A word search with a twist hiding in the letters, not the grid
Anagram Search asks you to solve a clue, then anagram the answer before you even start hunting for it.
By Wren Ashby, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The screenshot Gaming World has been sent for Anagram Search is not gameplay at all. It is the setup screen, the bit most puzzle games want you to skip past, and it is doing a surprising amount of work. The premise, as the developer describes it, is a small chain of puzzles wearing a word search's clothing. You get a clue, work out the answer in your head, then rearrange every letter of that answer into a different real word using each letter exactly once. Only then do you go hunting for the new word in the grid, in any of eight directions if you have picked the harder settings. The clue an...