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Frustrating
The game itself is as old as the hills and I’ve always loved it but this app is so frustrating! Firstly it’s VERY Americanised, so many answers I’ve used that are legitimate UK answers but it just doesn’t recognise them, similarly a lot of the questions are only geared to a US market I.e. US airline or US game show. Also and this is my biggest problem is that I don’t have Facebook (yes they do exist) so I play a duel with a random person - that’s fine - however to do so costs 30 coins and even if you win you still pay that out so your coins NEVER increase! You end up only being able to play 3 - 4 games per session and that’s it! CrazyShow lesseva70217
I have a love/hate for this app
Favorite game of all time so that's obviously what brings me back, but there are soooo many issues with this app that it ruins it for me....it crashes ALL THE TIME, often in the middle of a game so I lose points; often enough to make it annoying, it accepts BS answers and rejects correct ones; spelling is SUPER sensitive; categories are better but they still have some that are too narrow so there literally isn't a possible answer, and some that are too broad so people just make stuff up; and it gives you an option to dispute your rejected answer but that does absolutely nothing (you still lose your game and they don't give you any points or coins back, so what's the point).Show lessJennsym
Ok but could be better
Categories are repetitive. Some ads don’t have a close button even after watching for 30 seconds.
Game changes my answer during scoring (nothing to do with predictive texting). Sometimes the same answer is recorded three times even if three different answers were submitted. Game would be awesome if those issues were fixed.Show lessNessy249
Almost a perfect game
Scattergories is one of my favorite board games, there is just one difference about the app.
The app gives you ten points for one right, when in the board game, it is one.
Scattergories also has another major thing which is dumb. Whenever you tie in score, it'll say someone won, sometimes even when it is a tiebreaker, they get the points!
The unfair thing about it is that you get only one hint during each level. Especially you can't even pick the letter!
Sometimes there is no answer for the category, but that is unlikely, it would be bodacious if you gave us another hint when we do not know it and there is none.
Another useful existence would be to let us play every time. I hate games when they don't let you play them and you have to wait a few days to wait. Only if the game is addictive.
I hope you read this review, I do love the game in a way including the occurring glitches and mistakes. Four stars for you!Show lessOlympushelix (YT)
Fun but could be better
Fun and addictive to play with friends and even strangers. My biggest issue though is the validation of answers. Sometimes the game awards points for the most absurd answers. Writing this review because someone got points for answering KOALA for “Type of Juice”. INSANELY BROKEN VERIFICATION. You can literally write anything and there’s 90% chance you’ll get the points.Show lessJDogzzzz
Too many issues to enjoy the game
Scattergories is my favorite board game. I was really happy to see the app. But there are so many issues that it just makes it frustrating and not worth it to play.
The keyboard is glitchy and difficult to type on. I spend too much of my game time trying to go back and put in a letter that it didn’t record. Then many times the game ends and it records a different answer than what I typed. Also, I was playing with my sister and I knew she finished the round, as she sent me a text telling me we picked several of the same answers. I kept going back to the game to view results and play the next one and it still said it was her turn. I closed out completely and went back in, still her turn. Finally after 2 hours it alerted me that she had played.
If this app didn’t have so many issues I would definitely pay for the no ad version. You guys are missing out on ad revenue and paid customers because of these same issues that, per the other reviews, have been going on a long time.Show lessJesniffy
I give up
This was fun for awhile, but the app just gets worse and worse. First, lately it hardly even loads. What’s the use of trying to play tournaments when you can only get it to work once a day? Second, after you play for awhile, you end up only being able to play about two games at a time unless you win (to earn more coins) or unless you are willing to pay money to play further. When I first started out, there were more rewards. But as I advanced, there were fewer rewards and fewer coins available to win. Speaking of winning, it’s hard to win when they change your answers or don’t realize what your answer means. I guess sometimes they change it to something that benefits you, but sometimes they change it and then they throw it out. Also they have a super sensitive “offensive word” filter, but then that means if the word you wrote happens to have a PART of a word that MIGHT seem offensive, you can’t use it at all and you don’t get counted for it...even if it’s not even remotely a bad word. So yeah, I love Scattergories, but this one is way too frustrating to mess with.Show lessKitagrl28
Love it, but sometimes it won’t open
The app is great, Scattergories is one of my all time favorite games, leading me to download this. It works pretty great for some of the time, but other times, it just won’t open. It gets stuck on “updating” for anywhere from 2-4 minutes, I click the Scattergories game, then it takes me to a maroon and black gradient colored screen. It will remain like this for a few minutes before saying that the app is having a connection issue. I wouldn’t complain about this if it happened a few times, but this is every day for many hours. It’s frustrating, and I would like this issue fixed. Again, it’s a great game, but this issue is becoming very annoying.Show lessStrawberrygirl77
It *was* pretty good...
Been playing around a year or so. The last couple months I have more problems than not. I keep getting a purple screen of death that says “An error occurred. We are currently experiencing connection issues. Please try again in a few moments.” There’s a Retry button but it doesn’t do anything. I either have to force quit, reboot the phone, wait or worse, uninstall and reinstall. This last reinstall only lasted a few days. My daughter has one generation phone newer than me, both on the latest iOS and she doesn’t have the problem. If I can ever play again, I think you should also save stats so we can see among friends who has how many wins, points, etc.Show lessuwgirl
Needs to be fixed
I do love the game, but the issues that I am having really make me want to give up.
1. As others have stated, having the app change the actual words that you type in is incredibly frustrating. I understand that people make typos or spell incorrectly, but that is their own error. The game shouldn’t change the answers..period.
2. I keep getting “updating” every time I open the app. Sometimes it finally opens, others it just sits there doing nothing.
3. Why can’t we dispute someone else’s answers? I have seen some crazy ones. Oprah Winfrey being accepted as a world leader? Ummm, I missed the memo on that one. I did find a contact form to dispute hidden elsewhere, but it would be easier to do it on the same results screen that you can dispute your own answers.Show lessMom_of_twins_2003
