If you like words and like to think, kiss your life goodbye and get the Spelltower app.

Basically, it’s an 8×12 grid (on one’s iPhone), where a range of letters start across the bottom of the grid. As you complete words by linking adjacent letters in as complex a pattern as you can muster, the letters used to make the word vanish and new letters appear at the bottom, pushing the remaining letters upwards. You lose when one row of letters reaches the top of the grid.

The sickening thing about it is that as you run up a higher score with longer words, horrible new letters appear with a handicap attached (ie if you want to make a word using that letter, the word must have 4/5/6 letters in it). So the better you are, the higher you go and the harder it gets – before you crash.

Aaaaaaaaaaargh.

I am still exploring the foothills of this monster, closing in on 10,000 points in one game for the first time. Clever me, huh?

Or not. Back in April last year Jerry appeared to be the world champion at a mind-boggling 1,000,000 points and blithely rising. Go to the link for some good strategy principles, most of which I had worked out for myself with great pain.

*weepsinfrustration*