Robert M. Barga of Blog Critics Magazine writes:

It is a well known fact among my friends and colleagues that I like word games. This stems from my love of reading, as well as my adoration of games and puzzles. So, when I was contacted about doing a review of a brand new, and really sweet, iPhone text game, I got all warm and fuzzy inside. Yep, that is right, I got really excited about a new iPhone game.

I truly believe that if you try out Wordology, you will be just as excited as I am. Wordology is a word game that basically functions like a cross between scrabble and text twist. You are given a ‘tray’ of letters, each on a stack of other letters, and attempt to spell out words to empty your canvas. At a certain point value, you are able to move on to the next level, though you are not required to. All of the letters are random, though they are based on logical patterns (multiple As, few Qs, etc.), which allows for infinite game play.

The fact that the letters are randomly assigned really makes me happy. See, I love text games, and there are hundreds of good ones out there for the iPhone or iPod Touch, but most of them have a limited vocabulary. There is only so much you can program into these games, as they have specific dictionaries with which they need to work. This is not the case for Wordology, so it is a much better game. You can sit down on the bus, pull out your iPhone, and play Wordology while heading to work, month after month. I know this, as I have been doing this since March.

Another thing that I really like about Wordology is the iPhone interface that they developed. The user interface is flawless, and looks like it was well planned out. All of my touches were immediately recognized, and that assisted me greatly. The animations were nifty and happened without a glitch. Frankly, I believe that Wordology is a well planned out and executed game that is highly specialized for the iPhone.

A third thing that I enjoy about Wordology is the fact that the dictionary is expansive and almost all-inclusive. While I already talked about the infinite game play, the fact that you can use almost any English word makes that game play even better. Slurve, Liger, and Motherboard were all accepted by the internal dictionary. Only a few words were missed, and most of those were either technical or words that you wouldn’t want to say in front of your mother. In almost every other word-based game, both for the iPhone and for regular gaming devices, I run into limits where I know more than the dictionary; with Wordology, I never had that issue.

I know, I know, I keep on talking about the positives of Wordology, how about the negatives. Well, there are none … sorry …

Overall, I really enjoyed playing around with Wordology on my iPhone. Sure, I was frustrated when I couldn’t find a word and lost the game, but the actual game was engrossing and amusing. This, combined with the infinite game play, and the amazingly smooth UI, makes me really enjoy this game. While I like some of the other words game on the iPhone and iPod Touch, Wordology is my new favorite, and it merits:

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James/Oreo of theAppera.com writes:

Two of the things we like are word and polished games, the strength of the two combined is easily a winner for us (see Lexic). How does the next game hold up?

With so many word games in the store, you either have to have a great amount of polish on your word game or have ground breaking twists for it (See Word Fu). Wordology more than accomplishes the previous, and that's exactly why we're taking an in depth look at it.

Gameplay - In Wordology, you are free to create a word using any letter on your board even if they're not close together. The goal is to create words and clear out the letter tiles. Special tiles get introduced including the ones that increase the time speed, or the one's that give you more points.

The game also cleverly adds a little peek button (eye button, lower left edge of screens) that lets you view the words underneath the uppermost tile to assist you in building strategies for longer words:

Design - As you can tell from the screenshots we've posted thus far, the game's graphics are detailed and crisp. We like how the submit button is actually a coffee cup. It gives out a familiar laid back feel to the game. It's almost like the game is telling you to play it during those morning coffee sips or pretty much whenever you want to relax. The wooden background and minimality of buttons present on the gameboard itself lend a distinct look to the game.

Options are accessible through the "i" button on the lower right corner, which brings up a few screens including their elegant Awards hall:

The overall theme is carried out all through out the game including every game stipulation: How To and Stats screens.

Conclusion - Wordology doesn't really offer anything new, game mechanic wise, but it doesn't really need to. The amount of polish and detail reflects a clear direction where the developers want to take their game.

At the end of the day, Wordology more than provides you a fun and simple word game. It will tide you over for those wee hours of the game where you want to just both relax and still manage to get that brain working.

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Jennifer Allen of thePortableGamer.com writes:

Wordology is habit forming, plain and simple as that. It may not look pretty, it may not even be a very unique idea, but boy is it addictive.

The premise is simple: there are layers of letter tiles, create words using the top layer to subsequently expose the lower layers and so forth, all within a fairly respectable 30 second time limit. Obviously the longer the letters, the more points you get. As well as this, there are different coloured tiles. Red tiles speed the timer up so you have to create words faster, silver tiles double your points for the word, gold tiles triple them, and green tiles give you an extra life. Lives are quite useful in this game as if you misspell a word or run out of time you lose one life. You can also gain awards to demonstrate just how great you are at the game such as the perfectionist award.

There are only 8 levels to the game but it is compelling enough that you won't mind playing it several times after 'completing' it.

There are four game modes but you will probably want to stick to normal. Lightning is fun to play when you want to be pushed to the limit (the time limit is reduced to 15 seconds) but I found Freestyle a bit boring as it has no time limit so you can take as long as you like coming up with a word.

Wordology is possibly a little expensive at $2.99 but I still found it worthwhile, and definitely ideal for the morning commute. As well as the commute, it is the kind of game I found myself playing every spare second I could find, from waiting to meet someone to laying in bed. It's an incredibly simple idea but really well implemented.

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Glenn Giersdorf of appVersity writes:

Fans of word games take notice. Wordology is an extremely polished and addictive word game for the iPhone and iTouch devices.

The object of Wordology is to clear the board by spelling out words using 5 x 5 stacks of lettered tiles. Each tile you use disappears revealing the next letter of the stack. Points are scored by the length of the words you create and collect awards.

Each level becomes progressively harder to complete. For example to progress to Level 2 you need to have less than 10 tiles remaining in the board. To get to level 3 you need to have less than 9 tiles remaining, and so on.

You start the game with 3 lives. You lose a life everytime you misspell a word, or let the timer run down used will cause you to lose a life.

Wordology has a 250,000+ vocabulary built in, so finding words shouldn't be hard!

Scattered throughout the levels are varying colored tiles which will help or hurt you depending on their color.

Green tiles found in the playing field will gain you an additional life when used in a word. Red tiles when exposed will hurt you by speeding up the countdown timer. Gold letters will give you triple word score, while silver will grant you Double word scores.

To create words you simply touch each letter. If you need to erase a letter just touch it on the screen and it will be removed. Shaking the iPhone or iTouch will remove the entire word.

Each letter is weighted for scores based on complexity of use in a word. For example A=2 points, B=4 Points, and Z and Q are worth 5 Points each when used. These points are added up and multiplied by any bonus scores collected.

What really makes the game great is the additional detail put into the game. You have a Personal, Local, and Global Leader boards, as well as current, Previous, and all time Stats for the game.

However My favorite and most addictive feature is the Awards section of the game. I keep coming back trying to complete my bookshelf with the 16 available awards.

Wordology comes with 4 Different game modes, Slow, Normal, Lightning Mode, and Freestyle (non timed) modes.

Graphically the game looks crisp, clear and very polished. The whole package is themed well adding to the professionalism of the application.

Audio Wise the game is good. Typewriter sounds when you press each tile, as well as out of time and correct or incorrect word spelling tones. These can be turned on and off via the menu.

Overall I have to say I'm really enjoying my time with Wordology, its easy on the eyes, addictive, and challenging and easily one of the better word games on the iPhone and iTouch devices.

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Cory Bohon of  TUAW  writes:

There are many word games for different platforms; one of the best that I played before Wordology was Bookworm from Popcap. After playing Wordology, I believe it is one of the best word games for the iPhone. Wordology's basic principles are very simple to grasp: try to spell the longest words that you can given the letters on the board, and spell then before the time runs out. You have 30 seconds to spell each word.

Wordology includes several cool features like the ability to play four different game modes, and you will never repeat a game. Game modes include: slow, normal, lightning, and freestyle. Within each game you have the ability to pause and resume as necessary. The game will automatically pause when you return to the iPhone home screen. You can compete with people locally on your iPhone by logging your scores on the device, or sharing them with the world to compete for the highest score.

Wordology is elegantly designed and will provide you hours of fun on the go. You can purchase this app on the App Store for $2.99US.

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