If you’ve been among the Kindle owners who agree with me that playing Minesweeper or Gomuku on the Kindle is just a waste of time that has nothing to do with reading or any other purpose for which we might have bought a Kindle, well, here’s another game that, at the very least, has two significant virtues:

1. It has everything to do with words.

2. It only costs a penny.

Word Morph is a new, Kindle-formatted version of an old game in which the players uses one’s familiarity with words and dexterity with letters to transform a starting word, one letter at a time, into a predetermined ending word of the same length. That would be child’s play but for the requirement that each interim word in the process must be an actual word.

Click here to download this to your Kindle for a penny.

You may find it a waste of time, but there’s a good chance it will make you a better Scrabble player.