First off, full disclosure – I LOVE my Kindle. I use it constantly. I can get tons of free books online or from the Amazon store and get new releases at a fraction of the price. My Kindle has already paid for itself ten times over in what it’s saved me. Now, I’m here to tell you the Kindle just got even better.

Games, y’all.

FREE Games.

Shuffled Row is sort of a mashup between Scrabble, Boggle, and Bananagrams, but with the twist of there being some guy standing there swiping your letters if you don’t use them fast enough.

You have a sort of Scrabble tray of letters that are added one at a time and once the last one is added the first letters start dropping off. So you have to use them before they disappear off your tray. There is a progress bar that moves at the bottom of each letter so you can see when they will appear and disappear. There’s a box at the top that tells you how many more letters you have left, out of the 60 total, and a list at the bottom shows which words you’ve made and how many points you got for each one.

Three letter words don’t get many points. Using more letters multiplies your word score. So four letters gets a 2x multiplier and so on. Just like in Scrabble, different letters have different point values assigned. So if you can make 5 letter or more words using high point letters you can get some good scores.

The game keeps track of your highest game score and your highest word score, even between playing sessions. There’s also an option to clear out the high scores if you want to start over. There’s an option choice on the game menu that allows you to change how two of the key entries work to suit your tastes. If you need to pause the game push the Menu key. As long as the menu displays it will remain paused. You can click Continue on the menu to resume the game.

There’s another free game, too – Every Word. But that’s a review for another day.