| Version | 1.0 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Miguel Fra |
| Release date | Nov 8, 2008 |
| Date added | May 23, 2002 |
| Os requirements | Windows, Windows 95 |
| Requirements | Windows 95 |
| Total downloads | 6,753 |
| Price | Free |
Description
Word Dragon is a hangman-style game that teaches various subjects while taking some of the boredom away from reading text. You can download various subjects for use, or you can create your own lexicons using a standard word processor. This feature is especially useful to teachers who can create subject dictionaries for their students.
Review
Once you surmount the stability issues, you may enjoy testing your vocabulary with Word Dragon. The hangman-style game presents a dictionary definition, and you must guess the word. You earn back pieces of the scaffold for each word you complete, rewarding you for guessing quickly. The game comes with an English dictionary, and you can download more topics at the publisher's site. The interface is perfunctory, as is the help file. Unzipping the program file sets it up in its own directory, although it doesn't so much install as simply exist. The dictionary definition for "apprise" contains an example sentence, which sure made that guess easy. After each game lost, we experienced constant crashes until we re-extracted the files, at which point the program behaved. To be fair, the crashiness may be due to incompatibility with our Windows XP machine. Unless you have Windows 95, however, serious stability issues keep the otherwise enjoyable Word Dragon from being anything more than a one-time amusement.