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Amazon Kindle – The Next Big Game Platform?

People use their Kindles for reading. Whether it be magazines, e-books, or newspapers, the Kindle is a reading machine... or at least it was. This week, Amazon introduced a new feature to the Kindle: games. The two games available for download are Every Word and Shuffled Row.

Every Word is a scrambled word game reminiscent of Boggle; you are given 7 letters and are challenged to spell out as many words as you can either with or without a time limit. Once you spell out the longest possible word, you go to the next level. Playing with a time limit feels somewhat frantic as you have to think as quick as you can, while playing without a time limit falls to far the other way and feels to laid back. All in all, Every Word is a fun little diversion.

The other game is Shuffled Row. Shuffle Row is very much like playing Scrabble; you have a rack on which 60 letter tiles will drop that you can use to spell out words. Each letter has a point value and longer words get a multiplication bonus starting at four letters. You can't hold more than nine tiles at once on the rack and the leftmost tiles will be lost if not used fast enough. Of the two games available, I find Shuffled Row to be far more entertaining.

The only issues I had with playing the games is discomfort with typing on the Kindle; I personally don't make a ton of notations, so I am not very good at the games. Unfortunately, you can only get these games if you have a Kindle; they don't work on Kindle for iPhone, Android, PC, or Mac. The best part of the whole deal is that both games are completely free. I suggest giving them a try today.