Word Unknown vs Logic Arcade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Word Unknown
A fun and simple word guessing game inspired by Hangman and Mastermind. Use logic to deduce a hidden word within a limited number of attempts, receiving feedback on correct letters and positions. Offers multiple difficulty levels and a daily challenge for competitive play.
- Word guessing gameplay
- Lexical and deductive logic
- Letter position feedback (X's and O's)
- Five difficulty levels
- Daily challenge mode
- Free and open source
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Word Unknown takes inspiration from both hangman and mastermind to create an incredibly fun and simple word game experience. Your objective is to guess a randomly generated word in as few moves as possible using both lexical and deductive logic. Once a legal guess is made, you'll get X's and O's in response. Each X represents a correct letter in the correct position, and each O represents a correct letter in the wrong position. There are five different difficulties (word lengths) to choose from and a daily challenge for each so you can compete with friends! Best of all, the game is 100% free and open source! Word Unknown is the second word game developed by Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis. His first is Synonymy, narrated by Richard Dawkins, which received distinctions at GDC and E3.
Logic Arcade
This app offers seven classic math and logic puzzles with a retro arcade feel. Enjoy offline play, auto-save, and brief explanations of the math behind each game. Unlock additional content with a single purchase.
- Seven classic math and logic puzzles
- Offline play
- Auto-save and resume
- Math explainers for each game
- Personal best tracking
- Unlockable content via single purchase
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Eight classic math and logic puzzles in one app. No ads. No accounts. Just puzzles. GAMES INCLUDED: - Water Jugs — Measure a target volume by filling, emptying, and pouring between jugs. Based on Bezout's identity and the Extended Euclidean Algorithm. - Tower of Hanoi — Move stacked disks between rods without placing a larger disk on a smaller one. Includes the classic 3-rod puzzle and the 4-peg Frame-Stewart variant with a custom sandbox mode. - Sliding Puzzle — Arrange numbered tiles in order on grids from 3x3 to 6x6. The original 15-puzzle, popularized in the 1880s. - Lights Out — Toggle lights on a grid where each press flips neighboring lights. Rooted in linear algebra over GF(2). - Knight's Tour — Guide a chess knight to visit every square exactly once. Studied by Euler, solved by Warnsdorff's heuristic. - Egyptian Fractions — Decompose fractions into sums of distinct unit fractions. Features authentic hieroglyphic numeral display. - Turntables — Rotate interlocking rings to arrange colored tokens. A physical model of permutation groups and Hungarian Rings. - River Crossing — Ferry the wolf, the goat and the cabbage (and later wolves, sheep, oxen and a sheepdog) across the river without anyone getting eaten. Alcuin's 1,200-year-old puzzle and the missionaries-and-cannibals problem. FEATURES: - Up to 40+ hand-crafted campaign levels per game - Chapter-based progression with increasing difficulty - Auto-save and resume — pick up right where you left off - "The Math" — brief explainers on the theorem behind each game - Personal best tracking for moves and time - Free Play / Random mode for 5 games + custom sandbox for Tower of Hanoi and Knight's Tour (Pro) - Works completely offline - No ads. No tracking. No data collected. UNLOCK FULL GAME: Chapter 1 of every game is completely free. Unlock the full game with a single one-time purchase to get chapters 2-4 across all 8 games, Free Play mode (with chapter 1 Random unlockable for free by beating the chapter), custom sandbox modes for Tower of Hanoi and Knight's Tour, and all future content.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Word Unknown at 4.9 against Logic Arcade's 3.7. Word Unknown also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (11 vs 3). Logic Arcade's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 16 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Logic Arcade sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Word Unknown asks for nothing beyond the download.
Word Unknown holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 3 respectively.
Word Unknown ships an update every 16 months, Logic Arcade monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Word Unknown | Logic Arcade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (11 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cinq-Mars Media | P&T Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Word Unknown
Logic Arcade
In-app purchases
Word Unknown
No in-app purchases
Logic Arcade
- Logic Arcade Pro$3.99









