Letters and Numbers Countdown 4+
Unscramble Words and Math Game
Catherine Easton
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
There are 4 games to play.
1. Letters
Try to find the longest word with a random selection of 9 letters based on your selection of the amount of vowels and consonants.
2. Numbers
In the numbers section players try to get as close to a 3 digit number as possible with a calculation based on their selection of large and small numbers.
3. Conundrum
The third part is a conundrum and players must try to find a 9 letter anagram.
4. WordMix
The word Mix round is an 8 letter anagram with a clue.
All games have a time limit of 30 seconds when playing against your device. There is also a free play(practice mode) with a choice of time limits and limited scoring.
Play daily challenge games against everyone around the world. Test and improve your word knowledge and maths skills.
Post games for others to play and play shared games to compete against real people.
Badges are awarded for achieving good results in each game. Leaderboards are available for your percentage against your device, number of total badges accumulated and daily challenge results.
Levels have been added to adjust the difficulty of the games as you improve your play.
This app has in app purchases/subscriptions To find out more please visit https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s New
Version 6.30
improved dictionary
Ratings and Reviews
Some bugs
I’ve noticed playing the 15 and 30 second daily challenges that the numbers will often have the same ending, eg, 247, 347 or 856, 656. Also, I’m completely stuck on Conundrum Level 1 even though I’ve achieved the necessary points and percentages many many times over. Plus, I only get words starting with A. Reset everything. Updated the app. No changes.
Progression
I have no problem with the game getting harder, however, it is too fast a progression.
It’s not fair to fail to understand legitimate words in a dictionary, yet play others that aren’t. It also seems that every time the letters are difficult the most obscure of words appears. This wouldn’t happen on the show.
On the numbers side, don’t progress too far. Once you do the combination of numbers needs brackets and knowledge of obscure tables that only geniuses know. At least on the show they explain away how this could be a method of thinking. None given here. No chance to learn. I also hate the way you can’t go back when a decimal or fraction is part of the calculation. If I were on the show I could always keep part of a calculation. Very irritating.
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Greatly improved but still needs work
Love that this checks words in the OED. There is potential to offer choice of dictionary eg. Merriam Webster for the US, Macquarie fir Australia (even though I’d still choose the OED - please make this setting optional.
Room for improvement to Layout:
1. move the play buttons to the bottom of the screen underneath where the letters come up so we don’t have such a big movement to choose new letters.
2. get rid of the unnecessary text (add a ‘help’ icon to navigate to instructions.
3. clean up the table space graphics so it is friendlier to vision impaired people ie get rid of background image, just stick your logo at the top of the screen if it looks too bare, mostly though you need visual definition which is using contrasting colours for the active part of a window.
4. not sure how to improve it but the numbers puzzle feels really clunky, perhaps have an ‘add brackets’ button which puts brackets around both ends of what has been typed. I probably won’t bother with the numbers part until it’s improved. It’s too clumsy to operate compared to when watching on the show.
Good luck. Keep it up.
Developer Response ,
Thanks so much for your detailed review, I have addressed the issues you brought up in the latest update, please check it out. Still working on adding other dictionaries, next update hopefully.
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Information
- Seller
- Catherine Easton
- Size
- 131.5 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 13.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © App Mum 2017
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Countdown Daily Challenges $8.99
- Monthly Subscription Countdown $3.99
- Discount Pricing $5.99
- Buy 200 Coins $4.99
- Buy 50 Coins $1.99
- Countdown Yearly Subscription $5.99
- Buy 100 Coins $2.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
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