In this hectic world we live in, many times work and appointments must come before the fun and joys in our lives, including that of getting to play videogames whenever we want. Gone are the days when we could fire up a game of our choice and spend hours toiling away – now we seem to game in stolen moments here and there. With that in mind, perhaps it is no wonder that casual games have become such a popular gaming choice (especially with women who make up the vast majority of casual game players), as casual games allow us to either jump in and get those quick fixes of gaming bliss or either play them for as long as we want when we do have the time. In honor of the casual game, we'll be bringing you a new Casual Game of the Week every Monday to help you find that fix you might be needing in your life, and this week we have: Word Mojo Gold

Language, words, and grammar are something that we fail to realize the importance of until we find ourselves face to face with someone spouting such words of wisdom as, "I ain't am not gonna do it," or have to see on YouTube a teenager from South Carolina completely stumbling over her question and someone thinking Americans not being able to point to America on a map means we don't have enough maps and that somehow Iraq and other countries are to blame…such as. Of course, then you find yourself playing a game like Word Mojo Gold and seeing that perhaps you aren't as smart as you thought you were either. Move over South Carolina, because maybe you're going to have to make room for this dunce too.

Word Mojo Gold plays like a single player game of Scrabble in a way, where you have a fairly large square sanctioned board with several different colored squares that come into play later on. The game will give you a tray filled with letter tiles, and it's up to you to place them on the board, spelling words, and getting points. If you can place all your tiles on the board at once, you'll get even more points, which you'll greatly need in order to advance by even the first level. As for the colored squares, if you can place a letter tile in it and make a word, you get extra points, and, if possible, can use all your colored letter tiles to make one bonus word for some extra points at the very end of the game.

The biggest challenge comes not from the ticking timer or the limited number of tile sets that you have, but rather the fact that improper placement of tiles can limit the amount of possible word spelling options you have, because no tiles can run exactly horizontal or vertical to each other where they are touching on a side, because chances are those aren't going to spell any words. So, when planning your moves, you need to not only consider the possible points you can get currently, but ones you can get later on in the next play. Also, after placing your first word, every subsequent word must be built off and use one of the tiles you already played; basically, you can't put a word at the very top left and then the very bottom right without nothing linking them.

The game's going to go a long ways towards helping people develop their vocabulary, but yet at the same time even the game doesn't know some words, which greatly hampers the game when you can't get points you know you're deserved. I thought for sure once I was going to get some points for the word "mace," but the game didn't read it as a word. I thought I might've been wrong, but sure enough there it was in the dictionary. I've noticed this happen several times where it seemed like a word should've been recognized but wasn't, ruining my chances of beating that level. The game is already hard enough to beat from one level to the next depending on your knowledge of the English language, and so the player certainly doesn't need the computer cheating in a manner of speaking.

When talking about the graphics and audio departments, though they get the job done easy enough, it doesn't exactly strain itself to try and do anything but present the bare minimum needed to get the gameplay across.

If you think you have a large vocabulary and love nothing more than doing crosswords or playing Scrabble, then Word Mojo Gold might be a game you'll really enjoy passing the time instead of doing some work you need to be doing; however, don't be surprised if you find yourself smarter than the game itself at times. As for those like the teen from South Carolina who just isn't interested in language all that much, then Word Mojo Gold probably won't be a game you enjoy all that much.

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