Word Crush - Fun Puzzle Game Reviews

I’ve played this game more than any - ever! I’ve won two championships, have reached level 2148, have almost 25,000 coins, and have amassed many “hints”. Then, the game froze and I can’t move on. I can play the dailies, but not the regular game. I tried the ‘app support’ button and was led to a site that welcomed me to ‘nginx’ and lists of codes, numbers, and dates. I tried ‘developer website’ and received the message that the page was removed. I am so frustrated and unhappy.......and would appreciate any suggestions.

Update: even more frustrated! Got NO response to the above; saw a response to someone with he same problem so followed the advice given to that person — uninstall, reinstall, update, and problem solved..... didn’t work for me. So, I finally just started over. I’m now back to level 180, doing well in the current tournament, and realized that I am not getting credit (coins) for all the bonus words......arrrgh! Please help........there are lots of other word games, so I’m probably done with this developer’s games.

2nd update just a few minutes after the last! Lo and behold! I opened WordCrush once again, just to finish the tournament, and all my original coins and hints were restored and I was returned to the level where I froze! Yay!! 5 STARS again!

I wrote the review last week and hoped the problem was solved but it’s not. The game freezes constantly and then goes black. I have to close the game and get back in. Then I get booted off. This was bad before the update but it’s so much worse now. I used to play game after game while watching tv at night. Now, if I play 3-5, I’m lucky. This needs to be fixed! I don’t understand the ads running at the bottom of the game continue while the game stops. What are you doing to fix this? Wondering WHO you’re using to fix bugs and how much they’re getting paid. Can’t be much. Stars changed to 2.

Edited: I wrote - I love this game and updated it thinking it would fix the problems but I barely could get through one game due to it freezing constantly. I clicked for the second game and it froze and then booted me off. After messing around with different things on my iPhone, I rebooted it. That did help with the problem and am hoping the freezing, black screen and booting off is fixed. If it is, I’ll be very happy. Also, the ads on the bottom flashing at me are very annoying. I’ve changed my rating to a higher score.

Ehh. It can be fun - something to pass time. I prefer word games to skill games. I’ve played Word Crush off-and-on for about two years. I rarely “spend” the “coins” to buy board flips or helps like the lightning clues. For me it’s more fun to amass the coin points. I’m currently on level 773 - I have over 1900 game “coins.” Two days ago the game began being “jumpy” (not moving smoothly) and momentarily freezes (frequently). The freezes are becoming more lengthy. I usually have to exit the game and completely close it down (I play using iPad). It looks like I’ll have to delete WordCrush — and probably loose my progress. I doubt that I’ll reload it. It’s too frustrating to start over. I notice that WordCrush store description indicates that the game was updated 6 days ago. Maybe that caused the new problems - attention developers - sometimes your bug-fixes just create new bugs. I guess the game deserves a few stars since it lasted this long. Three it is - average. It’s average for a game to become a fail after time.

I quickly became addicted to this word game. I started noticing that I was earning points and I thought “wow that’s great; I wonder what I can buy with the points?” Then I made a small purchase of $.99.p, noticing that I had to login to my Apple Account. I immediately noticed that my points did not decrease.
So I checked my Apple account and the $.99 was taken out of my Apple account - instead of from the points that I earned through playing this game. So that’s disappointing and I've lost interest in this deceptive points-earning game.
I’d rather play it - without earning any points - since I can’t actually use the points earned to make a purchase.
I don’t know if the points (are supposed to) continue on day by day, but I did notice that when I began to play the next day my previous points were gone.
It’s also very difficult to get back to the menu of this game - so that I can review the rules & information again.

I have been playing this game for years.. It replaced Tetris as my go to game.. I am up to level 4245 and have about. 116,000 coins. The game plays well but the ads are getting very bad.. What use to be a 10, 15, or 30 second ad is now turning into almost a 60 seconds. It’s not enough you had to watch the ad you also have to jump to WordCrush Store to close out the ad before another 10 seconds to collect the coins or go to next level or gift after watching the 39 second ad. Then on top of it, the ads were targeted to your interests which made them tolerable now it’s about more stupid Gradenscape or Kingdom game that you have to watch the stupid ad, some you have to participate in then go over to WordCrush store just to close out of it and then wait 5 more seconds to get back to your this app game. I understand the need for ads for revenue but target the ads and the max should be 30 seconds only and that should only be 50% or less of the ads.

In Response to Developer Request to update Review: Your response did not indicate any changes had been made to lessen the number of ads, time required to watch (some require watching full ad) or steps necessary to get out of ads. When more time is dedicated to ads than playing the game, the objective is lost. I realize the developer is due some reward for developing but not like this. Sorry.

Initially rated high until I found out how much time was required to play a simple game. Game is good problem is game is designed to force you to pay to use; either you spend money or time. One round/word location in the game may take 3 seconds then you spend 35 seconds forced to watch an advertisement for another game. This is because game does not allow you to shuffle letters without repeating this process (letters purposely need shuffling). Summary 2 words may take several minutes. Waste of time. Other game advertisements don’t force you to wash the advertisements in entirety as does this one. There are better word games ou there. I’m gone.

This is a great and highly addictive game BUT when are more levels coming? The release of new levels is constantly behind the installed base of users. It means the game is unplayable for months at a time as you lose ranking in the tournaments. Support is totally unresponsive so much so that twice now I thought the developer had abandoned the game completely. Developers: PLEASE communicate with your loyal players! When are more levels coming? Make a commitment to get it done and tell your users what is happening with your game. I still give this title my top rating because, when you’re not out of levels, it’s one of the best word games around but, when you run out of levels, it’s like a punch in the gut. Developers! Get your act together PLEASE!

It’s impossible to play this game without having “Royal match” pop Popping up after and during and all the time. I can even concentrate in the words. Deleting WordCrush again. Too many advertisings!! After a while I purchased the no advertising, even though I have to option to watch them for coins, bees etc,etc. Lately I’ve noticed that after I watch them usually a pill to loose weight the screen turns black and the only option out is an arrow that takes you to their website with no way out but close the game and loose the bees, points etc,etc. I don’t know if the game is designed to force the player to close and start again. Otherwise is a great game. Forgot to add you don’t only loose the double prizes but the original prize when the screen goes blank.

Update: the issue of the daily prize continues. Go to double the prize by watching an ad. Screen goes black and lose the daily prize and not doubled. The issue of the of ad going to the end and freezing continues. I dropped the rating to 2. If issues were fixed it is a 5 star game.

Love playing this game. Several issues I have encountered. Yesterday went to get my daily gift. 60 coins. Went to double the prize by looking at a 30 second video. Gets to the end and screen goes blank. Had to restart the game. Not only did I not double the coins but I did not get the original 60 coins. This has happened several times since I started playing the game a few months ago. Second flaw. Open daily gift and want to double the prize. Ad fails to load. I wait and try again but no luck. This has happened frequently. If these issues were fixed, this is easily a 5 star game.

I just quit playing a game I really loved (Warlords of Aternum) after 3 years because the devs ruined it. Been playing Word Crush for just one week and am already at level 312. Saw my wife playing, so I downloaded it. Quickly got going and am now totally addicted. Extremely enjoyable, relaxing game, with vivid colors, great themes and not too heavy on ads. Other word games I’ve tried are frustrating and poorly conceived. Word Crush’s Bonus feature is fantastic because it accepts nearly every word in the English dictionary including many colloquialisms. Overall the game is challenging, but not completely ridiculous. Game fits my brain structure so well that I haven’t needed to use any of the hints or helps thus far. The few times I was stuck, I got a notification after a few hours with a “suggestion” which was very helpful.

Further, I was enjoying myself so much that I won a tournament that I didn’t even know I was in!

I am a vocal player regarding glitches and suggestions. But so far I haven’t seen a single thing I would change, which is why I rated it 5 stars. The devs of Word Crush designed a truly praiseworthy game for which they deserve much credit and the perfect rating I gave it.

Sincerely,

Scott

Everyone complains about all of the ads that you must sit through while playing this game. Once when I was on an airline flight, I discovered that this game works great when you have no internet connection. If you play this game in Airline mode, which you can turn on under the Settings menu of your device any time, you can play for as long as you want with no annoying ads and it doesn’t cost you a thing.... Then when you are done playing the game and want to go back online, you just turn the Airline mode off. Simple solution! Of course, now that I have pointed this out, the developers may delete my comment or revise the application so that you can’t play it offline. We’ll see!!!

Problem with contest resolved…Thank you. Still slow and glitchy on iPad. Look forward to next update. Hopefully it will be smooth again.
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Never had a problem til this past weekend. Game was glitchy when I was playing in the tournament. There was about two hours left, I was in second place, and then it was just gone. No more tournament. I kept playing two more games, then exited. Closed WordCrush , waited, and came back in. Nothing. I set it aside assuming I would see results today and get my coins. Nothing. I can’t find a way other than through writing a review to communicate with you as I don’t have Facebook.

This is it fun game, but the major problem is the number of commercials. Even that would not be such a problem, because many free games have similar numbers of commercials, but twice an “option” to upgrade popped up in the center of the game screen and there was no way to remove it. The only choice was to purchase the upgrade to continue the game. I switched off of the game a number of times, but the “option” remained on the screen each time I pulled the game back up. I finally deleted the game.
One suggestion: at one point A number of options to upgrade popped up. Prices were different but it was unclear (at least to me) what benefits were included in each option. Clarifying this would really help. I like the game enough that I would have purchased the option to remove the adds but it was unclear for how long that would be effective
Once again, this is a great game, but, at least for me, the fun was outweighed by the frustration

Game is fun and stimulating to play. I play the free version and understand the need for ads to pay the bills. With that said, however, the ads are very long and they seem to come before you can start nearly every game. It really increases the time commitment to play the game and I get bored waiting for the ad to finish. It really stops the momentum of the game. It would be nice if the developers would cut the ad length in half or at least shorten subsequent viewings of ads that have already been seen once or twice in their entirety. Other games have ads that allow you to skip it after 5 or 10 seconds and that would be delightful in this setting too. One can get the point of the ad in a few seconds and decide if it interests them or not, 30 seconds is way too long. Please shorten them.

I played 250 levels. At first I thought it got harder as I went, but no. They may add more words, but the levels don’t get harder; on the contrary, they are highly repetitive, using the same words over and over. That was strike one.

The game is British. Nothing wrong with that, but there wasn’t a warning, so I was trying to spell a word that the game wouldn’t take. I eventually figured it out, but it’s hard to play a game when you don’t know the lingo.

Lastly and most importantly to me, the ads force sound. I can be anywhere with my sound off, but the game will suddenly spawn an ad that is loud and play the sound anyway. Since I am looking for a game to play while in waiting rooms and such, this game will not work for me. If the other two issues did not exist, I would consider just paying to get rid of the ads. With so many apps out there, this one gets a no from me.

Was enjoying the game and had earned thousands of points through the tournaments and by finding extra words and completing many levels. Unfortunately this week the game froze and then wouldn’t reload. The only thing to do was to delete WordCrush and reload. Now I’m back to the first level and all my points are gone. I’m done with this game now. I won’t start over. It was already getting a bit redundant with the same words being used again and again in the puzzles. Fun while it lasted I guess.

I’ve seen on line that many people have experienced WordCrush freezing up. It is almost worse knowing it is a glitch in the program that they have known about for a long time and have yet to fix. It particularly seems to happen when people have gotten deep into the levels and earned lots of points.

App is great for a wordy person but has lots of little weaknesses that detract. Examples include throwing french words into an English game. E.g. “Pape” instead of “Pope” as someone who wears white. Even though you can see a lot of the words before they are crushed into position you can’t get credit til one particular word is found and that word can be a french word so its weird. Also sometimes WordCrush simply won’t accept that you have found a word. I try to select it over and over it wouldn’t take but after flipping the board it let me take it. (I think the example was “Bridge”. If you don’t find a word in 4 seconds it will start bouncing cheat options in the tray which is annoying.

But the mix of terms is better than I expected so I still play it sometimes.

This has become my favorite word game!

I do wish the badge challenges were structured differently though. This should be a daily all day challenge instead of timed like it is now. The way they are structured now if you trigger a badge challenge by playing a game then you have to finish all three levels in a certain time period. Well that means one sitting playing for hours which I just can’t do and I would think many people can’t. Let those of us who can only play a few puzzles at a time have a chance at badges too
Update: I noticed the badge challenges are more accessible now so kudos to the game developers!

There’s a couple of mildly disturbing things:
1) as this is obviously made by a country that is not the US, This winter season 2021 include native themed teepees and feather headdresses. This is a huge faux pas. Indigenous headdresses are current and culturally specific and not to be copied or used outside of specific ceremonial settings and then only by specific people who have earned and made them. So that was pretty shocking to see.

2)The other is why does the November 2021 bonus theme sun look like a corona virus? It’s pretty funny but still seems in poor taste

I did love this game until I got LOCKED out! I have won first place twice in the last few weeks and second place once. Built up 2415 coins. Tried to enter this weekend’s tournament and completed a board called: associated with a witch. Instead of entering me in the tournament and giving me a new puzzle I was sent back to the associated with a witch title board, but no puzzle came up! How can I get back in the game under the name eli where my coins are? I have 2 e mails don’t know which I am registered for this game with I have a Facebook account which you cannot seem to locate. Please help! I do not want to lose my coins... I have too many hours of play wrapped up in this game to start all over again!
Got your e mail... thank you. I updated new version but it sent me right back to my frozen screen. I did enjoy playing this, but I need a solution to my problem that works or I will have to find a new favorite game!

I like this game for the game play itself. It’s fun and challenging.
The issues I have with it is first, no warning before you use coins for something. So if you accidentally hit a option for a clue that cost coins, it just takes it. I prefer games that warn you and make sure you want to use the coins . When playing g on a phone it’s so easy to hit something you didn’t mean to.
The other would be the ads. I mean soooo many ads. I know it’s a free game and we have to have ads to pay for it. I accept that because all free games do. But I don’t think I have ever played one that has this many. If I am in the middle of a game and have to my phone down to do something for a few minutes, when I come back I have to watch another freaking ad just to get back to where I left off. It’s ridiculous .

This has been my my favorite word game by far. It’s great to challenge the brain and keep it sharp. The levels are generally not too hard but challenging. Some levels are repeated (I’m in the 700’s now) but it doesn’t happen so often that it gets boring. I like that there is no messaging capability between players and you really have no way of knowing anyone else other than to see them on a tournament leaderboard. That way I never get harassed by creepers. The placement of the hint options is the only thing I’d say needs to be revamped- it’s too easy to hit them by accident with your thumb and use coins you didn’t intend to. Once I purchased the game, the ads went away- although you can choose to watch an add for additional coins or rewards if you want but it’s not necessary. Overall this is a fantastic word game for a nerd like me.

Been playing this for a while and like it but unfortunately today the game seems to have broken. I’m able to play the daily game, but when I move on to a regular game (I’m at level 556) it freezes. Too bad because I like the weekend competition.

UPDATE:
Still broken on 6/22. Everything seems fine except that no game loads at level 556 which means I can’t move on. I guess I could delete and reinstall, but that probably means I lose all my coins (over 18,000) and my advancement. I guess I will just delete.

UPDATE 2:
So I got an email response from the designers. They are aware and working on a fix, but gave me a workaround. Go back to the first game of the first level and play it again. This unlocks everything and after you finish that first game it brings you to your current, pre-lock level.
YMMV - but this worked for me and I did not lose any coins or levels.

Giving back the stars I took away for their quick response and easy work around until they get it sorted out.

Is anyone else having this problem?? First, let me say, I’m enjoying this game! But for Some reason, I am not able to get double the daily gift when I click on the button. This has happened for the last five or six days now. When I click the button that says x2, I get the message, connection is not available at the moment. I used to get this message all the time, but I would tap the button a couple of times and it would take me to the ad that I needed to view to earn x2 gift. I have turned off my iPad and turned it back on but I’m refusing to remove WordCrush because I have earned a lot of coins and don’t want to lose them. Is this problem being caused by the update that was done this past June? Or is it only me having this problem

First of all, the words are entirely too simple. They’re not really the kind of words that offer a challenge (as, me, at, him, her, there, etc.).
Secondly, if you get a trivia question wrong (I got a LOT wrong) that’s it. No option to learn the right answer? No popup of a related verse? It’s just simply wait three minutes or complete several more overly simplistic puzzles.
Finally, the WORST offense is this; when a scripture verse comes up at the end of a chapter I can only see part of it and I never do see the rest of the verse.
Overall, it’s not terrible and the music is soothing, but as someone who has an above average vocabulary it just isn’t interesting. And as someone who has forgotten a lot of the small details over the years it would have been nice to get a refresher, but no. It’s just, “Wrong answer; try again in three minutes.”

I’m given this game only 3 stars for the way the total coins total is handled ( total coins). I play every morning early and every evening while watching tv. Twice this game has taken away all my points (coins). I’m at level 274 and trying to see how many points a can earn. The first time I reach a total of 19? (Don’t remember the exact number) and as I went to play the next game, hoping to reach 200 the game went back to zero points and I had to start over. Shrugged it off and continued to play. This morning shad worked my way up too 194 coins and the game did it again. Twice on thee same game is too much for me. Will not try again I’m done with this game and any other game by this developer. I also refuse too buy points so watch a lot of commercials.
Les

NEVER RECEIVED MY DOUBLE POINTS FOR VIEWING AN AD. Game has a lot of ads. The daily puzzle date is off, it is one day ahead which is weird. The daily puzzle is too long and there are no points for extra words when completing the daily puzzle. Also some words do not count as bonus words, very selective when accepting bonus words. The daily bonus is usually doubled when a video is viewed, unfortunately it never works. There’s always something wrong with the connection, odd since the ads play with no problems but getting an extra bonus the connections somehow don’t work. Also the ads stop 🛑 playing and become non responsive. Never received my bonus. Also WordCrush tried to download some malicious app on my phone from a site the was written in Chinese. This is just another way to sell bonus items. One star is too generous for WordCrush. Stay away .

Okay game. Ads up THE ying yang. But biggest peeve is that the video AD that we have to continuously see on all apps is totally BOGUS! bogus. A USER CAN MOT SWIPE DIAGONAL!! Nor is WordCrush endless word search anagrams. You can only swipe vertical and horizontal. I don’t get it. Why show footage and advertise false info. There is Only one game app that I found that allows you to find endless words going perpendicular as well as vertical and horizontal for free coins. As well as the game objectives featured here and across many of these type of gaming apps. Do to business ethics, I will not post the name of the game here in this review.
All I will type is that developer is the largest competitor of these word type games.
DEVELOPER DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND UNDERSTAND THAT US USERS ARE INTELLIGENT FOLK. TO MANY CROOKS OUT THERE. YOU WILL GET BURNED SO HONEST UP!
DONE.