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Margot's Word Brain | 
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| From: Zoo Games
Category: Video Games
List Price: $14.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 499
Platform: Nintendo Ds
ESRB: Everyone
Media: Video Game
Batteries Included: No
Age: 5 - 20 years
Operating System: Nintendo DS
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0 x 0
MPN: 10184
Model: 802068101848
UPC: 802068101848
EAN: 0802068101848
ASIN: B0017UFWMS
Release Date: September 30, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Each puzzle presents a unique challenge, and players will have to master them all to become the ultimate Word Brain. Puzzle examples - Word Mine, Word Link, and Word Safe. | | • | Word Brain mode pits the player against all six of the games in succession. Their score is recorded so players can track their progression as they play again and again. | | • | Easy to use menus and gameplay make Margot's Word Brain a game that is accessible to gamers of all ages and experience levels. | | • | Game tracks high scores so players can compare and compete with friends. |
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Product Description
Meet Margot, the new videogame queen of word play. Margot has devised a set of six fiendish and compelling word-based puzzles to test your vocabulary, spelling and general language skills. No two games will ever be the same as you wrack your brain against the clock to create words from randomly-generated letters in order to score maximum points.
Easy-to-use menus and gameplay for gamers of all ages and experience levels Tracks high scores so you can compare and compete with friends
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| Customer Reviews:
A big disappointment October 6, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A Big Disappointment For Me
This game was a big disappointment to me. After pre-ordering it and waiting almost three months for it to arrive, I find it's got nothing much to interest me. I will try to describe the game so you can figure out whether it would suit you.
When you start up the game, orienting it in book fashion, you get Margot on the left screen while the touch screen pictures a sheet of note paper with "Save file loaded successfully." typed in tiny print. And I wonder: What file is being saved in this never before played game? Don't we usually play something before we have files to save? Don't really get that.
Next you tap on the check mark (Margot calls it a "tick". This is a British game. ) On the next screens you see M again, get some music and Margot greeting you with "Welcome to Margot's Word Game". Then the touch screen changes to the words "Word Brain" bracketed by left and right arrows, and at the bottom of the screen an "X" in a red circle (the X is referred to as a cross) and the check or tick in a green circle. Music continues. You can scroll left or right to select a game. They don't just give you a list of games and let you select. You have to scroll through the entire list to find the one you want. The names are all written in white letters on dark yellow tiles, one letter per tile. No variation in color. No pictures, other than Margot's head always on the left screen. The entire game is visually very dull with just these plain tiles of never varying colors. Well, ok, in some games there are some orange tiles for the letters you select.
The games are: Word Link, Word Mine, Hyper Text, Word Run, Word Safe, Word Search. Word Brain is a combination of all the games played in sequence. In each game you get 90 seconds to complete the task. This is very annoying to me. If I'm trying to find "as many words" as I can, I'd really rather have more time to do it.
After selecting a game you get a touch screen that tells you: "Touch the tick to play the game. Touch the cross to see a demo. Margot also tells you this information. As she speaks her words are scrolled across the bottom of the left screen. In tiny, tiny letters. The words you see are not synchronized with her speech. It's odd. Why they felt the need to fill up the screens with a bunch of nothing (Margot's head, a sheet of note paper) and give us the tiny letters to read, I have no idea. (I think maybe they had no ideas too.)
Game: Word Link -Not an original game
Demo: The left screen changes to the note paper with the tiny scroll bar on which you can read Margot's instructions as she reads them aloud to you. Again the screen words and the spoken words are out of sync. This is a familiar game where you have columns of letters and you make words of three to six letters by touching adjacent letters in sequence. If you leave the sound on as you play, you get to hear "tick, tick, tick, tick, tick" until your 90 seconds are up. Then you get the results of your performance.
After playing a game you can get back to the game selection page by touching the start button.
Game: Word Mine --Not an original game
Demo: Six jumbled letters appear at the top of the touch screen. You make as many three to six letter words as you can using the six letters-again in 90 seconds.
Game: Hyper Txt - this one was new to me, but then I don't send text messages and I struggle with phone numbers like: 1-800-PIZZA.
In this game you "text message" touching the numbers in a phone keypad layout to type the words shown on the left screen. You have 90 seconds, but the game ends instantly if you make a mistake. And you cannot really text as fast as you want because after you tap the key you want (as many times as needed to get the correct letter) you have to wait for the next space at the top to be highlighted. If you get a new high score you get a keyboard layout on which to type your name in all capital letters.
Game: Word Run -
Demo: You have a 6X6 grid and a keyboard. First Margot types a word, then you type a word that intersects her word at one letter. Then she adds a word. This process continues until one of you cannot add a word.
Game: Word Safe -
Demo: Letters arranged in concentric circles. One letter in the center, 8 letters in the next circle and 16 letters in the outer circle. Select adjacent letters.
Game: Word Search - with a twist
Demo: Margot gives you three words and about 3 or 4 seconds to memorize them. Then you get the letter grid. You identify the words by touching the beginning and ending letters of each word. Same ole 90 seconds of course. This is pretty easy, provided you can just remember the words you need to find.
Game: Word Brain
This is a sequence of all six games. Margot gives you the scores after each game.
Only words that are included in Margot's personal dictionary work in these games. And she doesn't seem to have a very complete vocabulary. After playing Word Link and Word Mine for about three or four minutes I discovered that she doesn't know: wad, ray, gay, or deal. I don't really consider them to be very unusual words. On the other hand many of the words Margot uses seem rather unusual to me, for example: dachas, kipped, kummel, dowses, align, eerier, plough, inarch, voiles, xenias. Some of this is due to the use of British terminology. But at any rate, when you have only 90 seconds to play having perfectly normal words rejected is a little annoying.
Overall there is very little that is new on this game. There are no interesting visual anythings included. Margot does read the directions to you out loud, in cases you cannot read. (In which case can you really play word games?) Some games could really use this feature. I don't think this is one of them. There are no options to do much of anything else, or any quick ways to get around. When you finish a game that lasts all of 90 seconds, you have to fiddle around getting through the scoring pages, etc to get to the next game. If you want to play rather than admire a list of scores this is very boring. There is no left-handed option on this game.
My real disappointment was that for some unknown reason I was actually expecting this game to be about words and their meanings. It must have been something about "will test your word knowledge....and vocabulary". I have learned more about words by visiting freerice.com , which I learned of through someone else's review of something. Whoever you are out there: Thanks!
Worst Game I've Ever Bought October 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I wasn't expecting to be blown away by this game, but since I love puzzle, word, and logic games I thought it might be a bit of fun. It is NOT! This game is so poorly made, there is nothing to it. There are six tiny games that are all so similar that there might as well be just one. The games are about a minute and a half long each and boring. Nothing imaginative and fun. The game is not user-friendly either. The boxes to click on are so tiny that the stylus doesn't pick up the correct letters and you end up spending the whole minute and half of the game trying to correct input errors. Even when I paid close attention to specifically touching a certain letter with the stylus, the game would recognize a letter a half inch away. It is very aggravating. After each game there is the most corny, annoying song that plays. I cannot imagine that the creators of this game would think anyone would want to hear that horrible little jingle over and over and over ad nauseum. I buy a lot of games for the DS and have enjoyed them. There is absolutely nothing fun about this game. [...]
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