The word game genre definitely has found its niche and it’s on the iPhone/iPod Touch.  The App Store has tons of great word games available right now suited for almost anyone imaginable.  I, for one, am not the biggest word game aficionado nor do I claim to be, but Textropolis has to be one of my favorite word games yet.  Its casual play coupled with great game and graphical simplicity make it one of the best word titles available.

Textropolis consists of thirty city names.  The letters in the city names are used to create words that consist of at least four letters.  You are unable to use proper nouns.  For those of you that don’t know, a proper noun is a specific name given to a person, place or thing such as John for a person or Albuquerque for a city.  Like you would have created the word Albuquerque anyway, right?  That isn’t the only English lesson you will be receiving via Textropolis.  Whenever you create a word, a plane will fly by your screen giving the exact definition of that word.  If you end up getting lucky and guessing a word without knowing the definition, Textropolis will feed you that information.

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