App Profile: Spell Grid 2 : Jumble Letters

]v[andinga

Rating: 3/5

I’ve been addicted to this app for over 5 years now and have loved it even after playing through all the grids multiple times. I love the added grids but the most recent ones have the same swipe pattern for the 9 letter word which takes some fun away. Also, there are many proper nouns, questionable spellings of words, suffixes and very specific scientific words that are generally unknown unless you specialize in that field. The dictionary function has always been a great feature but is not always accurate. Lastly, the speak function in the dictionary seems to be broken.

shulamith eagle

Rating: 3/5

I enjoy this game but it’s quite frustrating because there are a lot of words in it that aren’t English, and quite a few English words are misspelled. For example, a recent game had the word oba (Nigerian), pere (French) and idem (Latin). Other games had dieing instead of dying and sab instead of sob! Almost every game includes the names of foreign money and Latin names of plants. ETA is included as a word when it isn’t—it’s an abbreviation and is not pronounced like a word. There are others like this, too. Also, some words are spelled in dialect, such as “larn,” when that is how “learn” is pronounced in some places. It is only spelled “larn” in novels so a reader knows it was pronounced that way. There are many more words like these. Also, it’s missing some common English words. I still like the game, but am running out of patience with it when it has words like “sab” instead of “sob.”

Ravioverlord

Rating: 5/5

Of all the boggle-ish puzzle games out there, the ones by this team are my favorite. Simple design, awesome interface, and the being able to see what words mean in a easy click has me learning more than I expected to! Fun, Vocabulary expanding, and really great to play before bed. Its enough of a challenge to not bore, but if you play the unlimited time it gets monotonous enough to turn off the brain.