Word Scramble™

I have played many of the Boggle-like games, and this one has some great features. However, it crashes - a lot (especially on iPhone X). The crashing seems mostly related to ads. When an ad pops over the screen, there’s about a 50% chance the app will crash when you close the ad. Normally not too big of a deal, but sometimes it will pop up an ad in the middle of a game, and god forbid you’re having a great round, because it’s going to crash. And better keep your fingers away from the banner ad at the bottom. If it opens a page, you will need to force kill the app to get it to go away - the Done button won’t remove it. And it occasionally crashes in the middle of a game, especially when you’re giving it a lot of fast input (which is kind of the point of the game). Make a commercial, ad free version and I’ll give you my $!

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**Update. Still love this game and it worked pretty well for a while. Now we’re back to it crashing with ads. It freezes such that it has to be deleted and reinstalled. Last time it last two plays before it froze and had to be deleted. (It had averaged 30-50 plays the last week.) And it is a permanent freeze these days. I’ve let it sit for a day and it was still irretrievable without reinstall. Can’t get past the stuck ads.** Love, love this word game when it's responsive. But it gets bogged down at times, probably due to the unwieldy ads that sometimes appear. they're suppose to show up after but sometimes they interrupt the game. Happens more often when I'm using data than wifi. And some locations, like airports, are the worst. Will try the airplane mode suggestion stated by other reviewer. Thought connection was required but maybe not. Like many others, I'd pay to avoid the ads. That said, if the ads didn't cause the game to malfunction and freeze sometimes --I've had to reload this 4 times in the last couple months -- they'd be okay to endure. One has actually been informative but it's local to Michigan, so it's not one many will see. And some ads I fear are for scam apps.

I am a recent convert to this game, and have been playing it a lot. Everything went well until yesterday suddenly I began getting voice – over messages during my gameplay. There doesn’t appear to be any way to silence them, despite the fact that I have my game on mute. I play this often while I’m waiting for a client, and it is entirely inappropriate for this loud music in voiceover to begin unexpectedly. That is a real downer for me and I guess I’ll have to leave what had become my favorite app. Why on earth would the game’s inventors decide to put a noisy ad mid-game with no visible means of silencing it? I mean, I get that you have to get sponsors, but come on guys—that’s just wrong.

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I have played this game for a couple years at least. As others have said, the ads have gotten increasingly more intrusive and often interrupts (& then crashes) the game. However the ads were always for shopping or other games and while super annoying, easily tolerated. Tonight though, scenes from a very hardcore porn started playing mid-game with a banner option to “go to video”. Nothing was blurred or left to the imagination. Just boom, p..... & v..... in my face. After about 30 seconds, the ad ended and the game resumed. Then, during the next game, it happened again. This time for a hardcore porn featuring a donut. (I’ll let you figure that one out!) Since my young nephew plays this game on my phone when he visits me, I’ll be deleting it. So sad because this game is my absolute favorite! I would definitely buy it for an ad free version if that was an option.

I generally like the game. I’ve only had it for a day and I haven’t left the basic mode yet - so this review is limited. I like the sound of keys as the player “hits” the letters and the bell when a usable word is found, but after a few rounds, the game turns on some very annoying music. I see a way to turn off ALL sounds, but not just the music. So far the only way to deal with this issue that I can find is to restart the round. This would probably not be a problem for most players, though, so it can hardly be called a flaw to the game.