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.
Far too American
Words, clues are far too American biased .. if you want other countries to use it stop being so American centric. Otherwise some good puzzles
Fine set of puzzle games
Solid app with a fine set of puzzle games, especially if you like a bit of competition. That said, to get the full suite of games, you gotta be willing to add another subscription service to your monthly bill. The archive interface is also a bit clunky
App not opening
I have been having a REAL hard time opening this app recently. It just doesn’t wanna open anymore, I usually have to wait until I’m home to do the puzzles on my laptop or my PC. Please fix this ASAP, I LOVE your app!
Stunning (if I could use it)
I LOVE Puzzmo, as a disclaimer, but since a few days ago all I get is the yellow screen before the app closes itself… I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling too, and apparently it’s not just me with this issue. Pls look into fixing it!!
App issues aside, the free puzzles are great, if not very Americanised, but most crossword clues can be solved once you get the other connecting answers (plus some brute forcing doesn’t hurt anyone). The circuits are much harder with the Americanisms, but still not impossible with the bolt system, which I love. Very very worth it to kill a few minutes during the day… when it opens.
App issues aside, the free puzzles are great, if not very Americanised, but most crossword clues can be solved once you get the other connecting answers (plus some brute forcing doesn’t hurt anyone). The circuits are much harder with the Americanisms, but still not impossible with the bolt system, which I love. Very very worth it to kill a few minutes during the day… when it opens.
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Great app until it broke
I can no longer get Puzzmo to open. I get the yellow screen and nothing else. It can’t just be me? I’m on an iPhone 12.
Ads block the game
I really love this app. I decided that I just can’t handle the NYT games, even, with how trashy the journalism has become, so I found a new app. It has great games and I don’t mind the ads in general, but there is one type that hides the lower portion of the screen and you can’t play. Closing the app doesn’t help; it’s still there. So, if it were playable, would give it 5 stars. As it is…I don’t think I’ll continue playing.
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Great if you speak American
Loads of excellent puzzles here which bring me back every morning. However the word puzzles in particular would be greatly improved if the devs brought in a non-US English speaker as a checker. Circuits in particular uses Americanisms and on some days is inaccessible to international audiences including the world’s native English speakers.
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Now Pay to play
This game was good for a few months, but now rather than being able to play 5-6 puzzles/games for free or as a subscriber, they suddenly changed to one puzzle a day unless you pay for membership. Not sure why they had to ruin the experience that way. Sad to delete.
Great app but broken Pepsi ads make games unplayable
Please ban those stupid Pepsi adds that cover over your entire UI. I can’t play circuits without a non X-able cherry Pepsi ad blocks the entire keyboard. Great app but do better.
🐠🫧✨absolutely obsessed! the subscription IS worth it :D
ik a lot of people are rating the app poorly due to the paywall/daily game cap. one of the developers explained the reasoning in their discord server, which was that, (from what i remember) in order to continue to support the app, they could either add video ads or change how the daily games are limited in the free version of the app. i believe the community and/or developers decided it would be better to limit the game cap than to have to have ads popping up/displaying.
now onto my actual review: i LOVE puzzmo! i go totally obsessed w pile up poker over the summer, and i absolutely chewed through the daily games. i managed to get one of my roommates to start playing with me, which led to my interest in the other games. i was definitely hesitant to spend the money to get a yearly subscription, but i absolutely do not regret it. i literally cannot imagine not playing 90% of the games every single day with my roommates now. i think ive gotten five or six people to download it at this point, lol.
overall, the games are insanely fun to play, whether it be by yourself or competing against/playing with friends (depending on how competitive you are lol). the ui is also insanely cute, and i really appreciate how dedicated the team behind it is to listening to community feedback and constantly improving the experience.
overall, highly highly recommend it, especially the premium version. if you decide to download it, see if you can spot me sometime @spock#:3 !
now onto my actual review: i LOVE puzzmo! i go totally obsessed w pile up poker over the summer, and i absolutely chewed through the daily games. i managed to get one of my roommates to start playing with me, which led to my interest in the other games. i was definitely hesitant to spend the money to get a yearly subscription, but i absolutely do not regret it. i literally cannot imagine not playing 90% of the games every single day with my roommates now. i think ive gotten five or six people to download it at this point, lol.
overall, the games are insanely fun to play, whether it be by yourself or competing against/playing with friends (depending on how competitive you are lol). the ui is also insanely cute, and i really appreciate how dedicated the team behind it is to listening to community feedback and constantly improving the experience.
overall, highly highly recommend it, especially the premium version. if you decide to download it, see if you can spot me sometime @spock#:3 !
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Love the app / interface special request
This app is my favorite - especially the crossword. When I found myself doom scrolling, I’d exit social media and do a few crossword puzzles from the vault instead. Now my mental health is soaring.
The app is perfect on a phone but it’s a bit difficult to play on a tablet. The puzzle is tiny and you can’t zoom in. IIIIIIIf you’re taking requests, any chance we could get an update that allows the crossword to take up most of the screen?
I’d also love an option where you only get one clue at a time- having all the clues take up the whole screen can be a bit distracting.
Love yall. Love your puzzles. Thanks so much for creating this app!
The app is perfect on a phone but it’s a bit difficult to play on a tablet. The puzzle is tiny and you can’t zoom in. IIIIIIIf you’re taking requests, any chance we could get an update that allows the crossword to take up most of the screen?
I’d also love an option where you only get one clue at a time- having all the clues take up the whole screen can be a bit distracting.
Love yall. Love your puzzles. Thanks so much for creating this app!
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Greedy
All of these app developers are getting more and more out of touch, putting everything behind a paywall. Was nice to play while it was free but no daily puzzling app is worth a subscription (MAYBE a one time purchase if it’s good) Capitalism kills innovation.
Hard on Senior Eyes
I enjoy the games but sometimes it’s hard to play the games because you can’t zoom in to see, especially on an iPhone. I have an annual subscription but this is causing me to wonder about renewing.
The changes aren’t worth it
I used to routinely use this app along with NYT, and actually preferred it over NYT most days. Over the past month, they have restricted most of the games to subscription only. I have paid the subscription when I could afford it, I loved the extra three game categories and bonus incentives from the sub. Now, you can’t even play Typeshift or sudoku without paying for a monthly subscription. It is disappointing to have to delete the app, but it is even more disappointing to open it. I’ve downloaded each feature game as the original solo app (by the same company), and made a folder for them. I’d much rather switch between the company’s other apps and daily puzzles than pay or restricted just because they’ve consolidated for you.
Very disappointing when it’s clear that contributors and devs put so much time into it. I’m sure I’m not the only one deleting this app data this month. Can’t say I’ll miss it enough to ever come back, but it was good while it lasted.
Very disappointing when it’s clear that contributors and devs put so much time into it. I’m sure I’m not the only one deleting this app data this month. Can’t say I’ll miss it enough to ever come back, but it was good while it lasted.
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Cute UX and Fun Puzzles
I never write app reviews but had to come on to share my love of this app! I love the mix of unique and classic puzzles to play and look forward to doing them each day. Would highly recommend!
