Sparrows: Word Strategy

If you’re a word nerd who finds letter puzzles a relaxing brain break, this game is for you. It is a really beautiful clean interface that combines scored scrabble tiles with the half-hidden mahjong setup. It makes for just enough difficulty, especially in the untimed and word search modes that have limited moves or tiles given. My ONLY issue is that it seems the word-search puzzles are auto-generated, so when I realize I can’t complete the puzzle with the matches I’ve made (I.e. letters I need are still hidden below others) there’s no way to just restart that exact puzzle. Restarting the puzzle loads a whole new one, so I don’t get a chance to try again. Aside from that, I’ve found Im able to complete a moves or word search in less than 3 mins, so it’s perfect for a little downtime before refocusing on life. :) Great, stylish, clever game, devs! Keep it up!

Before I get into it, I must say I really like this game. I’ve played both mahjong and Scrabble, so this game was a pleasure to discover. One issue with the game is that you can use an exploit to continue a “moves” game infinitely. When the game ends, if you close out of the app in the scoring screen, then re-enter the game, the game will count it as leaving the game, so it will prompt you to resume it. Doing this over and over will allow you to reach negative numbers of moves and infinite points. That’s just the bug I wanted to point out. It’s not like I need it to be fixed, I was just writing a review to point this out.

I really enjoy this game but there are some bugs and aspects of the game that can make it hard to play. For example during the “moves” mode I sometimes get stuck with only a few letters left and I can’t make a word with them and no new letters are being loaded in but I still have a few more moves left. Also, this isn’t really a bug, but I wasn’t able to put the word “don’t” in. Obviously there’s no apostrophe but I should still be able to make the word dont… also not a bug but I’ve played many rounds of all of the modes in this game but a lot of the times the letters I get are hard to make words from. When I use the tool where it auto fills a word for you it’s often times a word I’ve never heard of. Yes I’ll admit I need to expand my vocabulary but maybe there’s something that could be done in terms of getting more letters? Maybe a tool where you can replace a letter on the board with a new letter of your choice instead of the tool that just deletes the letter??? I think if some of these tweaks and fixes were made I would be more inclined to purchase the other game modes and play this game more often. But overall I enjoy the concept of the game, the design elements and the cute little sparrows on the home page. Cant wait to see new updates for the game!