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Good basic game
This game is simple, easy to learn and overall checks all of the boxes. The reason that I deducted one star is because I think they use the breadth of the dictionary for possible words, so some of the selected words are very difficult to figure out. For instance, I got the word “KIBES”. After figuring out after three turns that it ended in “-IBES” I tried “VIBES”, ”JIBES”, and ”GIBES” in the losing effort. I would suggest there should be version that only uses less difficult words for people who want to casually play games like this.
EDIT: shortly after this review, a feature was added that restricted the words to more common ones. Great job! Not to be a narc, but if you spam the enter button when entering the correct word, it will count each hit of the bottom towards your win streak. Calls into question the validity of some streaks. Exacerbated by the victory screen taking a long time to show up sometimes.Show lesspuzzwordreview2022
Wish they have a different color to show when there are two letters in the same word
Overall a good game, but like other reviewers mentioned it’s hard to tell what’s supposed to show two letters in the same word since the use the same color as a letter in the wrong spot. For example I played the word HILLY and it had my first L as green and my second L as blue. In the instructions it was a blue letter means it’s in the wrong spot, but it can also mean there’s two of the letter if that letter is played twice in a word. So the second blue made me think L was in it again, but turns out it was just staying that it was in the wrong spot and the correct spot was the first L. Hope they can update the app to address this because a few others have mentioned a similar issue.Show lessDancerluvsu
One issue
Game is great but if I understand correctly if a letter has already been guessed (right letter and place), and the player in the following attempt repeats the same letter also in another position, the system makes it blue to indicate that it is present but in the wrong position ALSO IF IT REFERS TO THE ONE ALREADY FOUND, and no other such letter is included in the word. This makes things harder (good), but is slightly confusing and unfair. I would find preferable that in this case the letter would be black, indicating that - with the exclusion of the one already found - that letter is no more present among the ones still to guess. Thanks!Show lessmvento73
“Scoring” Bug
In my programming job we actually use this type of puzzle as a test for developer candidates. The candidate must take a guess plus the solution as input and emit a correct score. This game apparently makes a common scoring error that many candidates do.
For example, the answer is “SKULK” and the player guesses “LULLS”. The correct score would be “1 S in the wrong spot, 1 U in the wrong spot, 1 L in the correct spot.” However, this game scored that as “1 S in the wrong spot, 2 Ls in the wrong spot, 1 U in the wrong spot, 1 L in the right spot.” In other words, the L is scored three times because it was in the guess three times even though it’s only in the solution once.
This bug (plus the strange dictionary) make this a challenge to solve indeed!Show lessJbayly
Weird dictionary
Not all of the words are real words. For example, in two of the last three games I got, the words were “yocks” (the definition they gave was “another term for yuck2”) and “teloi”, which is apparently the plural of telos. Yeah. Anyway, the game isn’t fun if the words aren’t ones I’d ever think of.
It also doesn’t let you gauge if there are multiples of the same letter. So if I guess “seems,” and the word has only one e and one s, BOTH s’s and e’s will be blue, even though there’s only one of each in the final word. Not sure if this is a bug, or intended, but it makes it harder to guess the word.Show lessMC5784
Is this English?
The game is almost everything you’d hope it would be… your favorite Word game without waiting 24 hours for a new game. However, my gripe is that the word list digs too far into the crannies of the English language, using words only a Jeopardy champion could possibly know. In that way, you find yourself t guessing random letter to solve a puzzle rather than trying to unscramble words you probably know. When the answers are revealed, you may often curse at the app rather than at yourself because there was no way you were ever going to thoughtfully solve the puzzle. This doesn’t happen with the online, daily puzzle.Show lessSmojitos
Love it aside from word choices
I played a game like this when I was younger, so when I came across it I was super happy. Unfortunately some of the words are so far-fetched I can’t even enjoy the puzzle when it seems made up. One example was TOFFY. When the puzzle was over it showed the definition and an example. But the example spelled it “toffee” which is how I know it as. Others I remember: GOWKS, ERNES. Sometimes I get them right but because I’m circling through the alphabet with the missing letter to find a valid word.
I’ll be looking for other games similar in hopes for more universal words. There are millions of words to choose from, no need to pull obscure words from the dictionary nobody knows.Show lessekbkc
Developer Response
Thank you for your review. We just added a Common Words option. This will only have words that are commonly used. We hope that enjoy.Not a Great Experience
Looking for a Wordle knock-off that would let me play more than one word per day. This game is okay, but no stats and so many words I’ve never heard of before, even though I am pretty well-read and have played Scrabble and other word games for years… even several that are not in the dictionary. The way the game handles attempts at double letters is misleading and can easily send you down the wrong path. Also very annoying that the ENTER key is on the left (I know, it is also on the left in Wordle… also annoying to my right-handed self).Show lessDeb_MI
Only for Scrabble Pros
This feels like the kind of word game that is specifically meant for professional scrabble players that have thousands of incredibly obscure words memorized, words that basically only ever get used in *incredibly* specialized contexts.
I am fairly well educated. I am also a huge consumer of genre fiction and am even myself an author. I hardly have a limited vocabulary, and am typically quite good at games like scrabble and boggle and what have you, despite *not* being the kind of person who bothers to memorize obscure two letter words that never get used in actual conversation.
So I find it more than a little annoying that the vast majority of words that come up seem to be obscure species of fish and cacti, or odd regional slang verbs that I’ve even never heard in my life.Show lessChandrak
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback. We just added a Common Words option. This will only have words that are commonly used. We hope that you will give PuzzWord another try.Meh Wordle imitation
Meh Wordle imitation, no stats options, and a bug will tell you that a word has a double letter when it doesn’t. For example, if the correct word is “STARE” and you enter “STEER” the program will tell you that you have two green letters and three blue letters instead of two and two. The developer response doesn’t address this. After you win a game, a pop-up blocks the middle of the board, so you can’t do a screenshot. One solution is AUXIN. Another BISPS, which I got only because “WISPS” was wrong, and I had to try every letter for the missing first letter combination before the game told me I won because I had finally guess a nonexistent word not in the dictionary. I lost a long streak to “BAMPS,” which isn’t in the dictionary. (Plurals are definitely over represented.) I’m about to lose another game to a word that isn’t in the dictionary: I have *I**I but there is no ACDEJLNORSTVY, and even if I cheat with a crossword puzzle solver, it can’t identify any possible words. Clearly no one tested this, but the price is right. Better than the other Wordle knockoff, but I’m guessing someone will do something even better within the next couple of weeks.Show lessthf2
Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback. We are actually in the process of adding stats to the game and you should see it in the next update. We have heard confusion about double letters and have elaborated on how they work on our "How To Play" page.
