GAMING
Orwellian
adventure
story told
through one
half of an
increasingly
mangled
email
exchange,
it also
happens to
be a word
game based
around
decoding
blocks of text.
You play the part of a downtrodden
citizen of a dimly sketched dystopia,
receiving messages with parts blacked
out by censors. All you have to do is
work out the missing
words – which is easy
at first, but becomes
increasingly tricky as
Blackbar’s internal
logic starts to weave
and tangle.
It can be frustrating.
You may find yourself
baffled by a single word
required to unlock the
next screen. But the
rewarding nature of
cracking each puzzlealong with the clever, funny storyline
makes it all _________.47.Letter Rooms
Price: Free (89p to buy all puzzles)
This word puzzler knows what it wants
to be – a really good anagrams game.
It doesn’t try anything wildly new, and
it’s not aiming to blow your socks off
with buckets of innovation, dazzling
animations, or adrenaline-fuelled
timed challenges. It just wants you to
have fun dragging letters around to
fashion words that match brief clues.
That might sound reductive – even
dull. But while it’s true Letter Rooms
isn’t exciting, it does manage to be
engrossing as you work your way
through its 200 or so puzzles.
Much of the enjoyment stems from46.47.