Best of the Best
I have played these Acrostic games by Egghead for years and absolutely love them. The format of the puzzles runs smoothly and I like the fact you can have a little help if you want it. The content of each puzzle is interesting and often amusing. A good form of entertainment that keeps me on my toes mentally. I had a problem with my iPad and lost all of my purchases. Egghead responded immediately and restored everything right away. Good people to work with.
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Love This App
This is one of my favorite apps. Really like the different challenge levels. My favorite game is Acrostics by Cyn. Would like to see more of those. If you like word games and haven’t yet tried an acrostic, you should give this one a try. When I recently had a problem with the game not opening, I couldn’t believe how responsive Michael was. He had the problem fixed in no time. Really appreciate it!
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Great game
This is a great acrostic app.
I’ve bought dozens of puzzle packs. Tech support is very good too. They went to great lengths to help me with a problem.
I’ve bought dozens of puzzle packs. Tech support is very good too. They went to great lengths to help me with a problem.
Great game but recent store reorganization broke it
This is a great acrostic app, but the rewrite of its Store page prevents me from buying any puzzle packs, rendering the app useless. Most of the multi-pack sources have reset at volume 1. I can’t see which volumes I’ve purchased, or find unpurchased packs to buy them. It’s a shame because I really enjoyed the app and bought dozens of puzzle packs.
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Response from developer
Oh no! This wasn't our intent. Please email us at support@eggheadgames.com and we'll give you coupons to get past this problem. We upgraded to Apple's latest purchasing code and somehow in some weird corner case, it seems some volume 1 purchases were lost which seems to be causing this. We can usually fix it with a coupon or few. Again, apologies for this!
Love these puzzles
Over 40 yrs ago, my mother, sister & I would sit around and solve these puzzles only using printed puzzle books. Later when both mom and sis passed away, I didn’t bother. Now that I am retired and need exercise my little brain cells and to conserve our trees, I found this app. Boy, so easy and thoroughly enjoyable. Keep them coming…..
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Great app but I’ve run out of games
I been happily using this app for several years and played each puzzle at least twice. But they don’t seem to be adding anymore puzzles. When I attempted to email them from their service page, after I’d filled out the email form it told me that using that form was forbidden (say what?). Anyway, I’d love it if they’d add some more acrostic collections but I guess I’ll have to find another app. Ce la vie!
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Response from developer
Edit: we've found and fixed the problem with the form. Apologies for that! Original: Hi there! We’re here! You can email support@eggheadgames.com directly anytime. Sorry our form was not working. We will look at that asap! We are constantly adding new volumes but the rate varies by publisher. Please contact us and let us know which ones you’re looking for. Thanks, Michael
This is the only game I play on my phone
It’s how I get to sleep at night, the only thing that helps my insomnia. I play it for 30-45 minutes and it wears my brain out enough to finally sleep. Works better than melatonin.
Wish they had anagram magic squares as a game app though. That on is my favorite Penny Press game.
Wish they had anagram magic squares as a game app though. That on is my favorite Penny Press game.
Acrostic Puzzles
The PennyPress acrostics are not as satisfying as the other brand.
Great variety of difficulty
Really enjoyed these puzzles
Buggy
There are some issues here. Sometimes the clue states that the answer is two words, but it’s only one. Choosing to erase mistakes will sometimes erase correct letters. I’ll immediately put the correct answer back in and retry to erase mistakes for the correct answer to now remain. There’s a bunch of little things like this that make this app not worth investing my time or money in.
Update: to the developer, the puzzle where I experienced the most issues, and the one that caused me to stop, but not the only puzzle where I experienced these issues, is the one that uses a quote from Simon Singh’s “The Code Book.”
I was on the newest app update, iPhone 14 Pro Max w/ most recent version of iOS.
I don’t recall any specifics about which individual puzzles than what I listed above. I played around 40 puzzles and was working my way through the expert puzzles. I hope that helps.
I can add some specifics about the puzzle I listed. I had all answers correct and the puzzle wouldnt finish. It stated that I had an incorrect answer. Checking for mistakes erased correct letters and I put those back in and finally got it to accept that the puzzle was finished. I recall one answer being “selectw”. It would erase the first e and t and did so multiple times. Then it was just the t that was erased and then it stopped marking it as incorrect.
Update: to the developer, the puzzle where I experienced the most issues, and the one that caused me to stop, but not the only puzzle where I experienced these issues, is the one that uses a quote from Simon Singh’s “The Code Book.”
I was on the newest app update, iPhone 14 Pro Max w/ most recent version of iOS.
I don’t recall any specifics about which individual puzzles than what I listed above. I played around 40 puzzles and was working my way through the expert puzzles. I hope that helps.
I can add some specifics about the puzzle I listed. I had all answers correct and the puzzle wouldnt finish. It stated that I had an incorrect answer. Checking for mistakes erased correct letters and I put those back in and finally got it to accept that the puzzle was finished. I recall one answer being “selectw”. It would erase the first e and t and did so multiple times. Then it was just the t that was erased and then it stopped marking it as incorrect.
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Works great on iPad. Not so great on MacBook
The app plays well on the IPad but on the M1 MacBook, despite the store saying it will work on Macs, you can't enter letters into the grid. Instead you hear a beeping noise every time you try. So, a very mixed review.
Acrostics
I do these daily, why did you take away my volumes? If this is a new system it stinks. I would like my volumes back Linda Hoffman
Cool beans
Nice stuff
Great App!
I really like this game and it’s interface. Puzzles are challenging and fun. Please add a daily challenge and you would earn five stars!
Best game ever!!
Such a great challenging puzzle!! Puzzle Baron is the best one, due to size of puzzles and fitting on cell phone!
excellent!
It's a good interface, with just enough hint-offering to bail me out from time to time. I wish I could make the font bigger, but that's why they well cheap reading glasses. I do wonder if there will be more and harder ones on offer once I've worked through these... Oh, and thanks for the kids-level puzzle - time to get the grandkids to try this out!
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Loved as a kid
These are some excellent puzzles. My mother used to buy these magazines and I’d spend hours trying to figure them out. Fun to see them in an app. However some of the puzzles are very dated.
Great Puzzle App
This is one of my favorite apps. I’ve enjoyed acrostics since I was a kid, but doing them on paper required lots of transferring letters from one part of the puzzle to another (it reminded me of double-entry bookkeeping). With this app, both halves of the puzzle are kept in synch, so it’s easier to guess words and see if they fit. The puzzles themselves are well-constructed, with a mix of tricky and easy clues. And the add-on packs let you keep refreshing new puzzles at a reasonable cost. Many thanks to the developers!
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I don’t like apps, that interrupt you in the middle to ask you to write a review.
I don’t like apps that interrupt you in the middle to ask you to write a review, so I rape them harshly.
Best Acrostic Puzzle App Ever
I love acrostic puzzles because the best of them set my brain on fire. This app, especially with v 4.8.9, lets me be fully immersed as I bounce seamlessly from clues to grid and back. I can see what’s important at each stage and enter or erase flawlessly. Egghead Games’ Acrostics is the best acrostic app I’ve ever used, and the range of puzzles goes from easy right up to the acrostaholic pinnacle. My favorite puzzles usually are the themed CynAcrostics, which I find comparable to the New York Times’ acrostics. (Later.) But right now I’m having a wonderful time on her American Acrostic Volume 10, “Puzzling American Music”. I literally can’t put it down as one puzzle feeds into the next!
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