Flash! Two new free games for some Kindles

Flash! Two new free games for some Kindles

Thanks to a reader (I’m waiting for permission to identify), I’m sharing with you information about two new free wordgames you can download for your Kindle.

I’ve written about Kindle games before, in this previous post.  As I explained in that post, Kindles all come with Minesweeper, and Kindles besides the Kindle 1 also have Gomoku.  There are other games available as well.

This is new, though. 

There are two word games, published by Amazon, available for free download to your Kindle.  Well, not everybody’s Kindles.  It’s kind of funny, but it says they are for “Kindle devices”.  However, the only Kindle for which I can download on my account is our Kindle 2.  Neither of our Kindle 1s show up, and our Kindle for PC reader app doesn’t show up either.  If you have a K1, I guess you are out of luck on this one.

If you don’t, you can download these two games for free:

Every Word

Shuffled Row

 These are free word games! 

As to the size of the files, they are in the range of a typical novel…between 800 and 1000 KB. 

The reviews indicate that you don’t have to have the wireless connected to play: that’s nice.  🙂  I can’t download them right now to check (my reception isn’t good enough where I am right now, but I’ll try them later.

UPDATE: I moved out of one room and into another area (inside) a few meters away…zap, good service!  As to the games…yowza!  When I show them to my Significant Other, I may be forced to get a K3…so my SO can have the K2 and play these games.  My SO is a big word game fan, and these would be great!  It’s a good implemenation…they play well.  I had some trouble reading part of the solution in one game…it would look better on a K3, I assume, because the problem was that the letters were too light to easily read the words I missed.  I could read them, though.

Is this the start of the apps store?  Maybe, this is how I would expect that to work.  These are both published by Amazon Digital Services.

Some of you don’t want to play games on your Kindle…that’s fine, you don’t have to download them, of course.  But those who enjoy that…free…word…games! 

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This post by Bufo Calvin originally appeared in the I Love My Kindle blog.