Still want to give 5 stars, but

Man! I want to love this game & play it every day, but then I run up against an incomplete dictionary! It’s a word game! I gave it 3 stars before, but am rethinking that kindness and giving it 2. It accepts complicated and obscure scientific terms, but not the most basic American English vocabulary! So, here’s an example: pending is accepted, and defined as participle of ‘pend’, but ‘pend’ is NOT accepted as a word. What? How about a common fashion term ‘ruched’? How about the Scottish-Irish beret type cap ‘tam’? Lots of British English words, but very very weak on American English. How difficult is it to link to a good dictionary source?? Really, really want to give 5 stars, but the developers are missing the point of a word game. People that enjoy language find a good word game to be relaxing. It’s anything but when you get denied the existence of a common word! I’m currently just accepting the limitations and using it as an exercise of patience and acceptance. Should that be an issue, though?!

Fair review

I like word games. I especially like word games that I actually get to play with some continuity between ads. While I have absolutely no problem with ads in and of themselves, your advertisement which was what got me to download this game falsely stated that there were NO ads (which by the way is illegal - it’s called deceptive advertising and violates consumer protection laws governed by the federal trade commission (FTC) so you really should change that ASAP before someone reports you, there are free reporting forms for anyone to use on their website so if you leave it as it is, anyone can do it at anytime), the number of ads, the placement of the ads in the game during play, and the ads that were chosen are the problem. I play many games and many have ads. That’s not the point. You can also have ads if you do it tastefully. Currently your ads are soul sucking and crushing because of the frequency and type of ads. I am a woman. I don’t want to watch ads for games where if you “win” the mini game you get to strip the woman in the picture of her clothing. And I get that ad A LOT. It’s disgusting. I also get other similar ads and I have never in my entire life looked at or played any games like that on my phone or even looked at things like that on my phone. I’m giving you a chance here to fix this, however if not I will delete your app and be completely disgusted by your company. I look forward to hearing back from you!

False Advertising

I actually really enjoyed the game itself, but I could not be more disappointed with the misleading tactics (and almost straight up lies) that this game used to lure in consumers. I downloaded this game when it popped up as an ad in a different gaming app that I play. The main reason for downloading was that they claimed to be ad-free. This COULD NOT be further from the truth. The ads in this game are insane. More ads pop up in this game than most of the other games I use. Since I enjoyed playing, I let this go. The next incident was the one that lead me to delete the game entirely. I chose to subscribe to the free trial for the VIP level of the game. This is supposed to remove ads and is meant to give 3 day free trial but as soon as I agreed to the subscription (the app clearly states on multiple screens that there would be no charge until after the free trial unless cancelled) I was immediately charged. When I tried to contact them, they did not respond after more than 24 hours and the response was simply to contact Apple for refund. There was no attempt to remedy on their end. Even just acknowledgment of the false claims and shady charges would have been better than just telling me to contact Apple for help with their unapproved charges. Super disappointed and I wouldn’t recommend this game to anyone. This seems like the type of stuff that companies get into trouble for

Need some sort of category for each puzzle or set of puzzles.

This app is lacking a few things that are keeping me from giving it 5 stars and the most important one is a lack of some sort of category for the words. There are over a million words in the English language and most good dictionaries carry between 50,000 and well over 400,000 words (the OED, of course). Attempting to pick the few words the developers had in mind out of that gargantuan word list is an exercise in frustration, especially when the bloody game keeps giving me points for words they’ve not entered yet, apparently. Seriously, some sort of clue as to a concept or category they have in mind for each puzzle or chapter would be fantastic! Otherwise, a person may as well do a web search for words containing certain letters and having between this and that many letters in them. And what fun is that? And this is edited to add that they really, REALLY need to stop reusing the same blasted words ad nauseum in every other puzzle! Seriously, this is not relaxing, it’s FRUSTRATING AS ALL H311. In fact, I’m pretty much done with this app unless they can stop reusing the. SAME. WORDS. OVER. AND. OVER. AND….. >_< Yeah. And to reiterate from above, we’ve got over a million words in the English language, USE SOME DIFFERENT ONES!

Like the game, but…..

I really love this game, however recently this Zen Temple Quest appeared as I was going to my next level. I’m not interested, but even though there’s a ‘back’ arrow, but it does nothing and won’t let me opt out and continue the standard word game. If this continues to interrupt my play, I will delete the App. Very frustrating! Another problem has arisen for me, although I still love the game. However, I’m unhappy that you’ve made it into a competition by putting me on a leaderboard if I wanted to be or not. I play for my enjoyment and relaxation to see how well I do for myself. I don’t care where I stand with anyone else, and it distracts me. I still may have to quit!! Now you’ve done it! When I started this game it was good for my senior brain and relaxing. Then you added the Leaderboard and it became competitive. Then another addition with some levels timed. Relaxation disappearing. Now you’ve added your banners moving along the screen to let you know how many are faster! Sorry, but I’m done, am deleting the game. It’s lost most of what I liked about it.

False Advertisement

Let me start with, I read the description before downloading and paid close attention to the ad that ultimately prompted me to give this download/game a shot. I’ve played plenty of games like this before over the years. To me, it is esthetically pleasing but I am not one who looks utilizing the audio features and expect the advertisement to live up to what it advertises. There is competition, and you’re constantly urged to join one, daily after so many rounds, and the placement of the join button can cause you to mistakenly tap it when moving to fast after completing a round. The ad I saw said no advertisements, and before writing this I had 3 occurrences of the same add in less than three minutes (because I finished the level quickly). The ads are so annoying because you have to wait before clicking around a few times to try and even get it off your screen- enough to make me close it out or delete it. We are all different people, sure, but I see no value or real sense in paying $4.99 a week for this app.

Repetition and audio

This is a good game, I enjoy playing it when I have a few moments to spare and the challenge levels make me think, which I like. My only issue is that I recently made it to level 177, and the past few levels have been complete repetitions of ones I did recently. I understand the use of the same letters and different answers, but the ones I’ve played have all been the same and it is taking some of the joy out of the game since it turned into ‘try to remember past levels’ instead of the intended gameplay. Another issue I have is the audio, I typically turn off all audio for phone games so I can listen to music while I play, and I tried to do the same with this app, but it’s common for me to be playing and for my music to pause randomly despite there being no audio and it not pausing when I do the same action, and I can barely get through a song. Otherwise I have been thoroughly enjoying the game and broadening my vocabulary, and without these few issues it would be a 5 star.

Too Many Obnoxious Ads for a game advertised as “ad free”

My first issue with this game is the false advertising they put out. I downloaded the game because the ad I saw in another word game said “Free to play, NO ads!” I’d been playing less than 5 minutes when I was interrupted by the first unskippable minute-plus long ad. If I don’t want to see ads, I have to pay a ridiculous $4.99/month. Most other games with an option to pay to get rid of ads charge a single fee of $3-5. Running ads to finance a game is fine, but the ads in this game are ungodly long, intrusive, and completely ruin what is supposedly meant o be a “zen” playing experience. And that’s on top on the ads that are always being run in a bar at the bottom on the screen. Secondly, this game is nearly identical to Wordscapes, which is also free to play, but has a much less obnoxious ad system, where watching the ads actually gives you rewards. I’ll be deleting this one. I don’t mind having similarities to other games (even when those similarities are an obvious direct ripoff), but I absolutely hate the blatantly false advertising and I can’t stand the obnoxious ad experience.

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