5 classic pastime games for Android

A very common picture when we went to our grandparents' house. Seeing them sheltered in their seats, with the sunglasses about to fall off their faces, pen in hand and magazine in the other. This is how some of them spent the hours, behind thick volumes full of pastimes. Inside, word searches, crossword puzzles, hieroglyphs and, more recently, Sudoku puzzles, relieved hours of boredom with activities that, in turn, brought numerous benefits to their mental he alth.

In the 21st century, these types of publications are still being sold. We can see them, above all, in kiosks and airport stores. They don't use up the battery, they can be used in mid-flight and we train our brains a bit. But we must bear them. And there are times when we would like to be able to do some alphabet soup, emulate our grandparents, while we are on the bus. And this is where our beloved applications make an appearance.

We offer you 5 classic pastime games for Android. With them, you can play the usual games like word search or crossword puzzles. Some of them, even, with a modern touch. Don't wait any longer and try these 5 classic pastime games for Android

Alphabet soup

Who doesn't like a good alphabet soup? Now you can play as much as you want to a real alphabet soup, using your fingers instead of a pen.The mechanics are familiar: a panel appears with a handful of jumbled letters among which are hidden words that you must find. To help you, the game offers you, in a list, all the words you need to look for. To mark them, simply underline them with your finger, but in the order in which they are written: you must always start with the first letter and end with the last.

You can choose between several languages, not only Spanish. So you can practice and increase your vocabulary of English, French or German, among other languages ​​available. As you progress through the game, the panels will increase the number of letters and, with them, their difficulty. When you have indicated the word, below you will be able to see, in total, which letters are the ones that you have integrated in the line. Make sure you can read the entire word before you let go of your finger.As you solve panels, you earn coins that you can exchange for clues. The tracks are accessed thanks to the light bulb-shaped icon that we have at the bottom of the app. We can also restart the game or solve it, directly. You can also play the game without an Internet connection.

Alphabet soup you can find it in the Android store

Crusades

A classic pastime that consists of fitting different words inside a network of intersecting boxes. Above you have the list of all the words that you must enter in the panel, ordered by number of letters. Below, the panel where they should be placed. To place them, you just have to press a row on the panel, it will be shaded. In turn, you will see how the list of words whose letters coincide in number with the selected area has been shaded at the top. You only have to choose the word that you think best fits and the game will do the rest for you.

Be careful to choose the right one: here you won't be able to undo the movements and, once a word is placed, there is no going back... Although that was not correct. We can ask the game for help in exchange for adding extra time to solving the puzzle. We can ask you to indicate the failures that we have or to add a letter as a clue. A complete and very entertaining game of crusades, which you can play in Spanish or in many other languages. Simply download the dictionary of words in the configuration section.

Download Cross Words now in the Play Store

Crosswords

A game quite similar to the previous one: here we will have to find out which words are the ones that we must fit into the panel, thanks to their definitions. A very configurable game, because we can tell how many columns and rows we want for the game, as well as its orientation and difficulty.Its gameplay is somewhat erratic: you have to be very aware of where you click, to choose the row of boxes where you want to put the word, and the box itself. If the box is shaded, we are going to assign a letter, whether there is already a letter or not. For example, if we are going to write a crossword with another, it is normal for there to be common boxes for both words. Be careful with these boxes because we can change it accidentally. Simply, you have to be very careful where the letters are placed.

Download Spanish Crossword, free, in the Play Store

Hieroglyphs

We have all played hieroglyphics at some point. Those strange pattern combinations that hide the solution to the enigma. There are extremely easy ones, such as placing the 'Pi' sign next to an eyeball (Louse) but there are a little more complicated ones.So much so that they can make you lose patience. The game will teach you different hieroglyphs that you will have to guess correctly by typing the answer using an integrated keyboard. To solve the hieroglyph you just have to press the green 'Enter' button. As you get it right, the difficulty level of the game will increase.

Download Quiz!! Hieroglyphics, free, in the Android app store

Word mania

We wanted to introduce Word mania because, despite not being a classic pastime per se, it can remind us of all this type of classic games. And because you also want to put a bit of modern graphics among so much austerity. In Word Mania you will have to form words with the letters that the game offers you, thus filling in a series of boxes.You will have to link the letters with a finger gesture, using several or all that the game offers you. With the coins you can ask the game for clues, as well as participate in daily challenges that will bring you juicy rewards.

You can now play Word Mania for free by downloading the app.