PopWords!

This game is a real winner! I've been playing it daily for a couple of years now; it's that good! In fact, most days I'll work on the daily puzzle multiple times in pursuit of a higher score. It's really rewarding to find longer words I'd missed in earlier tries. After an update I ran into some glitches and contacted the developer. She emailed me promptly, apologized! and remedied the problem. I was really impressed by the personal touch. Like others have said, I find the addition of ads for other apps very annoying. I'm happy for the developer if that's a sign of success (having attracted a lot of players). However, I'd be happy to pay for an ad-free version to be rid of the nuisance. Regardless, this is an awesome game!

The time allowed on Classic is really short & the game would be more interesting if it were longer - and even better if there were a couple of time options. Looking at the Scoreboards & seeing the outrageous scores of others makes me wish there were a few more Tips for Play given. I'm a good Boggler player, but I can't figure out what tricks people are using to get those crazy scores. I've only had this app a few days, but I'm getting bored with it because I can't figure out how to improve.

I love this app. In my family, three generations play it. The daily puzzle is my favorite. What a challenge! My one quibble is with the dictionary; i.e., the words allowed. Apparently, “cwtch”—a Welsh word with “no English translation”—counts, but when I found “siddity”—meaning striving or uppity (see Melle Mel’s use of it in “The Message,” often misunderstood as “social security”)—it didn’t. One white English-speaking person to obviously white English-speaking app writers: come on, now.

I love playing this, especially trying to get in the top %s in the Daily Puzzle. However, I think scores are much too heavily weighted towards long words. So, for instance, one 13 letter word puts you much higher than two 11s and a 9. So it becomes a search for words like internationalnesses, which I I think is going to bore me soon...... I wrote that first part about 6 weeks ago, and it is coming true. The program could be tweaked to limit the number of S’s, for example. I’d like to see a Qu included, too.

There is an annoying bug in the Most Points: Puzzle leaderboard. A while ago, I got a score of 2060 on the Puzzle (not the Daily). Now my app injects this score into the leaderboard at random times. It seems to be triggered by just opening the app. I do not think that my app is corrupted because I have observed the same thing happen with another user, except with a score of 300, so it is not as obvious. My emails on this subject have gone unanswered.