# Wordathlon: The Anagram Puzzle — user reviews > 107 indexed App Store user reviews of Wordathlon by Stefanos Katsaros, rated 4.80/5 from 1,044 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wordathlon-the-anagram-puzzle/id1616828615/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/wordathlon-the-anagram-puzzle/id1616828615.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 872 · 4★ 131 · 3★ 26 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 9 ## What do users think of Wordathlon? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Relaxing game - 👍 Engaging and works the brain - 👍 Smooth gameplay - 👍 Challenging but enjoyable - 👍 Fun and unique word game - 👍 Intellectual stimulation - 👍 Addictive and enjoyable - 👍 Easy to learn - 👍 Supports brain usage **Cons** - 🔍 Too many obscure words - 🔍 Excessive ads interrupting gameplay - 🔍 Ads take longer than gameplay - 🐛 Paid version still has ads - 🔍 Misleading progress indicators **Commonly reported bugs** - Paid version still shows ads - Some proper nouns incorrectly accepted as valid words **Most requested features** - Clear button to reset selected letters - Improve word selection algorithm to be more accessible ## Newest reviews (16 of 107) ### 5/5 — My brain hurts, but in a good way. *2026-05-12, version 1.804* Today I downloaded Wordathlon thinking I’d play for five minutes; an hour later, I was still trying to find a six-letter word for "regret" (ironically). Best part? It doesn't feel like a giant ad-delivery machine, which is RARE these days. ### 5/5 — Great Game *2026-05-10, version 1.804* Love this game! Fun and challenging and you can get free hints daily in the shop. ### 5/5 — Great Game *2026-04-12, version 1.701* Well I’ve been learning words that I didn’t even know existed. Love this game! ### 5/5 — Download It! *2026-03-26, version 1.701* Amazing unique game!! I’ve been playing it all night long! ### 5/5 — Words *2026-03-24, version 1.701* Good game ### 5/5 — Calm *2026-03-08, version 1.701* My brain is loud this helps quiet it. ### 4/5 — Fun game *2026-01-28, version 1.701* Interesting idea for a different kind of game. Challenging but not impossible. Enjoying it a lot. ### 5/5 — Good game *2026-01-24, version 1.701* Helps pass a good time. ### 5/5 — Amazing *2025-12-31, version 1.701* Relaxing game ### 5/5 — Engaging *2025-12-13, version 1.701* Really works my brain and enjoy all the possibilities ### 5/5 — Game *2025-11-25, version 1.700* Okay ### 5/5 — Words *2025-11-23, version 1.602* Love it ### 5/5 — pretty fun so far *2025-11-07, version 1.602* I’m always looking for fun and unique word games (that aren’t going to get addicting or take up too much time) and I’m really enjoying this one! ### 5/5 — great game *2025-11-06, version 1.602* i love hows smooth this game is ### 5/5 — Good game *2025-10-27, version 1.602* I really enjoy this game. Granted sometimes it’s almost too hard but if you persevere it’s a great feeling when you finally get all the words! ### 5/5 — Wordathlon in the mountains *2025-10-27, version 1.602* This is a wonderful breath of fresh air! I’ve been living in the serious mountains of northern New Mexico for 23 years and the highlight of my day is the UPS man. There’s a new game in town. Wordathlon. This is great fun and challenging …. Actually I’m really having to think and concentrate….i did think about cheating once already. Thank you for making me use myself . ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — SCAM*** *2026-06-18, version 1.808* I bought the 100 plays for $4 and there are still ads. I'll be reporting this app. ### 1/5 — No response from the app maker *2026-01-25, version 1.701* I love this game. I could play for hours except for the ads. I paid for the ad-free version, but never got a code. I emailed those folks but they don’t reply. If not for feeling ripped off, I would give it 5 stars. 😒 ### 1/5 — Word choices are insane. *2025-10-26, version 1.602* There are so many 5 letter words that people actually use, but for some reason half the answers in these puzzles are complete gibberish like “dedit “ or “allay”, like my autocorrect doesn’t even recognize them. It’s obnoxious. And an obscene number of them are 4 letter words that are plural, which is just boring. ### 1/5 — Ads, ads, ads… and more ads *2025-03-18, version 1.602* The game itself is nice, but the EXCESSIVE amount of ads ruins it. I understand the concept of ad revenue, but it would be nice to play more than two games in a row without yet another ad. Update: Played for three days. As you go higher up in levels, the percentage of other players doesn’t change for several more games at a time. In other words, you’ll spend more time dealing with ads than in actual game play. ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2025-01-11, version 1.602* Don’t download. It’s full of ads. ### 1/5 — Ads are getting ridiculous… *2023-11-22, version 1.602* There’s an ad after every play now. And they’re not short. Some are almost a minute long. What’s the point if the ads take longer than the game play? ### 1/5 — Wow *2022-06-03, version 1.008* Worst game I have ever played makes you spell words that don’t exist. Uses letters not even on the board. ### 1/5 — Not a 4+ game *2022-05-25* Update 2: Again with the lies. You can manually restrict apps to 17+, which you intentionally have not done. Stop pretending you’re not doing that which you are so obviously doing. Update: So you admit to deliberately lying on the App Store regarding the target age for your game. Not only is that fraud, your pretending that it isn’t is even more more telling. Blocked by a legal agreement that requires you to be at least 16. Why does Apple allow this kind of fraud? **Developer response:** Hello again! The rating on the AppStore is automatic based on the fact that we do not include violance, mature content, etc. This game however serves ads that some countries might require you to be over the age of 16, and therefore we prefer to add an age barrier to better protect our users. Once you accept you will be prompted with Apple's tracking popup which you can always decline! Furthermore if you wish to avoid all ads you could always play our game on airplane mode! Have a wonderful positive day! :) ### 2/5 — More ads than play *2025-11-09, version 1.602* The game itself is good. It starts out OK, but then the ads are after every other game. If you solve the games quickly, the ads take more time than gameplay. ### 2/5 — More ad-time than actual gameplay *2025-01-22, version 1.602* This game is very fun and mentally stimulating. I got pretty far before calling it quits because of the ads. I’m all for ads in free versions of games but it feels a little ridiculous to have to sit through a two-minute un-skippable ad every two rounds, especially when some rounds are played in that same amount of time. It feels like more time is spent watching ads than actually playing the game. Honestly, these are longest ads I’ve seen out of every game I play that has ads! I believe there’s an ad-free version for $7/8 USD but that also seems a bit high to me for a word game such as this one. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — The perfect puzzle game *2026-08-24, version 1.809* This is my new favorite word game. No timers, no lives, no unnecessary competitive elements. It helps me as a writer too, because it challenges my vocabulary and teaches me new words. The game design is sleek and the ads aren’t overwhelming. I can’t get enough! ### 5/5 — Yay *2026-08-23, version 1.809* Woohoo ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-08-12, version 1.809* Very good, lots of ads tho ### 5/5 — Wordathlon *2026-07-31, version 1.809* Great game ### 5/5 — Nice game *2026-07-07, version 1.808* Nice game to spend my travel time ### 5/5 — My review *2026-07-07, version 1.808* Great game keeps my brain on high thinking levels ### 5/5 — Brain train *2026-06-15, version 1.808* Definitely a brain trainer the further you get. Great for the kids to, to help with their spelling. ### 5/5 — Very fun…and challenging! *2026-06-10, version 1.808* I’ve played a ton of word games and they’re all alike. This game is a new style, easy rules, fun and challenging! ### 5/5 — Fun and rewarding *2026-06-08, version 1.808* What a refreshing game. This is my favorite word game so far! Simple, but challenging, and not trying to sell you something all the time! ### 5/5 — Worth a download *2026-05-25, version 1.806* Not to easy or hard, definitely takes me time to realize I can reuse letters --- *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 2026-08-27.*