The original best-selling mobile word game, reimagined!
Pick your words wisely! As you play, more tiles rise from the bottom of the screen! It'll take all of your lexicological wits, and tactical know-how to keep your columns down. If any letters make it to the top row, it's game over.
Classic modes Daily Tower, Tower, Puzzle, Rush and Zen are all back and packed with brand new BONUS TILES that double (or more!) word values.
Joining them is the brand new Search mode, plus ExPuzzle, Double Puzzle, Bubble Puzzle, and Blitz mode!
That’s eleven modes in all!
Plus iCloud Backup, Highscores reported for games even while in-progress, detailed statistics for every mode, Game Center leaderboards, and achievements.
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It’s pretty wild to be revisiting my first hit game, SpellTower. I can't believe it's almost 10 years since it released. The first iPhones it ran on had a 3.5 inch screen and 320 x 480 resolution! I literally did a double-take at that resolution when I looked it up.
A funny part about having a hit game is people talk to you about it. With SpellTower I heard about grandparents playing the game every morning to keep their minds sharp, parents playing it with their kids, expectant mothers playing it to get through morning sickness, and countless sightings of strangers playing it on subways, planes — even elevators.
I got into games because I wanted to connect with people in a positive way. I wanted to help people think critically and come away with more than they arrived with. Games felt like a way to do this on a huge scale, but the stories I heard from SpellTower players taught me that games do so much more for people than I ever expected.
I’m deeply grateful that SpellTower has been able to be something special for so many people, and I think that’s why so many people have shared it with friends, loved ones, and strangers on elevators.
Even though SpellTower is a game I made, it’s really barely mine anymore. The experiences and love I had for the game has been outstripped by its audiences a thousandfold. I thought a lot about all the experiences that people have had with the game when I was designing this new version. I hope it gives everyone who’s loved the game a reason to pick it back up again and share it amongst their friends and family.
-zach
I have been playing this for several weeks now and it’s great fun, especially in the tower mode. But the dictionary is far from complete and won’t allow perfectly good words. And sometimes when I am testing a word without double-tapping to confirm, the app goes ahead and confirms it without waiting. A couple of games have been messed up by this. I still haven’t fully worked out how the scoring works. So I’d say it’s more a 3.5 than a 4 overall.
Elegant and challenging. Shame about the dictionary.
Anne O'Mie
This is a must-have for word game enthusiasts, particularly if you like to take your time over the challenges. I go back to Puzzle mode every day, honing my tactics and tearing my hair out while trying to nibble away at those occasionally unavoidable edge-towers made entirely of 6-marked consonants. The dictionary is frustratingly bad, and rejects many perfectly acceptable words. Wouldn’t it be possible to license the dictionaries used by international Scrabble players? Also, the Challenge facility seems pointless and arbitrary; do away with it, and just get some better dictionaries.
Spell… Tower
PaulShill
A great word game BUT two big niggles!1. The dictionary needs an update or some revision - deathlier (for example) is valid in any dictionary.2. A take-back or undo last move would be good. Even if it’s just once per game?! One finger-slip (easy to do) or jolt and a word you’re trying is played and ruins the board.
Top 10 ever mobile game
frustyfrusty
Fantastic game. It helps me sleep at night by making my brain work hard! I am only disappointed that as an original SpellTower owner there wasn’t a discount for existing players in place. Also if there was an option to keep the explanation of what each mode is after you have tried them once would be lovely. I forget what all the new modes are so this would help!
Aspect ratio fixes for the iPad Mini.
Version 1.0.22
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Information
Provider
STFJ LLC
Size
144.8 MB
Category
Word
Compatibility
Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
