FQuiz
for SmartphoneFQuiz
for SmartphoneFQuiz is a flashcard anagram quiz game for Smartphone (Windows Mobile), designed to help Scrabble players improve their knowledge of seven and eight letter words by studying highly probable "stems" and other word series. It is Freeware, and based around SOWPODS, the international Scrabble word list. It's inspired by the desktop program Lexpert although it has nowhere near the number of features as Lexpert it as far as I know the first anagram flashcard quiz game for phone.
Because it's on a phone it's the most compact way you can study word lists - plus you can quiz yourself wherever you are if you get some free time.
The program is Freeware, but it is currently "beta", and you install and use it at your own risk. Any queries please email me at jimblackler@gmail.com
I added some new interface options following user feedback. 4 and 6 on the keypad now move through the cards as well as the joystick. 'Down' on the joystick deletes a card, and 'Up' undeletes it. An 'Undelete All' options is now present on the menu.
I haven't developed an installer yet but it's pretty easy to get going. Download the exe from here and save to somewhere on your PC's hard drive. Then open Microsoft Active Sync and select Explore. Navigate to somewhere like \Storage\Program Files on the Smartphone and copy the fquiz0_4.exe there. You can then open the File Manager on the Smartphone and run the fquiz.exe. You will probably be warned that it's an unsigned application before you can run it.
The first screen you will see will prompt you to select a built-in word list, or make a custom list of your own. Navigate up and down the list with the controller, pressing the controller button to open a particular part of the tree. Press the button marked 'Select' to load a list and start the quiz.
In the example shown, the user opens the list 'Satine' which represents the
famous word series of seven letter words formed by the letters from SATINE plus
another letter.
Users
will be presented with a screen showing the first flash card in the series. The
objective is to guess the valid anagrams of the letter set shown. It is shown in
alphabetically sorted form ("alphagram"). Users can shuffle the letters randomly
by pressing '2'.
When you want to have the program display the valid anagrams, press '1' on the phone, or press in the controller.
Navigate between the cards by moving the controller left and right. Remove a
card from the stack by pressing the menu button marked Delete. Return deleted
cards to the stack by pressing '3'.
It
is possible to sort the card stack in three ways. Firstly ascending alphabetical
order of the alphagram (so that stem quizzes run with the extra letter from A->Z
in order) or in descending order of probability of drawing the letter set from a
full set of Scrabble tiles. The default order depends on which list was
selected.
In addition users can shuffle the stack into random order.
All these options are selected from the 'Cards' sub menu.
The
view Menu provides a summary of the Reveal and Jumble Rack options, and allows
you to select a list of all word solutions for cards in the rack.
As
well as the built in lists, users can create their own lists to a limited set of
specifications. Users can select between Anagram, Build and Match modes, plus
maximum and minimum probability indices and letter lengths.