App Profile: One Clue Crossword

CristaMcD

Rating: 5/5

The game itself is pretty fun. It’s often tricky enough that you really need to think but rarely so tricky that it’s a stretch to consider the answers as part of the picture. The reason for the 3 stars? The insanity of the ads. They’re sometimes 40-60 seconds long (and never shorter than 30-40 seconds long), requiring multiple steps by the player to get through them (clicking the “x” or “done” to progress to the next part of the ad). And it’s a fairly common occurrence that you sit through the ad only for the prize to not get doubled, which is why I decide to watch the ads in the first place. That’s frustrating enough that it deserves losing more than 1 star (maybe not deserving of losing 2, but that’s my only option if I’m deducting more than 1). If the ads were significantly shorter and the prize doesn’t double like it should, I’d have settled for taking only 1 star, but them being that long AND not getting doubled deserves losing more than 1 star. If you’re not annoyed at stuff like that the way I am, you’d probably rate it 4 or 5 stars. It’s worth playing to find out.

Hiker_th

Rating: 5/5

I like the game. Plays well. Logical clues. However the escalating token cost assures that the player will be required to spend money in order to continue. There is no way out of it. Play skill will not avoid it. 5/17. Still no new classic puzzles. Is this app being abandoned by the developers? It’s been many months since an update to the classic mode. Like others reviewing here I don’t care for the mixup mode. I also echo the complaint regarding answers not relating to the picture itself but rather to arcane references to the generalization of the pix. 9/05. It seems like the classic mode has been abandoned. The mix up one merely recycles old photos and answers so it’s really trivial to solve. This used to be one of my favorites but it’s really stale now. Not much reason to visit it. I can’t imagine that the advertisers like the reduced time-in-app. To the developers: please provide new classic puzzles. It’s why most of us got involved in the app. I luv the original concept. Please don’t minimize or abandon it.

mynicknamewasstolen!!!

Rating: 5/5

I play one game a day to keep the game going, and am down to my last game before moving on to level 65 (which requires an update). But I found a trick. I enjoy this game so much that I downloaded it onto a new device without syncing it with the old device. So now I’ve begun playing it daily on my new device. The trick to gaining coins is to play a few levels to gain coinage, then play a game a day, so you can collect the 100 coins from videos and daily games. As for having too many ads, that’s only if you don’t pay for the ad free (which will also gain you a few more coins). Yeah, I remember the day when everything was a dollar, too. But this game lasts so long and is so addicting that it really is worth punching one of the green and purple buttons to remove the unwanted ads. Then you can enjoy the game and build your coinage by watching videos when you choose to watch them. Plus, I have to say that one farm ad with the chicken and cow…I enjoy trapping the chicken in a corner so he can’t get out. 🤣 I’ve trapped the cow, too; but the chicken’s clucking is more fun to listen to. So right now I still have the game on the new device that will keep me busy while I wait for them to update the game on the older device that is almost done. I’m hoping they at least keep it going to level 100. That’s only 36 more levels. If you’re still wondering if you should download this game, I highly recommend it.