The simple thing you do is wrong
Wed Oct 28 2020 Loquacious_1The tons of pop ups are unbearable in the free version to the point of seeming more harassment than friendly offers. I turned off notifications for this app and yet they keep coming. This is a bit aggressive for my liking or for a word game. I feel like uninstalling and may do so at this rate. The gameplay is okay but is geared toward generating income more than fun.
Note that it isn’t being ad supported that is annoying and I certainly know how businesses generate funds for having handled billing for ours, but it’s how frequent and obtrusive they are. To stop ALL notifications I had to do so by sliding the last notification to find the setting to finally get them to stop. Why was this option tucked away from all the rest of the notification toggle switches?
It’s not that a company conducts business to make money as much as how they go about it. Assaulting our senses isn’t my idea of the best business practices. To get me to pay you must be considerate and see my side of things too. Make the ads smaller, make them close as easily as they open, and do not ruin our fun by running an ad at every opportunity in the game. This game feels as if the actual game is closing all the ads as they come at you like a pack of ninjas.
Where is the game I downloaded?
Mon Aug 17 2020 Lrondin348I downloaded this game because of an ad that popped up during another game that I was playing. It looked really interesting to pick out words out of a puzzle of letters. Where is the game that I downloaded? This is a totally different game. I started play hoping that I would get to the level that included the game I wanted. I am now on level 150 and still no. So let me review this game. First of all it is addicting. That’s it said it is also very frustrating. What is the use of collecting piggyback coins if you have to ultimately pay for them? Also the music is mind numbing! You have to go totally out of the app into settings to shut it off. Lastly amount of ads is crazy. I get you’re trying to sell other games but showing two and three ads at a time it’s totally distracting and counterintuitive to the mind sharpness that this game is supposed to promote. At least show different ads! Of course we have to pay money to remove the ads. I lost interest in the game because of these negative aspects. Playing is supposed to be fun not annoying. Developers please make some changes.
Update: I received an answer from the developer. They should develop a game called Word Salad because that’s what the answer was. No issues were addressed. No reason why I got a totally different game than advertised. No problems were solved. I deleted the game.
The good and the not-so-good
Sat Aug 22 2020 Clicker44I’ve been playing for a long time and play everyday as I listen to a book on tape or watch tv and I keep coming back to play, but there are some things that really bug me.
1. After you win so many games, you “win” the opportunity to buy coins. That’s not a win.
2. So many made up words! When I accidentally find one because it’s the only letters that fit and then click on it to find the meeting, I get the message, “we can’t find that definition right now”, as if they are ever going to find it. It’s frustrating to get to one last word only to find it’s not really a word.
3. Word collection award. You never win! I’ve played the game over a year and never won. Supposedly, when you collect 5 of the designated letters, they are added to the word collection, but in fact, they only replace a letter already there. I took a screenshot of my last two games and there is literally no difference in the puzzle, just more points, which means nothing as far as I can tell. If I could insert that screenshot here, I would.
So, in summary, for a free app it keeps your mind working and is fun to complete levels, but there’s no impetus to buy more coins or win at anything.
Misspells basic words and doesn’t recognize others as words at all.
Wed Apr 15 2020 Satan'sfinestThis game is ok in concept, I suppose, but it’s extremely slow and easy and there are so many mistakes that it becomes more frustrating than fun. There are a ridiculous amount of words that it just doesn’t recognize, even as bonus words, some of which are just the plural form of words it does recognize. (Some of which were even recognized in previous levels) Even worse, some of the words it is your object to find are misspelled, so unless you think to spell a perfectly normal, easy word incorrectly, you may get stuck on a level. (And just so you don’t think I’m the idiot misspelling words and then blaming the game, I’ll give you one of the examples I remember: tatoo. That was a difficult one to figure out, bc the only ACTUAL 5 letter word spelled with the letters given was not recognized by the game, again even as a bonus word, and I didn’t think to simply misspell a very common and simple 6 letter word in order to make it 5 letters.) The fact that it professes to calculate iq is very obviously a gimmick as well. For one thing, one must wonder how accurately a game could gage one’s iq that cannot even correctly spell tattoo. Once I had encountered misspelled words a couple times, I quit the game and found an alternative, of which there are too many to waste time with this.
Change the ads to make it look like your actual game
Tue Jul 23 2019 FOXIEROXIE#PUGSI rate the game itself as a 3 star because although it’s a good game and good concept, there are so many other games just like it now-a-days, seeing the same thing over and over again gets boring but overall, it is still a good concept. However if I was to rate the ads y’all make for this, it would be a -5 star because I originally downloaded this game because I thought (from seeing from the ad) that this was a word unscrambler game, like there was gonna be an X amount of letters, scrambled up at the top of the screen and I had to see how many words I could get from those scrambled letters. Your ad made it look like it wasn’t one of those typical “drag your finger from letter to letter”, it made it look different and original, which made me happy, so I downloaded it, less than 5 seconds of opening the game, I deleted because I realized that y’all made the ad look better than the actually game, one thing I absolutely CAN NOT stand is when game developers make a game and the ads for that game, are nothing like the game itself, and btw, last time I checked, false advertising is against the law... fix the ads pls🤷🏼♀️
I want to like it more
Thu May 28 2020 CinemabuffI really wanted to give this game five stars, but I can’t. The game is fun and addictive, but here are some issues.
First of all, the darn tiles are too close together, so if you don’t go slow enough, you may leave a letter off, or, as in most cases, add a letter you do not want. It’s a real pain. When I go slow to make sure I am spelling the word correctly, I often lose a letter or even get an extra letter added. Give us more space, please! Second, you can get points for extra words, but only if all the words that length are not already filled in. For instance, say you have filled all your four letter words in but would like extra points for another four letter word you thought of. Tough luck, no dice! Third, the developers offer no way out of an accidental game you are playing. For instance, I, personally, do not want to play against an opponent, but I somehow tapped a button that put me into a competition. No way out, and I don’t like that. If you want competition, great, but you ought to be able to decide if you want to compete or not.
It’s a game that is fun and challenging, but it definitely needs some tweaking.
TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT!!!!
Tue Feb 20 2024 I love the ocean!!!!Okay…this game is a waste of time! When I first saw this game in an ad( why I believed the ad!) I thought it was where you could pick how to spell words, but you have spell them! Also, the levels are way too easy. No matter how high up I moved in the levels, the were so easy! I mean my little sister could do it!!!! The only good thing about this game is that you get a lot of coins when you earn them. I don’t mean to sound cruel about this game, it is just that I am so sick and tired of getting fooled by ads! And I am sure I am not the only person who thinks that! Anyway thank you for reading my review!😁🙏😁🙏😁🙏
(Note to game creator) I don’t mean to sound annoyed and cruel about your game, but I think I have a way for you to make the game better. You know how some games have multiple little games on them… I thought you could put the game in the ad and some other games like puzzles, color by number, etc to make the game more 🤩. Also I think that there is bug in the app because almost 80% of the time I picked a letter it would it like ten seconds for it to realize I had picked a letter. Just wanted to let you know!😊😊😊
Not Good
Mon Jan 28 2019 jaloisieFor format and responsivity this app is excellent. Unfortunately, it is a ‘game’ based in language and in this respect it fails miserably. This is not a crossword so that the words chosen are particular to the words they must spell through. No, these words are all independent of be another and therefore any word of the required length should suffice. They do not. Further, it must be a rather peculiar dictionary that as a secondary issue identifies only certain words as legitimate (and therefore ‘bonus’ words, whatever that means!). There are words accepted that are not words in my dictionary or thesaurus. And there is of course the issue of unacceptable words, deemed not-words and dismissed out of hand. Next to last, the nonregistering of some entries causes problems when, at wit’s end, a hint is asked for and it turns out to be a word thought to have been rejected. Last, and simply annoying, are the peremptory instructions offered when, for instance, a ‘bonus’ word is duplicated in a attempt to see if perhaps it really might work. (See previous critique for source of this action.). As much as I have loved some aspects of this app I have today deleted it because I find no fun in playing it as a guessing game. TYVM
