Word Collect: Word Games Wiki

I have been playing this game for quite a while. This is my favorite word game ever. I play every day several times a day and while I watch tv at night. I never do updates unless the game won’t let me play without the update. I was updating another game and saw the update for Word Collect and thought why not. Biggest mistake of my life, now I can’t play, when I went back to play the daily challenge it froze after I joined a group or whatever the new thing is. I don’t usually do these because I never connect with Facebook I don’t like Facebook games. It came up to get my daily reward and it won’ close out of that. There is no x to close that screen or anything. Now I am devastated that I can’t play, what do I do this is the only word I play it is the best one I have ever seen. Now I am lost. I have never written a review but I am going to be lost. Sad to lose such a great game, I should never have updated because I didn’t have to. Sadly I guess I will have to delete and try to find another word game I enjoy so much (I know I won’t I have tried them all. : < ( ,,, I don’t know how to rate now, I would give it 5 stars up to the update but now I can’t play at all.

I love finding words as quickly as I can and then comes the real challenge. There’s often one or two left that aren’t obvious. Some of the words are not commonly used but for the most part, you can analyze and solve them. Hints are necessary at times. Love the game. A few complaints below that if addressed would improve the game. You get extra points for successive words and often it misses a word you have connected with your finger. Then I have to slow down and retrace the word I just used, it goes through but you didn’t get the extra points. When I am going fast before words I see slip my mind - the words I’ve already tried once are shown at the top if you try them twice. That’s clunky to use and once you open it, it stays on the screen way too long. Separately, I cannot figure out what is going on with team play. Way too complicated and not well explained in my opinion. The game doesn’t sync on your devices. I started on my iPad and it made my hand ache from too much playing 😬. So started playing on phone - better with less real estate to cover. Points acquired on my iPad are just sitting there. Wish they synced.

I like the game and like that the developer gave me 60 some levels before getting onerous with ads. But then i started gettimg ads of 90 seconds or longer ever game or two. Its cheap to killthe ads. 2.99 kills them forever according to the offer. I haven’t decided yet so the other option is watch 5 ads and it turns them off for a day. The developer has put alot of thought into balancing the need for monetization, they have to make a living, and time to get into the game so you want to pay them a bit. The game itself is easy enough to be fast and addictive and hard enough to keep interesting. The ad i answered for it showed a timed game with a set of letters and challenged you to make as many words as possible. The game so far has presented differently with a set of boxes you fill in with tiles by making words, no timer. I,m guessing the further i get in to it the more variations will be presented.

I like word games and I found this one intrigued me. A little different scenario is used and I especially liked the extra games that can be played in the AM and PM. I never....EVER....spend money when I’m playing a free game.....but at one point Word Collect made me an offer that even I couldn’t refuse. So now I had a vested interest of $.99 in it and everything was just plain fun, fun fun. But then the screen went blank. I clicked everywhere.....using a stylus and then warm little fingers which turned into hot little fingers rather quickly. Nothing..... Finally I shut it down and went back to it later. It was all back including my investment. Now it shuts down once or twice a day...every day....but I keep on playing because, like I said, I really like the game and I do have an investment. So?..if you have a lot of patience and a lot of time on your hands.....download the app.

The tons of pop ups are unbearable in the free version to the point of seeming more harassment than friendly offers. I turned off notifications for this app and yet they keep coming. This is a bit aggressive for my liking or for a word game. I feel like uninstalling and may do so at this rate. The gameplay is okay but is geared toward generating income more than fun. Note that it isn’t being ad supported that is annoying and I certainly know how businesses generate funds for having handled billing for ours, but it’s how frequent and obtrusive they are. To stop ALL notifications I had to do so by sliding the last notification to find the setting to finally get them to stop. Why was this option tucked away from all the rest of the notification toggle switches? It’s not that a company conducts business to make money as much as how they go about it. Assaulting our senses isn’t my idea of the best business practices. To get me to pay you must be considerate and see my side of things too. Make the ads smaller, make them close as easily as they open, and do not ruin our fun by running an ad at every opportunity in the game. This game feels as if the actual game is closing all the ads as they come at you like a pack of ninjas.

I’ve been playing for a long time and play everyday as I listen to a book on tape or watch tv and I keep coming back to play, but there are some things that really bug me. 1. After you win so many games, you “win” the opportunity to buy coins. That’s not a win. 2. So many made up words! When I accidentally find one because it’s the only letters that fit and then click on it to find the meeting, I get the message, “we can’t find that definition right now”, as if they are ever going to find it. It’s frustrating to get to one last word only to find it’s not really a word. 3. Word collection award. You never win! I’ve played the game over a year and never won. Supposedly, when you collect 5 of the designated letters, they are added to the word collection, but in fact, they only replace a letter already there. I took a screenshot of my last two games and there is literally no difference in the puzzle, just more points, which means nothing as far as I can tell. If I could insert that screenshot here, I would. So, in summary, for a free app it keeps your mind working and is fun to complete levels, but there’s no impetus to buy more coins or win at anything.

I rate the game itself as a 3 star because although it’s a good game and good concept, there are so many other games just like it now-a-days, seeing the same thing over and over again gets boring but overall, it is still a good concept. However if I was to rate the ads y’all make for this, it would be a -5 star because I originally downloaded this game because I thought (from seeing from the ad) that this was a word unscrambler game, like there was gonna be an X amount of letters, scrambled up at the top of the screen and I had to see how many words I could get from those scrambled letters. Your ad made it look like it wasn’t one of those typical “drag your finger from letter to letter”, it made it look different and original, which made me happy, so I downloaded it, less than 5 seconds of opening the game, I deleted because I realized that y’all made the ad look better than the actually game, one thing I absolutely CAN NOT stand is when game developers make a game and the ads for that game, are nothing like the game itself, and btw, last time I checked, false advertising is against the law... fix the ads pls🤷🏼‍♀️

I really wanted to give this game five stars, but I can’t. The game is fun and addictive, but here are some issues. First of all, the darn tiles are too close together, so if you don’t go slow enough, you may leave a letter off, or, as in most cases, add a letter you do not want. It’s a real pain. When I go slow to make sure I am spelling the word correctly, I often lose a letter or even get an extra letter added. Give us more space, please! Second, you can get points for extra words, but only if all the words that length are not already filled in. For instance, say you have filled all your four letter words in but would like extra points for another four letter word you thought of. Tough luck, no dice! Third, the developers offer no way out of an accidental game you are playing. For instance, I, personally, do not want to play against an opponent, but I somehow tapped a button that put me into a competition. No way out, and I don’t like that. If you want competition, great, but you ought to be able to decide if you want to compete or not. It’s a game that is fun and challenging, but it definitely needs some tweaking.

For format and responsivity this app is excellent. Unfortunately, it is a ‘game’ based in language and in this respect it fails miserably. This is not a crossword so that the words chosen are particular to the words they must spell through. No, these words are all independent of be another and therefore any word of the required length should suffice. They do not. Further, it must be a rather peculiar dictionary that as a secondary issue identifies only certain words as legitimate (and therefore ‘bonus’ words, whatever that means!). There are words accepted that are not words in my dictionary or thesaurus. And there is of course the issue of unacceptable words, deemed not-words and dismissed out of hand. Next to last, the nonregistering of some entries causes problems when, at wit’s end, a hint is asked for and it turns out to be a word thought to have been rejected. Last, and simply annoying, are the peremptory instructions offered when, for instance, a ‘bonus’ word is duplicated in a attempt to see if perhaps it really might work. (See previous critique for source of this action.). As much as I have loved some aspects of this app I have today deleted it because I find no fun in playing it as a guessing game. TYVM

Here’s yet another person complaining about too many ads on a game, but it’s much more than that. Remember when it was clear where you had to click the ‘X”, and only had to click it once? Now we’re getting insulted by “X”’s that you have to click multiple times to get to work, and the click area is sometimes so small that you almost always find yourself in the App Store? Or the “X” being a couple shades off from the background colour, making then hard to find, and now I’m seeing ads that when you finally see the “X” and click it, it displays another version of the same ad where you have to do navigate through everything a second time. And the latest is the “X” not appearing at all. (IE Best Fiends & Toon Blast ads) When will developers learn that irritating people that are using their app’s isn’t how you get people to try other apps? All it ever makes me want to do is uninstall your app. This style of game now is a dime a dozen, so there’s really nothing special enough about this app to warrant having to deal with these types of ads. Personally, there isn’t an app on the planet that is.

I downloaded this game because of an ad that popped up during another game that I was playing. It looked really interesting to pick out words out of a puzzle of letters. Where is the game that I downloaded? This is a totally different game. I started play hoping that I would get to the level that included the game I wanted. I am now on level 150 and still no. So let me review this game. First of all it is addicting. That’s it said it is also very frustrating. What is the use of collecting piggyback coins if you have to ultimately pay for them? Also the music is mind numbing! You have to go totally out of the app into settings to shut it off. Lastly amount of ads is crazy. I get you’re trying to sell other games but showing two and three ads at a time it’s totally distracting and counterintuitive to the mind sharpness that this game is supposed to promote. At least show different ads! Of course we have to pay money to remove the ads. I lost interest in the game because of these negative aspects. Playing is supposed to be fun not annoying. Developers please make some changes. Update: I received an answer from the developer. They should develop a game called Word Salad because that’s what the answer was. No issues were addressed. No reason why I got a totally different game than advertised. No problems were solved. I deleted the game.

This game is ok in concept, I suppose, but it’s extremely slow and easy and there are so many mistakes that it becomes more frustrating than fun. There are a ridiculous amount of words that it just doesn’t recognize, even as bonus words, some of which are just the plural form of words it does recognize. (Some of which were even recognized in previous levels) Even worse, some of the words it is your object to find are misspelled, so unless you think to spell a perfectly normal, easy word incorrectly, you may get stuck on a level. (And just so you don’t think I’m the idiot misspelling words and then blaming the game, I’ll give you one of the examples I remember: tatoo. That was a difficult one to figure out, bc the only ACTUAL 5 letter word spelled with the letters given was not recognized by the game, again even as a bonus word, and I didn’t think to simply misspell a very common and simple 6 letter word in order to make it 5 letters.) The fact that it professes to calculate iq is very obviously a gimmick as well. For one thing, one must wonder how accurately a game could gage one’s iq that cannot even correctly spell tattoo. Once I had encountered misspelled words a couple times, I quit the game and found an alternative, of which there are too many to waste time with this.

Number one: the ads for this game are bait and switch. Multiple ads for this game show grids of letters wherein a player is to identify words from the jumble. That is the game I would like to play, and yet the actual game gives a player six or seven letters and is asked to find specific words, matching the number of letters to complete the puzzle. Unfortunately, a person with a large vocabulary (such as this writer) is likely to know many four or even five letter words using a set of letters. While the game awards bonus points for finding extra words, it becomes frustrating when a fourth or fifth bonus word is entered matching the number but isn’t the word the game wants. Given no other context, it is aggravating the game won’t accept an answer fitting the requirements. Number two: the game’s dictionary is incomplete. In multiple instances the writer has entered a correct and valid non-slang English words only to be told the word doesn’t exist. If the game is going to reject words of the proper length and instead award bonus points the dictionary needs to be complete. After 100 levels of gameplay I give up. Give me the game play advertised.

Play 2 rounds see a video add. Play one round. Ad. Play 3 rounds, ads. The ads are longer than the rounds. Uninstalling after 15 minutes of playing. Response from app developers: Hello Tay, Thank you for taking the time to post a review. Ads support our game and ensure that we can offer it for free, but it's completely understandable that they can be distracting. You can disable ads from appearing by making any purchase. Send us a message through the app if you have any questions. Thank you!" My response: I understand ads, but If you just started playing the rounds take seconds to complete. The ads run longer than the rounds. The ads don’t let you exit out until a certain amount of time passes. That’s NOT including the pop-up ads for in game add-on! Other complain about the amount of ads. I played a round in 5 seconds had a 20 second round. Finished the next round just as quickly. A 20 second ad again. I spent more time watching ads vs playing. That’s the complaint. I don’t even know if I’ll like the game enough to want to buy because it was super easy in the beginning. The ad I saw for this game looked more interesting than the game I played.