About this app

Use your spelling skills to find the gold and capture the outlaws in Mystery Word Town. Play with the supplied word lists, or record your own words.
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Children’s Technology Review Editor’s Choice

Parents' Choice Gold Award Winner

Artgig Apps have always produced the highest quality apps that engage through cleverly designed gameplay, and Mystery Word Town does not disappoint. It’s a mix of western style fun and silliness, but also has serious educational chops. - Teachers With Apps
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Build spelling confidence with a mystery...

News Bulletin: The Huevos Rancheros Gang stole the gold and they are hiding out amongst the good citizens of Word Town.

Your Mission: Help the sheriff, a friendly and curious little ghost, recover the missing gold and catch the outlaws.

Find the letters you need to solve the word puzzles...

- Spelling practice integrated with a rich, immersive game experience
- Unlimited user accounts - create your own avatar and save your game progress
- Play the word lists developed by teachers, or record your own words.
- 3 skill levels and 2 game modes provide a highly customizable and flexible learning experience for a range of ages
- Optional audio hints speak the words from the selected word list
- Visual hints provide scaffolding for difficult words
- Quirky characters and interactive discoveries delight young learners
- Promotes strategic and critical thinking

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CUSTOMIZE SKILLS FOR SPECIFIC WORDS AND ABILITY:

Designed to support classroom learning, Mystery Word Town provides a unique and engaging way to practice spelling for kids ages 6 and up.

Each player can customize various skills and play modes to suit their age, interest and ability:

- Select from 3 included word lists, created in collaboration with teachers and based on Fry high frequency words, and sight words
- Record your own voice for your custom word lists
2 game modes:
- Listen Then Spell - listen to the word audio, then spell the word
- Spell Your Own - spell any word you want to solve the puzzle, validated against an extensive dictionary

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UNLIMITED USER ACCOUNTS:

Add as many custom profiles as you like. Individual game settings and progress are saved in each player profile. Create different profiles, each tailored for specific practice and abilities.

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MADE BY EDUCATIONAL GAME DESIGNERS

The game designers at Artgig Apps come from a background of educational software development and we put lots of TLC into every detail of each app we create to ensure a fun and engaging learning experience. We include kids, parents and teachers in our app development and testing to make sure our apps are exceptional tools that kids want to use again and again.

We welcome your comments, suggestions and feedback.

Thanks for playing Mystery Word Town!
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Looking for mystery math practice?
Also available - Mystery Math Town and Mystery Math Museum

For more Artgig Apps and demo videos: www.artgigapps.com

New features

Record your own words and make your own custom word lists!

- Experience the thrill of your words, and voice, in the game
- Create a new list from scratch, or copy and edit one of the supplied lists
- Add as many words, and lists, as you like

And that’s not all...we also sprinkled Word Town with lots of things to tap and discover because they're just plain fun.

Thanks for playing Mystery Word Town!

App Permissions

Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read from external storage.