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Popping a Cap

So my Mom and I are IM'ing the other day - an MSN account came free with our re-installation of DSL when we moved, so I figured I'd check it out since that's what Mom and Dad have - and she said, "Have you tried MSN's games yet? There's one I think you'd really like, it's called BeSpelled." So I opened it, and it was... exactly... like... Bookworm. I played it awhile (okay, I got to level 24 or something, which is higher than I've ever gotten in the online version of Bookworm, so maybe it was a little easier?) and the only difference seemed to be that the character in the lower right hand box is some kind of little wizard with a spell book instead of a worm with huge glasses. So I downloaded the full trial version to see if any other differences existed, and no, it's pretty much the same right on down the line (even to the characters shown at the end of the levels, which of course make perfect sense in the context of a library theme but none at all in the context of a wizard theme). MSN has definitely licensed this from PopCap, and I wish I'd kept my initial registration information because you only get two trials and then you have to register, and I wanted to see if I could use the same reg for BeSpelled that I used for Bookworm, as the latter was only $20 and the former is like $25 more for essentially the same game. Ah well, maybe I'll order Scrabble Blast instead, it's kinda the same thing as well...