Product Description

Classic Word Games is a fun and entertaining way to refresh your vocabulary and activate the words that have become passive knowledge in your mind!

• Have fun with a wide selection of easy to pick up minigames: a total of 13 games, including brand-new games, classic games upgraded and classics.
• Measure your progress and unlock hidden games.
• Recreational Games invite you to have a relaxing moment, alone or with friends. Play with the famous Hangman or activate your neurons with the classic Crosswords.
• Improve your knowledge with a wide variety of fun facts that explain, for example, an idiom's origin
• Dynamic difficulty system that adapts the game timers to your level as you progress
• The game keeps track of the words you have learned and test you on those words instead of random words.
• "Warm-Up" rounds before getting into the tracked rounds.
• Challenge your friends and family with the Single-Card Download or the Multi-Card option and see who can get the highest score.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #97 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2009-06-26
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .0 pounds

Customer Reviews

Educational?
I've always thought I had a pretty good vocabulary, but this game certainily brings in words, and alternative word meanings, that I had not heard of before, so from that point of view the game is interesting and educational, and sometimes frustrating when a relatively every day word is used in a different context!
My main critiscism is with the graphics. Although the colours may look pretty, red on black - or black on red - are not practical when it comes to clarity, especially in daylight hours. Many of the other colours used don't work well either. In the wordsearch, 'whiting' out the word once found is ok but it makes it very difficult to see the letters that may be needed for another of the words. Do the compilers and producers ever try the games themselves?

Love It!
This game only came in the post this morning and is already highly addictive! At first I though "not another word puzzle game" but I have been pleasantly suprised. Much better than the Puzzler Collection as there is much more choice in the type of games to play. The are traditional games like crosswords, wordsearches and even hangman. There are other games that use synonyms, antonyms, quotes and phrases and themed games to unlock as well. There is plenty of opportunity to save your game and view your progress to date. There are also warm up games before each game which are useful as it gets you used playing. These can be annoying after a while but are easily switched off in your profile settings. Very educational but not sure it would be a game for a 3 year old though! So glad I bought it.

Not what it says on the box!
I bought classic word games because I, well, wanted to play classic word games. Unfortunately, you can't really with this game. What it really is, is lots of 'vocabulary building' exercises, which are not classic, or games, or very interesting, or fun. And you have to play them before you can unlock any games. All the crosswords have ONLY cryptic clues, so thats one game that's no use to me. Hangman is only amusing for about 3 seconds. All in all, this was a complete waste of money.