Non-existent words
I like that there are different types of puzzles available every day, but one thing that irks me most s that there are a lot of word games, where you have to find words or make words and I’ve found that while I’m trying to figure out answers, the game will accept a word that does not exist. At the end of those games, the words appear as links to a dictionary website where you can see the meaning and there are no results for some of these words (like “Lirks”, “lites”). When I emailed them they basically said I just didn’t know what the words meant but the words don’t exist 😂
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App won’t let me play anymore
EDIT: I don’t know if this is a common bug or a random glitch or what but this makes two separate days where I don’t have access to the app I PAID FOR. Not a single game loads when I try to play it and I can’t even access the settings or try to send feedback a different way. If this was free to play it would be annoying but bearable I guess, but I’m paying for access to these puzzles and I’ve been locked out of doing so for multiple days which is just wasting money. Get your app together, this is unacceptable!
The puzzles are good fun and most of them are challenging enough to get you to actually THINK, though after playing a bunch of the crosswords I’ve noticed the same few words tossed in literally dozens of times. Doesn’t ruin the whole crossword but it is a bit annoying.
The price for full access is cheap enough I find it worth it, but man is this app buggy. The UI is already awkward to use and at times straight up just unreliable, and then seemingly at random the app just decides to stop working for me or glitches out and I have to close it and relaunch. If this happened once in a while it wouldn’t be so bad but it’s like every other day for me and as a paid app that’s really disappointing.
The puzzles are good fun and most of them are challenging enough to get you to actually THINK, though after playing a bunch of the crosswords I’ve noticed the same few words tossed in literally dozens of times. Doesn’t ruin the whole crossword but it is a bit annoying.
The price for full access is cheap enough I find it worth it, but man is this app buggy. The UI is already awkward to use and at times straight up just unreliable, and then seemingly at random the app just decides to stop working for me or glitches out and I have to close it and relaunch. If this happened once in a while it wouldn’t be so bad but it’s like every other day for me and as a paid app that’s really disappointing.
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Heavily Monetized
You can't even play the calendar dailies without subscribing to their service. Booo👎🏻👎🏻 Most if not all puzzle apps let you go back through the calendar to play old dailies. Bummer because I like the layout and style of the crosswords. I'm so tired of these puzzle apps that seem fun but basically the entire app requires you to sign up for ANOTHER subscription. As if we aren't being asked to subscribe to the ability to exist at this point. End the subscription model already. I'm tired of this and y'all are just perpetuating it.
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Greedy
Originally, I got this because I thought it was a free version of most of the NYT games. I even enjoyed it more than the NYT games at one point because I thought that the games would be consistently free (especially because there are quite a few ads). Recently I hit my “game cap” which means all games are restricted besides the crosswords. If I wanted to just play crosswords I’d get an app just for crosswords… that are free.. and honestly have better clues. I understand we’re in an economic downturn and all but it’s wild to me the greed of some companies. Why would I pay every single month for a game I could play for free somewhere else? Or why wouldn’t I just pay a one time fee for an all access puzzle game? That this app advertises itself as a free version of the NYT games is crazy to me because in actuality they just want to hook you so you end up paying the subscription fee anyway. While they reuse and likely use ai to generate puzzles. Save your money, honestly maybe just subscribe to your local newspaper for daily crosswords. Fun game but ultimately not worth the subscription fee.
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Fun games
Some of these games are really good - but they lock it down eventually if you don’t subscribe. But then oddly I can’t subscribe to the IOS app through IOS, they want you to create an account and subscribe directly through them which honestly is the only reason I haven’t subscribed.
