***Update: I used to play this game all the time, but there are now so many ads it is just not much fun now. They are more frequent, last longer and are harder to make go away without agreeing to something I don’t want. My grandsons still have fun with it, but just put up with the ads. I would gladly pay for an ad free version. It would be worth the price, but if they have an ad free option, I haven’t seen it.***I have been playing this game for several years, and am happy that it always keeps going. I am on a level in the mid 6,000s now, and my only wish is that there were a way to change levels so that my grandson could play it with me, without losing all my history. Better yet, could you make a version of the game for children just learning to spell? He got this game, but was only able to play it a short while till it started getting too difficult. **update again, he is now in second grade and he and his friend have a lot more fun with it now** But to anyone reading this who is curious about the game, it is really well designed. I don’t pay attention to all the side games, but they look like fun.*****Now have two grandsons addicted to this game, and I need to update regarding the side games that I always ignored. The boys are 6 and 8 now, and the gems and animals and I don’t even know what all else there is, but it makes it just even more fun for them. Thank you for making this game so fun for any age. In fact, after my previous update I saw that I could pay a small fee to go ad free for a week or a month, but luckily, the boys found the inner challenges so engaging, I did not need to go that route.

I’ve been playing this game on and off for years and I’ve always enjoyed it as a relaxation, brain teaser type of game. However, there are a few things that I’ve noticed which could improve the game. 1. I find the puzzles to be incredibly repetitive, with the same words being used over and over again; please consider expanding the game’s vocabulary to increase difficulty/diversity. 2. I used to do the weekend tournaments, but for the last 6 months I’ve focused on the Weds-Thurs challenges to try and get all the profile pics for each category. I am at about 91% completion for all of the categories released and the drop rates for the final 1-2 photos are definitely WAY TOO low. For several of the categories I’ve opened nearly 100 boxes (meaning over 200 encounters) without receiving EITHER of the final two photos. When the categories are newly released, it seems the developer creates a random algorithm, because each photo seems equally likely to be encountered. But then the algorithm switches once you get to your final 1-2 and it becomes incredibly difficult to encounter these photos/rewards again, to the point I don’t really want to play anymore. It takes a couple of hours just to get to 30-40 boxes and it just doesn’t seem worth it if the drop rates are this low.3.And yes, like many have said, the ads are too prevalent and the game is trying too hard to take our money, which it was never like in the past. I hope this review finds you well!

The new version of Wordscapes is a lot of fun. However, the developers have made it impossible to get all of the animals. In the beginning, when it first appeared, you only had to have 300 points or 900 points to get an animal. After the first week they changed it to 900 and1500 points. There’s really no difference in what you get between the 900 and1500 points, they give you the same animals over and over again. Supposedly for the 1500 points you can get the level four animals; but I haven’t even been able to accumulate several of the level twos and level threes. The other thing that is completely annoying is the star rush. It’s pointless. There are no instructions to tell you how to actually see how many points that you get or even how to play the game. All it does is get in the way of what you’re trying to do. It’s just another way for them to get you to pay for coins.The portraits are getting old. Again, it’s impossible to get all portraits in a section. You get the same ones over and over again. The last time I actually cashed in my points, it gave me the same 3 animals every time. I stopped playing. it’s not worth it.As of this writing, January 2023, they have had the same butterflies up for the last five weeks. There have been no new butterflies. How many butterflies can one possibly accumulate. Developers need to purge some of their side activities, especially the star rush. They also need to take a look at how the computer decides the distribution of the characters.

I've been playing this game for years & it's the only consistent game I play. I try to play at least the daily game & participate in the wknd tournaments when I can. Aside from the wknd tournaments I love that I'm not being timed to finish each puzzle, it's a great word game to kill time when waiting for something or whenever I have free time, I just pick up where I left off. I do get stumped here & there, which is helpful to have hints to use when needed. I love the extra ways to get rewards without having to pay for it, I don't like having to pay for gameplay so this game is a winner! There's still so many unsolved puzzles to get to & goals to reach, especially with the new additions of the animals & variety of portraits to get. I only wished the butterfly game was longer than a day & ended at nighttime, rather than the morning. My free time would be in the afternoon till bedtime which is not enough to get butterflies or grow my habitat, so it's taking forever to build on this part, & not long enough for me to get my reward for free cocoons. Or it'll be available in the morning but I forget cause I have to work. One other thing I did notice recently that is annoying & disturbing, is the game sound would play when my phone is on silent. I would be playing the game for a bit then out of nowhere I hear the game, which is not good if it's going to wake someone up or interrupt somewhere I'm at that needs silence or no distractions. Hopefully this bug will get fixed ASAP! Aside from this, awesome game!