Pangrams 4+

I like this app and find it to be a better value than the NYT Bee. It’s also harder and (at least for me) almost impossible to get to 100% of the words since it obviously uses an extended dictionary with many unusual/lesser known entries (for instance, “donjon”, “ejido”, ”jeon” are among the words that came up in a recent puzzle).

However, the one thing that bugs me is that next day’s puzzle and prior day’s answers take a really long time to arrive. It’s almost 9:00 pm Pacific time as I’m writing this, and the today’s puzzle still hasn’t shown up. Compare that to NYT Bee, which releases its new puzzle at 12:00 am PDT consistently.

I also haven’t yet figured out the “game rooms” feature, but it’s not a concern.

Ultimately, If you like these type of word games, you will get a lot of mileage with this one. The UI is clean and simple, it doesn’t take too much space or crash your phone. It doesn’t have any annoying extras or ads. My only ask from the dev is to release the daily puzzles/answers a bit sooner.

Thanks for the feedback!

In investigating your issue, I realize that you caught a bug! The daily gram is released at 1AM UTC-4, which is 10PM Pacific time. So you are getting the new game the night before at 10PM, when everyone else gets it. However, because of the bug, it just says the wrong day. For people on the east coast, the new game will be labeled Friday June 12, but yours will say Thursday June 11.

So we will fix this - but rest assured, you are getting the new game when everyone else does.

I also highly advise you try creating a game room. Even if you just play in it alone, you can create unlimited games there of different sizes and with different dictionaries (common words, most words, all words). However, it is most fun if you have friends you can invite to the room and play competitively. In my opinion, its the most fun way to play!

Feel free to email us at 5149.dev@gmail.com if you have any other thoughts or questions.

My wife and I do the daily gram together plus we have setup a game room for us to play short games against each other throughout the day.

I would give 5 stars but too often it doesn’t consider legitimate words to be valid (For the record, we use the ‘most words’ dictionary option). For instance, I just played a game where it said vitiate is not a word and I recall a previous game where allah was deemed invalid. Is it possible to use Webster’s Dictionary as a basis to determine the validity of a word?

Glad you're enjoying the game!

'Allah' isn't accepted because it is not considered an English word, but rather a proper noun. If you want uncommonly used words like 'vitiate' to be accepted, you and your wife should play with the 'All Words' dictionary in your game room. That will accept any valid English word.

Please let us know how it goes!

Love private rooms and the challenge. Biggest flaw is games missing common words. Playing a game with center letter “I” and p, n, g, a, y, r. Words that aren’t playable: aping, apiary, ninny, nippy, prig, parrying. Not esoteric words at all. But create a game that uses “all” words and you’ll get non-English words and words with four Xs a Q and two Ks. So, the biggest drawback is the naming of your dictionaries and the depth of your dictionaries.

Still, a great way to pass the time as you wait for a zoom meeting to start.

Thank you for the review! We are currently working on a new dictionary that we hope will have a better balance of words. Stay tuned!