Associations: Word Puzzle Game Reviews

I haven Been playing this game for two days and I really like it but it’s hard to complete the levels. I’m only at level three they don’t give us enough lives if the creator of this game could update it and give us like 15 to 20 lives that would be perfect so if you could give us more turns for more words that would also be perfect!! Thank You. And to also let you know it’s a fun game but I only put four stars because of that one problem that I have!!

So far this problem has only happened once… on level 49, but I was gathering spices (saffron, dill, etc) but the category label was “family”… at the same time, there was a group of words that WERE “family” (bride, stepson)… so it got confusing.

I also wish there were more categories. As of fifty levels, I’m finding the limited number of categories repetitive.

Other than that, this game is exactly as advertised, and is a lot of fun for short mental breaks.

this game is pretty fun tbh. it’s exactly as advertised, you connect the words that go along with a category. the only thing that bugs me is the lives. you only get three lives per game and sometimes you have to guess a little to know which words go where. it’s also quite easy to mess up which can deplete your lives quite quickly. if there were more lives and less ads this game would be perfect

Playing the actual game has been quite fun. It makes me think and helps me learn about what some things are. However, it says ran out of moves yet doesn’t say anywhere how many moves you have. This is quite the irritation, and you only get three lives. Those go away very quickly so more lives would be beneficial I feel. If you have patience the game isn’t bad but can improve. Also, the ads before every level are very inconvenient.

The connections are very sensitive so when you are playing fast you tend to lose lives from stupid mistakes, you have to re start levels 4 and 5 times just too beat them because you only get 2 lives. Also when you lose (which is often) it plays an add, when you start a level it plays an add, sometimes when you add more tiles it plays an add. The concept is great the execution is poor.

I agree with others reviews. This game is fun however there are a lot of words that most people wouldn’t know so searching the definitions can get annoying. Also the lines to match are very sensitive. Because the ovals are also small, I often make stupid mistakes. I wish the bubbles were bigger and there was an undo button.

Would like 2 features
1. Being able to click and hold instead of drag I can’t see all the words under my finger and when you try to look you could accidentally lift and it will mess up ur cluster
2. Which brings us to #2 an undo button since these types of mistakes are common and not seeing all the words

I enjoyed the game for about 24 hours/17 levels, and then deleted it. The categories are repeated level after level, so once you are familiar with them, the game doesn't present many challenges. If the categories did not repeat, I would have continued to enjoy the game!

It is way too easy to accidentally select the wrong word, especially when moving diagonally. For a game that should just be pretty relaxing, requiring the level of precision just to avoid selecting the wrong one AND punishing for doing that by failing the level is incredibly annoying. I uninstalled it pretty quickly.

I really like this game, BUT, the categories just repeat every level. We live in a ginormous world with so many things - the possibilities are endless. Why do you keep using the same tired five or six categories? Fruit, languages, body parts, numbers?! Seriously?

I really like playing this game. However it’s only good for a bigger screen. When I try to play this on my iPhone, I sometimes hit other words on accident. I wish there was a way to fix that.

A game you can play for hours of entertainment. Perfect for road trips, boredom, or just a fun brain game!

Too many ads and not enough ways to get more lives

I like the game and it could be fun but I’m on level 21 and the same categories and answers have been repeated for 21 levels. Kind of annoying.

Hate all the ads but other than that I enjoy playing this game 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

This is a very addictive game! And you learn new words in the process!

This game is really fun, but after a few levels you just repeat the same words and groups over and over

This is a fun game!

Liked the original style of gameplay way better,,not this connecting with lines stuff. Really disappointed as I LOVED playing this game

I just started playing your game. I have to say it is very addicting. It does have a lot of ads. I would like to purchase it to get rid of the ads, however, I am concerned about the repetitive categories. I’m only on level 18, and I can’t believe how many times the categories have already repeated. I keep hoping for different categories. The other thing that concerns me is the lives in the game. It’s a word game - it makes you think and strategize placement of the categories labels. Do we really need lives in this game? It would be so much more enjoyable if you didn’t have lives to worry about and you have more varied categories.
Please consider removing the lives and let us just enjoy your game at our leisure. In addition, please update with more categories.
It is really an incredible challenging game which I would love to continue playing. If these changes are made, I may then purchase your game. It will be worth it then.
Thank you,

I really like this game! It’s extremely challenging, which I love. But where there’s challenge, there’s frustration. I think the game needs a few quality of life updates. Perhaps add power ups to help clear the board or an undo button. It’s very frustrating to have to start the entire level over if you make more than 3 mistakes. Also, as a person with a disability, it’s super easy to be dragging multiple words and include another as a mistake and then lose lives accidentally. Maybe having you tap once to create chains instead of dragging would make this less likely to happen. These are just some suggestions since I want to continue playing!

Try as hard as you will, you will rarely clear a board because the ones in the way, cannot be moved! For instance if you link all modes of transportation and all types of hats, but need to go back and link a type of dance, you can’t because the modes of transportation are in the way! And, you only get to add more words before you are out of lives. When you are out of lives, you then have to watch an ad that at least two minutes long, or start over! Biggest waste of time and money! You will frustrated if you download this game. BTW, what the crap are the double arrows for?! Wasteful frustrating crap is all this is. Games are supposed to be relaxing, enjoyable and logical and this one is NONE of those. Couldn’t get pass level three because you don’t get enough lives, they aren’t spaced out enough to prevent error, etc. so I deleted this app! I advise anyone not to waste time in this junk! App needs work, lots of work! I don’t have patience for foolishness!!

I love this game and I play it all the time but I’m starting to get frustrated. The first thing that needs to be fixed is definitely the amount of adds that are being shown. Every two seconds I’m playing it feels like a add is popping up. Also maybe if you give the player coins for completing a board they can use that as ways to get more hints instead of watching more adds. It’s also really hard to group together words without dragging other words with it. I suggest instead of dragging you can click on the words that go together. It’s also really annoying that you have to start out on a new board and restart every single time you lose. Instead of having to restart there can be a undo button and the board will stay the same. If those problems are fixed this will be an awesome game!

This game is incredibly fun and unique but to get through one level I have to watch upwards of 5 unskippable ads - one at the beginning of the level, once everytime i add words to the board (3 or 4 times per level) and one on completing or failing the level. This number would be exorbitantly high for any single level of basically any phone game but when you take into consideration that a level of this game would take about two ads worth of time to finish without interruption, you can start to see how frustrating the ads really are. I am the type of person who will pay to get rid of ads but when I’m watching ads for twice or thrice as long as i’m playing, I start to feel like devs should be paying me. I have to delete this game at this point and it’s unfortunate because i have really enjoyed the gameplay.

This game is to freaking hard I love a challenge but dang this was tooooo challenging for me I decided to delete it cause I got so frustrated . I don’t even know where you can see how many lives you have and they give you the least amount of mistakes like 3 or 4 for about 30 words . Currently stuck on level 4 keep dying because too many mistakes or too many moves . You have to have a high IQ to play this game . It’s ridiculous games are supposed to be a little fun so if you’re up for a challenge try this cause it sure will challenge you . Make it easier how is the 4th level so hard ? I tried that level a million times and I just can’t seem to get it but it does raise your IQ learned so many new words. I recommend but also don’t …

I really enjoy the game and am glad to support the developers, however there are two improvements I would like to see. As some reviewers have already mentioned, the repetitive use of words and categories gets old after about 15 levels. At first I had to puzzle out which words went with which categories but now I know them all and it I longer a puzzle. Also, I don’t see the point in having hearts that run out - ESPECIALLY because it is so easy to highlight a wrong word as you make your chain. I get buying more hearts is a way to make money but I would pay to add more categories instead. Thank you!

This is a really fun app! But a few improvements are needed. For example, I have had this game about two months,I play everyday, and I am still on level 3. My point is the game is really hard. Another example is that I will be doing really well. To a point where I will almost pass the level. But then it kills me and says I am ‘out of moves’. But in reality,it doesn’t even tell you how many moves you have to begin with. Either way, my point is that this game is really hard. And if you want a really easy word game, I do not recommend Associations in particular

I think overall it’s a fine game, it has the potential to be a good puzzle game. But it’s also kind of annoying to play sometimes. It can finicky when you try to connect multiple words together, often connecting to the wrong ones. Which is a problem when you only have 3 lives. Another issue is the fact you have a limited amount of turns. Which in itself isn’t an issue but the problem is it doesn’t tell you how many turns you have. Kinda bizarre if you ask me. Honestly I think it should either be a certain amount of lives or a certain amount of turns, not both. And if it is turns, you should be able to tell how many you have.

First off I will say this I really do like the game. It’s pretty addictive and fun to play. I rated 3 stars for two reasons. Waaaaay to many ads. I don’t mind the occasional ad. However an ad pops every time you do anything in the game. Need to add more rows to the game an ad pops up and there are usually multiple rows in a game. Need to restart boom ad pops up. Even if you have just watch an ad it will still pop up. The other thing is I don’t like having lives. What’s the point in it *shurg*. But the ads are the most annoying thing. I get that you can buy to play without ads. But honestly with this many ads it makes me want uninstall.

I like the game itself a lot. Connecting topics is a nice challenge, particularly when there’s overlap. However, two big things bug me. First: the game appears on my Home Screen spelled wrong. It’s Assosiations. Everywhere else it’s spelled right. Second: if you could tap connections and then submit them instead of dragging, that would be great. Too often I lost lives because I didn’t notice I’d mixed a diagonal Ivan in with the Birch and Cypress. Made it less fun when I had to restart for a mistake rather than somethings I actually got wrong.

Cool game, BUT I don’t like how it expects me to know what category every word goes into. I find myself going back and forth with safari to know what words to connect. I see that you have to have a strategy for how you connect them but you should add a feature where you can tap the word and know it’s category before it’s grouped. Also switch up the categories more from game to game so that there’s a variety of words being used. Sometimes, it feels like I’m playing the same level over and over. Aside from that, I really like the game.

I really really love this game. I love that it makes you think and strategize. I would however really like an undo button because sometimes you accidentally grab the wrong words and lose a life when it was just a finger fudge.

The second thing that I wish, is that it had more categories. I am on level 30 something and it’s been the same categories all 30 levels, nothing new, so it’s starting to get boring and less challenging.

There is an ad after everything you do. For example, every time you want more words on the screen, you have to watch an ad. And an ad before you start the level and after you start the level. There are also many words on this game that I have to look up what they mean in order to know how to connect them, and connecting them is very hard as well. The diagonal connections are almost impossible and when you have your finger on a word to connect it with others, it often doesn’t show that you are trying to connect anything.

I 100% understand that y’all have to pay for this game somehow. But an ad after every new group of words is wildly excessive. I only played for about 20 minutes and received over 10 ads. They are skippable after a certain point but it’s still far too many. I had to delete Associations because of the incessant ads. Also, the game is just too freaking hard. You should really get like 5-10 lives considering I didn’t know what some of the words even meant let alone what category they belonged in. You have a wonderful concept, please listen to these reviews and make some changes !!

This is a challenging game (which is great!) so you mess up a lot. But you only get 2 chances before an add comes on. So the time you spend watching an ad vs the time you spend playing is way out of proportion. For one game, you have to watch 5 ads at the base (one to get in and one to open up each section of the game) and that is only if you play perfectly, which you won’t. So every other time you mess up, there’s another ad. The developers need to rethink this approach. I’m an avid strategic gamer and I’d like to play this game, but even when I’m playing, I’m not really playing. Let me know if you redesign this and I’ll gladly come back.

So when trying to connect the items in the a group it is very easy to swipe over another item and it causes you to lose a life. Then when you do get everything grouped together you can connect the groups but other groups are in the way. But you can’t add more words until you have cleared the board. So you have to options keep trying to find ways to connect the groups without hitting other groups, however be careful because you don’t have any plays left you with lose because you don’t have moves left

I really like this game. I start out playing and then quickly become frustrated and quit. It’s so hard to drag the parts without grabbing other parts that don’t belong in that group. If they made it easier to group the words, it would be nice. Also if they added an undo button, it would eliminate having to start over. And if you do start over, please bring up the same board instead of a new one. I can be almost finished and then hit the wrong word and lose my last life and then have to start over on a completely different board. If there is no undo button, then give us a chance to finish a board we almost finished previously so we can not make the same mistake the second time around. It’s also hard to clear the board because if the way the words are positioned. You can’t drag a word without dragging a word that’s not supposed to be in the group. Please upgrade.

I love puzzles, word games, anything to make me think. This game can be a challenge until you can make a habit of setting your association groups in ways you can play around them. Yes, I get frustrated when I must replay a level, but it is definitely possible to get through the levels. The ads are a bit much, but I understand that it helps to keep games free as well as keep the updates coming.
I’m unsure how many levels there are, so I don’t know if purchasing the ad removal would be worth it for me. As such, I play until the ads frustrate me and then I do something else for a while (you remember hobbies other than games, right?), then I can return and enjoy my games again.
The work you put into Associations is most appreciated!

I WAS enjoying the game for what little bit I could play and would have liked to continue playing but there’s one thing that really needs to be done for people to not get sick of this game very quickly. PLEASE add an undo button or let us move the already grouped up words one or two blocks over so we don’t have to restart a bunch of times. I’ve only made it to level 3 before I inevitably uninstalled Associations . I had to restart 19 times before I was done. I should not have to restart that much on ONLY level 3. Even if you have to roll ads for us to earn undos, I’m totally on board with that but just let us do SOMETHING.

The actual game play of this game is great. It’s just the right level of challenging to be able to connect the words and to think ahead to not put groups in the way of other connections etc.
What bothers me is how repetitive the categories are. I feel like I’m playing the same level over and over with the way the categories keep repeating.
I also agree with others that the ads are a bit much, but I would pay to remove the ads if I knew how many levels there were and if the levels were actually different enough from each other to not feel like the same thing over and over again.

I love this game. I got totally hooked the minute I downloaded Associations . It is a very enjoyable game. It makes you think, strategize, and passes the time nicely without boring you to death. But, I am deleting Associations because the ads are out of control! I get the whole ad thing, you need to put them in to make money but the amount of ads in this game is over the top. There should be a way to get through the whole level without the painful experience of watching sometimes double and triple ads in between groupings. I spent more time painfully sitting there watching ads than I did playing your fun game. Sorry, I’m leaving but free time is precious and the ads in your app are too much of time sucker!

I think this game has a lot of potential to be an addicting and fun game. A few concerns that I have and I’ve also read from other reviews are of course the hearts it’s especially annoying when you don’t realize that your line has hit a word you didn’t mean to go to. I agree with some people about the the board changing up mainly when your are so close to being done. I have been on the 3rd level for a few day until I finally had to unstall the game because I “ran out of spaces” my suggestion would be to be able to move the main groups that you put the words into to make it a little more easy on everyone. It’s a fun game and has a lot of potential. If these problems that everyone has pointed out were fixed or even accommodated to it would be such a fun game and I would even download it again!

The game is outstanding.. in its basic form. The sad reality is that this game has all the potential to be one of the go-to’s for all of us brain nerds, but has some serious red flags. The number, length and frequency of your ad play is far to high for a game that doesn’t have the greatest platform to begin with. By that I mean— HOLY LAG BATMAN. On top of some seriously rooted bugs, I’ve had plenty of frozen screens, lost game/level play, just plain unresponsive screen touches/taps/etc.

If you put those three together— you will understand why folks will just plain move onto the next or the game that is like-minded to yours but has far less bugs and way less ad play and time.

Because if you were playing and all the sudden your screen froze, and did not unfreeze itself, which led to you having to close and reopen Associations — just to lead you directly into a 30-45 second ad, just for you to discover that the game didn’t account for any of the work you had done prior to the screen freezing…. Tell me you would want to play that app again.. probably not.

This game is fun and challenging, but having to watch a 45sec-1 min ad every 30ish seconds is overwhelming and obnoxious. The game is not good enough to justify paying to be ad free. There’s a lot of bugs that need to be fixed such as: lots of freezing, the lag is terrible, and sometimes when it freezes and you have to exit out and reopen, you’ll be promoted to watch yet another ad just to find out all your progress on that level was lost. The subject or types of items to match repeats just about every level so it’s difficult to find/get new categories. Not really worth it as there’s some other games just as challenging without the lag/freezing and/or frequency and long length of ads.

This game is so fun and also challenging once you get past level five I have had this game for so long and I love it because it gives me like it gets rid of the blindness. If you’re bored is it like helps yeah it’s like really fun and I also really love it, which I don’t know what it helps when I said that but like it is really fun and it’s not boring and there’s like a lot of fun stuff about this game and like it takes a lot of time so like it takes up time in your day if you’re not busy, it’s really fine and like it’s just I don’t know how many levels on but I just got it and I already love it so yeah, this is like the best game that I’ve always had. I literally love this game. It is so fun I just love it yeah that was about this game like I love it so much and hopefully you do if you get it bye but yeah I really do. Hope y’all get it like I love it so fun takes time. Yeah I love it, but if y’all do get dressed cause it’s like a horrible challenging and I just like it like it is so fun and hopefully y’all like it too if y’all get so yeah literally the best game I have always had

I’m sad to have deleted this game. I think that it would be fun and challenging but the ads make it unplayable. Depending on how quick you go through the parts of each level you could be watching a one minute unskippable ad every 30-60 seconds, I even had some ads that I couldn’t close which resulted in me having to reboot the whole app and loose my progress. I realize ads are needed, my recommendation for this company would be to either put ads on a timer situation (every 5 minutes or so, even if they’re longer ads), make your ads skippable after a few seconds, or to have ads as the extra and at the end of each level. In between each adding of words is too much. I also realize that there’s the option to purchase the no ads part, but given that I couldn’t play for a full hour with ads without having to reset Associations or really actually get into the levels I’m playing due to the excessive amount of ads I can’t even say I like the game well enough to invest my own money into it. If there’s an adjustment on the frequency of ads, I’d love to try it again, but reading the responses from the creator to others I doubt it will change.

I don’t write very many reviews but I felt like I needed to w this game. Overall the objective of the game is cool and fun. A good game for when you need time to pass. My only complaint is the ads. You have to watch an ad before you start a level, when you add more categories, when you use a hint, when you run out of lives and when you complete the level. You’ll probably watch at least 6-10 ads (sometimes more) each level. I love to play games on my phone of all different types, and I can genuinely say that I have never played a game with as many ads as this one. There is absolutely no need to have to watch that many ads for 1 level. If they fixed the amount of ads you have to watch to complete a level, then I would give Associations 5 starts.

The game itself is a great idea and I enjoy playing it for the most part. However, it’s easy to accidentally choose the wrong word and have a life taken—you only get 3. There should be a back button or more lives. And the ads are seriously obnoxious. There should not be an ad every time you add new words. I totally get developers need to make money on free games. I don’t mind watching ads for that reason, but this game has so many ads it makes me not want to play. It seems like you’re trying to annoy players into spending money to get rid of ads. Not cool and keeps me from wanting to give you money, to be honest.

I’m super annoyed that I’m receiving/having to watch ads for “unlocking” the extra level after completing a level and for getting more lives. $5 is a lot to pay for no ads ESPECIALLY when I’m still getting ads!!! Game is slightly challenging and entertaining at first because there are a lot of uncommon words like names of mountain, rivers, animals, creatures, etc. Then it gets repetitive and you do the same categories over and over and over again and then it’s boring. Also, you don’t know how many words are needed to complete a topic. Sometimes it’s 3, 6, 9, 12, etc. and some words could be used for 2 categories (example: “trunk” could be used for the flowers/trees, human body, and elephant) and you can only how many words are in each category by connecting 2 words together and letting go. Also, when swiping and doing a long sequence, it likes to add neighboring words, which takes away a life. I’d give the game 2-3 stars if they actually got rid of ALL ads when you pay FIVE DOLLARS for a no ads experience. Waste of $5!!!! Disappointing for sure.

Way too many ads… completely takes away from even being able to decide if you like the game enough to remove ads. When you get down to a few words and a few categories there’s no way sometimes to connect them so you just waste moves and have to restart. And most frustrating, you don’t know how many moves you have even used or have left, wouldn’t it be wonderful if you knew and could watch an ad to get more moves. Clues are useless too, I want a clue based on when I click on it and it gives me a hint based on what’s left on the board, instead the clues may be things I have already solved for. Overall, there are better options for this type of game where developers have put more into a better user experience. Deleting after just 2 games.

I wish the game was just like how the ad advertised it as. In the ad for this game, when it lets you play, it gives a category and you tap all the words in the category until you’ve got all the words, then on to the next category and so on until you clear the board. I liked it and downloaded Associations only to find out it’s absolutely nothing like the ad at all. You have to drag the words together to match categories without touching a word in the other categories and you can do several categories at once. I liked the way it was in the ad way better. I’ve never seen a word game give you “lives” and when you try to try the level again it gives you a completely different board and doesn’t actually let you retry the level you failed.
I played 3 levels and spent more time watching ads than I did actually playing the game.
This game definitely needs a lot of improvement/upgrades but has the potential to eventually become a fun game but so far, for me, it’s more frustrating than anything.

One reason is because it’s just a little hard but it’s also really fun to figure out what the word what somewhere just mean this of how I would say it but like it’s just really fun it’s a good family game and it’s like it helps your brain like get more knowledge and stuff and paying attention to like what I press and drag or whatever but yeah like I said it is really fun game and a family game and it’s fun that like it’s kind of hard but it’s kind of easy but yeah but that’s one reason why I chose to write you guys three stars. and the last and final reason is that it’s just it helps you like get more knowledge just like you kind of have to pay attention to it like you’re doing and yeah not like I said it like you have to like pay attention and like really look and it’s just a really fun family game.

This is a fun game but it’s sometimes too challenging. Don’t get me wrong I love a good challenge and I like solving puzzles but the way the pieces are laid out I can’t always see that I got a word that isn’t in the category and then lose a life. There are only 3 lives per game and that often isn’t enough. I don’t like having to start all over for mistakes that aren’t intentional. There are also some pretty obscure words that, as an educated person, I’ve never heard or seen before which makes matching categories difficult.
The ads are excessive and to remove them is more expensive than this kind of game is worth.
I like the ad for this game better because it showed crossing off words in a given category. But in reality you don’t know what the categories are (and there are quite a few per level) and you just have to guess. But don’t guess wrong cause you’ll lose all you lives and have to start all over again.
I hope that the developers can make some improvements on this game to fix some of these issues and make a better game.

I really like this game but I have a few problems. 1: way too many ads. If you leave Associations , or when you start or finish it will make you watch an ad, usually 1 minute long. 2: the hearts. I think the hearts on a word game are a little strange, especially because you only have 2 or 3, and you have to watch an ad to get one, and if it’s a hard level, you will probably be watching a lot of ads. 3: when you’re dragging words to put them together sometimes it attaches words you don’t want and you have to restart, or you don’t notice and it takes away a life. 4: you have a number of moves, but you don’t know how many. I think having a number of moves is fine, but I would prefer to know how many. For example, recently I was about to complete a level (I had 2 more moves and I would be finished) and it said I used all my moves and made me restart. 5: When you run out of moves or lives it restarts you with the same groups/words. It would be nice to have different groups/words. Thank you and I understand these might be hard fixes, but I’m willing to wait!