# Variety Puzzles — user reviews > 37 indexed App Store user reviews of Variety Puzzles by Norman Basham, rated 4.70/5 from 90 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/variety-puzzles/id596543924/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/variety-puzzles/id596543924.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 73 · 4★ 12 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (13 of 37) ### 5/5 — Great Game... Um Games *2015-11-06, version 1.0* Fun, guilt-free time sink ### 5/5 — Very entertaining *2015-05-12, version 1.0* Fun to play every day. ### 5/5 — Great app *2014-09-19, version 1.0* So many games! ### 5/5 — puzzles *2014-09-03* great games. ### 5/5 — Hours of fun!!! *2014-08-17* I love this app...especially the cryptograms. It's one of the best electronic versions I've seen. It brings back the memories of playing these from the morning paper as a kid and competing with my dad for who could solve it fastest! ### 5/5 — Boredom Buster *2014-07-08, version 1.0* Great game for puzzle lovers. Great variety of choices. I love them all. ### 5/5 — Loving it. *2014-06-04, version 1.0* Awesome app. Never bored. ### 5/5 — Variety puzzles *2014-05-14* Love it. Before computers I always had a puzzle book in my bag. Great app! ### 5/5 — Great Entertainment! *2014-02-08, version 1.0* Love being able to play my favorite games! ### 5/5 — I'm in Puzzle Heaven!! *2014-02-01, version 1.0* Best game ever for folks with ADD or just plain puzzle enthusiasts! ### 5/5 — Love it! *2014-01-02, version 1.0* I love the variety of puzzles! ### 5/5 — Great collection *2013-12-15, version 1.0* Best selection of games. Clean design. Probably the best sudoku around. ### 5/5 — AWESOME APP!!!!!! *2013-10-24, version 1.0* This app is fantastic, it's hard to put it down. All five sections are great!!! Highly recommend!! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — App frozen on first opening *2019-02-16* Paid for this and The app froze on first opening. I tossed it and tried to reload it several times but it just gives me the opening page and won’t go further. Please help! Total waste of 5 dollars! ### 2/5 — Memory *2018-04-16* This has been a fun collection of daily puzzles I have enjoyed for years. I do not do every puzzle every day, but I do enjoy being able to pull up something quick to pass the time. Just lately on the picture memory game, there have been “blanks”. No picture, as if the creators neglected to finish the daily puzzle. It may have been intentional to leave blanks , but it sure takes the enjoyment out of that particular game. ### 2/5 — Mediocre and buggy *2015-03-04* Bugs ruin this otherwise mediocre app. No bells, 0 whistles design-wise, which is fine. If you have to force close the app which I've already had to do a couple times, it restores the settings to default. Then there's no menu button to change the settings after you first install the app, unless you want to do it game by game, and even then you don't have the same options you originally had. This is fine if you don't mind the default settings but I hate playing with a timer, and I don't want it to show me incorrect letters (kind of defeats the purpose). The only way around this was to delete and reinstall the app, but then you have to start over and do all the same puzzles again. So just never mind, I'll find another app. ### 2/5 — Crypto families *2014-07-13, version 1.0* Sometimes words are misspelled. Example barbecue is not spelled BBQ. ### 4/5 — Enjoying all but one game *2018-07-06* This is a fun app, but I can’t get Quotefalls to play. It displays a msg to put your phone in landscape mode, but that’s it. No game ever starts. I’m apparently missing something. Emailed the makers but got no response. ☹️ I like the other games tho. ### 4/5 — Puzzle Nut *2015-10-25, version 1.0* Fun app but there are occasional misspellings which can throw you off. I wish there was a way to report them. ### 4/5 — Different than daily puzzles *2015-09-01* I love Daily Puzzles but you can only play once a day so I bought this thinking it's done by black labs as well & would be the same but the layout on sodoku is different & much harder to use. I really wish sodoku as well as the other puzzles in this app were the same as in daily puzzles. It's also incredibly annoying that if you leave the game to do something else even briefly you loose the puzzle you were working on. ### 4/5 — Great, but... *2013-10-16* I really like this app and the variety of puzzles. I love word games. But I'm finding a lot of spelling errors. However this won't stop me from using this app a lot. ### 5/5 — Thank you *2023-01-28* I finally found a game I really enjoy without ads. Thank you ### 5/5 — I’m Hooked *2023-01-25* I love variety puzzles and I think I hit the digital jackpot with these. Reasonably priced, truly no adds or in-app purchases, just simple variety puzzle fun in different levels of difficulty. I hope there’s more to buy because I’m about halfway through all of the puzzles. ## Most praised reviews (8 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Awesome Developer! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🎯🎯🎯🎯🏅🏅🏅 *2022-02-05* Hello John! As usual all of your programs are outstanding and well thought out. This makes my 38th year on cryptograms! This Developer is a trusted, and outstanding creator of cryptograms. I have been playing his programs for years and cannot find a single competitor that out-ranks his programs. They are well thought out and offer so many available options. I prefer my cryptograms…..for the keyboard not to remove used letters. I like the challenge in finding them on my own. My biggest blunders are going to fast and missing that simple helpful answer. But, I still like to challenge myself and have been playing this as you see a very very long time. My only wish is more and more quotes, as I see others wish too. Again BlackLabs has the best ever! If Norman is retired then I hope you can provide them, additional quotes. Lost his e-mail so I can’t send him a message hope you are all well. Glenda ### 5/5 — Great Puzzle App! *2022-01-04* I love the game-play and the different levels on the games. ### 5/5 — Puzzles *2021-10-30* Absolutely the best variety of puzzles on my list of puzzles! Not too hard or easy! Just right! ### 5/5 — Fantastic app *2020-10-26* I love this app! It is fun and is a great way to keep my brain from getting lazy! The different types of puzzles are fun and entertaining. I love reading all the different quotes from so many different people. Even my kids like doing some of the puzzles with me. ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2020-02-22* Keeps my interest! Many different levels and games! Addicted! ### 5/5 — Love it!! *2018-11-19, version 1.1* Love this app!! ### 5/5 — better than a puzzle magazine! *2017-09-25* I love always having puzzles to play not matter where I am. The quotes are very interesting. There are 6 different games in this app and I love them all. ### 5/5 — Memory *2017-01-01, version 1.0* This game is a lot of fun and really helps with memory retention. --- *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 2026-08-30.*