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Frankenword: Nice, Free Game

     Hey, everyone. You've probably seen the old Frankenstein movies where a mad scientist cobbles together body parts to build his own person. Not a great looking person, really. Well, if you want to seriously mess up your  spelling and vocabulary, try a game called Frankenberry (oops, that's a cereal). Rather, try a game called Frankenword. It is free on the app store and I like it pretty well. Carley really likes it and has played 50 free levels and then went to buy additional levels for 99cents. For 99 cents you get 150 more, or 4 packs of that size for $2.99. She bought the whole enchilada. Here's the recipe.
     You have the challenge of melding words together in order to make new words which currently don't exist. This is why I mentioned messing up both your vocabulary and spelling abilities. In the middle of your screen there are two boxes which will give you the clues for the two words. With my agile(?) mind I decided that the first one would be dwarf. Then I saw that only the "D" would be used in the new word so I selected warfare for the second word. As Long as your kids don't go to school and try to convince a teacher that dwarfare is a word, everything is cool. They even give you a definition for the created word. In this case it is 'armed conflict amongst small people'. Cool.
     There are a limited number of hints you can use. You can also shuffle the letters, hoping to jog your mind. I feel over-jogged, actually. In summation, this is a fun, free game and I think you will like it, puzzler or not. I will say that there are no zombies, explosions or magic. There is also a woeful shortage of sword-toting women. But hey, there are dwarfs.
    From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.
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