![]() Most people have likely heard of Alphabear because of the bear selfies. On later boards I was drowning in letters which, paradoxically, was just as much a curse as having too few. And you need to pay attention to space so if you don’t think you can use every letter, you need to carefully choose which ones to abandon to maximise the size of your bears. On one board I find myself up to the waist in H’s and on another I groan every time a new J shows up. The algorithm for generating letters is deliciously evil and you’ll often wonder why in God’s Name you have clusters of the same letter. The first few boards are not taxing to ease you in, but soon Alphabear takes off the kid gloves. I found it compulsive and its genius is not apparent from the get-go. Defeating the boss board advances you to the next chapter, but it only becomes available once you have hit enough gold score targets. On each day, you’re presented with four chapter-themed boards: a big board, a timed board, a treasure board (easy but costs in-game currency) and a boss board. A board is only considered beaten if you reach the gold score target.Īlphabear is in beta, so these details may change but currently the game is broken into “chapters”. Score comes from the letters in play and making big bears. This carries on until the board is exhausted or a timer runs out. As you consume letters, bears expand into the spaces left behind and new letters are revealed around them. Each letter has a counter which decreases every turn the letter goes unused when the counter falls to zero, the letter turns into stone and is out of the game. Each turn, the player has to make a word from the letters they can see. Are you sitting comfortably? Then let me tell you a story.Īlphabear is a simple word game for one player. This probably makes me sound like some kind of puppy-kicking monster. You know, I also once loved Alphabear, but not any more. It’s official, it has won the award for Really Quite Cute Word Game of the Year. If you’ve spent any time on Twitter, you’ll know that people love Alphabear (Spry Fox, 2015).
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