Crossword Jam: Fun Word Search Reviews

The game is fun at first, but has a lot of faults. You have to pay to access the coins that you earn in game, they're held in a "piggy bank" but aren't stored there until you've played for a while, so you can access them at first but can't later (you need coins for hints, which you'll need after a while, trust me). CrosswordJam doesn't recognize all words in the dictionary as actual words, so it limits the bonus words you can accumulate (which help you earn coins that you CAN access). The amount of ads is actually ridiculous, I don't think I've ever downloaded a game before with the amount that this one has in it. There's an ad after every game, even if it's only 3 words that need to be found, and every time you open CrosswordJam . I started only playing this game when I wasn't connected to wifi and turned off my data so I didn't have to deal with them. There's also daily challenges where they want you to watch EVEN MORE ads. CrosswordJam will host tournaments where you can earn a lot of coins if you win, but once you approach higher levels the amount of coin prizes drops. When I first started the tournaments there were awards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, but the most recent tournament I entered only had a prize for first place, so unless you play the game 24/7 you won't win. The theme is cute and if you like these kind of words games then you'll have fun, but all of the issues I stated above are why I'll be deleting the game.

I’m on the penultimate level of this game (which is Tonga, as of 26 Nov 2019), and have overall had a great time playing it. My quips are: 1) certain words that are very clearly existing words are not counted; this occurs both with singular or plural forms of certain words that are counted in their other form (“layouts” is counted while “layout” is not, even though CrosswordJam ’s dictionary’s first entry for “layouts” is “plural form of layout,” e.g.) as well as with a plethora of random words (“lust” won’t be counted even though “lusty” is, e.g.); and 2) the Daily Challenge is occasionally designed in such a way where you literally have to just guess which word is going to fill a certain space when multiple words could potentially fit and be correct in the “crossword” schema. For instance, say both “act” and “ace” would fill the space in the puzzle equally appropriately; you have to guess one or the other, and guessing incorrectly forces you to lose points toward the daily challenge that you’d otherwise have been guaranteed (not all Daily Challenge puzzles include these frustrating elements—some, that is, are able to be solved in a more precise and accurate way instead of having to guess randomly at where certain words have been arbitrarily placed).

Knock knock Who’s there Word games Word games who No, word games booo👎 Unless your talking about crossword jam now this game is a👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻definitely a 10/10 now my mom first got this game then I was like mom what game is that she said crossword jam I was like no way first that is an awesome name great job on that 2 I was like couldn’t be then she said why then I said bc all my friends said they hate and they would give it a -0 but now I know why they didn’t like they apparently don’t have the time but crossword jam is a really fun way of learning it could help you on a spelling test or a spelling bee and the other day I called my dog cute and my mom said thanks that was one of my words and my mom plays this game so much every time I go up to her she is on her phone playing crossword jam Oww my fingers hurt of all of writing about how awesome crossword jam is well BYE

Oh and kelloookangoo I am only on level 17

While the game starts being so exciting and new, one eventually runs out of good words. Some words like 'isle' and other repetitious words can always get you out of a jam. However, eventually the game becomes predictable. Sometimes one spell words knowing they are indeed correct and should be able to obtain mega bonus points, the game does not recognizes them and you don't get the bonus for the effort. Sometimes I connect the letters and form the correct word however it does not catch. It seems the game wants me to use all my bonus points but the object is to leave me without bonus points for when I really are in a jam. When this occurs, it really becomes frustrating because the cue to the initial word in question, is the same word I just connected. And I was right. Not good. It seems that if you want to improve people's brains, redesign the game to include a comprehensive on command dictionary. For those words that are unfamiliar to you. So, this game helps you to parrot and repeat usual words. Not so much brain exercising but mimicking and parroting. Not so much de eloping brain. More like a broken record. Copy some traits like Kindle. It has a comprehensive dictionary for those words you want to learn meaning to. Then, you learn to use them properly. It also has a Wikipedia link and Internet link. I do't mean to through shade. Only providing points so the game could be a real brain exercise.

THIS GAME CHEATS. IT WITHHOLDS POINTS AND FINALLY STARTS EXITING THE GAME REPEATEDLY. WORST GAME EVER.

This started out great! It quickly became my very favorite game! In fact, I am currently on Game 2360, country is Montenegro, and the percent of people completing that game is 0.85%. Now...the problem is that for the last few countries the game has cheated me out of Bonus Points. It will either turn to a black screen or just not give the points. It varies. I first thought it was just a one time thing or maybe a few days’ thing. Wrong. I also questioned my internet but that was not an issue either. The withholding of points worsened as I continued completing the games and going on to the next country. It is now to the point that I rarely get any points at all. Today it didn’t give me the consecutive day points. This is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. In the beginning and 3/4 of the way to where I am I would give it a five star rating. Now I wouldn’t even give it one star. The puzzles are difficult enough as I progress. Crossword Jam should not cheat and withhold points. Shame on them.

I TAKE AWAY THE ONE STAR I GAVE THIS GAME IN MY PREVIOUS POST. It will NOT let me proceed. It keeps blanking the screen and exiting out of the game—repeatedly. Currently I am on game 2505 and the country is Bolivia. I have tried and tried and it will not let me finish the game. In addition, it WILL NOT GIVE me ANY points even though I earn them.

Have been playing this game for months and really enjoyed it. I could even deal with an ad between each game. I was somewhere in the 1250 level (I don’t remember the country) and started getting a black screen, like it was trying to load a video ad and couldn’t get it started. The only way to get out of it was to close the game down and restart it. That is until yesterday… when I close the game and try to restart it, it just opens back to the black screen. I’ve restarted the game several times, made sure CrosswordJam was completely closed out, shut down & restarted my iPad several times, and even let CrosswordJam stay open to the black screen for hours hoping that it would close on its on after a time however, nothing happened. I hesitate in deleting and reinstalling it because I would rather not lose the levels achieved. From the recent posts I’ve read, this is not an isolated case and appears to be tied to a recent update. I hope the developers are busy working on the problem and will have an update to fix it very soon and please fix it so we don’t lose our current progress, coins or points. If you can fix the problem I will update the rating.

Hi to whoever is reading this. Crossword Jam is a great game, but has constant ads, and most of them are frightening or inappropriate. The last ad I saw was an advertisement for a pill that makes you lose weight. This kept popping up over and over, so I just turned off my Wifi and played that way. There was another ad that was about “Royal Match”, and the ads are frightening. One of the so called “Playable Ads” showed a king underwater, and you had to solve a puzzle to keep him from drowning. If you want to make a game that kids can play, can you at least make the ads appropriate? Please and thank you?

Also, some of the words that are in the dictionary are apparently incorrect when you match it up here. Isn’t RING a word? This is very annoying, especially when it’s the last word of the puzzle. Please fix this so these words are valid!

Otherwise, CrosswordJam is great! The levels seem to go on forever and there are more than one hundred countries you can go through. The power-ups aren’t bad at all, and the levels are challenging.

I rarely write reviews, but based on how much I have played this game, I feel it is only fair. I love word games and this one is great to pass the time, expand my vocabulary, relax me when I’m stressed, and easy to play with a podcast or music in the background. It’s not completely mindless, but does require enough focus that other worries and thoughts slip away.

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten so far on a game before. The way they create competition keeps me motivated to keep playing. I don’t find that I need to purchase coins as there are usually plenty of opportunities to get them. However, I do stop playing if I’m low and can’t figure out a hard puzzle. Regardless, you do not have to purchase anything to be successful in this game.

I honestly love this game and play it every single day.

My coins disappear! Like from well over 200 to suddenly 10. A game comes on that I don’t want to play and interrupts the game I do want to play which I downloaded! If I wanted to play the other word game I would have downloaded a game like it. And after this game appears and then I go back to playing the original game is a lot of the times I lose lots of coins. I am forced to play in tournaments. I believe that there are either bots playing or people who have computer programs that they’re using to cheat since sometimes some of those players jump MANY, MANY points VERY FAST! Then I’m either promoted to a higher level where there are more bots or computer cheaters or I am offended by being demoted! I am FORCED to press the play now button for these tournaments or I can’t play the game anymore. If the tournaments are mandatory then why make me press the button??!! I hate being forced to join tournaments. I was offered 50 coins for a reward for signing in with Facebook but when I did that I didn’t get the reward! I used to really like and enjoy this game until all of these thing began occurring.

I'll listen to an audiobook or music while playing the Crossword Jam game, and an ad will pop up. I understand there are going to be ads. I even play extra ads for the bonus content. My problem is what the ads do while they are running.

The ads blare over the audio I was enjoying while playing your game and at an alarmingly loud decimal while completely disabling the audio app I was listening to while playing.

I’ve turned off the gameplay sounds and the background music in within CrosswordJam 's settings and have muted my phone to no avail.

I have no problem with the ads am; I'm not willing to pay $9.99 to disable the ads as that is too much, plus the Crossword Jam app will freeze my phone 10 out of the 10 times I play it.

Is there some way to disable all app sounds, including app ads,
while the Crossword Jam app is running so that I can continue to listen to the audio I was already enjoying on the other audio app?

Nothing in your app’s settings nor my iPhone notification settings seems capable of correcting this problem. The only settings for CrosswordJam in my phone’s setting menu are the generic notifications settings which are already turned off.

I want to know why you choose to override my preferences and blare your advertisement’s audio over my music or audiobook and at such alarmingly loud levels? I’ll watch the ads with zero complaints but shutting down my preferred audio is not ok. How are you going to fix this?

I love crossword puzzles so when a friend recommended CrosswordJam to me and I tried it, I quickly purchased the ad-free version. While the puzzles are really fun, this game has so many darn non-ad pop-ups that it takes away from really enjoying the game long-term. For example, you are automatically entered in tournaments and then provided your results and whether you are promoted or demoted to other leagues, whatever the heck that means - different leagues seem to have no bearing on the games. You are automatically put in timed-events sometimes. You have to navigate through two or three pop-ups each day you launch the game. I just want to do crosswords; I don’t want all of the incessant pop-ups. Buying and doing crossword puzzles in a paper book is more enjoyable than CrosswordJam/game but it’s not always convenient to carry around a book and a pen like it is a phone. I wish there was a version of this game or someone else would offer an app that’s simply crosswords and none of the other extraneous junk this game forces players to sit through.

Endless fun...
I love this, with two exceptions; I too am very frustrated by losing points and at the very beginning of the game there are bonuses for checking in each day. Well, I’ve been playing this game for years and have yet to get to the top prize. I’ve gotten knocked down to the bottom of the rewards list or just stuck at the end behind the final check in...it’s extremely frustrating.
Second issue, there are many times I’ve played a word that you refused only to find out at the very end (when I’ve had to lose points to get a letter) that the word you refused to score was indeed the correct one. I find this very annoying.
I also have found words that you won’t accept but really are words. Please fix these things. The frequency of the ads too are horrendous but if you fix these other things I can live with them.

I do enjoy the game but a few things bug me about it.
1) There are numerous occasions where actual words are not considered words (even bonus words). The dictionary needs an overhaul, as apparently “ding” is not a words.
2) The leaderboard...absolutely fake. I played last night and the “person” in the #2 spot was at 3602 points (I was in 3rd). I started playing again this AM, but checked before I started…”person” was still at 3602. I played ONE round which took under a minute, and immediately dropped to 4th. The “person” in 2nd went up to 3802. So in that short span, this player mysteriously started playing at the same exact time and somehow managed to get an impossible 200 points…

I have no doubt that if I spent money on this, the outcome of #2 would differ greatly, but I’m not spending money on a word game. Just get rid of the leaderboard success placebo as it’s just false advertising.

I really like this game. Some word games they get so much harder as you keep playing that it becomes a matter of you buying points or coins for clues to be able to keep playing. This game isn’t that way. It’s just a fun word game. You certainly can buy coins if you want to but I don’t. I earn them through videos are other ways that they let you earn coins instead of just throwing money at CrosswordJam .I’ve had this weird game on my phone just as long as words with friends, it’s been a while and I have really loved playing it. Thank you for making this fair for people that can’t afford to buy all the extra coins for help and still want to play a fun word game. I highly recommend it. This game is not full of annoying pop-up ads either. There’s a nice balance which makes it fun to play.

I was liking this game. I am not one to put out cash to play, but I did as the initial amounts were small. Then not so small. I gave up on the piggy banks when I had to shell out $7.99. I did not need the coins anyway. The tournaments were interesting also. I run the game on my two iPads (one for home and one for travel) so I had two separate games going. I was using my home iPad and the screen went dead black. Out of charge…nope. The game went black. When I reloaded it I got the first screen…then fade to black. I went to my travel iPad and the same happened. 🤔🧐🤔🧐🤔 oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

Second review 9/9/21
Ugh! Huge ugh! I have never played a game with more glitches! I lose time, I lose coins, I lose my patience. I sit through an ad, glitch to black. I reboot. I watch an ad for coins, glitch to freeze or to black. I reboot. I am giving them one more week, and I am gone if I see no update improvements. I am so very glad I did not sink more money in this game. 😡🤬

This is a really fun game. I enjoy the tournaments except for one thing. The past few days I have been getting a black screen when I’ve tried to play the game. I’ve turned my phone on and off to restart it but I’m still getting a black screen. Everything else on my phone is working fine. I’m almost wondering if it’s intentional. I’ve won 3 tournaments in a row without needing to make in app purchases. If this is a way to give preference to players making in app purchases over players that watch ads, it would only be fair to mention this upfront. If it’s a technical glitch, it’s been going on for several hours now. You may need a more knowledgeable IT employee so there is less down time. It’s the only game I’ve played that something like this has happened. I would have given the game a solid 5 star review if it weren’t for this issue. The game itself is a lot of fun.

Recently, nearly every time I complete a game, it wants me to submit my name for, I’m not sure what. There is no way to get out of that screen except to submit my name, or turn off my device and start it up again. Then I play another game or 2 and that comes up again. I just want to play the game. I don’t care about statistics, scores or tournaments. Please just let me play one game after another by allowing me to exit that “submit” screen. Otherwise, I will stop playing & delete the game. There are plenty of similar games.
Update: I started playing this on my iPhone instead of my iPad. The above problem went away. But I often get an ad and can’t get out of it. Clicking done or X doesn’t work. Today when I opened the game a screen came up about tournament results. Nothing happened when I hit “see results” & it won’t X out. The only way I can continue is to turn the phone off & on again. Then soon an ad won’t close & I have to turn it off & on again, and again..

I love this game it’s educational because you get to make your own words and they don’t have to be right then it just comes from as bonus words and it doesn’t pay to pay for stuff so I think this game is one of the best games in the world you don’t need to pay for anything and if you lose you lose and it doesn’t time youBecause when I get time usually I feel the game but they don’t time you so it’s easier and they let you suffer your cards and let you do Mr. owl and you get hints they don’t need to do it by yourself they help you’re not like 00 I’m not gonna help you but they actually help you look in your hands in it like you have bonus word and you get presents if you finish your world

This game is the best. Other games get increasingly harder to solve to the point you just don’t want to play anymore. This game, however, isn’t the same. It offers the right amount of challenge and you don’t have to know every word in the dictionary, this game uses words that everyone knows. I’ve been playing this game for a few years and I never get tired of it. I did break down for the first time and purchased the no ads version because ads are annoying when you are playing a game you enjoy. They offer special challenges where you can compete with other players, if that’s your thing. Just a great game that is fun and not stressful.

This game is worth as much as 5 stars. I love it because it is fun and increases your vocabulary. If your kid struggles with reading and reading hard words like “photosynthesis” this game is perfect for them. Crossword Jam is a great game because it is engages your kids to learn new words. Crossword Jam makes the game fun by making a challenge puzzle for you everyday, and making your kid desperate to get coins and owls (which is what you earn from the challenge puzzle.) When you find a new word in the crossword puzzle and click on it, it tells you the meaning of the word. Get CrosswordJam! It will help you or your kids a lot! :)

I have been playing this game for several years, and it is one of my favorite games. I have accumulated over 59,000 coins and have never spent a penny to play this game. I have been quite successful and have 108 1st Pl. wins. however, I have noticed in some past challenges and in the current one I am playing now that there are discrepancies. I was in first place with 2650 points and the second place person was rather far behind. Within a few minutes, when I complete the puzzle, I’m in, it shows that I am in second place. The person now in first place has over 6000 points and was not even on the board in the top five when I finished the previous puzzle. Obviously, there is something funny going on, and that is either the player has found a way to cheat/get ahead, or the game is set up, not to show the current status of each player. If this had been the first time that it happened, I might’ve thought that I wasn’t paying attention to those in the board below me. However, this is at least the third time it has happened and it is frustrating and discouraging. I hope they developer looks into the situation. I would really hate to stop playing this game, and hope something is done to rectify this situation.

While I enjoy the game and expect to see adds, there are plenty in this one and I am so over Royal Match ads! They’re in every single game I play- I just can’t seem to get away from them. I particularly hate every ad opens in CrosswordJam Store and you’ve all made the X to close it out so small, it’s almost impossible to get out of them. If I want it, I’ll go look for it. The problem with this game is all the garbage that pops up right in the middle of playing. I can be right in the middle of making a word and the bonus word jar will pop up saying it’s full with only one word in it, as well as the piggy bank stating it’s full. At least me finish the word. So frustrating! It needs some serious work to get a 5 star rating. Addition: if you’re right handed, the word hint (costs 120 points) is right at your knuckle and I’ve lost almost all my points for simply tapping my knuckle on the button when I’m making a word. It either needs moved or designed to not be so sensitive.

New addition: the ad with the gal selling bras locks up, so you have to close app and restart.

I am currently frustrated with this game! The game has help buttons that you can use by paying with the coins you earn during game play. One shows the first letter of the word 30 coins, the next is a hand w/the index finger as a pointer 60 coins, the third is a lightning bolt 120 coins. At certain times during game play either the pointing finger or the lightning bolt is 50% off. I had a little over 200 coins and the lightning bolt was 50% off. I was struggling trying to figure out the last two words so I chose to purchase the lighting bolt for 50% off equaling 60 coins. It charged me the full 120 coins. Normally this probably wouldn’t bother me, however, you only earn a small amount of coins at a time, 5, 10, 15, occasionally 20 and if you are lucky and it’s very rare, you can earn about 30 coins. This is a game I play a lot, I love word games and this is a really good one, hence the four stars. But because it takes so long to earn coins or it’s frustrating to loose that many coins.

Every few days there is a tournament. I’ll be in first place, play one game and be down by 500 points all of the sudden. It’s impossible! You get 15-50points per game. I’ve paid the fee to not have ads. That makes it doubly impossible! I’m on nearly level of 4,000. I don’t think they get harder as they go up. I played 2 games ago and only earned 13 points, but the next game had a lot more letters, thus causing more words to solve and more points. I got 46 points the last game I played. That’s when I was up be 300 pts, and all of the sudden I’m down by 500! There’s no way anyone could earn 800+ points while I solved a single crossword. I’ve spent so much money on this game only to be cheated daily! Last tournament I lost by 20,000 points! That’s not possible. Unless, they played 24/7 and got high point crosswords each time! Just beware, if you’re competive don’t invest in this game! The only people who get points after the tournament is 1st place! Second place gets zilch! That’s a lot of hard work over 70+ hours. I’ve invested too many hours to start over with a similar game.

I love crossword puzzles so when a friend recommended CrosswordJam to me and I tried it, I quickly purchased the ad-free version. While the puzzles are really fun, this game has so many darn non-ad pop-ups that it takes away from really enjoying the game long-term. For example, you are automatically entered in tournaments and then provided your results and whether you are promoted or demoted to other leagues, whatever the heck that means - different leagues seem to have no bearing on the games. You are automatically put in timed-events sometimes. You have to navigate through two or three pop-ups each day you launch the game. I just want to do crosswords; I don’t want all of the incessant pop-ups. Buying and doing crossword puzzles in a paper book is more enjoyable than CrosswordJam/game but it’s not always convenient to carry around a book and a pen like it is a phone. I wish there was a version of this game or someone else would offer an app that’s simply crosswords and none of the other extraneous junk this game forces players to sit through.

The review by jenbjen (etc) is spot-on. The basic behind the concept is great, but the avalanche of ads is overwhelming. You truly do spend more time enduring (horrible, low quality) ads than you do playing the game. Surely a business model exists wherein the devs can profit without bombarding players with garbage ads! And, as an aside, someone really needs to come up with a counter to that “save the king” game wherein we have the opportunity to set fire to the king— I know I’d play!

As jenbjen… pointed out, this “game” misses a whole bunch of legitimate words, so it’s not much of a learning aid. Not that I can see anyone wanting to improve their English skills putting up with the ads. And the tournament play is *highly* suspect— presumably just a come-on to increase ad views.

There are MUCH better free games that are far less annoying than this one. After countless hours wasted on this sequence of ads, I’m done… for good. My advice: don’t waste your time installing this. Find a good crossword game and spend your time working puzzles instead of watching ads for a stupid fat king.

I normally don’t update many apps because a lot of the updates that apps make are ones that I find to be unnecessary. But I decided to just update all of them one day and all of a sudden Crossword Jam has this “Frenzy Mode” that zaps and fills in a bunch of letters and now it’s made the game way too easy. Before this “Frenzy Mode”, the game was fun and challenging and had the thrill of working your brain to solve the crossword. Now it just feels like the words are literally being handed to you and no effort is needed in order to pass the level. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE make there be an option where “Frenzy Mode” is optional and can be turned on or off in settings. My mom also plays this game and agrees that it’s an unnecessary feature for a game that should be fun yet challenging. Until there becomes an option for “Frenzy Mode” to be turned on or off in settings, I will no longer be playing the game.

Hey guys it’s me again I actually figured out a way to make it work for me because I just things of money I put a good five dollars Fred but it was definitely worth it so originally I gave it a start because of all the issues I had and if you saw my first review you’ll know what I’m talking about is basically kept on kicking me out I mean we download and everything like that so I just want you guys to know that don’t say that reveal cause I think it’s a fun game like a lot and I really like it it’s good for long car rides so if you’re ever bored in the car and do you wanna play Word Search go to Crossword Jam because it’s a really really really fun game so yeah this is why I’m gonna be giving it three stars I didn’t get much better but I did get somewhere I got two full stars that are the only two reasons why I didn’t give it the extra two stars is because I soft watch ad and you didn’t you just get help without having to pay for it that is still annoying anyway if you need help just ask them you don’t have to pay any of your money right now the actual money in the game is a big money why do you have to pay for that why did you run out and you still need help like cause it’s rude really rude so yeah I love you guys bye