Love this game! English majors, beware. You too may sometimes be stumped.
Why, oh why is there no landscape display option for this game, the mode we can use to play games on our iPad Developer: As a humanitarian gesture, please update accordingly, let us know, and Ill happily write a complete game review after reinstalling this app. Meanwhile, we just wasted our money on an app we cant use.
We really like this app; its fun and you learn some new texts. We suggest f. Scott Fitzgerald and maybe some world literature.
We just downloaded the game and played it for the first time, and after a bit of a slow start, we found it to be very pleasant and stimulating. The slow start was probably necessary to bring the new player up to speed, and all things considered, it worked well enough and was fine. We love Shakespeare and interacting with his work was as enjoyable as we'd imagined it would be. To the developer of this game we would like to say thank you. We know how much resistance pops up in response to creative ideas that are coupled with real and meaningful areas of understanding and intellectual works that are worth learning and knowing. You have accomplished a rare and wonderful thing. RP Wilson.
This app is very educational and helpful for learning older writings. We enjoy this a lot.
A nice way to pass time, or to challenge yourself. The "novelty" options can also be fairly funny. In short, we enjoy it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.1.1
- Size: 46.81 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Gregory McDonald
Last updated: 14th July 2018 | Genre: Entertainment, Word | Developer: Gregory McDonald