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Word TwiddleCurrent Version: 1.01

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Stimulate your creative brain! Word Twiddle boosts your problem solving, creative thinking and brainstorming skills using random word stimulus.

Random word stimulus is the most dynamic brainstorming technique designed to trigger your brain’s natural creative thinking process. Random words encourage you to view a problem from a new direction, fueling the creation of quality ideas. Each new set of words broadens your creativity.

Word Twiddle includes over 50,000 total words categorized into lists created to compliment each other and stimulate different types of ideas. To use Word Twiddle, select 1 to 3 inspiring word lists and start Twiddling. With the ability to choose up to three word lists, you receive optimum word stimulus. More relevant stimulus means you create more quality ideas.

The need for inspiration can strike at any time. Do you need to create a new product, write a school paper or even name your goldfish? With Word Twiddle on your iPhone, brainstorming is mobile. Now you can create ideas whenever and wherever you the need them.

Word Twiddle won’t let new ideas get away or force you to break the creative flow and write it down. Simply hit the Keep button and continue Twiddling. Word Twiddle will save the Twiddle to your Keepers list file for later review. You can also easily share your Twiddle and Keepers with others through email.

Creative solutions, products and thinking start with great ideas. Word Twiddle will stimulate and inspire your brain. Try it for your next brainstorming session.

Word lists included:

Action Words
* Actions
* Changing
* Competing
* Consuming
* Creating
* Emotions
* Interactions
* Motion
* Perceptions
* Possess
* Social
* Stative
* Thinking

Basic Words
* Adjectives
* Adverbs
* Latin Roots
* Nouns
* Prefixes
* Suffixes
* Verbs

Fun Words
* Cocktails
* Drunk
* Farts
* Funny
* Lyrics
* Nonsense
* Odd Jobs
* Harry Potter
* Puke
* Star Wars
* Superpowers

Names
* Boy Names
* Cat Names
* Countries
* Dog Names
* Girl Names
* Greek Characters
* Rivers
* Surnames
* Teams
* Towns

Terms
* Advertising
* Biz Buzz
* Business
* Internet
* Legal
* Resume

Things
* Animals
* Cars
* Colors
* Communications
* Feelings
* Food
* Motivation
* Occupations
* Phenomena
* Process
* Quantity
* Shapes
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Word Twiddle Review

Random word generator can help spur creativity

by Tony Craine, Macworld.com

Creative writers trying to wrestle their way out of a block sometimes use a simple exercise to summon the muse: They open a dictionary, pick three random words, and write a scene or a character monologue that includes those words. The specificity of the three words pulls a writer’s head out of the fog and provides some small, achievable goals to work toward.


Word Up: Find a novel way to say just about anything with Word Twiddle.

Inspiration from random stimuli isn’t exclusive to writing. It can be an effective technique to get a brainstorm brewing for all types of creative activities, from naming your new company to mocking your friends. With Word Twiddle from Double Dog Studios on your iPhone or iPod touch, you can generate arbitrary combinations of words to kick-start a stalled imagination.

Using a slot-machine-like interface, Word Twiddle works quickly to pluck up to three terms from its database of 50,000 words at the tap of a button. (The free lite version of Word Twiddle offers a library of 3,700 words.) It successfully combines simplicity with a high degree of customization. You can choose basic categories, like nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs; you can also narrow your choices by using more than 50 pre-defined subcategories, such as action verbs, colors, foods, business buzzwords, dog and cat names, and many more. Double Dog Studios even gives us some insight into its target market (or perhaps its company parties) by including subcategories for cocktails, drunkenness, vomiting, and flatulence.

Any words that you find particularly inspiring can be saved to a list of “Keepers.” You can also tap the “Send” button, and Word Twiddle launches Mail, dropping the terms into a new message.

You may still need a dictionary, because Word Twiddle sometimes spits out some pretty obscure terminology. Or you can just keep tapping until you see some words you recognize. Eventually, you’ll find the elusive phrase that sets your creativity in motion.

Word Twiddle is compatible with any iPhone or iPod touch running iPhone 2.1 software.

[Tony Craine is a freelance writer, playwright, and voice actor in Chicago.]

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