Semantic Wars is a castle defending game with a little bit of hangman thrown in. The idea of the game is that you are building various types of combatants to advance across the screen from your castle to the enemy castle, fighting any opposing warriors they encounter. The goal is to protect your castle while advancing far enough to attack the opposing castle.

Creating combatants costs you points, and aside from getting lucky and acquiring some through a bonus box that is dropped by the blimp overhead (really), the only way to increase your points is by guessing letters in secret words, hangman-style. You earn 8 points for each correct letter you guess, but you lose 3 points each time you guess a letter that is not in the word.

Though the fighting element of the game isn't particularly well done, the combination of that aspect of the game with the word game is enough to really get your head spinning. It can be challenging to shift gears from guessing letters in words and ensuring that you are creating enough troops to defend your castle, but if you space out for even a little bit, you will get overrun.

Semantic Wars is a fun little time waster that should get your brain juices going.

Must Pop Words is a boggling word game that boggles the mind; it reminds me of a trademarked game who's name I can't quite put my finger on. The idea is that letter balls fall from the top of the screen, and you have to quickly type words to make them pop and disappear. The letters fall with alarming regularity, so if you're not on the ball, so to speak, your screen can quickly fill up your game is over.

As the game progresses, a penguin pops up offering you bonus points if you can complete certain tasks before he disappears. The tasks include things like creating words of specific lengths, and words that end with a specific letter.

The game quickly takes on a frantic feel as your window fills up with unused balls. Interestingly, there is no penalty for using the same word over and over again, so if you're in trouble and have lots of z's and o's on the screen, there's nothing stopping you from typing the word 'zoo' three or four times.

If you have a friend that is a word game fan, don't let them see this game unless you want to lose them for a few hours.