If you're anything like Ewan and myself, you'll enjoy a good brain-stretching, language-challenging word game - and these have been few and far between on smartphones. However, the appearance of Scratchy, reviewed here by Ewan, has helped a lot, keeping him entertained on his American travels. It's Java-based and basically works on anything, by the way.

"Word puzzles are thin on the ground in the mobile space, so Fivedeer's new word finding game is a welcome addition to their leisure applications. The Java-based Scratchy may well mix up the metaphors of scratch cards and Scrabble, but it does have a very nice game underneath the polished graphics."

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