- Word Whiz
Infobox VG| title = Word Whiz
developer =Apogee Software
publisher =Apogee Software
designer = Scott Miller
released =1988
genre =Educational game
modes =Single player
platforms =DOS
media =Floppy disk
input = Keyboard"Word Whiz" is a trivia game written for
MS-DOS , published byApogee Software (now3D Realms ). It consists of various questions about different English words.Word Whiz was distributed as
shareware . It consists of four volumes (named Volume 1 to 4), with only the first volume distributed as shareware, and the rest available commercially. Each volume has 100 multiple choice questions, each one about a specific word.Word Whiz is written in
Turbo Pascal 5.0 and the source code was for sale for $100.The game was discontinued, and it was later re-released as
freeware by Apogee in December 2005. See alsolist of commercial games released as freeware .External links
*moby game|id=/dos/word-whiz|name=Word Whiz
* [http://www.3drealms.com/downloads.html Download the freeware game]
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