What's the Word? Logic Game 4+

Don’t like ads

This app provides good practice for Wordle so you can replace one daily dose of Wordle by hours of similarly wasted time. Better than hours wasted playing Sudoku! You even learn some 5-letter words. And practice some of your 4-letter words!

It uses a reasonably large dictionary of words so is better than all of the competitors that I’ve tried.

But the inevitable ads are not well curated: At best there is a “Close” button which you can spot quickly and so ignore the ad’s content. “No, for the nth time, I don’t want to make Google Chrome my default browser, but thanks for the polite invitation”.

Then there are those ads with a count down: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, x. So a pause for a sip of whatever until the welcome “x” appears and you can get on with the game you came for. Slightly less polite but I haven’t yet seen anything interesting to me in those ads.

But inevitably there will be the ad that covers the page and leaves no way out but to report this to the Google Ads department. (Who would click on such an aggressive ad? I’m not a psychiatrist so I can’t help you with that one.). And then the ad disappears to be replaced by an message from Google Ads that also covers the page so you still have to delete the app and all it’s “data” and maybe start again. Or maybe not.

I think I’ll go back to reading good books.

Wordle takes a few minutes a day and is free up to now. And the New York Times has interesting and informative articles. It keeps a history of your progress up the scale of “Phew!” to “Genius” (I.e. “Fluke”). The “What Word” keeps track of similar data which is reset every time you are forced to reload the App.

I’d probably be willing to pay $X to get an ad-free version of this app. I’ll let the Ad boys at Google decide on “X”. I’ll keep an eye open for the appearance of such an app in the App Store.

Bye, bye for now,

This game is so fun