Word Cookies Reviews

After what I saw I wish could rate your game zero stars! So I was just on my phone when got this notification from Word Cookies the notification said and I quote, “ Ya know VIOLIN is one of the answers!” I was not pleased when I saw this notification because you were just randomly giving me the answer just so I could play on your game! That is just down right rude and absolutely dumb. First off I already knew that violin was one of the words but anyways that’s rude that you think giving me the answers will make me play your game. I want to find the answers out myself not get notification from your game just randomly giving me the answers! I was very disappointed when I saw this notification because I love this game so much it’s really but as I said before giving me one the answers is just mean. I know I might be overreacting but when I saw this notification I was very shocked and angry because I’ve never played a game that gave me the answers! Another thing to is the ads they are so annoying once I complete a word an ad pop’s up and it’s very frustrating because the ads are so long. I hope you never show a notification like that again but other than the things I said the game is great.

Edit: I wrote the review below a couple of years ago. I rarely open Word Cookies anymore (see review) but today I decided to give it another shot. Nothing has been done to improve WordCookies , the glitches, or the experience for the players who purchased the ad-free version. What’s more, the hint icons now flash at you incessantly while you are playing in an attempt to get you to use your saved hints. It’s distracting and annoying. I paid for the ad-free version a couple of years ago and used to love playing this game. I could choose to watch ads to earn extra points for hints and that’s gone now. The daily spin for points is obviously now set to rarely earn you anything more than 10 points and half the time I watch an ad for an extra spin WordCookies freezes and I have to relaunch and lose the spin. It’s clear the developers have gotten greedy and want to force players to use all their saved up points and then push them to buy more. It’s the world we live in I guess. Too bad, because for a long while Word Cookies seemed like it was run by a few of the decent guys. No longer. I won’t recommend this to friends anymore.

I have played this game for a few years now and enjoy it. I have a large vocabulary and this game challenges it and I have picked up new words. Fun. Over the course of this year, they have decreased the coins you can accumulate from watching ads. Actually, the extra coin feature disappeared completely. Ok, I understand. They want you to spend real money to get their coins to play, which I will never do. Also, the wheel spin for each day is rigged to stop only on 10 or 15, with the occasional free hint thrown in. Designers, if you're going to do that, reconfigure the wheel with the numbers you're willing to give out and stop frustrating your hopeful customers. One last thing, which another customer mentioned, is that when trying to collect coins after watching an ad, the screen frequently freezes and no coins are awarded. You have to get out of WordCookies and clear it from your screen to be able to access the game again. And, of course, you lose the coins you worked for by completing the daily puzzle. I haven't kept close accounting because it's only a game and I have time but not money in it, but I know the game owes me well over 2000 coins. I have contacted the managers who have sent me 200 coins over a month ago but I haven't been able to get them to load to my app. I'll have to try again. With all that said, it's an enjoyable game and I play it frequently, but be aware of the downfalls of this game because it will spike your frustration levels.

I love this game and this is the second phone I’ve downloaded it on, but this time around it’s extra buggy. There is one ad (some stupid dragon thing) that you can’t tap the X to go back to the game because no matter where you tap, it takes you to Safari or WordCookies Store to get the game - you have to exit the game completely and go back in to keep playing. Also, as others have mentioned, sometimes after playing a level the game freezes up and won’t move on to the next level (loading wheel just keeps spinning…). I have to exit the game and go back into it to move on, which also means sometimes losing the coins I just collected in the previous level. This happens frequently enough that I end up having to do this multiple times each time I play. I really do like this game, but it’s too glitchy right now to enjoy it. It worked better on my LG, but not so well on my iPhone 12 Pro Max. Please fix these issues. I’m not likely to keep playing until the bugs are worked out. And I’m definitely not paying money for an ad free experience.

I played this game religiously, looking forward to each daily puzzle. To myself I enjoy a game of challenges, which this does offer! However, after NOT contributing financially to this specific company, they “block you out of official wins”! I had enjoyed the fact you use your brain to figure out the correct words as they are listed alphabetically, making it a game challenging! To sweeten the pot they added Holiday puzzles which once all 16 puzzles are completed (4 puzzles per quarter piece) you receive a “photo” in your game album.
It will sound shallow to most of you, but I spent time and effort to complete all 16 puzzles on Easter Day, and I was NOT given the photo for the game album. I wrote and inquired as to why I am NOT being treated fairly, only to have my requests fall on deaf ears. They won’t explain why they won’t provide the photo (as they did on Valentines Day).
I have been alerted to the fact this is the same company as one I (HAD) past tense spent hundreds of dollars only to lose. I can accept that as Bingo is a “game of chance” their words, however, at least 20 others stated to me they’d experienced the same issue and they ALL stopped playing and deleted WordCookies ! I’ve stopped playing but haven’t yet deleted the apps for theses company related games. Just, please be aware!
There is a small glimmer of hope they’ll revert back to the wholesome version they once were. Until then, I won’t be participating 😪🤔.

The game itself is ok. It starts out very easy and kind of boring but gets better. I like the special levels and cookie jar for extra words. Unfortunately the ads are beyond normal annoying ads in that there are a lot of interactive ads and ads that interrupt sound from background apps, even when game sound and ad sounds are off (I play music for my baby’s nap while I’m on my phone sometimes and the ads can stop/override the songs). But the WORST thing, the thing I’m starting to think is unforgivable, is that it gives you an ad each time you are interrupted or exit briefly from the game. Like if I get a low battery pop up, I get an ad after. If I pop out of the game for a second to answer a text, I get an ad when I go back. If i get a phone call, I get an ad when i return to playing. And this is in addition to ads between levels. Even if I’ve JUST watched an ad and then have to go answer a text real quick, it does its few seconds of loading and then gives another ad. It’s pretty obnoxious and makes me want to stubbornly never buy the game rather than pay to have ads removed. Ads are ok in general but don’t make me deal with two interactive ads in a row that screw up my background music.

Update: this is the second time I’ve done an update that causes the game to crash when I try to open it. I promised myself I wouldn’t do another update after this happened the last time but against my better judgment I did . Now I can’t open it at all. AGAIN! Please put out an update to fix this bug . Won’t update again after this one but this needs to be fixed !

I’ve read the responses to the other reviews regarding the cookie jar but you DEFINITELY DO NOT get all of your points at the end of the level. At the end of the 20 boards in the level you get TEN POINTS TOTAL added to your bank. You used to get points after each level and this amounts to a half of a point for each level so the points you’re gaining on each individual board ABSOLUTELY 100% are going into the cookie jar that one must pay for now. As you advance on boards you need to used points for hints more and more so you go through those paltry earnings quickly . Bad decision to do that for people who’ve been playing this game for a long time and know it’s a rip off

The reason I rate it four stars is because the levels are challenging… Not so challenging but challenging enough to make me feel like “oh maybe I should just take a break!” I love how word cookies is run. It’s a very awesome game. I would have rated it five stars but I am currently on a level that has a lot of words for me to solve. I have about five. There are about 10... maybe more. But the graphics and all the themes are awesome!!! Sorry… I tried to keep this professional but I couldn’t. :-( Anyway... yeah… I like Word Cookies because also I like that there are different sections like cinnamon, oatmeal, Banana, and a level I’m currently on… Strawberry. I’m trying to make this a long review but I have nothing to say. *sigh* I also like word cookies cause you can spin the daily wheel in the beginning of every day. For example, let’s say it’s Tuesday, January 5 and I haven’t played Word Cookies yet but I want to. Then when I click WordCookies it will say spin the daily wheel. So you do. And you can get coins! And the coins can get you hints so the levels are easier. I don’t really get any coins though. I don’t know why. I think it’s because I spend them on hints right away... anyway… In conclusion I think word cookies is a great app and you should check it out! (Especially if you like a challenge!).

- ELLIEBUGGYGIRL

I gladly paid the $2 to remove the ads when it became obvious what a great deal it was going to be based on the time I spent playing. I don't find it terribly difficult but it's challenging enough to be fun and not frustrating.

Update January 2018: Not a big fan of the new 8-letter words. They make it easy to miss letters, at least on iPhone 7. Might be okay on iPad. Also wondering why none of the last two updates have included star words or special levels. Seems like some experimentation is going on at BitMango

Update February 2018: The games is fantastic up until the eight letter words. But now each release of new levels is quite frustrating for me. I used to be able to zip through words pretty quickly but now the letters are too close together. I have to slow right down to make sure I hit the right one. And the eight letter words are, more often than not, either a compound word or a gerund so they aren’t crazy challenging to find. Add to that the lack of star words and bonus levels (I’ve been stuck on the last quest for three releases now) and I suspect I won’t keep this too much longer. Which is fine. I’ve definitely got more than enough enjoyment out of it for the $2 it takes to remove the ads.

I’ve played this game for quite awhile, and it’s really fun. It’s really cool that the function to change the themes is there, so you can accustom your Word Cookies fun with what time of year it is! I just recently downloaded it again after changing devices, and even though I had to start over it’s still super fun! Though one complaint...the extra words are fun, and they give you good rewards, but once you get farther into the levels they become a pain because since there are more letters and more words, you might spend forever on one of the levels (though spending forever on a level isn’t that bad, unless you just sit there and grill your brain on that one word that you just can’t think of for the life of you), and when you FINALLY find a word that’s actually viable, it could say that it’s an extra word and it’s REALLY annoying. Especially since there are so many. And it’s harder to get the amount of them you need once you get into a higher level and you reach the max limit of 100. I think that’s a little TOO much. 50 probably would’ve been best, in my personal opinion. Besides that, I love the game! I hope you benefit and improve the game from this review.

First of all, I love this game—I really do. I like that it can actually be played for free and makes me think. What drives me up the wall (and I don’t have a license for that, so we’re venturing into dangerous territory) is some times perfectly normal words like “ail” come up as non-words. I discovered just how many vague words count when I was stuck and just sticking consonants and vowels randomly together and they were going into the free words jar, and, very occasionally, the word that was being looked for. Example—I just randomly picked “sel” and it went into the word jar. I looked it up. A Scottish variant of ‘self.’ Or abbreviation for selection, etc. But other abbreviations don’t seem to count, so is it really the Scottish variant? I found one that I don’t remember that was the singular of part of the intestines. Really. On the one hand, it’s pretty entertaining because it’s bizarre what can be found by just messing around in desperation. On the other, there’s no rhyme or reason to what words are chosen. It’s just an observation. I do really like the game and recommend it, and if you’re out of hints, just start making words up, because you never know—they may really be words.

This game is simple enough ... to start off, as it simply asks one to rearrange a few letters into words of proscribed length. But the complexity elevates as one is presented with 7 letters and then vowels start to become fewer and less common. You can get hints but if you're not careful you can run out of clues and then the option to buy more clues starts to become attractive. I recommend using your clue points sparingly and when you get stumped just put the game down for hours or overnight and invariably you will see solutions quickly after you turn it back on. One caution ... the free version with ads will quickly drive you crazy so buying the ad-free version for $1.99 is well worth the cost (IMHO). However, the fun and challenge with this game has eroded recently as they have upped the challenge with words that even my crossword puzzle addict wife has never heard of. To top it off one used to be able to time the spins to get one of the better prizes, but now the spins are not based on skill and one almost always gets 10 coins no matter where you choose to stop the spinner. Time for a new game methinks.

I really like it & love for my kids to play it! It can help them brush up &/or learn more vocab & just keep their brains moving. I like the categories, special levels, & daily puzzle. The themes are cute too. The sales are wonderful! There are many different pkg. choices for buying coins! The available words are not too hard or too easy. I believe it is supposed to get tougher as you move up the list. So they do good in that area! (& yes, all of the words are real) :) There are tough words to spell, that’s life. They cannot make it TOO easy or there would be no challenge! The only negative in my opinion is: Like many apps, I think it needs a bit more. In order to consider it “fun” though, it could def. use a timed mode & even a competitive mode would be great! Similar apps I have used are usually one mode or the other.(either timed OR relaxed OR competitive) I love it when an app merges all 3 (or more) & allows you to chose! It keeps it interesting & keeps people from getting bored as quick. Our fam does come back if we stop playing/ delete but I know my kids would play more, as would I, if it had more features. Oh & I love the cookie jar w/extra words! I wish all word games would have it! :) Since playing this & having it, I do not like playing word games that do not have it! Like an added bonus you did not realize you were missing until you have it! As usual, thank you to the developers for their work on a great app!

I really like the game for many reasons. It’s challenging enough, the words to discover are in alphabetical order (very helpful when stuck), swiping from letter to letter then releasing to deposit the word (such better design than other games out there), also there are many levels to play, and extra coins for various activities, etc.

That which I think needs work: the ads, they certainly are a pain, but there are work arounds. But most in need of work is at the end of the game, it just ends. I don’t know, I feel like I want to be congratulated for finishing the game that I’ve spent several weeks completing. Very minor thing here, I know. Also, when opening the game for the first time after midnight each day, one gets the opportunity to play the shell game for points... I almost always picked the one coin that only offered one hour for discounted hints. I prefer the coins straight up; most often I would not be playing for an hour to take advantage of the discount. The last thing, the points (not coins) that are accumulated really don’t mean anything, do they?

This is the game I’ve played the longest out of the type. I really love word puzzles and learning new terms. It’s not perfect but the ads are not as bad as other games. Once you get to the 7-letter words, it doesn’t get better than that through the levels but there’s always new words here and there. There’s a dictionary that opens once you click on a word: I’d like to see words in a sentence sometimes. The themes freeze the game, so I just use the original with no problem. The game has a weekend “bake off” where you have to find words and it’s timed, this is really cool and you earn a bunch of coins depending on your progress. The wheel of fortune doesn’t have a constant speed and sometimes it slows down a lot after you stop it. The league is entertaining but I’m not sure you’re competing against actual people. Also, depending on what you played last in the home tab, the league can be stuck in a setting where you never earn any points bc you have to guess a specific word first. So you have to go back home, play the regular game, and then play the league. The home renovation is boring. Overall, I find this game to be very relaxing, I even got my bf on the game and we compete to see who gets the bake-off first and switch phones sometimes and finish each other’s words we’re stuck on.

I tend to be working a lot and don’t get many breaks. When I finally do get to kick back and relax I start to get bored. This game is an amazing way to keep me busy and relaxed, so that I don’t have to feel bored or feel like something needs to be done. WordCookies has many good things about it, including the icing on some of the cookies. I think it is so cute and creative when I get to see the specially designed cookies around winter time, and near the start of spring. The only reason I gave this a 4 star instead of five is because I don’t feel that this game is as fulfilling as I want it to be. I think it would be cool if you added mini levels, like side quests to earn cookie stars. And once you earned enough cookie stars you could use them to get a reward, like coins or a special hint on the levels of your choice.
Of course, this is not my game and you guys have done an amazing job! I love this game and would never be able to remove it from my phone.❤️❤️

Hello! I just wanna tell you guys your game is really helping me get better at stuff, like , reading, spelling and knowing some words.. I was just gonna ask please never quit this business it’s a amazing! The words just need harder but.. that doesn’t mean your horribly bad! You still have lots of good stuff. I just started playing this game a week ago! Just a week ago, and I’m already mastering these easy/hard skill words . I’m in 5th grade I’m very good at spelling but I bet some Pre Schoolers—3rd graders really would need this. I was very surprised when WordCookies was 4+ I was very happy, so now kids can spell maybe on a I pad phone.. maybe even a guardians phone. But I play this game every single day each week and month.. it’s crazy I know. This is just bunches and bunches of fun to play every day! WOW. Thanks this is just LOADS of FUN this can get little ones to be a better reader maybe by the age 8.. I became good at reading and words when I was 6!! This is very amazing! Thanks for all the help for me and the little ones❤️
THANK YOU!!

Word Cookies ROCKS! I love his game. When I am bored I love to just get out my iPad and play this game. This game also helps me learn new words. It is fun to learn words that come out of other words. The hard part is finding the main word. Who would have known that there are SO many words that have a lot of other words you can make out of it. It's fun when you find a few words but you can't think of the others but when you do your mind explodes because it is so obvious. I'm just glad they have helpers like the pick one or the first letter of a word or even he fairy wand. This game can be a little challenging but I sometime us google and look up "What words can I make out of the word." Google is very helpful. One other hint that can be really had is the daily challenge. I guess that is why it is called challenge. I also like changing the theme of the game. I personally like the Halloween theme. But over all this game is the BEST game I have ever played and I am only ten. So if you are looking for something to play. I would definitely recommend this game for adults and children. After all I am ten.

I was playing a second ago and I loved the game soooooooo much I couldn’t stop playing it . And it like it never stops. I also like the features in the game when you hit a new level you get coins and I like that I can keep my track by level marks in the game. There is so much to do! I am so pumped and please do another one. I love the game so much that I can’t stop playing it I am never going to stop playing it because it’s so much fun and I hope you love it too. This might be a long sentence but I’m telling you it is amazing! I can’t believe you made this creators make another one please please please do this. The one part of it is the coins I don’t know what the coins do yet but I just love the way that they look and that each level is kind of a cookie right now I’m on the oatmeal stage it’s amazing I feel like I’m writing in the game from all the features it has and if there’s another one I’m definitely playing it! There’s so much you can do and I love it so if the creator sees this tell him that I really want a Word Cookies 2 that would be so fun. I also am wondering about one part the only part is I wonder if the coins do anything please tell me creators because I really don’t know.

Similar in goal to Whirly Word. THAT app has a dictionary option where you can look up any new words you find by accident. WordCookies gives you extra CREDIT points for finding new words, and an advanced bonus level when you qualify, which adds a letter to a finished puzzle so you can see all the new words that new letter just helps create. Very organized game, nicely considered, from the scramble feature for fresh eyes, to the literal tracing out of the spellings with your fingertip. And definitely a contest! The lure I like best is that the words are in alphabetical order. There comes a point in every round when I don't see any more words, but I'm missing two for a clean sweep. One is a four letter word that must start with a 'T' and maybe the other is a five letter word that starts with 'fi'. There are ways you and your kids can detect what's missing, and this game is rated "G" so don't expect vulgarities to be worth any points.
It's my automatic go-to game when I'm waiting for something. Test yourself, and see how many words you can find.

Wrong answer for one of the games. Chocolate #9

Wrong answer for one of the games. Chocolate #9