Scribblenauts is a completely original gameplay experience that anyone can play, offering fun for all ages with two styles of gameplay and more than 200 levels. In Scribblenauts, players use the Nintendo DS touch-screen to help their character Maxwell acquire the Starite in each level by solving a series of puzzles armed with their stylus, notepad and imagination. Players jot down the word for any object that comes to mind in order to reach the goal. Every object behaves as it would in the real world, and players can combine countless objects to create completely new scenarios. Every level has more than one written object to use as a solution, opening up the game to endless replay. In Scribblenauts, players advance through ten worlds, each with eleven puzzle and eleven action levels for a total of 220 challenges to complete. Each level has a “par” for the number of objects suggested to finish the level. Beating a level with under par, earns “Ollars”, the in-game currency, which players can use to purchase new levels and music.

User Reviews about Scribblenauts

This is such a fun game! I find myself playing for way longer than I should. -- Great game!

My son is eight years old and he loves this game. It really does help him with spelling and he uses his imagination when playing this game. Warning: you may hear the following quite often for a while when your child first gets this game: "Mom, how do you spell...?" -- my son loves this game

My children received their DS this past Christmas, and after thorough game reviews, my husband and I opted for this one, thinking it would be fun AND educational. Boy were we right !!! This game has proven itself over and over again. I am not going to go into game details here, as there are plenty of those in the other reviews as well as the video clips.
Moreover, I just want to emphasize that if you are remotely thinking of getting this game for a child (or maybe even for yourself!), think no more about it: buy it!

This game not only gets your child to think and use their imagination, but gets them to S-P-E-L-L. And that is a biggy! Usually our 4th grader and Kindergartner would sit in front of the DS playing the game together, and the older one would do all the writing. But on the rare occasion, when the older one was not home (e.g. at a party etc.), our younger one would get out the DS, start playing the game, and ask my husband or myself to spell whatever objects she was summoning up (e.g. "Mom, how do you spell 'shark'?"). Through repetition she needed to ask us less and less (granted she was also progressing in her Kindergarten level and thus learning how to spell more and more). I really believe her above-level reading and writing skills stem partly from playing this game.

As I was saying, our kids usually play this game together (we only have one copy of this game between the two of them), something that is not too common for them, given the age-difference. But they have a blast coming up with different solutions for the various levels, often going back to re-play games with different ideas. And for us as parents it is fun to watch our older one respecting and usually approving of the ideas that our younger one comes up with.

As the months since our children received their DS have passed, we have collected a number of fun games (Professor Layton, Mario, etc.). But this one continues to be our children's favorite. If we go on road trips, we usually let each of our kids choose 2 games to take along (so as not to loose or forget any, if we bring too many along): I have yet to see a trip that Scribblenauts is not part of!
In fact, the game has been so much of a hit with our kids, that we have gifted it to others with similar success, and most of our neighbors and friends have ended up buying this game, because their kids played it at our house, and would come home begging them to buy it (this is the only game our kids refuse to lend out to their friends, in case they might get the urge to play it, while it was at a friend's house!).

Wow - this review has turned out to be much longer than anticipated - but I am just that thrilled about this game! Would I buy it again? Absolutely (and I have, to give as a gift). And I know I will be one of the first to buy the sequel - hoping it will be as big of a success with my kids, as this one has been. Besides: it will come just in time for my then 1st grader to learn all about adjectives ;-) -- The All-Time-Favorite for our now 6 & 10 year old and their friends !

So I bought this game because all my friends had it and it looked fun so I bought it...

After I got it I turned on my DS and put it in. My first impression was that it was an amazing game, there was almost anything I could think of! When I would type in a word it would appear right there! One of the most helpful things in the game was when I would spell a word wrong it would bring up a mini version of spell check. The only thing that would make it better is instead of using the stylus to move, to use the directional pad or the xyba buttons.
Hope this helps! :) -- Good Game...

We got this game for our 7 year old and he cannot put it down. He has about 15 other DS games, and none of them compare. We've even gotten him new games and he plays them for just a little bit and goes right back to Scribblenauts! I love that is uses his imagination and helps him with his spelling! It's an amazing game for him! -- My 7 year olds favorite game by a long shot