Comparison

Cross Clues vs Ashley's Carnival Rush

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Cross Clues

Engage your mind with a grid-based deduction puzzle. Analyze clues, uncover relationships between elements, and solve logic grids step-by-step. Discover unique mechanics and watch your progress unfold with satisfying visual feedback.

Highlights
  • Grid-based deduction puzzles
  • Analyze clue cards
  • Connect people, objects, locations, attributes
  • Unlock new mechanics
  • Offline play
  • Daily rewards
Features
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Ready for a fresh logic challenge?
Cross Clues is a unique grid-based deduction puzzle where every clue brings you closer to the solution. Read clue cards, analyze relationships, and uncover the correct connections between people, objects, locations, and attributes. Each level challenges your observation and reasoning skills as you complete the logic grid step by step. How It Works • Solve Logic Grids: Fill in the grid by connecting clues with the correct answers. Use deduction to determine relationships across different categories. • Follow the Clues: Each clue provides important information. Combine multiple clues, verify your ideas, and unlock your path to the solution. • Tap to Solve: Select possible answers for each cell and let the game instantly check your choices. Correct deductions move you forward, while mistakes add an extra challenge. • Discover Unique Mechanics: Explore linked cells, multi-answer cells, and locked cells that create deeper layers of logic. • Watch Your Progress Grow: As you solve puzzles, illustrations on the grid come to life with new details and visual feedback. Features • Hundreds of handcrafted logic puzzles with a smooth difficulty curve for both beginners and experienced players.
 • Clean and elegant design that keeps your focus on solving.
• Satisfying animations and sound effects that make every deduction rewarding.
 • Play offline anytime and enjoy a relaxing brain workout anywhere.
 • Unlock themes, collect power-ups, complete daily rewards, and explore more features as you progress. Cross Clues is more than filling in a grid. It is a relaxing exercise in logic, observation, and deduction. Start your puzzle-solving journey today!

About

Ashley's Carnival Rush

Features
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Ashley's Carnival Rush is a memory game with your hands full. A customer steps up and shows you a ticket. Bun, patty, cheese, no onion. The next one wants a funnel cake with strawberry and a soda. Behind you are three counters — sweets, savory, drinks — and forty-eight ingredients spread across them. Build the order exactly, hand it over before their patience runs out, and keep the streak alive. Get it wrong and you break the streak. Take too long and they walk. A STAND THAT GROWS You start on a hot dog cart that sells three things: a hot dog, a hamburger and a soda. One customer at a time, and all the time in the world to read them. The County Fair opens it up to eight dishes across all three counters, still one customer at a time. The Boardwalk seats two. The State Fair seats three, and three at once is genuinely more than one pair of hands can work. Midnight Midway seats three as well, and pushes everything else instead: the shortest fuse in the game, the fastest arrivals, and the longest tickets — nearly every order comes with something extra on it. Last is the 5th Ave Cart, which sells one thing. Hot dogs, to the fastest queue in the game, at Manhattan prices — against rent that comes out of every round whether you earned it or not. Work it alone and the rent eats you. Put two hires on it and it pays better than anywhere else on the map. Each fair is unlocked with money AND stars, so getting there means playing well, not just playing often. A MENU THAT CHANGES Every round deals a fresh menu from fourteen dishes. You never settle into one routine, and the counters you need change with it. SPEND IT ON THE STAND Buy new dishes to raise what a round is worth, and hire help. A greeter works the queue so every customer waits longer before giving up on you. A prep cook makes the base of every dish ahead of time. A busser whisks a wrong order away before anyone notices, so your streak survives the mistake. A drinks runner pours every drink, so orders that come with one only need the food built. A sign spinner works the pavement, so the next seat fills sooner. A cashier upsells every single order, a little more on each one, all day long. Change the awning, the bunting, the string lights, the plates, the crowd. THINGS HAPPEN Some rounds bring news. A viral post, a health inspection, a rally in town — and occasionally something bigger in either direction. Some of it is just luck. Some of it is a decision: a developer wants to buy your pitch, a supplier offers you a crate that is a little off. You pick, and you live with it. WHAT'S NOT IN IT No ads. No in-app purchases. No energy meters, no timers to wait out, no account to make. It never connects to the internet — there is nothing to connect to. Your progress lives on your device.

Screenshots

Cross Clues4 screens
Ashley's Carnival Rush4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ashley's Carnival Rush at none against Cross Clues's 10. Ashley's Carnival Rush also leads on ads (none vs shown). Cross Clues's advantage is chart position (#129 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cross Clues sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Ashley's Carnival Rush asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cross Clues ships an update every 9 days, Ashley's Carnival Rush weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Cross Clues versus Ashley's Carnival Rush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCross CluesAshley's Carnival Rush
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (822 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings822 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#129 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size417 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLE TECH CO.,LIMITEDPF DATASTACK LLC

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Cross Clues

One-time10
  • Coins Pack01$1.99
  • Newbie's Offer$2.99
  • Revive Packge$4.99
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  • Ads Free Bundle$7.99
  • Coins Pack02$7.99
  • Special Offer$9.99
  • Coins Pack03$14.99
  • Coins Pack04$29.99
  • Coins Pack05$54.99
  • Coins Pack06$99.99
None

Ashley's Carnival Rush

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cross Clues free?
Cross Clues is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ashley's Carnival Rush free?
Ashley's Carnival Rush is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cross Clues or Ashley's Carnival Rush have ads?
Cross Clues shows ads; Ashley's Carnival Rush does not.
Which is updated more often, Cross Clues or Ashley's Carnival Rush?
Cross Clues ships an update every 9 days, and Ashley's Carnival Rush weekly. Most recently, Cross Clues was updated on October 31, 2026 and Ashley's Carnival Rush on October 29, 2026.

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