European fans of puzzles and word games have a double release on the way this month, with Lightwood Games confirming a release date of 28th January for Word Puzzles by POWGI in the region. Already confirmed for 3DS, the title is also heading to the Wii U eShop on the same day.
These titles will provide a landmark as the first download-only games - as announced last year - to support all amiibo, including figures and cards. A scanned figure or card will generate puzzles by using words from the included nickname and owner data. Beyond that there are six game modes, detailed below by the developer:
- Word Maze - Like a wiggly word search! Find the words and solve the maze!
- Mixups - A fiendishly difficult anagram puzzle with three words all jumbled together!
- One Word - The word search puzzle where there's only one word to find!
- Flowers - Plant pairs of letters around the flower to grow six words with a common middle!
- Circles - Three overlapping circles hide three connected words. Find the missing letter to unscramble them all!
- Crossovers - Crossword puzzles with only one letter missing, which come together to solve a clue!
Lightwood Games has been steadily increasing its library of word games across Wii U and 3DS, so is evidently finding an audience. As for a North American release of Word Puzzles for POWGI there's no fixed date yet.
Will you be digging out your dictionary and thesaurus to warm up for this one?
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I see the comments section is buzzing with excitement for this one.
Buzzzzzzz.... actually my daughter plays the demo on her 2DS, I might look in to this when it releases on Wii U
Might be good 😄
The amiibo support is not clear enough...
Why am I digging this awful midi music.
That said, I like the interface ok. I'm always sad when people don't play around with interfaces more because it's really fun to make a super active interface.
@maceng This video explains the amiibo support in a bit more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ArcrHQVnf4
Watched the video. Awesome support as it correlates with every amiibo diferently (or so it seemed). Thanks!!
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