Wordful is a word puzzle game in the spirit of Scrabble^®, Literati, eWords and others. It is also a great way of learning new words or supporting the active vocabulary in any language or science area.

In fact, here is what Wordful it is:

Wordful is fun
Although it will surely depend on your definition of fun, we invite you to give it a try and see for yourself. There is always a way to get challenged. Hollywood stars, baby names, mountains, states, business terms...there is something for everyone!

Wordful is great for learning languages
Knowledge is best built in games and Wordful is a great way to introducing yourself to a new language while playing. Equally effective for children and adults, the game even allows for tracking the results! Give yourself a try and record your average time for finding a word. Play a week and compare...you might be surprised!

Wordful can be adjusted to your level or topic of interest
Use the various pre-created word lists or create your own ones with the free Wordful wordlist builder, available in a separate download. (currently only available for Microsoft Windows)

Wordful develops your brain and unorthodox thinking
Finding words, figures and patterns is a classic exercise for the brain. Reading backwards forces your brain to work on a totally different gear, which can be both relaxing and useful. Maybe not as relaxing as mountain hiking and not as useful as building marketing plans...but sometimes that's actually what is great about it, isn't it?

Wordful can be installed and played on any device running Palm OS 3.0 or higher. The game may come in either ZIP format ("Wordful.ZIP") or Windows executable format ("Wordful.EXE").

When using ZIP format, regardless whether under Mac OS, Windows or any other host platform, the user must first extract the ZIP file contents and then locate and install the program and data files.

The game itself has a single program file called Wordful.prc.

The folder "Word lists", located in the same place where the game file is, contains some word databases that come with the game, eventually organized by languages, topics etc.

Any number of word lists can be installed at a time on the device.

It is very likely that there will be more word databases available for download on the game home page. You can expect them to be free.

Upon the start of each new game, words from the currently active word database are placed randomly on the board. Depending on the selected difficulty setting, they can be aligned horizontally, vertically or diagonally, as well as straightforward or backwards (e.g. right to left).

To select a word, tap on its first letter and drag the pen to the last one.

One thing that needs to be understood is that any word on the field corresponds to a word in the underlying database. It is often possible that the letters from the words on the board align in a way that other real words appear, especially some short 3 and 4 letter words. These will not be recognized by the game if the user selects them, even though they are indeed valid. The same applies for composite words such as "starship" or "homeowner". If the original word from the database was "homeowner", then homeowner then this is what the game will want back as input, not home nor owner.

The minimal word length in Wordful is 4 letters.

Once the game starts, the board with words is displayed and a counter starts to count time. The game measures the time it takes you to find an actual word and displays it in the upper right corner of the screen ("S/W" is for "seconds per word"). The lower this indicator, the better player you are and the better your vocabulary is.

To discourage wild guessing, the game introduces penalties for every incorrect word guess. Because of the above said this may sometimes be frustrating as even a real word from the database may not be accepted (if actually result of a random letter alignment).

Wordful has a neat feature, allowing each selected word to be automatically copied to the device's clipboard. This allows for a quick lookup for its meaning in a resident dictionary such as BDicty Dictionary Reader. This is especially useful if you want to expand your vocabulary as it may often happen to correctly guess a word, but not have a clue what it means. The ability to look it up in an external dictionary comes right in place (of course at the price of losing average time for finding words).