Crostix 4+
Mountford Line
Designed for iPad
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- £3.99
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Welcome to the world of acrostics! An acrostic, also called a crostic or double crostic, is a cousin of crossword puzzles, with clues and answers whose letters are rearranged to form a quote from a famous (or not-so-famous) author. If you're familiar with acrostics, you will quickly see how convenient they are on the iPhone, because letters are automatically copied to the correct place as you type them in.
Crostix, the online library of acrostic puzzles, is now available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It includes 150 puzzles, from easy to fiendishly hard, and you can buy more puzzles right in the application. For free sample puzzles, download the aptly-named Crostix Free.
The program has all the features you'd expect:
- get hints for a single letter or an entire word,
- see your score, based on how many hints you needed,
- change the font size by pinching,
- rotate the device as you like, and
- get help on all program options.
If you're new to the world of acrostics, the application also includes a short description to get you started. More tutorials about acrostics are available on our Web site!
What’s New
Version 3.3
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Three new books! Crostix Books 12 and 13, and a second book of Larry Katzman's Gaglines puzzles. Updated for iOS 10. Unfortunately, that also means you will need at least iOS 8 to run this new version. Our apologies to those using older devices.
But most importantly, we hope that this new version fixes the evil and long-standing bug which caused the app to be stuck in "Waiting for Data" mode for new books. Let us know if you still have problems with this; fixing it is our number one priority.
Ratings and Reviews
Pleasant time filler!
There aren't many of this type of puzzle game to choose from. This one is good. Some of the US references are a bit obscure, but can be googled. There is a good mix of easy and challenging puzzles.
Great game but too much US and religion!
For anyone who enjoys words and vocabulary, this is a great game. I have had my money's worth from this app several times over, it is very well conceived, well put together and the question setters really know their stuff.
I am in the UK and know quite a lot about other countries including the US but having never lived there and would not know the names of local TV hosts, stores and the like. My main criticism are the religious references that are in many of the Crostix. Ask me about rivers, mountains, presidents but please leave out biblical characters, lines from hymns and religious festivals!
Punctuation lacking
I'm really enjoying these puzzles. A variety of puzzle themes and a well designed interface. My only concern is the lack of punctuation in the puzzles, making it difficult to work out words through the meaning of the sentence.
App Privacy
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Information
- Provider
- Brian Mountford
- Size
- 24.7 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Languages
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English, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2009-2016 Brian Mountford
- Price
- £3.99
- In-App Purchases
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- Crostix Book Four £0.99
- Crostix Book Five £0.99
- Crostix, Book Six £0.99
- Crostix Book Seven £0.99
- Guest Author: Gordon Frakes £0.99
- Crostix Book Eight £0.99
- Crostix Book Nine £0.99
- The Golden Treasury £0.99
- Guest Author: Gordon Frakes 2 £0.99
- HeadLines £1.99