Tinger's Corner: Meet Bookworm... and Grand Prize Revealed!

And.... hello!  Tinger here, with the latest installment of "Tinger's Corner: Perspective from Down Below by a Finger-Length Toe."

You may already know today's featured guest.... but if not, I'd like to introduce you to Bookworm.  

He is the keeper of the Letter Tile Library in a highly recommended iPhone App, also named Bookworm!  It's basically a word game that combines the general ideas behind Tetris and Boggle... and results in hours of fun!   All you have to do is find words within a screen full of letter tiles.  Touch the words, and the letters clear away.... giving you points based on word-length and letter difficulty... and allowing new letters to drop onto the screen.  If you identify an amazing word, you'll get special bonus tiles... (see the green, yellow, and blue-gem tiles below).  These tiles increase the point value of any word you make with them.  (The last time I got the coveted blue-gem tile was for the word Pedagogical.  It was riveting!!)  And every once in a while, Bookworm will give you the definition for a word that you've made.... so you can beef up your vocab while you play!  

Why are some of the tiles on fire, you ask?  Those are the much feared Danger Tiles.  If you allow them to get all the way to the bottom of the screen without putting them into a word.... they will set the whole letter-library on fire!!  And your game will be over!  

My only gripe about this game is that it doesn't accept some words that are CLEARLY words.  Such as:

1. Dork  (If there's no such thing as a dork, then why did I suffer so much through high school?)

2. Skeeze ("Did you see that guy staring at your butt?  What a skeeze.")

3. And finally... Jewy ("Nania's friends Stefanie Spiegel and Lauren Silver love tchotchkes, dreidels, and bagels with lots of smear. They are so Jewy.)   My apologies if this offends any of our Jewish Readers, but I'm fairly certain Stef and Lauren would be proud to be included in this sentence.

Although these egregious oversights are quite bothersome, Bookworm makes it up to us by accepting the following words:

1. Fug ("Look at what that girl is wearing.  It's totally fug.")

2. And... Nan ("I love being a staff writer at The Nan Stop.")

So if you play Bookworm, or decide to purchase it... please feel free to share your successes with us!  Snap a picture of an amazing word you've highlighted right before submitting it... or of a high score.... and we will post it in an upcoming installment of Tinger's Corner!  

I'd like to conclude this entry by revealing the prize that Dana Holcman received for winning our first Tinger's Corner contest! In addition to her personalized post, she also received an autographed photo of me, entitled, "Oops, I Did It Again!"  As you can see, I also included my one-of-a-kind blue "T" hat.  Here is a photo of the prize clipped to Dana's refrigerator....(next to her UofM football tickets!)

That's all for today!  Enjoy your Thursdays, and thanks for reading!  - Tinger