Paperback Vol. 2

i've played this game more on Android than on Steam (on Linux, btw), so have somewhere approaching 100 hours in it, and that's not including the time spent playing the physical board game. Of all of the games in this franchise i own (Paperback, Hardback, Paperback Adventures, Typewriter, and Word Domination), Paperback is the one which keeps me coming... well... _back_.
This is a commendable adaptation of the board game. The only thing which annoys me greatly about it is the dictionary. It doesn't know words like "pawn" and "bling" but will gladly let you spell "muggle". If you tell it to find a word for you, it digs up what, to my eyes, are essentially random combinations of letters - words so obscure as to be extinct, and yet "pawn" and "bling" are not allowed. (Those are only two examples of many, but those stick out because they've repeatedly been rejected while playing.)
Three feature wishes for an already enjoyable title:
- Add a "show me the definition" button because, frankly, i don't believe half of the words the "Find Word" feature comes up with.
- Add a local dictionary or an option for players to agree "yes, this is a word" (especially in solo mode - my sole (as it were) way of playing the digital edition).
- "Corndogstubby" is a word! It's that little bit of cruft invariably left mid-stick on a corndog after one has eaten the rest.

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i've played this game more on Android than on Steam (on Linux, btw), so have somewhere approaching 100 hours in it, and that's not including the time spent playing the physical board game. Of all of the games in this franchise i own (Paperback, Hardback, Paperback Adventures, Typewriter, and Word Domination), Paperback is the one which keeps me coming... well... _back_.
This is a commendable adaptation of the board game. The only thing which annoys me greatly about it is the dictionary. It doesn't know words like "pawn" and "bling" but will gladly let you spell "muggle". If you tell it to find a word for you, it digs up what, to my eyes, are essentially random combinations of letters - words so obscure as to be extinct, and yet "pawn" and "bling" are not allowed. (Those are only two examples of many, but those stick out because they've repeatedly been rejected while playing.)
Three feature wishes for an already enjoyable title:
- Add a "show me the definition" button because, frankly, i don't believe half of the words the "Find Word" feature comes up with.
- Add a local dictionary or an option for players to agree "yes, this is a word" (especially in solo mode - my sole (as it were) way of playing the digital edition).
- "Corndogstubby" is a word! It's that little bit of cruft invariably left mid-stick on a corndog after one has eaten the rest.

Paperback Vol. 2

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