App Profile: CryptoQuiz

Bewildered137

Rating: 1/5

Spent 15 minutes discovering everything I hate about this. Top of the list is that it scrolls to the bottom of the list every time you guess a letter. Then there’s how little information there is about the interface. And that the menus are hidden behind the keyboard. And I discovered that I don’t like cryptoquizzes, which is not really the fault of the app. Thought I was getting cryptoquotes also, but—nope. Or if so, they are so well hidden I couldn’t find them. Deleted.

FGol

Rating: 3/5

Thank you for making this free and I hope your birthday was good. CryptoQuiz is a nice app for solving cryptogram puzzles. It is stable, easy to use, and works as advertised. I really like the ability to input my own puzzles -- in plain or encoded text. That's useful when solving the newspaper puzzles with family members... we can do it in parallel. Surprisingly this is a feature only CryptoQuiz offers. Ideas to make it better (and I'd pay for it if it had these features): - I'd like to select or deselect puzzle categories. For example, I don't want to solve lists of words; I'm more a quotation guy. Most of the categories therefore are in the way rather than enjoyable so I'd like to delete or deactivate them. - I'd like a view option where the puzzle is on one line and the solution letters are above or below. That's more natural to how I solve it with pencil and newspaper. - I'd like an option to turn off hints, i.e. it telling me when a letter is wrong. - Landscape (I use an iPhone) would be nice but not critical. Thank you for sharing your app.

luvAnAnimal

Rating: 3/5

The UI can use some work. Was annoyed by having to click done on the keyboard to switch views frequently. Fortunately there was a setting for it but perhaps just having the menu on top of the puzzle will provide easy access. I like the multiple views. Putting on Gap View is almost like playing hangman. Overall it needs some polishing on the graphics and UI but a decent puzzler game. Naming your own puzzle would be great either. There's potential in the game but it may not be in the same ballpark as a paid app yet comparatively.