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Now, if you want a free app worth shit, you should probably look at Textropolis. Parish reviewed it back when 1up was a site worth looking at and I enjoyed their iPhone coverage. I remembered it when I randomly saw it on the free app list, and picked it up. It’s nothing particularly fancy, but it’s a solid way to waste some time, certainly.

The game is really simple. It’s basically a variant of Boggle, where you have a pool of letters and have to spell as many words as you can with them. The twist, however, is that these pools of letters are the names of cities. As you find more words out of the name of a city, the city increases in population, and starts building itself up. You only have to build up to a two-star city to unlock the next, but there is a running count of how many words, total, one can spell, and you can keep working towards that and try to get full stars on each city, if you’d like.

The interface is nothing crazy, but it works. You tap the letters to spell words. As you spell, it gives you a readout on top of what words you’ve already spelled that include the letters in the order you’ve hit them so far, so you don’t repeat. It also has a “Last Word” button after you enter a new word, which is handy to quickly input the plural forms of words after you get the word itself. It’s not going to make you say “WHAT A GREAT INTERFACE” but it’s nicely done.

That’s… basically it? But seriously, while simple, it is a fun game to pass the time with, if you’re a word person. It also works great as a multiplayer experience. Cara and I played for awhile, with both of us tossing out word ideas. It was fun. It’s free. It’s quality. What more to you want?