I really enjoy playing this game. I would give it five stars if it weren’t for the issues with intermittent ‘pauses’. It doesn’t always insert the selected letter immediately, but hesitates for about three seconds, then moves to a different spot. If you don’t realize what’s happening and you tap a letter, you get an error and use a mistake. Also, it would be nice to have something to explain the heart icons. At the top there is one with a 3 and says “full”.. but full of…. Then the other is a ‘prize’ with an infinity symbol in it, not sure what it indicates.

So far I like this game. I feel like I would play more but the mechanics have room to grow. Currently, when you figure out what number that corresponds with a Letter you have to tap on the number then you tap on the corresponding letter in keyboard, then you have to tap on the next place you find a number and then tap on the letter in keyboard and keep doing so for every place that the letter would go. Im sure some will think its silly to complain about this but after a bunch of levels you start to find it redundant My suggestion would be making it possible to double tap the letter and then just double tap the place the letter needs to go for every place in the puzzle Also the letters in the keyboard can be enlarged but the numbers that corresponds the letter is super small

Game is buggy and, like many freemium games, tries to steer you to buy their nonstop cycle of paid upgrades. Would be fun if they got it working well with just their remove-ads fee, but it has many more issues and pushes you to buy a constant stream of paid boosts. Many puzzles are designed to be very difficult if not impossible to solve without them.Unlike normal cryptograms, you can't solve by trial and error; instead you have to manually type in every letter in the puzzle and if you guess wrong or make a typo on your tiny phone keyboard, it counts as a "mistake" of which you only get two before the puzzle is forfeit. It is very easy to tap the wrong letter by mistake, even if you have figured out the right one.Three mistakes ends the puzzle, and there's a huge penalty for losing. The puzzle is restarted with no starter letters, any boosts spent are lost, and a solution nearly impossible without spending more of those boosts. Any hope of getting a free boost for the day by solving enough puzzles in a row is also gone.You also must end every puzzle you start in a single phone session, without putting down your phone. If you set your phone down for more than a minute or so, the game resets and shows that puzzle as lost along with any boosts that had been used. If you don't remember exactly which letters you already had when you try again, it can become nearly impossible to solve without spending more boosts.If you haven't yet paid for the "no ads" fee, the ads are VERY intrusive. They take over the whole screen and lock up your phone at times, until you force quit the app. And they repeatedly send you to fraudulent web sites or download pages for new apps without your consent. I'm surprised that passed Apple's review.It's all geared to make this very frustrating to play without paying extra for those boosts.

I have never had an app freeze and crash as much as this one. It’s so frustrating because I love the game (which is the only reason I didn’t give it 1 star) but I have never played a single game without it freezing multiple times—often causing me to lose the game when it catches up & types more than one character at a time. If I have to leave the app for more than a couple of sends, I like every other app with this game that I’ve used, it won’t save your progress. You have to start all over. Also, if you accidentally click to give yourself a hint you can’t X out of it, and if you strike out, you can’t just watch an ad to refresh. So, so disappointed!