Been playing Scramble for awhile and have enjoyed the game. Unfortunately, I've always been limited to when I could play because after every other round or so, a loud advertisement started even though I have Sound turned off in preferences. I understand the need for advertising but the sound problem has gotten out of hand. As of today the loud ads start immediately at the end of every game played even before the score comes up. I'd pay a reasonable price for a non-ad version (NOT a subscription!!) or don't mind advertising that does not make noise or cut off the game. As it stands, I will need to delete Scramble if this is not fixed soon. Advertising is fine - uninvited audio and interrupting game play with ads definitely not. Looking forward to a fix soon. Will change to 4-5 stars when it works again. UPDATE: Dropped to 1 star because in addition to the problems cited, after nearly a week, they've still not responded to an email to their support. Am starting to wonder if it's some kind of spam scam. We all make mistakes, but if they're not even willing to send out a form response saying that they're working on a fix, it seems like a lost cause.UPDATE2: Raised to 3 stars because I figured out a workaround to the serious bug that they seem to have no interest in fixing or responding to. Found out accidentally while traveling: in airplane mode, the game works just fine with no interruptions or unwanted audio, cutting out the intrusive advertising altogether! This is probably not what they or their advertisers were expecting, but if they don't want to fix the game this is inconvenient but functional.

Since my iPhone upgrade, the sound is off on the game. The volume will get softer and the get louder again. It seems like the volume controller get stuck - left on the screen so that when you are swiping it thinks you want to change the volume. I usually have to pause the play, go to settings, turn the volume button off then on again to reset it. Is this a bug? Annoying but I haven’t needed to uninstall and then reinstall the game. Still love the game though. Sometimes it crashes when playing - usually when It is in blitz mode or the beginning of marathon mode. It is a good game, but this up-grade 2 days ago, has the screen with a big gap on the top. (If you turn off the wi-fi, I don’t get ads.) I hope I won’t have to uninstall and reinstall the game to get it to look right. That usually resets all your trophies and scores to 0.

**Update. Still love this game and it worked pretty well for a while. Now we’re back to it crashing with ads. It freezes such that it has to be deleted and reinstalled. Last time it last two plays before it froze and had to be deleted. (It had averaged 30-50 plays the last week.) And it is a permanent freeze these days. I’ve let it sit for a day and it was still irretrievable without reinstall. Can’t get past the stuck ads.**Love, love this word game when it's responsive. But it gets bogged down at times, probably due to the unwieldy ads that sometimes appear. they're suppose to show up after but sometimes they interrupt the game. Happens more often when I'm using data than wifi. And some locations, like airports, are the worst. Will try the airplane mode suggestion stated by other reviewer. Thought connection was required but maybe not. Like many others, I'd pay to avoid the ads. That said, if the ads didn't cause the game to malfunction and freeze sometimes --I've had to reload this 4 times in the last couple months -- they'd be okay to endure. One has actually been informative but it's local to Michigan, so it's not one many will see. And some ads I fear are for scam apps.

I wouldn’t even call these ads, this feels like nagware. Just programmed to nag at you to pay the money to get rid of ads. I hate hate hate that business model and it actively makes me NOT want to use this app.UPDATE: you can’t even pay to remove them. Which is like. The worst parts of nagware without that final hook. Even worse business model than I thought. This is an almost decent game put on the App Store as an Ad Farm. It’s bad. Literally full 30 sec ads between EVERY game. After like 3 rounds this game feels unplayable. Downgrading from 2 stars to 1 because the ads just get more annoying the more I play and makes me hate this game and it’s devs for doing this even more. You have a halfway decent game, if you added some multiplayer and global leaderboards and tidied up the ads this would not be a bad game. You completely ruined it with all the ads though. I can’t stress enough how when I like a game I will WILLINGLY click “watch ad for a reward” buttons in games. Ha, this one? Ha. Didn’t even give me the chance to grow fond. Just shoved the ads right down my throat.