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Very good crossword app
After reading the reviews, I'm guessing a lot of people use this on their phones where an ad banner would be very distracting on the small screen. I use exclusively on an iPad and have found the puzzles fairly challenging and very engaging. I am a decent crossword puzzler so it is nice not to have it be too easy at the same time not being impossible. I have never had a clue/answer not make sense - eventually. The layout and functions are perfect and intuitive and the ad a complete non-issue.
I look forward to getting more puzzles!Show lessIrg88
I use it all the time
I love the app and the puzzle selection. I'd like a better way to organize the puzzles I've played - I can't recall if I've played some sets before. It would be great too to rate each puzzle myself and then have the app choose new ones for me - like Pandora. Lastly, some of the puzzles are British and some American. It would be great to know which is which before buying them.Show lessGavino 8
Sample puzzle download issue is fixed!
Update 12/28 - Sample puzzle download issue is fixed! Tested a few different samples, they downloaded and opened with barely any wait!
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I like the interface alot, easy to use. No Ads! Which is a huge plus. But once you complete all the included puzzles, and want to see which puzzle pack you may want to buy, the Sample Puzzles never download. I have left it working for up to an hour. For what is essentially a text file, its ridiculous. At this point the app is dead. I dont trust that even if I randomly picked a pack to purchase, that they would actually download.Show lessSaharaLashana
Problem after update
I very much like the app and have been using it for years without issues. Almost exclusively now, I use it for the Independent cryptic crosswords. Unfortunately, after the last update, the app now incorrectly shows only the total number of letters in an answer: it no longer shows the number of letters in individual words of a multi-word answer, and it also no longer uses two colors to represent the constituent words. If there is a new setting that turns on this functionality, I haven't yet been able to find it. I hope this gets fixed as it significantly diminishes the appeal of the app.Show lessNPKLG
Bad Clues and Obscure Answers
I enjoy doing these puzzles for a short amount of time. There are clues that are challenging and fun, but there are always several clues in each puzzle that are terrible. Many of the clues are poor. Example: "The ____(3)". Many answers are also annoying. It seems as though the writer completed the puzzle and then Googled answers to see what he could make out of the random words left over. These often end up being last names of irrelevant or super obscure people or words from foreign languages. I've done a lot of puzzles that are a "good" frustrating because they're challenging, but these are frustrating because the clues and answers are dumb.Show lessMHoff1234
Sample puzzles
I've solved all of the puzzles that are available when you first download the app, but when you try to download a sample to decide wether or not you want to buy the whole package, it says "this may take a moment", and it just won't download. At this point the app is useless. You click "download sample" and it immediately wants you to login and purchase it. If you want to try a new puzzle package, don't bother. For the past MONTH and a half the only option it has given me is to purchase or get nothing at all.
UPDATE:
Same problem as a few months ago. Are these developers still active on this app?!??!Show lessPaintgrey
Great but glitchy
Decent number of free puzzles to solve. But there's a technical problem I keep running into. Swapping clues from "across" to "down" is done by double-tapping any of the squares. But every time I play, I run into the issue of the double tap not working and I get stuck in either "down" or "across" orientation until the glitch decides to work. Sometimes it takes several minutes of randomly tapping around the board until it finally starts working again. Very frustrating!!Show lessBecky8503
Buyer beware
I purchased this app for both my iPhone and iPad. I later made an in-app purchase to upgrade them in order for them to sync with each other. It turns out that even though Stand Alone Inc. has no problem with taking your money, the feature is broken. In-app purchases do not work with this product and you’re stuck with having spent your money but getting nothing.
I’ve been emailing the vendor since January, who every month promises to fix the problem but never does. The latest e-mail was yesterday when, once again, they missed the date they stated they would have the new app in the App Store.
My guess is they outsource the programming to another company and Stand Alone is just too cheap to fix the problem. NOTE: they’re not too cheap to take your money for a feature they know they can’t fulfill. And it’s been going on since the release of iOS 7.0.
I like the app and the puzzles are great, but it’s clear that if you want the convenience of syncing this app between your iPhone and iPad, or computer, the company just outright lies in claiming the in-app purchase will upgrade these apps with that capability.Show lessBocaboy
Wonderful, but 1 major glitch and 2 minor
Well designed, with good controls, good layout and lots of puzzles to solve--some quite good, many with obscure pop artists' names. It also does have a flag if wrong setting, turns the letter red, so you'll know right away if you're on track.
The one major glitch? Even if you have "jump over filled squares" turned on, it still overwrites the first letter in a word! Thus, one is forever entering the correct letter, but the app puts it into the wrong square and you end up having to backtrack. What could have been an amazing feature (and usually is for other letters in a word) is simply a repeating nuisance.
Next, it's all too often that you tap on a square on the left edge of the screen and end up back at the list of puzzles--a nuisance.
Finally, when you're done, it covers the screen and asks if you want to solve another--but that happens so quickly, you can no longer see the puzzle you just completed! Much better would be a simple message below the puzzle, so that you could keep on admiring your handiwork! (You can get back to the puzzle, but it requires several steps!)Show lessAstroPaul
Misspelled words as answers
It's a good game for passing time, BUT, some of the answers to the words are misspelled. For example, I have one answer that's "lipsyncing". All the other lines confirm this to being the word, too. Only problem is that in order for it to fit, there needs to be an "h" in the word: "lipsynching", which isn't a word.
Another thing I'm not liking is that some of the answers are phrases, or parts of a sentence. For example, one answer I have is "mayigo" (may I go?). Makes things a little more difficult when you think you're looking for just 1 word.Show lessPastor Andy G.
