Quarrel
© 2011 Ignition Entertainment USA
Mix together Scrabble and Risk and what do you get? Quarrel -- a fun, challenging spelling game for iPad and Xbox Live Arcade (as a download). This game would be excellent for either classroom use or for a fun after dinner game, as a good way to flex spelling and logic skills at the same time. Designed for two players, the idea is to capture as much territory as possible using small squads of cavemen, ninjas, pirates and so on. Instead of guns, you use high-scoring words. A word can only have as many letters as the number of troops the player has in his army (i.e. if the player has five aliens, the word can only be five letters long). The best speller will win the most battles, achieve domination of the entire map and win the game.
$5, iPad ($5), iPhone, Xbox 360
Teaches: spelling, language, anagrams, logic, reading