Word games are perfectly suited to smartphones because they are easy to control, often suitable for short bursts of play, and help jog your brain here and there throughout a hard day. However, most of them do not allow you to earn Bitcoins by playing, but you can in Word Breeze.
Developed by PlayDay Studios and released as part of the larger Bling Financial mobile game lineup, Word Breeze is a simple but fun word creation game available for both iOS and Android.
Although the iPhone and iPad versions don’t mention Bitcoin in the title or description, both apps allow you to earn in-game points that can be converted to BTC or Ethereum and cashed out to your Coinbase account, or to PayPal for US dollars. This is a familiar premise seen in other mobile games like Sweet Bitcoin and Ethereum Blast, all of which share the same login and redemption process.
It’s a fun, yet very familiar premise. If you have a jumble of small letters, you need to spell out as many words as possible to fill the intersecting spaces above. It’s part crossword game, part spelling solver, and nothing particularly new. I’ve played a few mobile games like this over the years. But this is a solid implementation of a touchscreen word game.
And as mentioned, there are Bitcoin rewards you can earn here. But check your expectations. Word Breeze earned slightly more Bitcoin than any other mobile cryptocurrency earning game I’ve covered. decryptionGG, it still feels insignificant compared to the annoyance of how many ads you’ll see.
I was able to get through roughly 75 of the game’s levels in about two hours of play, which ended up taking up about half of my total time investment. The other half was spent watching repetitive, mostly unskippable, full-screen ads, often for fraudulent games that claimed to pay hundreds of dollars a day.
Word Breeze certainly doesn’t do that. During that time, I earned enough Bling points to convert to 510 satoshi, or 0.00000510 Bitcoin. As of this writing, its value is just over $0.13. This is in the same general ballpark as the other Bling games I’ve mentioned, typically offering around $0.05 to $0.10 worth of revenue per hour.
Is it worth it? Your mileage may vary.
Personally, I’d rather play a fun game without being bombarded with obnoxious ads than make pennies an hour. But if you’re interested in “seat stacking” and stacking your bitcoins where you can, Word Breeze is fun and engaging, at least when you can actually play it.
Edited by Stacey Elliott.
