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.
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 tutorial to get you started.
I’ve always loved Anacrostics. I’ve been doing them with pencil and paper for years. This app works just like the printed ones, but once completely filled in, you get immediate feedback as to whether all entries are correct. They’re fun and challenging, especially at the higher difficulty levels.
Great game!
Lizard42
I love this game! I feel like the puzzles are challenging, and fun to complete. I’m so glad there are more to purchase and download! I can’t begin to express just how excited I was when I randomly checked on this app and saw that it had been updated! This is by far one of my most favorite games on my phone!
Great app but no updates for several years!
deserves no stars at all
I love this app, but there have been no new puzzles for several years. It's easy to use and most of the puzzles are information and fun to solve.I like the more complicated puzzles, not the gag lines. However, the Sherlock Holmes puzzles are extremely difficult. I exhausted the Mumford puzzles quite a while ago, which makes the current version of the app worthless. PLEASE add more puzzles soon!
Absolutely wonderful.
NSC41
I have spent many hours enjoying these puzzles and learning many things I did not know before. I hope that will continue to be additions to the Crostix library as I have completed most of them that are currently available.
The app name is changing from Crostix to Crostix Pro, while the companion app, with sample puzzles, will change from Crostix Free to Crostix, in accordance with Apple guidelines. Minor bug fixes.
Version 4.1
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Information
Seller
Brian Mountford
Size
81.5 MB
Category
Word
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
