Good but some flaws

I love how relaxing this game is. However, it's difficult to enjoy a word game that doesn't recognize valid words! On my first game, and it did not accept "hued" and "reshod" as well as others I can't remember off the top of my head. This kills the enjoyability of the game. Edit: changing to 5 stars because the developer response was amazingly fast and I was informed that getting the best dictionary for the game without making it get too tediously bogged down in filler words is a challenge. It’s clear that the developer wants to make the game the best possible and values user feedback.

Excellent brain stimulation

I really like this daily exercise for my brain. I would have given it a five but a one of the functional updates done recently isn’t welcome. Now when I want to backup on letter selection, perhaps because I accidentally touched the wrong letter, all my selected letters are removed and I have to totally start over. Otherwise, the ability to customize functions and ‘mix up’ the letter presentation are great upgrade. Suggested updates: 1) If I missed how to do this, my apologies. Could you add a way to go back to previous days to work on those challenges? I haven’t figured out a way to activate those so I can work on them again. 2) Another nice to have would be the ability to place my cursor at the beginning or in the middle of a word that is already entered to change the word again. Much the same way as adding an S at the end of some words makes a new word. Thanks for a great app.

Love it!

This brilliant and very simple word game got me hooked immediately. It is beautifully designed and presents a big challenge that renews on a daily basis, so the fact that I have only one new puzzle to work a day keeps me going on it as far as I can get. The controls and color indications as you type words are both very well though out. One of my Game Center friends are playing but I have yet to figure out how to make the synch feature provide us with the exact same puzzle to compete together on. The hint feature is really nice when you get stuck but sometimes I find that I do not recognize the words I find through it. A suggestion would be to provide a way to look up the definition of any accepted words. Regardless of what may be missing, this seems like the perfect game for those who love word puzzles.

Only one game a day

I like this game other than a few things. I’ve only had it a few days and would like to play more than one puzzle a day. You can go back and do puzzles from previous days you’ve had it but you can’t do any more. I’ve also been frustrated with some nonsense words, and some legitimate words not being recognized. I have had to just try every combination of letters a few times which is no fun at all. I also agree more directions and even a FAQ would be helpful. Three times I’ve had to come to comments here to try to find out how to do something.

Daily Mind Stimulation

Great game, makes you think and enjoyable. The only issue some words should be considered a word like “gelato”…which is in the scrabble dictionary while some of the 3-letter words are questionable. But I can look past these minor issues and still enjoy the game. I would recommend to anyone looking for a word game to get this…you won’t regret it.

Great game play let down by poor dictionary

I love the way this game plays, but any word search game lives and dies by its dictionary. This one isn’t very good. It doesn’t recognize obvious words like “raping,” yet it does include many that I find nowhere else. I completely solved a recent game by brute force. The 38 “words” in the solution included: sri sris dit dits sics siti cist cris strid irids sitis disci cists. More than a third of the solution does not appear in my dictionary, and this seems typical. (Dealing with autocorrect while writing this review is an exercise in frustration.) Ultimately this means the only way to completely solve any puzzle is by brute force, which really kills the fun.

One request!

I really like the game. I enjoy spending time searching the puzzle (and my mind) for every possible word! The one thing I would like is to be able to have more than one new game per day. Sometimes I will open the game a few times a day only to realize that there are no new puzzles and nothing to do. More puzzles each day would make this an easy 5/5

Nice except one thing

Is there s way to make the word you typed auto delete? Currently I have to delete everything manually after every single word. I don’t think I’ll keep playing a game that requires clearing after every turn but maybe there’s a way to change this that I’m just not seeing?

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