App is a lot of fun! I love making crossword puzzles competitive. Interface is beautiful and gameplay is awesome! My only critique is that I really wish the puzzles would have themes to help your brain connect with the clues! Some of the clues can be very broad and a lot of times only include one single word as a clue. If there was a theme to the specific puzzle it would make it fun to complete the entire thing and also make it a little easier to keep a thought track and not have 6 answers to the same clue to guess. Difficulty levels would be nice as well or some sort of rank. :) good app. Look forward to updates and changes

Perfect for when your looking for something less time consuming than an entire crossword puzzle. Has the competitive element of Scrabble and a surprising amount of strategy needed to defend words you've completed from your opponent who can steal your letters by completing a word using letters from a word you've just finished (think Letterpress). Four stars only because I've seen some of the longer words repeated, but I expect that will change as Mercury updates the game. Also know one of the devs there and am happy to support s game built in Nashville, Tennessee.

I only play this with people I know, who agree to use only their minds as a resource. No looking things up on the internet, in books, or asking other friends. The app works well, but starting a match can be a little finicky. We agree to never use peeks, but the stealing mechanic is fun. All of that is overshadowed by the feeling that the puzzles are simply bad. They seem to be programmatically generated from a database of clues and answers. You end up with puzzles that lack cohesion and are often too difficult due to too much esoterica, rather than being difficult due to cleverness. On top of that, the answers can be poorly constructed and often break NYT crossword conventions.

Great setup - works well and is fun and addictive. (And as a note to other reviewers - If the people you're playing with are cheating you need new friends. That isn't the app developers fault.) The main things I'd personally like to see - integration with the Facebook friend list (many of my friends have never registered in Game Center) and in game chat or messaging of some kind rather than just taunts. Otherwise, bravo on a solid game that's fun as long as your friends aren't cheaters. :)