The Word & Sword app icon: a gilded W with a small knight on one arm and a snail on the other

Word & Sword

Tower defense in the margin

The snails are at the margin. The hares have swords. The scribe is asleep.

Coming soon to the App Store

Soldiers here are words in ink. Spend ink on a tile: SWORD, SPEAR, BOW or AXE. Two tiles alike merge into a better one, black ink to red, red to blue, blue to gold. Kills drop letters into your rack. Spell KING, and the letters leap together into a king.

A round takes two to six minutes against a rival's recorded run. For iPhone, in English. Free to download, with ads and in-app purchases.