Word Guess Challenge vs 168 Pips
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Word Guess Challenge
Test your vocabulary by guessing a hidden word within six attempts. Clues are provided as letters change color based on their accuracy. Track your progress, challenge friends, and utilize helpful features like letter selection, dark mode, and hints.
- Guess words in 6 tries
- Color-coded letter clues
- Track statistics
- Compete with friends
- Select individual letters
- Dark mode
- Hints available
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Guess the word in 6 tries or less! The letters in your guess change color to give you clues. Keep track of your stats and compete with your friends! Includes the ability to select individual letters, dark mode, and hints.
168 Pips
This logic puzzle game challenges you to pair adjacent numbers on a board using a complete set of dominoes. It offers daily puzzles, timed challenges, and unlockable content for unlimited gameplay. Enjoy a satisfying deduction experience with customizable aesthetics.
- Domino pairing logic
- Daily puzzles
- Timed challenges
- Unlockable domino skins
- Customizable felt colors
- Unlimited puzzle generation
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168 Pips is a logic puzzle built around the complete double-six domino set: all 28 tiles, 168 pips, one solution. Pair adjacent numbers on the board so that every domino appears exactly once. No guessing. Just deduction. Play the free Daily Puzzle, build your streak, chase Best Times, and grow your domino collection one finish at a time. Unlock the full game to generate unlimited puzzles in Easy, Medium, Hard, or Random, replay and share seeded challenges, and spend earned Pips in the Domino Shop on new domino skins and felt colors. Whether you enjoy calm logic, speed-solving, or tackling a fresh puzzle each day, 168 Pips is easy to learn and deeply satisfying to master.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: 168 Pips at none against Word Guess Challenge's shown. 168 Pips also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Word Guess Challenge's advantage is ratings volume (3.2K vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence, 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. Word Guess Challenge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and 168 Pips sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
168 Pips holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Word Guess Challenge has 3.2K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Word Guess Challenge ships an update fortnightly, 168 Pips every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Word Guess Challenge | 168 Pips |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.2K ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 236 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cider Software LLC | Matthew D Coburn |
Customer experience
Word Guess Challenge
168 Pips
Bugs and requests
Word Guess Challenge
Reported bugs
2 issues- Incorrect word detection
- Compatibility issues on older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ad-free version
- Daily challenge mode
- Customizable word themes
- Improved keyboard and letter selection
- Tracking of winning streaks
168 Pips
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Word Guess Challenge
- Remove Ads$4.99
168 Pips
- Full Game Unlock$1.99
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