Word U 4+

Looking for a game that my 93 yr old mother would enjoy—a woman who used to be able to do newspaper crosswords, I happened upon Word U. At first, it seemed too elementary but the game moves quickly into using more challenging words. I like the fact that when you guess words that aren’t used in the puzzle you still get credit that can be used later to buy a letter. That helps on the days when the brain is just not as agile. I’ve found that I use it too—a good game to pass time. I will be introducing Word U to my grandchildren when they’re a bit older.

I love this game. I’m beginning my journey on your Word U game and thus far I’ve noticed a few glitches that I’d like to bring to your attention. The first issue is when playing the daily bonus round, I’ve noticed the round doesn’t accept more than one word per round on my end. Also, if I don’t give the daily bonus round the “correct” word, I’m not rewarded with coins, although I’ve found a word in the Oxford English Dictionary. One such such example of this issue is I’ve found the word “neat” before in the daily bonus round, but I’ve tried to use that specific word on more than one occasion and the bonus round won’t accept that word or any words that the app doesn’t see as “correct” words for the bonus round, even though the words I’m coming up with are used in the English language daily. My other issue at this point in time is the fact that the daily bonus round is timed. In the “features” section you mention there’s a daily bonus round, but there’s no mention of the fact that the bonus round is timed. Please take the timed feature off this game. I’d like to see more ways added, such as the added quests that were added on the last update of your game. Please fix these issues. Thank you.

Update: I’m lowering my review to two stars. I’ve gotten to a point in the game where the words it is having me figure out have no definition. I’ve been playing Crossy and the regular game and both keep coming up with words that are not real words and when I click on them they have no definition. I’m going to uninstall now and sad to do so because I liked the format of this game. I can only assume the 4.8 star rating is from people who just downloaded and haven’t played long enough to run into these issues.

I like this game and have been playing for a few days now. I’ve come across some issues that are frustrating and that add some confusion to the game. For example, when you get far enough into the game they start using acronyms as words. These shouldn’t be used in a word game. Also when you accidentally touch the letter box or miss a letter while swiping, there is no way to cancel that motion. This immediately means you will not get a perfect round and is a bit frustrating.

Overall the game is not bad and can be very addicting. I hope they change the acronym thing as it adds a lot of confusion to what is a word and what represents a word. It also makes getting a perfect round impossible on those levels.