WordZap
About
You start out with a 10 x 10 board of different letters. Using your left mouse button, click letters one at a time to form a word. Note that you can only select letters next to each other in any of the four directions. You can, if you wish, select a letter that's been selected already for that word.
For example if you had, in a row:
P O Z
And you want to spell POP, you can select P, O, then the original P again. It's pretty flexible. When you're ready to submit the word, press 'SPACE', 'ENTER', or the middle mouse button. The words can be anywhere between 3 to 6 letters long!
Once the word has been cleared, the letters stack down from above and new letters appear from the top. If you make a mistake and want to start the word over, press 'Esc'.
So far so good, right? Well here's the twist. Every time you form a word, the red bar at the top grows. If you have a red bar, you can use that to 'swap' letters from one part of the board to the other, as long as it's in the same row and column.
For example, using X's as non-important letters, if you want to spell TYPE from the following screen:
T Y P X
X X X X
X X X X
X X X X
X X X E
If you have a red bar, right-click the letter E, then right-click the X either beside or below the letter P, as long as it's connecting. The E and the X will switch places!
If the red bar builds up all the way, you get a Zapper bonus! Click on any consonant and you will clear every instance of that letter off the board! This is great for getting rid of those nasty X, Q, and Zs.
Better watch out for the blue timer at the bottom, though. It will slowly shrink over time, and when it completely out the game will be over. Every time you clear a word, the blue bar will move up a bit. The longer the word, the more the bar will fill! Fill the entire blue bar up to the top and you'll gain major points! Your level will gradually increase. The higher the level you reach, the faster the blue bar will shrink!
If you are worried that WordZap is too complex--- well don't! The key is to try it! The game will become second nature and addicting before you know it :-)
Screenshots
Spell any 3-6 letter word from the official Scrabble dictionary!
Zapper bonuses allow you to clear any consonant completely off the board!
6 letter words garner major points!
Three difficulty levels to choose from, and detailed stats at the end of each game!
Themes
The game allows you to choose 1 of 4 different themes--- and you can even turn the background off to help speed the game up for those slower computers!