Crosswords DS (Nintendo DS, 2008)

So the deal is, when you buy Crosswords DS, you're agreeing that you're buying a game basically with crosswords, and that's exactly what you get, plus more!

With your cartridge in hands, you plug it into your DS, turn it on, hold the game like a book, create your profile, set your orientation (if you're right or left-handed) and you're set! You can go into a training session or go right for the game, which isn't a bad idea, because the controls are pretty simple, it's fully operational by the touch screen, and you'll master it in no time.

There are three types of games here, crosswords, wordsearch and anagrams. Each one is timed to see how fast you can solve them.

For the crosswords you'll face four difficulty levels, and hundreds of different puzzles, you type the letter in the screen, the game recognizes it, if it's right it will appear in black, if not, it will appear in red, if it's wrong you'll have the chance to correct it, if it's right, then no, after all it's right anyway, but you can disable the correcting system in the further difficulties; if you encounter problems for solving a riddle you can call for a hint, each game you play gives you a certain amount of points, which you can exchange for hints, the number of points will differ based upon the game, harder games have you more points available; you have three types of hints, the ones that gives you an alternative tip, requires the least number of points, only one, and costs you the least amount of time, only a minute, the ones that will show you the letter you asked, which requires 3 points and costs you 3 minutes, and the ones that will tell you the whole word, requires 5 points and will cost you massive 5 minutes!

There's the wordsearch, which you'll have to find words among lots of letters scattered around the screen, each one based in some theme, like words related to astronomy, weather, animals, cities, sports, colors and many more, there's 3 difficulty levels, and the words can be found horizontally, vertically, diagonally, backwards, anything goes!

The last game is anagrams, and here you have to search for words using the letters given to you, various words can be found with several number of letters used.

It's a good game after all, nothing important except the game itself, like, basic graphics, basically no music, except for the menu, but if you're a fan of these kinds of games you can't go wrong, after all even the basic graphics are better than paper, or maybe if you're seeking for a good way to just pass some time and have some fun, this is it.

I love this game. Simple and easy to understand & play.I would highly recommend this game for 8 and up. Especially if you like word puzzles such as anagrams, wordsearch & crossword puzzles.

I purchased this game a few weeks ago and really enjoy it. There are two levels of difficulty in the crosswords section with larger puzzles and four by fours. The find a word is also enjoyable.
What I don't like about it is trying to do the large seek a word puzzles on the small screen. It's easy to get "lost" and not know exactly where you are in the puzzle.

Crosswords for Nintendo DS is simply terrific. It recognizes upper/lower case letters that the user prints on the DS screen using its stylus. It is typical in that the expected multiple player files, multiple levels and many puzzles within levels are there, but it also offers hints when you get stuck. Crosswords includes other types of puzzles, too, but I don't want to spoil the surprise. I got this for my wife and I, but was amazed that our pre-teen son thought it was fun and enjoyed learning new words this way! That makes it more than a game, but an educational tool for young learners as well. Nice game!

I love this game! However, I think it should be named Anagrams instead of Crosswords. The crossword puzzles start out very, very simple. You have to work through all the very easy,easy, and medium puzzles to get to the challenging games. Fortunately, I found the anagrams puzzles on the game disc. These puzzles are great and very addictive. Once I start I find myself playing for hours before making myself put the DS down. I rated the game Good and not Excellent because I bought it for the crossword puzzles. I find myself playing the anagrams or word search puzzles most of the time. I bought this on eBay for a price much less than retail. Another advantage is that the previous owner already unlocked some of the game levels. I would recommend this game.