sandscript word game
Posted by debbie on December 5th, 2006
SandScript is a word game that combines two different word games set in an Arabian Nights type of backdrop. There are 3 main games - a quest-type game (Genie’s Quest), an endless game (1001 Nights) , and the Sultan’s challenge.
In the Genie’s Quest and 1001 Nights, you first play a hangman, Wheel of Fortune type of game. You’re given a definition and have to guess the letters in the word. You get a limited amount of misses. There are also three hints that you can earn: “buy a vowel,” “fill in a letter” or “delete all letters that don’t belong.” The last hint is the most valuable, and the hardest to earn. Your game is timed, and then you move on to the Sultan’s Challenge.
In the Sultan’s Challenge, you get to choose a word from 3 letters to 7 letters long. The letters of the word are shuffled, and you need to guess the word. You also only have 3 wrong guesses for each word. The more letters, the higher the score.
This game gave my vocabulary a workout. Even though I knew most of the definitions, the words got harder and harder the higher I went in the game. And the Sultan’s Challenge was fun in two ways. I found that the 4-letter words were very easy, so I challenged myself to get as many as I could in as little time as I could. A race against myself. The 5, 6, and 7-letter words were very hard, but that challenged my brain in a different way.
Download the free trial of SandScript for a fun vocabulary boost.

