Fugdale’s Funhouse

Object: Create a 4-letter word out of the four strips of letters.

Review: This nice original game from Flash By Night is really fun to play, especially if you are good at flinging around four-letter words. Players are presented with four vertical strips of letters. Each strip has five letters in it. You must move the strips up or down so that the four central letters make a four letter word from right to left. There is at least one four-letter word in each puzzle and sometimes there is only one.

The game seems simple at first, but unless you are great at games like Boggle, you will often have a frustrating time trying to discover the hidden word. The timer starts with one minute for the first round and you are scored for every second left after you discover a word. The timer gets shorter for each subsequent round. If time runs out, so does the game. I lost on ‘runt’.