Kirk Hamilton

I can't.

There's got to be something else I could be doing here.

I really like anagrams specifically.

I think it's just a fun concept.

And the faster I can do an anagram, the better my brain feels.

It just really gets me buzzing.

And I think it's really entertaining and compelling as a game mechanic.

So I was like, what are some cool anagram games out there that will not serve me terrible ads for games that may or may not even be real and will be trying to get me to pay microtransactions just so that I can solve another freaking anagram or whatever.

And NotWords is so far my answer to this question.

It has a bunch of free puzzles, and I got through all the free ones and really liked them and then paid for it because there is an option to subscribe to it or just pay for

a higher price, which I opted to do because I liked it that much.

And I was like, I'd rather just pay for the whole thing and never have to pay for it again.

So I'm going to describe this quickly.

Although really, if you're somebody who likes anagram type games, then I probably don't have to sell you anything.

Any more than that, but I'll briefly try to explain it.

So each level kind of looks like a crossword puzzle that is totally blank, but there's no clues for the crosswords, and that's not how the game works at all.

Instead...

It's almost like Sudoku, where you have to find a series of words that will fit together within the permutation of the crossword, which you could have that just be the game.

But there's a further limitation on how it works, which is that the crossword map is divided up into these random little chunks that are not contiguous.

So like part of a word and part of another word will tell you you can only use the letters S, S and T in these three squares.