Connectagram
Version: 1.2.10 Web: https://github.com/gottcode/connectagram
The best way to find out what a tufted titmouse is, and discover many other new words and terms, is to play a word puzzle. Connectagram is a wonderful brain-trainer and a window into the world of self-education where you can learn lots of new scientific, odd and otherwise seldom-used words.
This simple game is very entertaining and in no way monotonous, even if it looks so after glancing at the screenshot. Starting a new game in Connectagram brings up the settings dialogue, which lets you choose a language, amount of words and word length. The more words you have and the longer they are, the more time you need to unscramble them and solve the puzzle, which in some sense resembles the ever-popular
Minesweeper. The maximum length of a word varies among languages, but is something like 20 characters, which boosts the difficulty of the game up to ‘Diehard’.
Whatever word settings you fancy, it’s only possible to play Connectagram if you know at least one of its four languages. Unscrambling is performed by dragging letters and changing their positions. When the word is correct, it turns green. Keep on unscrambling the rest and try to complete the level as fast as you can and reach a good position in the high-scores table.
Cheating is hampered by the smart ‘Pause’ mode that turns all unsolved words into ? signs and suspends the timer. Very long words look very unrealistic, but they do exist, and once you click a green (solved) word, a proper Wiktionary article with the word’s definition emerges in a separate window.
The badge above the main game field shows the elapsed time, but there are also two buttons next to it. The right one is Hint; press it in moments of desperation to get help. The left one reveals another window, with definitions of solved words. A good practice is to start unscrambling with short words and gradually raise the length.