Word Star - Win Real Prizes +17

This app is really fun for people who like games like Scrabble or Boggle. I like that I don’t have to spend a lot to play, and the competition does seem very fair. If I just wanna play without betting I can do that too, which is nice since I really like word games like this. Definitely recommend!!

I love this game. I would play all day. However, they choose which players are matched and which games they play. So, although I have 50 games pending, I’ve gone 24+ hours without being matched and am collecting refunds for games unmatched since last week. Meanwhile, players at the top of the leaderboard have played and won more than 100 games. I have games in queue from a week ago. They claim to match players based on skill. Untrue because I have played and beaten most of the players at the top of the leaderboard. What they’re doing is matching players to lose. They make me play one player almost 90% of the time. Tournament winners should be the best players in randomly matched games. Anything else is rigged. If they want to match players of equal skill level, they need tournaments for each level. We spent more than 6 months complaining that we were playing mismatched games and begging for refunds before they fixed that bug. I stuck with them, winning, and cashing out, topping the leader board. Odd that I can’t even play now.

The game is really fun, but has a couple of issues. I have played about 20 games. I win most of the practice games, and seem to be within an expected point spread with my opponent - winning or losing by a few hundred to five or ten thousand. However, venture into the cash games and I get slaughtered. My opponent in the last game I played prior to giving this review beat me 120k to my 62k. Someone needs to check the algorithm. This happened five times. The fun for me is in the cash games so I’m going to have to come back to this one when I have more money to burn. It’s too tight at the moment to see if it equals out the more I play. The second issue may be the reason my opponent was able to beat me so handily. The puzzles began to repeat themselves even though I have only played a few. Someone who has played for several days might just have had a chance to memorize them all.