Bumblicity
Bumblicity: It's a frantic head-to-head word game! Utilizing an army of bees, you must drop the letter tiles to spell words, chain combos and get as many points as you can! Play against a friend or any of the CPU's 4 difficulty levels. Think fast and you'll never be at a loss for words! Check out the great reviews here, here and here!
Bumblicity is a puzzle game for one or two players. The object of the game is to score more points than your opponent before time runs out. In order to score points you must spell words using three or more letter tiles. Some letter tiles contain more than one letter, like "Th" and "Ing" but they only count as one tile each. To spell words, you are assisted by an army of friendly bees. Each bee waits in line for its turn to drop a letter tile on the board. Using the control pad you can position the current bee where you like on the board. But think fast! The bee slowly drops down and once the tile lands on something, the bee drops it and flies away.
Once you have positioned the tile, you can drop it and if you have spelled any three tile or longer words, the letters will light up and you will score points depending on the tiles used and the length of the word. Rare tiles like "J" and "Qu" are worth a lot more than common ones like "E" and "S". And four tile long words are worth a lot more than three tile long words. Five, six, seven tile and longer words are worth even more! Once tiles have lit up, you have a short time to make more words with them. For instance, you can add tiles on to the end of a word, like "BAT" to make "BAT+H". You will score points for both "BAT" and "BATH"!
Since you can spell words horizontally or vertically, you can reuse tiles to form "Cross-Words". If you cross a horizontal and vertical word, you will get a score multiplier. Another way to score big is forming combos. If you spell a horizontal word, and the tiles disappear, the tiles above will fall. If this results in more words being found, you will get a score multiplier for the new words found!
As you play you will receive special tiles from time to time. Special tiles include:
- Wild Card Tiles: These are question marks that randomly cycle through all the tiles. When a word is found using the random tile, it becomes that tile and spells the word! These are very useful!
- Score Multiplier Tiles: If you see a blue tile, use it wisely! It will multiply the score of any word you find with it! These can be combined with combo multipliers for lots of points!
- Bombs: Sometimes you get letter tiles you can't use or you put them down in a bad spot. Other times you get garbage tiles from your opponent that clog up your board. These can all be removed with bombs! Bombs destroy all tiles around them.
- Garbage Tiles: If you see a black tile with a letter on it, use it to send garbage to your opponent by spelling a word with it. If you see a black tile with no letter on it, that's garbage your opponent has sent to you and it has to be destroyed with a bomb.
If your board gets too full, and you put a tile on the very top of the board, all your tiles will fall down. This is called wrecking the board and it will cost you half of your points!
In single player mode there are four difficulty levels. Once you master one, try the next! There is also an unlimited single player mode with no time limit or opponent, where you play until you overflow the board. It's much more fun with two people though! So try out the free demo and grab a friend!
