Introducing Spy Words

It’s with great excitement that we introduce our latest app, Spy Words. Spy Words is our take on classic cryptogram puzzles. These are puzzles where you are presented with a code, say the following:

BJP WJ OJT WJ?

By using direct substitution, you might be able to decipher that this phrase says:

How do you do?

Spy Words features numerous categories and hundreds of puzzles to satisfy all kinds of users. For those who might want a little hint, or two, or three; there is a hint button. Pressing this hint button will allow players, possibly like yourself, to reveal a set of vowels within in the puzzle.

In the above cryptogram, for instance, you might get all of the “o’s” or the single “u” by clicking the button. The fewer hints you use, the more you get as a bonus for solving the puzzle.

A tutorial is providing in case you need extra help

We hope you enjoy Spy Words. To celebrate the release of our latest game, we’re giving players, who download the application now, the ability to score a free puzzle pack filled with 25 new puzzles. We will be adding more puzzles in the following weeks too. Please help spread the word about Spy Words and feel free to drop us a line through the application!

OmNom Apps Releases Spy Words

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Los Angeles, California – Today OmNom Apps released Spy Words, a fun and addictive logic game on the iTunes App Store for iPhone™, iPod™ Touch, and iPad™. Spy Words brings cryptogram applications to a whole new level with an engaging user interface and hundreds of unique puzzles. This mobile game joins the growing catalog of applications published by OmNom Apps, including the popular Anagram Twist.

In Spy Words, players find themselves in the role of investigators and code breakers. Here, they are given an encoded phrase to decipher. Substituting the correct letters for the ones jumbled in the puzzle, players must determine what the correct phrase is. Phrases are taken from popular culture and fit within a variety of categories including wisdom, food, and comedy. Players also have the ability to use hints which reveal all the cases of a particular vowel. The fewer hints used on a puzzle, the more one will get in return.

“I think people will find Spy Words challenging but not too hard. It just has the right level of difficulty to make it fun for both casual and hardcore gamers. This is the kind of game that players will find hard to put down because once you’ve solved a single puzzle, the feeling is really rewarding, and makes you want to play more,” says Nick Delos Santos Jr.

To celebrate the release of Spy Words, OmNom Apps is giving players, who download the application now, the ability to score a free puzzle pack filled with 25 new puzzles.

Spy Words is available now for iPhone™, iPod™ Touch, and iPad™ users running iOS 4.3 and higher. Get it now in the iTunes App Store.

iTunes App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/id588578368/

Gameplay video:
http://youtu.be/SDtXOWLeBvg

OmNom Apps Releases Anagram Academy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Los Angeles, California – Today OmNom Apps released the latest addition to their mobile gaming line-up, Anagram Academy. Available now in the iTunes App Store for iPhone™, iPod™ Touch, and iPad™, Anagram Academy is a quick-paced and fun word game that takes word jumble-type games to a whole new level.

Anagram Academy builds off of the previous success of Anagram Twist with an extremely comprehensive SOWPODS word list, four levels of difficulty, and competitive gameplay.

As Co-founder, Tony Ngo, described, “We took everything we learned from Anagram Twist and our users to produce a very comprehensive and manageable game. The final result is great fun for players of all ages that will keep them entertained for hours on end.”

Players shuffle and arrange letters to spell out as many words as possible in two minutes. After getting the six-letter word, players are able to move on. One of the many challenges in this game comes from deciding whether to stick with the current puzzle or move onto the next to get a whole new set of tiles.

Each word increases a player’s score with longer words worth more points. At the end of two minutes, the game is over and players have the option of posting their score to Game Center. Players are also encouraged to beat their personal record and to challenge their friends.

“With the release of Anagram Academy, the guys at OmNom Apps have created something that I feel people want more and more of–they’ve made a game that’s mentally stimulating, quick to play, and challenging enough that they won’t get bored too quickly,” says Patrick Tomas.

To celebrate the release, OmNom Apps is giving players, who download the application now, the ability to get tokens free–more than enough to beat a few friends with ease.

Anagram Academy is available now for free for iPhone™, iPod™ Touch, and iPad™ users running iOS 3.0 and higher. Get it now in the iTunes App Store .

iTunes App Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/id518461967

Gameplay video:
http://youtu.be/P8U8-cCDQm0

Introducing Anagram Academy

So many people enjoyed Anagram Twist that we decided to create an even more awesome word game. We call this mobile game Anagram Academy. The game play is pretty similar to Anagram Twist with players having to create words ith a set of six letters. In Anagram Academy though, scholars, as we like to call them, race against the clock to score as many points as possible.

Players get two minutes and a puzzle. After figuring out the six letter word, they can move onto a new puzzle. Do the scholars stay on the current puzzle because they can create a lot of words, or do they move onto the next puzzle? After two minutes, players can view solutions, share their score on Facebook, and compete against friends in Game Center.

There are four levels–elementary, high school, college, and master. Each level gets progressively harder but is worth more points. These levels also correspond nicely to words that are required for related education levels (ex. elementary contains six letter words that the average elementary school student should know).

Can’t figure out all of the elementary words? It’s okay, we won’t judge (our word bank utilizes the official SOWPODS list… which has a lot of words). We will say, though, that Master is indeed pretty difficult.