Connect The Words Reviews

There are frequently categories like “words that rhyme with ‘xxxx’” or “synonyms of ‘xxxx’” where ‘xxxx’ is one of the words in the grid. Like, does ‘puzzle’ rhyme with ‘puzzle’? Or is ‘trivia’ a synonym for ‘trivia’? I find these frustrating in a way that detracts from gameplay. There was also a category about vegetables where half the words in the group were fruits 🤷 and another with words from different languages that didn’t use the proper characters (ie ‘n’ rather than ‘ñ’).
Then there was the puzzle with two categories of Christmas-related items. This one felt like. Trap to keep me watching ads since the difference between groups wasn’t enough to solve it except by random luck, even with hints.
And why, oh why, must the text be so microscopic?

This game is fun in the beginning, but as you progress it becomes simply a vehicle for advertisements. This is accomplished by creating arbitrary correct choices where it is not about the words but the faulty thinking of the creators of the puzzle. These puzzles include multiple (more than 4) correct choices. Grouping logically correct words are indicated as incorrect by the puzzle creators. This forces the player to use “hints” which eventually are exhausted, and force the player to view ads, to try to figure out the thinking of the puzzle creators. For example, one puzzle requires matching NFL team nick names. The words provided include actual parts of the team names and there are more than 4 possible correct choices. To make matters worse some of the choices are not “nick names” at all. Another example is the puzzle with words having two words imbedded in one word. The same puzzle includes words with fruit imbedded in the word. The problem is that some of these word choices are applicable to “connecting words” for both the former and the latter intent of the puzzle maker. I suggest you don’t waste your time on this one, I am deleting it.

There are frequently errors. For example, this morning, one of the tiles was Morays. I finally had to use one of the clues to tell me what the category was. It was social norms, which means it should’ve been spelled Mores. It’s also annoying that often the link is something like words spelled in alphabetical order. This is particularly annoying when there are two batches of them in the same puzzle. the “lives” don’t reset with time. So if you are stuck and run out of them, the only way to move forward is to buy more with stars, and if you run out of stars, you have to pay money to buy them. lastly, the experience points mean nothing.

I really like this game, but the downfall is that you don’t earn that many points if you win, no way to pick up extra points by spinning a wheel or something. If you run out of points…you are stuck like chuck until you figure out the puzzle. Super annoying and I can only take so many commercials in order to get another chance to guess. Not good. Not user friendly at all. So far I’m hanging in there, but I am not sure how long I can keep watching 60 second commercials in order to keep playing when I run out of points.

I like the game but it’s not fair that they don’t even give us a clue as to what each row should be !! We just have to guess randomly from 16 tiles and pray you get them right or you’ll lose the 3 lives they give you! Then u have to keep watching ads to get 1 more but still no hint ! Don’t have enough coins to buy hints and I so rethink we should have to spend our money on that !! The game developers need to give us clues to the rows, how y’all make a game but make it so hard to play! Will probably delete and try again after a few newer versions come out and fix these issues !

This is fun but it would be even better if some glitches were ironed out. After spending coins to get 1 life back and solving the puzzle and moving on to a few more - when I reopened ConnectTheWords to play later, it had sent me back to the one I had to spend coins on and had it unsolved with no lives left. Other times, I’ll spend coins to get one more life but not play right then and there. When I come back to it later, my coins are gone and so is the life I hadn’t used yet. It’s frustrating. I may just play the daily puzzle and let that suffice so I don’t lose so many coins unnecessarily.

When my wife and I first started playing this, we really enjoyed it. While we would struggle occasionally and have to look things up to get the right answer, it was very achievable and very fun. It has been getting increasingly harder to the point where we can’t play a single puzzle without spending extra time, googling words, using clues, or just making multiple wrong guesses. Make it easier, or give the option of various levels of difficulty.

Honestly. I like it overall. But, what’s the point of Experience Points? Can’t use them for anything. Takes way too long to build up stars to buy hints. Should consider accumulating lives. I can go through 5 levels without needing a life, then there is a stupid puzzle where the associations are specious to say the least and I still only get 3 chances to figure it out without paying. I am on about level 537 so I have taken time before this review.

First of all, there is a category that is synonyms of the word “example word here” and one of the four words will be that word. For example, I had one game where one of the categories was “synonyms for the word challenge” and challenge was on of the answers. THAT’S NOT HOW SYNONYMS WORK.
Second of all, they will have categories that are so closely related that its nearly impossible to differentiate. I just played a game where it had one category that was things associated with fall and the other was holidays in November…… it was frustrating to say the least.
But other than those things the game is usually fun, I’m just aggravated on those accounts.

I am a new player and am enjoying the game. I did notice that there were a few repeats, and I’m only on level 65. It might also be nice if as you make a selection if it is wrong, it is indicated right away rather than after you complete all four choices to find out they’re incorrect. I like the fact that the boxes scramble if you get an incorrect answer. It makes it more challenging. being able to get a hint by only ‘spending’ five coins is a plus. I agree with what someone else wrote that I would like to make the choice as to when I move on so I could look over all of the answers. The way it is now it moves too quickly and sometimes I don’t get a chance to read the category of the last row.

This is a great game! The only thing that I’d like to see changed is when I get to the last 4 tiles, I don’t get a chance to look them over, and see why I couldn’t figure out the category. I wish there was a button for me to click, so I could decide for myself when to move on. Other than that, I love the game!

Thank you for your friendly reply, in which you stated that there was now more time to look over the finished puzzle, but if that is true, it just isn’t enough time. Why not make a ‘go back’ button? That would solve the problem!

Fun game and play it daily. Like that it’s more thought provoking than many other games. Needs two small fixes to improve the experience: 1) allow users to give up and see the solution to a level they can’t solve. 2) allow the user to trigger the advancement to the next level. Currently, this happens automatically and very quickly once you solve the round. I often want to look at the last category and answers before I move on. Thanks!

Such a fun game! However, I would love to be able to go to the next round on my own as I often like to take in what the categories are, especially the final one. With the current model, I barely have time to register the category, let alone reflect on what I missed.
I would also love to be able to skip rounds/go back to them. There are some categories (like golf) where it takes research that I have zero interest in doing, just to move on.
However, I highly recommend this game as it is very clever and fun to ponder.

I really like this kind of word play. Makes me think. I also appreciate that most ads are the quick easy ones, just click on the double arrow if it appears and the x comes up quickly. The only ones that I don’t appreciate are the 30 second plus 5 second ones that come up when I am most frustrated because I ran out of lives and have to play an ad to get one. I could do without those! 🤣
Thanks for a new way of playing a word game!

I play this game daily and really enjoy it. The only time I had a problem was on Valentine’s Day when there was a “mess up” with the puzzle itself. I emailed for help and got an incredibly speedy reply (which is amazing these days and much appreciated!!) I also got an apology (which was icing on the cake,unnecessary, but also appreciated!!) Today, the developers gave us extra coins to make up for the mess up. That was really nice! I think it’s acceptable to pretend that my “winning streak” has not been interrupted, right?! 🤣

Update:
After writing the review below…the developer emailed me and shared some changes … and now…. Easy to close ConnectTheWords …start again…and you don’t have to watch the long video. Changed from 4 stars to 5. Thank you!!

Really super brain game but when you run out of lives the video to watch is ridiculously long and repetitive and a waste of time. I silence the video and ignore it. Makes a great game boring!

Edit - I have changed my review to 5 stars. I contacted customer support about the font size. While they are not able to change the size due to technical issues, they did change the font style. It is much easier to read now. I applaud their customer support for addressing an issue, and their timely response!

I really enjoy this game. It’s challenging but you can use hints if you get stumped. My only major issue is the font size. It is so small that’s hard to read.

This is a fun game and I have spent hours playing it. That being said, there needs to be new categories as I am seeing lots of overlap. I would also like something to spend the 14,600+ xp I have earned. Yes I have played a lot! Maybe I am missing what the xp is for?

Recommend this game, it is great to pull out when you have some free time and enjoy learning new things!

I got through the first 10 levels and haven’t had an ad. Good job so far of making some of them a little hard but for the most part you feel like you’re crushing it in the beginning. I believe that’s important to getting into a game.

A much more laid back version of the NYT Connections game. I feel way less dumb playing this one, probably because you can try again even if you run out of lives. My favorite but is that you can get extra coins by sharing the game, so it’s easy to rack up coins to ensure you always have the chance to buy more lives. Definitely my current favorite word game.