It widens your observational and associative skills.
Sun Oct 15 2017 GiGi AvalonChallenging at times. But it must be making more creases in the gray matter. When you >>deliberately<< practice this kind of association, as you do in this app, you are doing it in a no pressure setting .. but, over time, practicing this will refine your attention to detail and hopefully improve your ability to see commonalities in things and situations that, in every day life, seem to be unassociated but actually carry a theme. This kind of skill is invaluable - in business, in life .. seeing beyond the obvious and discovering threads of commonality -- or conversely, disassociating things that you have previous seen as possessing a common string. I will put a reminder in my calendar to check back in in 4 weeks and report if I have climbed some abstract mountain or conquered or refined my capabilities in these sorts of affairs. Beside, it is fun - play it together with someone - either 2 person team vs 2 person team -- add a timer for an edge. Or play as a group to see who gets it right first. Or just 2 of you - plainly finding that you end up giggling at 3 am from the things you have to say about it.
Great game, needs some tweaks!
Sun Feb 27 2022 BighurryI been playing this game for many, many years. As another reviewer mentioned, the system runs out of new puzzles frequently! It takes seemingly forever for new puzzles to be released! I’d like to see an effort to generate new puzzles frequently so a continuous supply is available to customers to download and play. Most of the puzzle pictures are relevant but there are many, many pictures that have little to no relevance to the pictures presented. I sometimes scratch my head, look up the word and the dictionary provides no connection to some of the pictures. It’s very frustrating when some of the clues are distracting and detrimental to my puzzle solving efforts! Please seek out these pictures and replace them with appropriate ones. Thank you!
Great Thinking Game. Has Some Kinks to Work Out
Sat Nov 04 2023 RPU12This is a great word game for those who like to be challenged! The common word is not always apparent, and you sometimes have to really think beyond the obvious elements of what may be pictured. There have been plenty of sets that had me scratching my head, and sometimes I could figure out the hard ones right away, but overall this game will make you think.
My main problem with the game has to do with how quickly the 10 second timer expires when you do the 10 in 10 second challenges. It can be maddening when you absolutely know that you solved a set in 4 seconds, only to not be rewarded the point! Other times, it does count your 9-second response, which comes as a surprise, so there is no consistency. Maybe there needs to be a time bar that reduces in size as the seconds count down, so it keeps it fair? Right now, without fail, I end up doing 14 to 18 puzzles, with one or two that I know took longer, and 3 that I know should have counted :-(.
Overall, 4 Pics 1 Word is a fun game!
New Use For Coins & American English
Wed Mar 17 2021 LunarAnimeI have played “Almost” everyday for several years. Enough so that I had done all puzzles and had to start over. Generally the puzzles are interesting, some easier than others. The problem is that the coins I get for solving I now can rarely use. I may need a joker or two weekly but not often. REQUST: can we please use coins to catch up on the 2nd of the Daily Puzzles so more of my badges move. After all, sometimes life gets in the way of doing daily puzzles.
ALSO: can more puzzles include the American English usage of words (at least one of the pictures). [For example we just had the word pastries with a meat pie, a muffin, gummies/jellies and pie dough. Pastries in America are almost always sweets like cinnamon buns and fancy donuts with fruit topping & maybe lemon bars.]
Keep going. You have improved with the addition of Daily Puzzles
UPDATE: I received a timely and very nice reply to my questions. I have upgraded my rating to 4 and hope to soon see further updates to a wonderful game
What’s the deal with puzzle IQ?
Mon Jul 03 2023 Nd go iobgf Dee d onI used to love this game. So many changes later - I’m about done with it. I’d played for so long I had worked my way to get frequent hints when a puzzle sat unsolved for even a day or two - now that feature seems to have nearly disappeared, which felt like losing a status is built up over a few years. The rules governing hints no longer align with indicators that a user actually would benefit from a hint. I sometimes get a hint within minutes of opening a new puzzle, while other puzzles can sit for weeks with no hint given. That change alone really decreased the enjoyment for me - who mostly plays casually in short spurts just to take a mental break from other things. The latest intro of the Puzzle IQ is completely unnecessary and irritating to me. No way to turn it off. What’s the point of this? Were users begging for a chance to track something called IQ points, which of course don’t really reflect a player’s actual IQ at all? Why add these kind of “features”? Very often - simpler is better.
Diversity?
Wed Mar 15 2023 Sydney MaureenI like this game a lot, but it hasn’t escaped my notice that there are hardly any people of color represented in any of the pictures. I know they’re stock photos, but it’s frustrating for me to always see the same white/blonde people level after level.
Another thing is that I’ve reached this part of the game where a lot of the levels have to do with weight loss, so “diet”, “slim”, “fat”, etc. The words themselves aren’t the problem, but I’m not sure it’s okay for the photos to always have people looking so miserable if they’re the ones in the larger photo of the before and after. I think it pushes a rather dangerous narrative, though I don’t think it’s on purpose.
Overall, I do enjoy this game and like playing it with my friends, but I think the next update should be a bit more inclusive.
Too easy
Sat Apr 07 2018 DarlingD59I opened up this app for the first time in a long time and was disappointed to find that most of the puzzles are too easy; their answers are too obvious. When I first started playing this app years ago, I really had to think about the answers to most of the puzzles which I don’t need to do now. So disappointing! Also, the transition from one puzzle to the next is too slow. Next, I would like a button that drops all of the letters back down when I get an incorrect answer on one of the few puzzles that is challenging. On those same few challenging puzzles, I don’t want to have to put the letters in the boxes starting with the first letter; I may want to place some vowels in some of the middle boxes first to give me some ideas about the common word. In summary, you may need to change the age range and the puzzles to a higher level in order to keep adults challenged and playing. Why not develop a children’s version; on a game like this, one size does not fit all!
Puzzle IQ??? Seriously?
Sun Jun 04 2023 therelybareI’ve been playing this game off and on since 2016. Just recently, my family spent the evening playing the game together and had a great time. I just opened the game up and was forced to go through a Puzzle IQ demonstration and started to wonder if this is something that players asked for or if it’s something that the developers came up with to junk up the game. Honestly, it aggravates me when a developer takes a simple game and keeps adding junk to it. I used to play one game and it was a simple word game and the developer added one thing after another and the game eventually became unplayable. The additions, used to try to make money, took over. If this is the way this game is going, then I’m glad I’ve used it for this long because I’m less likely to play it now. Hope the changes are more profitable for you because I’m done!
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