# Bonza Word Puzzle — user reviews > 531 indexed App Store user reviews of Bonza Word Puzzle by Minimega, rated 4.70/5 from 9,612 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bonza-word-puzzle/id662053009/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bonza-word-puzzle/id662053009.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 7,580 · 4★ 1,466 · 3★ 290 · 2★ 111 · 1★ 165 ## What do users think of Bonza Word Puzzle? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🤩 Addictive and challenging - 🧠 Excellent brain exercise - 👍 Fun and entertaining - 🎨 Unique and creative puzzle design - 📚 Educational and informative **Cons** - 💰 Expensive in-app purchases - 🤖 Repetitive user-generated puzzles - 🙄 Excessive ads and monetization - 🐛 Bugs, crashes, and performance issues - 🌐 Too American-centric **Commonly reported bugs** - Ads freezing the app - Disappearing coins and progress - Landscape mode issues - Inability to turn off background music **Most requested features** - Ability to rate user-generated puzzles - More free daily puzzles - Difficulty levels for puzzles - Offline mode or ability to save progress - Improved hint system ## Newest reviews (17 of 531) ### 4/5 — Good *2026-08-30, version 5.0.5* Cool game but too many ads ### 4/5 — Love, but one request *2026-08-22, version 5.0.5* I’ve been playing for a while and really like the challenges. But would you please add an off button for the music? It can get quite annoying, but I have to turn the sound off on my iPad and hence can’t receive any alerts while playing. Thanks! ### 4/5 — Classic pack 17?? *2026-07-16, version 5.0.5* This was fun! ### 4/5 — Very good *2026-07-14, version 5.0.5* Good distraction, too American focused though Thanks ### 2/5 — Used to be Great ….. *2026-07-01* Absolutely hate that when you don’t guess the right puzzle piece it now shows you which one it is!! Why even bother playing if it shows you the answers! ### 5/5 — Excellent crossword type game *2026-06-23, version 5.0.5* I enjoy this game enormously. If you love word games, this one’s terrific! ### 3/5 — Ad overload *2026-06-03, version 5.0.5* Great game destroyed by excessive ads ### 5/5 — Fun. *2026-05-25, version 5.0.5* Need to pause and think at times. ### 5/5 — Great game! *2026-05-24, version 5.0.5* Best word game! ### 5/5 — Just to add a note *2026-05-12, version 5.0.5* One of today’s(4/12/26) daily puzzles is titled SYNONYMS. THEY AREN’T! They are homophones. Totally changes the solutions the player is looking for! Up until yesterday I was really enjoying this game. If I got stumped I could watch an add to get a hint. One was usually enough for me to get an answer. Suddenly that option is gone. If I have to use points to purchase a hint I will no longer play. Very poor strategy to remove a feature like that from long time players. I hope it’s just a temporary glitch. I’ll revise my review if it’s corrected. This is an update to my original review. Problem seems to be corrected. Thank you! ### 5/5 — Challenging in the best way! *2026-05-11, version 5.0.5* I play every single day! ### 3/5 — Useless bonus coins *2026-05-03, version 5.0.5* Game offers bonus coins but other than getting a discounted price, they are useless. Can not be used to eliminate ads for hints. ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-03-27, version 5.0.5* Love the challenge and ease of this game ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2026-03-21, version 5.0.5* Used to be a great game but greed has put too many ads in the game in an attempt to annoy us into spending money to remove them. Sadly, will delete yet another good game that ruined itself with a money grab. ### 5/5 — N I CE *2026-03-18, version 5.0.5* VERY Challenging ### 5/5 — Brain Exercise *2026-03-18, version 5.0.5* Challenging & Fun ### 5/5 — Enjoyable *2026-03-07, version 5.0.5* Only done the starter pack but enjoying it so far. Not had any adds yet but that might change ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Used to be Great …..now it sucks! *2026-08-26, version 5.0.5* Absolutely hate that when you don’t guess the right puzzle piece it now shows you which one it is!! Why even bother playing if it shows you the answers! ### 1/5 — Total waste of time *2026-08-22, version 5.0.5* Total waste of time ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work anymore *2026-06-13, version 5.0.5* New loading screen, gets stuck on that and never loads. What’s happened? ### 1/5 — Political BS *2026-02-08, version 5.0.5* What a shame. You guys should never have gotten political. I’ve enjoyed this game for 2 years until today. Trump is corrupt was one of the answers. Forget it. You guys suck. ### 1/5 — I used to play it a lot, now I barely open it because of the constant ads *2026-01-06, version 5.0.5* I've had this game for many years and used to always play it every day at a minimum, but the puzzles are now only provided by other uncompensated users for many years now, and now it's constant ads as well. I maybe open it once every few weeks or months and then play the one daily game (again provided by users, not the developers) and exit before the ad starts. If developers wanted money, this is the absolute wrong way to go for it. Everyone I knew who played the game on the regular now avoids it and most have deleted it. ### 1/5 — Ads…lots of ads *2025-11-29, version 5.0.5* Yeah, you get through 1 puzzle and then an ad that tanked twice as long as the puzzle. ### 1/5 — Disgusted *2025-08-20, version 5.0.5* What happened to the weekly puzzles, wasn’t finished now no more! ### 1/5 — Scam Advert Alert *2025-07-28, version 5.0.5* This is a great game but there appear to be adverts popping up for scam investments lately, featuring famous people. Latest one is purporting to come from Martin Lewis. ### 1/5 — Needlessly gendered language *2025-07-25, version 5.0.5* The clue is People in Uniform. Answer? Fireman. The clue is Pole. Answer? Fireman again. The clue is People Who Deliver. Answer? Pizza Guy. Come on! I’ll play a game that has smarter writers, thanks. ### 1/5 — Update *2025-06-22, version 5.0.5* Have played this for years, but latest update wants payment or ad for first hint, which I use a lot to help on my way. Have deleted app. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun & addicting *2026-08-29, version 5.0.5* I have played this game everyday for 8 years. I have mastered all of the achievements and played every single puzzle. I'm sad that there are no more puzzles to be had. ### 5/5 — Love *2026-08-28, version 5.0.5* I love this game! I’m addicted. ### 5/5 — A Favorite Daily *2026-08-26, version 5.0.5* This game has been a favorite for me since recommended by a young friend years ago. I was pleased when they changed the daily to offer choices on the puzzles as I am pretty much pop culture illiterate. This meant frustration in trying to connect the words for song titles or other words tied to a celebrity. Each day, I scroll through looking for the ones created by ‘Bill from Baltimore’, and I confess to being enough of a word nerd to let out a small cheer (of sorts) when one of his is an option for the day. I know it’s going to be a great one that keeps me engaged for a few. Stellar work, Bill! I do rather miss the excitement when a new ‘Jumbo’ package appeared - which almost made me rate as a 4. But, I love this game enough to offer a rousing endorsement and one day may create one of my own for consideration. ### 5/5 — Great! *2026-08-18* Enjoyed playing it ### 5/5 — Great game! *2026-08-18, version 5.0.5* Very relaxing to play ### 5/5 — Addictive! *2026-08-13, version 5.0.5* Need more basic puzzles ### 5/5 — Excellent game *2026-08-03, version 5.0.5* Like a jigsaw puzzle, each successful additional word means that there are fewer remaining pieces. There are many “aha” moments. ### 5/5 — GREAT game to kill time! *2026-07-10, version 5.0.5* This is an incredible way to kill time. You’re testing trivia knowledge, pop culture (past and present), almanac-type knowledge, all that. ### 5/5 — Still love it *2026-07-03, version 5.0.5* Great relaxing game I’ve enjoyed for years. When my phone was erased I had to start over and it still remains fun and interesting. ### 5/5 — Peaceful *2026-06-29, version 5.0.5* Nice way to wind down. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-03.*