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Game Information
- Platform: Nintendo DS
- PEGI Rating: Ages 3 and Over
- Media: Video Game
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features
- Play with words and letters with 6 Core Training Exercises:
- Missing Letter (Words are missing letters: find back the good one to succeed.)
- Split decision (Choose between several propositions the good definition for a word.)
- Pasta letter (In this speed challenge, spell out words from letters sinking in a soup.)
- Block Letter (In this Tetris like, spell any of the listed word with the block. When a word is correctly completed, it blocks are removed.)
- Word Shuffle (Fill in the spot the definitions corresponding to the correct word.)
- Safecracker (A word is the code of the safe. From the definition, write it as fast as possible & defeat your opponent.)
- 3 difficulty levels.
- Over 16,500 words and definitions using the Official Cambridge Dictionary.
- Developed in collaboration with Tom Cobb-Mac Gill & Quebec University Linguist.
- 4 different personal coaches to choose from.
- Save the data of 3 people so the whole family can play.
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Product Description
- Over 16,500 words and definitions using the Official Cambridge Dictionary
- 3 difficulty levels
- 4 different personal coaches to choose from
- Save data for 3 people so the whole family can play
- 6 Core Training Exercises:
- Missing Letter - Find the missing letters. In harder levels words have an incorrect letter, replace it with the correct letter.
- Split Decision - Choose the correct definition for a given word.
- Pasta Letters - Spell out words from letters sinking in a soup. In easy levels, letters are displayed in the right order before being mixed in the soup. In harder level, only the definition will be displayed and you will have to figure out the word which needs spelling.
- Block Letter - In this Tetris like exercise spell any of the listed word with the blocks. When a word is correctly completed, it`s blocks are removed.
- Word Shuffle - Choose the correct definition for a given word. You will then be given a new list of words and must find the correct word for the definition.
- Safecracker - A word is the code to a safe. Using the definition you must write the correct word as fast as possible to beat your opponent.
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Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
48 of 48 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
This game was received along with brain training & big brain academy & a sparkling new ds for christmas.
I really like it & have played it daily. The game unlocks new mini games as you progress & gives you an expression potential every day based on how well you are doing. It also has a high score table so you can compare your scores against family or friends that have played using the same cart.
However, it doesn't always recognise letters (same as brain training here) & one of the games block letters needs it turnng sideways, not allowing a left handd version .
The games are fun & new aspects get introduced as you crack a harder level like blowing into the soup while retrieving the letters in pasta letters.
V happy with this game.
There's not a lot of multiplayer either - but block letters played competitively with my husband was insne & fun - it's quite cool that if you remove a word & he is halfway through selecting the letters to make that word on his ds they disappear from his screen aka a bomb blast & he groans - not quite so funny in reverse though!)
I don't know how much it is improving my vocabulary as I knew a lot of the words already, but it is fun & is improving my reaction times.
It also gives you a test at first to pitch the words correctly so my 8 yr old has been playing it at an appropriate level for her.
I really like it & have played it daily. The game unlocks new mini games as you progress & gives you an expression potential every day based on how well you are doing. It also has a high score table so you can compare your scores against family or friends that have played using the same cart.
However, it doesn't always recognise letters (same as brain training here) & one of the games block letters needs it turnng sideways, not allowing a left handd version .
The games are fun & new aspects get introduced as you crack a harder level like blowing into the soup while retrieving the letters in pasta letters.
V happy with this game.
There's not a lot of multiplayer either - but block letters played competitively with my husband was insne & fun - it's quite cool that if you remove a word & he is halfway through selecting the letters to make that word on his ds they disappear from his screen aka a bomb blast & he groans - not quite so funny in reverse though!)
I don't know how much it is improving my vocabulary as I knew a lot of the words already, but it is fun & is improving my reaction times.
It also gives you a test at first to pitch the words correctly so my 8 yr old has been playing it at an appropriate level for her.
28 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
Bought this to try and improve my (dreadful!) Scrabble skills and I've really enjoyed it. It's a great rendition of the brain train type game and remarkably compulsive. I've been totally hooked (and my Scrabble is slowly improving) for the last week and I still am.
I nearly didn't buy it after reading one review on left-handed problems with the game. It would be great if it did swap over, but I've been left-handed for 34 years and I haven't found it to be any more difficult to cope with than most of the rest of the right handed world! It's perfectly acceptable on that score.
I nearly didn't buy it after reading one review on left-handed problems with the game. It would be great if it did swap over, but I've been left-handed for 34 years and I haven't found it to be any more difficult to cope with than most of the rest of the right handed world! It's perfectly acceptable on that score.
98 of 100 people found the following review helpful
Fun:
For me this game is ruined by the use of the American spellings of words. For example:
'jewelry' rather than 'jewellery'
'program' rather than 'programme'
'traveling' rather than 'travelling'
...and so on.
Also the game includes several stereotypically American words such as 'condo'. This wouldn't be so bad, but it doesn't explain that it is actually an abbreviation. One more example- I don't think I have ever heard a British person use the word 'peewee' (with the exception of it being part of the name of Peewee Herman).
The game has an option for selecting the user's country which includes the USA, Canada and the UK but this doesn't seem to have any noticeable effect on the spellings used.
Of course it would be easy to argue that American spellings are becoming the dominant form, and if you can agree with this then the game is reasonably enjoyable and some of the games are quite fun (but then some are a bit annoying), but as I am British I would not give this to a child growing up in the UK.
'jewelry' rather than 'jewellery'
'program' rather than 'programme'
'traveling' rather than 'travelling'
...and so on.
Also the game includes several stereotypically American words such as 'condo'. This wouldn't be so bad, but it doesn't explain that it is actually an abbreviation. One more example- I don't think I have ever heard a British person use the word 'peewee' (with the exception of it being part of the name of Peewee Herman).
The game has an option for selecting the user's country which includes the USA, Canada and the UK but this doesn't seem to have any noticeable effect on the spellings used.
Of course it would be easy to argue that American spellings are becoming the dominant form, and if you can agree with this then the game is reasonably enjoyable and some of the games are quite fun (but then some are a bit annoying), but as I am British I would not give this to a child growing up in the UK.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Good Game
Good game, although I think overtime if played a lot it could get a bit boring and repetitive, but I play ita few times a week, in between playing others and I still enjoy it and... Read more
Published 4 months ago by emma.louise89
to hard for 5 year olds
i bought this game hoping that it would help with spellings for my 5 year old,why put age 3 on it i don,t know,this game is more for teenagers to adult.
Published 11 months ago by julie
Top girl in Primary
I have been given an assessment of top girl in primary. Surprises me as I am in my 60's - so obviously a lot to learn or perhaps have forgotten a lot so hopefully if I keep... Read more
Published 14 months ago by McDory (finding memory again)
Pegi rating 3+
For me the game is excellent; however I bought it for my 4year old daughter to enhance her vocabulary based on the rating of 3+ on the packaging. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Island-beauty
Well pleased with the game
I bought this game not giving it anymore chance than the other one's I have purchased, but I was surprised at the fun I have got out of it, the only drawback is the way you input... Read more
Published on 21 April 2010 by Mr. D. T. Hodgkin
My Word Coach
I have been able to improve my vocabulary and it's great fun to learn with this game. I would personally recommend this product to anyone who is very interested in this product the... Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2010 by Tina Vandooly
GREAT
A good game - I would recommend it - may get a bit monotonous but worth a try
Published on 27 Dec 2009 by Mr. M. W. Finn
Not for children 3+
Thankfully I tried this game first.
I bought it for my 6 year old to improve spelling skills in a playfull way. After all the box says 3+. Read more
I bought it for my 6 year old to improve spelling skills in a playfull way. After all the box says 3+. Read more
Published on 15 July 2009 by C. Shaaban
BORING and not challenging
I have most of the brain games on the ds and this one by far is the most boring game of its kind. It isn't challenging for the average adult and I tired of it very quickly. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2008 by The Uptons
Good fun but......
I bought My Word Coach last December (2007) and played consistently every day with much enthusiasm and determination, until I got stuck at 94% Expression Potential for months. Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2008 by Cat
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