7 Little Words and More Reviews

In the old version of this game, I paid real money for puzzle packs. Now, there are still ads that show up, even though I have paid you money in the past and I’ve restored my purchases. It seems like I have to pay money to get rid of the ads, AND I have to pay additional money to actually play the game. Sorry, no dice.

UPDATE: thank you for the reply. However, I continue to feel that if I have paid you money, I should not have to watch ads—period. Even daily puzzles should be ad-free if I have paid you for anything. Also, I don’t want to have to pay monthly/yearly fees for things. I would consider one reasonable payment that would give me an ad-free experience, AND I would also consider a small amount for each small (only 50 now?) puzzle pack. Paying $4/month or $30/year, every month or year going forward, is unacceptable. So many services are going in this direction and it is really starting to feel greedy. What’s wrong with charging me once and delivering a solid product?

I have played this game for a few years and, up till recently, have really enjoyed it. I purchased the "all access pass" for the second time, and, quite frankly, it's not worth the money. Each day for the past 3 or 4 months, I go to see if there are any very easy or easy puzzle packs that I have not played yet. Unfortunately, the developer hasn't added any. I am a disabled older woman who likes to do puzzles in a leisurely fashion. I find it too hard to even do the moderate skill level puzzles, so unless new easier puzzles are added, this game is of no use to me. After my current subscription expires, I plan on canceling the "all access pass" and deleting the game. That's most unfortunate too, because this game used to be one of my all time favorites.

I wish to cancel my subscription to the all access pass, but I can find no place to do it. I have tried for 2 months now to find this info, and have written support several times without getting a response from anyone. Please cancel my subscription, as my health condition does not permit me to do these puzzles any longer.

I am really kicking myself for updating this game. I have been playing this game for about 6 years. The simplicity of it was part of its charm. Now it is hard to read - different color tiles for each puzzle pack, and you can’t easily tap on the words to quickly increase and decrease the font size. The hint feature used to be awesome. You could pick which word you wanted a hint for and decide how much of a hint you wanted. Now if you tap hint it will just randomly oick a word and show a tile - you can no longer get just the first letter. Tap hint again and you get the next tile for the same word - that was picked for you btw, not one you wanted the hint for.
You can no longer just X out your guess. You can only backspace and delete one tile at a time.
Way too complicated and not worth it. Which really bums me out as I literally played this for a few minutes every single day.
So many negative reviews on this update - hope that leads to a classic version of this game.

Your star ratings keep going down and down with me. One of the things that I really detest is your switcheroo being right next to your X. It keeps getting hit in error but somebody at your company seems to really love scrambling everything just to aggravate people. If you insist on having the switcheroo thinking that it is a plus feature that people love then please put a thing on it where it’ll pop up and say ‘Is this what you really want to do?’ Similar to other places questioning whether or not you want to delete some thing. Or maybe move it to the other side of hint. I think you’ll then discover it is not a popular feature at all and it’s actually disliked. I’ve written about this before and was even in your research survey mentioning this to no avail. I have played seven little words for over 7 years hoping that it would improve but I won’t keep on playing it if this is not taken care of - it’s just too problematic, aggravating, and frustrating.

I used to love the game, so I paid for the main version and bought a few expansion packs for more puzzles. The puzzles teach me new words and challenge my vocabulary.

All of a sudden you started getting an ad after each days “free” game. I bought it to avoid this. I emailed and the response was, “The paid version now comes with ads” which annoys me. To make matters worse, I had a software issue with my iPhone 6s+ (unrelated to this game) and when I got the game back from the cloud I lost my expansion packs. I’m not paying twice for them, as the progress I’ve made is lost as well, and I don’t care to do the same puzzle twice.

The game itself is challenging, and while they have hints you can easily find the answers online if you get stuck. I have done this and then researched to word or topic to learn more, which is why I downloaded it originally. It has helped expand my knowledge in a fun way. Knowing the letter count helps me figure out the answer even if it is unfamiliar, it just takes patience. Fun game but the rating is now 3, down from five due to the ads and loss of already purchased content.

I absolutely loved this game but it’s new redesign just feels absolutely awful. The icon looks awful, the front menu makes it feel like there are fewer options, but overall, the actual puzzle screen is awful. The top banner takes up extra space on the screen that could be used for making the words bigger- which there is no longer an easy option to switch between font sizes by just tapping the hints. I’m not fond of the lack of a “guess” button, either. Letters take too long to get to move from the bank to the guessing area and then it takes too long for a correct answer to move on it’s own. It takes forever to clear the letters that were already chosen, especially without a clear button anymore. Too difficult to see the difference between puzzles when some are answered and some are not (no longer alternating color patterns to align with each hint/too similar font choices for answers and letter counts) and too easy to accidentally hit the guess button... Please undo this garbage or allow us to choose between the current and classic modes.

I thoroughly enjoy solving these puzzles. Almost regret that the producers now provide 5 of the main type of puzzle and 10 of the quick versions as I have to spend more time each day to solve all of them. My biggest complaint is the frustratingly frequent advertisements for other games. I solve a puzzle, then have to suffer through an agonizingly long plea to download another game. When I’m finally allowed to solve the next puzzle, I’m rewarded by getting to watch the same ad all over again. Or maybe a different one about the same game. What’s interesting is that a big point about the new game is usually that it doesn’t have any ads. Well, I wish 7 Little Words could say the same thing about itself.

Get rid of the ads or at least make them a LOT shorter. Watching something over and over will not persuade me to download it.

I’ve been playing 7 Little Words for years—literally since I was eleven or twelve! This whole time, the game has basically remained the same. There were a few fixes and some new features, but overall it was much the same. And I loved it! I especially loved the night mode with a black background and green lettering. This new update changed everything! The whole layout of the game is different, with words automatically coming up instead of you submitting them and hints being on screen. Still, I could probably ignore most of those things if I could still get the old night mode, but alas the new night mode is black background with bright white lettering. Since I often play before bed, the bright white lettering is much too bright for me to look at. I just really hate this update, and I don’t understand why they made such a giant change for a game that was great how it was. I don’t know if I will be able to play 7LittleWordsandMore anymore, which is unfortunate because, as I said, I’ve been playing for years.

The word puzzles get harder and harder and you need hints to solve it in some occasions. Yes, you do provide fifteen or so hints at the start. Although this is considerate and useful, if we use logic you can tell that it may be a little misplaced. You’re going to lose them all at the start with the easy puzzles and then when you’re solving the harder puzzles, all the hints are gone. Then there’s really no other solution. I really don’t want to have to pay for free hints—so if you’re like me and don’t have unlimited hints, what do you do? Search the answers up on the internet? That ruins all the fun, and then the game is kind of, well, worthless. Using hints will help you when you're truly stuck but it will not give away the whole answer. You don’t have to give everyone who downloads 7LittleWordsandMore unlimited hints, but please think this over and possibly give us more hints. I think thirty hints would be a reasonable amount. Or maybe you could use one hint for each puzzle you solve, and if you solve one without using hints at all you can provide us with one more free hint. Other than the hints issue, this is an amazing, good quality app that entertains me while providing me with a little brain work. I do recommend this, and I would give five stars if the hints issue was resolved. Thank you!

The developer replied to my review to let me know that they have made a change in the letter grouping at the bottom for iPads. The letter groupings are larger & easier to read. Looks like the made the font in the clues is a bit smaller. Developers - Thank you for listening to the reviews! The new format is hard to read.

The delete / backspace button is hard to see. The new “extras” whatever they are… not necessary. The format directly before this was easy to see, and read. All buttons were accessible. The letter groups are way too small, and crammed together, because you made the clues “bigger?” There is too much space between the clues - shorten that up, give more room for the letter groups. If you insist on the extra whatever’s, put them at the bottom, out of the way, in the OLD format.

You went from one extreme to the other. I had an ad free version and bought puzzle packs. It was easy. Now there are ads coming from every direction, not just the bonus puzzle, but the daily puzzle as well. And they’re noisy. And .99 for just three months of no ads?!? I’m really disappointed with these changes.
I appreciate your response. However, the ads have overrun the game. It used to be a nice easy game. Now it’s obnoxious. Three months for .99 is even more obnoxious. Your daily puzzle should have NO ads. The bonus puzzle states it’s ad supported, but they pop up for every puzzle, including the daily. And the forced sound, when I’ve indicated no sound for the game, is really annoying. I’ve played this game for years, and now it’s just irritating.

I have been a huge fan of this game since it first launched on 7LittleWordsandMore Store.

It does seem to take several seconds for it to load but that’s not going to make me give the entirety of the game a bad review.

The game is fun and challenging but I do get bored with it very easily. I find myself taking long breaks from it and then coming back to it. I pay for the subscription for a month and then cancel it before it bills me again because it doesn’t keep my interest for very long but it’s not the fault of the game, it’s me. I just get bored easily but when I came back to it, there was a pack of “Fill in the Blank” puzzles that I found a lot more entertaining than the regular puzzles. I finished that and was disappointed to see that there are no more of those puzzles. Again, I became bored and quit the game.

The mini puzzles brought me right to the game and I have found that I love those so hopefully I will keep the game a little while longer but I do wish they would bring out more “Fill in the Blank” puzzles.

Either way, the game is great, fun and challenging so thank you for creating something that have kept my interest for the past several years!

It is an insult to we who love this game. I can’t imagine what intelligent young, middle age, or old person would be attracted to the garish, scary-face, font-awful new design. I immediately settled on night mode to escape the infantile colors and contrast problems. But still—the font is too fat, the slow speeds irritating, and how solved words appear in the list confusing—now it is less interesting to play.
I have opened your daily challenges for eight years running and never failed to finish a game, happily learning and honing my word skills. You run the risk of losing so many devoted players for what? To attract kids and others...who probably won’t stay with you for lack of skill.
I am almost seventy, female, and keep my mind active with sharp games upon awakening. Please fix this, or as another commented, bring us a “classic” version. Thank you.

NOOOOO!!! Why would you “fix” something that was not broken?? For many years my daily routine began with 7 Words. A fun stretching exercise for the brain, uncomplicated design, just a fun wakeup. My husband and I would have occasional races for puzzle completion. Just simple, unadulterated fun! The “update” took the game backwards. Not at all streamlined, you’ve made it much more clumsy. The “delete tile at a time” is ridiculous. Instead of a fun mind stretch, the game is now swallowed within a frustrating and maddening design. I even miss my simple, fresh faced smiley icon friend—now its a dazed goofy smile. (I’m probably attaching my exasperation to this new icon, but there you have it.) Used to be a 5+ star. Reducing now to a 2 star experience at best after trying for several days. Ugh.

I really enjoy this game. As I ‘play’ it I’m having fun but I’m also expanding my vocabulary. Whenever I come across a word I’m not familiar with I look it up in the dictionary for clarification of its meaning. Unlike solitaire or puzzles I don’t feel as though I’m wasting my time with this game because of its good influence on my “word bank”. Also I’m really good at it! I have been playing this game for well over 10 years. My son told me about it when I got my first smart phone and I have loved it ever since.I am now in my 80th year and I have 4 games on my IPhone that I play every day; Mah-jongg, solitaire add another word game called Word Coffee are the other three. I like to think playing these games gives my brain exercise and will keep me sharp hopefully. I do pay a fee to have ads free play, I can buy other puzzle packs which I have done and these can be used over and over because they give me the option to clear the answers and play them again. I really like the challenging clues they give you for these 7 Little Words puzzles. For me this is a very fun challenging and interesting game. Try it you may enjoy it too.

We have had this game for years and have enjoyed it very much. It doesn’t usually take too much time and you always feel good when you can finish it. My husband and I would play it together.....or one at a time. It was very neat that one of us could play and then clear the answers so the other could come along later and do the same puzzle. About two weeks ago, all of that changed. Now there is no way to clear the answers to allow a second person to enjoy the same puzzle. WHY??? You changed the way the puzzle looks.....it was nice the way it was before........and then you took away the ability for more than one person to play the puzzle. I know the creators of puzzles like to “update” every so often, but we really liked the game as it was and didn’t want any updates!!

Thank you, Blue Ox, for responding to my concerns. Since the last update my issues seem to be resolved. No more ads in Russian. Keep up the good work on all your games!

I have been playing all of your games for years and used to love them all. I actually give 5 Stars for creativity, ingenuity and design. However, In the last year, on u Little Words and Monkey Wrench, I have started getting ads in Russian. I live in the U.S. and my iPad is set to English so that is not the problem. Frankly, some of those ads seem a bit sketchy. Of course, I don’t know because I don’t read Russian.
My other concern is that in the last year or so the 7 Little Words and Monkey Wrench puzzles have taken a political turn. I don’t play puzzles and games to have political views subliminally, or overtly, suggested, regardless of what those views are. I play them to stretch my brain, to be tested on things that I know, to learn new things and to be entertained. Please, please please go back to puzzles that are not politically biased or oriented. I am on the verge of deleting both games, which is a shame because they are some of the most unique, fun to play word games on the market.
I will wait to see if I get a reply regarding these 2 concerns before deleting.
Thank you for your interest in and attention to your customers. I look forward to your response.

I love this game and play it every morning with Red Herring and Monkeywrench to test how my brain is doing. I pay for puzzle packs because the games are well worth it, and ads are not part of my morning routine. I’m trying to get used to the new version, just downloaded today, and I’m not liking it yet, as a whole. 1) PLEASE give more color contrast in each word tile, as gray-on-gray is hard to see. 2) Please speed up the time it takes for a correct word to go up to its definition; the old speed was nice and crisp, and now it’s slo-o-ow. 3) Please reconsider the feature of leaving the attempted solution up and making me delete it, tile by tile, if it’s wrong, because right now I’m not liking the extra clicks. All that said, thank you for a great game, and I appreciate the idea of refreshing things once in a while. I do like the addition of photos for the packs. The colors are not overwhelming like some games but are pleasant. Thanks!

I loved the old, “plain” format. This new one is very hard for me to use. The 3D look, the colors, and general busy-ness of the screen are not an improvement. Please give me my old game back so I can restore my 5-star rating! ADDITION: I have been a 7 Little Words fan for years. I believe it was my first game app on my iPad years ago. It has started to take a long time to load, which may be due to the age of my iPad, but I am uninstalling and reinstalling it with the hope that might improve its performance. I will check back and let you know if it did. I do enjoy this game, but still prefer its old simplicity!
UPDATE Aug. 17,2022
I just heard back from Blue Ox following contact with them about how slow the game is loading. They told me that they were concerned about it too and are working to speed it up substantially. I have found them to be great in responding to inquiries and concerns and really look forward to a speeded up game. Thank you again, Blue Ox, for fast responses and one of my favorite games!

Have used (and loved) 7LittleWordsandMore for years. Sadly, newest version has problems. My app now lets me work for a short time and then switches (on its own) to another puzzle. If I complete 2nd puzzle, goes to the one I had originally started and locks, requiring a shutdown. Reopening and going to original puzzle doesn't help as same behavior repeats. There is a mention of "ads" (which I can't see), so have no way of accessing. Have been in touch with support and they keep saying it will change, but it hasn't. Believe the ads I can't see are at the root of this. Would be happy to pay to get rid of them, but no option available. In IT for years and good at troubleshooting, but I'm stumped. Hate to have to give up 7LittleWordsandMore , but it's no longer worth the trouble. 😕