Crack Word Challenges

I don’t need to explain the game to you - the App Store pictures convey the game well. And in all fairness, the game offers a few minutes of word play goodness. Nothing radical and certainly nothing that tests your vocabulary, but certainly more intriguing than most of the “word” games on the App Store. The goal is to create the longest words possible given a random selection of letters. You can repeat words and there’s no extra reward for challenging letters or uncommon words. The problem is that the app is more ads than games. To play a single round requires watching several ads and even if you choose “no” for the “optional” ads, you have to watch the ad without any reward! No thank you. Poor development strategy. I thought about buying the app bc I don’t mind paying for a game I like… but I don’t really want to throw any money towards developers who make it difficult to fall in love with their game. There are just too many options out there. This is one of the rare apps where I wanted to leave a review before deleting bc it’s really a poor strategy to prioritize auto-playing ads over allowing new players to fall in love with the game 🙁

7/7 - there were no videos available today. Why? I have to use coins that I purchased if I want to keep playing because there are no videos available - ??? Update: sometimes if you use a wrong letter and you click to watch a video so you can keep going, it takes your coins instead. I’ve lost quite a few coins this way expecting a video but got my coins taken. I’m not giving up on this game though! I still love it! Also, the constant pop up about the fact that you can get help with a word (for 50 coins which is way too much in my opinion, especially since you took away the free reward) is annoying. Every time I pause to think about my next move it pops up. It didn’t used to do that. The newest update has taken away the free milestone reward. You have to now watch yet another video to receive any reward. There are too many videos to watch. I would be glad to purchase the game to not have so many ads because I really do love this game! *** I cannot get past level 45. It’s way too hard to win this level with no double or triple cards. I like that this game is challenging but this level feels impossible!

Words Out is a good game. It remains interesting and challenging as you progress through the levels, adding features like deadly cards, wild cards, cards that return words back to the deck, etc. The dictionary is fairly broad and includes both US and UK spellings. One notable exception is with words beginning with “un-“ or “re-“ prefixes. These are often the best prospects for ten letter words and it is very annoying when great words aren’t accepted. I’m at level 105 and the maximum words are essential. The ads sometimes get stuck on my iPad Pro. I leave the game, quit the app and return as a workaround. Words sometimes score when I don’t want them to. This is usually if I’m moving Apple Pencil slowly after placing a letter. My most recent peeve is the frequent “need help?” message that pops up. Even if I’ve just told it no, the app brings back the message on every letter. After 8 to 12 seconds, they want to up sell the option of looking at possible words. If the pop up message occurs while moving a letter, the letter is applied to the nearest word, losing the game. I really dislike this message.