Play Elephant vs Code Words
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Play Elephant
Engage in classic board games like bridge, draughts, and checkers. Participate in tournaments, learn new strategies, and teach others in a welcoming environment.
- Play bridge, draughts, checkers
- Tournament participation
- Learning mind games
- Teaching game strategies
- Friendly atmosphere
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Play bridge, draughts, checkers, and many other mind games. Tournament participation, learning, teaching. Comfortable and friendly atmosphere.
Code Words
Compete in a word-guessing board game where spymasters give clues to their teammates. Guess words of your team's color while avoiding the opponent's and the assassin. Supports English and Russian languages.
- Team-based gameplay
- One-word clue system
- Agent and assassin mechanics
- Multiple language support
- Competitive play
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In Code Words - Board Game, two teams compete to see who can make contact with all of their agents first. Spymasters give one-word clues that can point to multiple words on the board. Their teammates try to guess words of the right color while avoiding those that belong to the opposing team. And everyone wants to avoid the assassin. Languages: - English - Russian
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Code Words at 45% against Play Elephant's 12%. Play Elephant's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 9 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Play Elephant sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.49 per month and Code Words sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Play Elephant ships an update monthly, Code Words every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Play Elephant | Code Words |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 11.8% of reviews | 45.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | PLAYING ELEPHANT UAB | Oleksandr Sudarenko |
Customer experience
Play Elephant
Code Words
In-app purchases
Play Elephant
- Premium$9.491 Month
- 10 fants$0.99
- 25,000 Fants$2.99
- 100,000 Fants$10.99
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- 600,000 fants$59.99
- 1 Billion$94.99
Code Words
- Remove Ads$0.99
