Word Puzzle Games: Word Bound Wiki

I am a long time player of this game. (I’m on level 5344.) I have made other suggestions in the past, which the developers have listened to, so I hope they will listen now. This game is so fun and is my favorite by far. However, I don’t love the placement of the “reveal definition” button, as sometimes I’ll use my fingers to help visualize a word, and I’ll accidentally hit the button and get my coins taken away. And then!!! If it gives me an “Oops!” message (when it says it’s having trouble finding the definition, and in turn gives no definition at all), it will still take my coins, which is totally not fair. Also, I wish the stars could be applied to the purchase of coins or something similar. Otherwise, why have them at all? The stars are useless currently.

I loved this game at first. Even with the repeating, super-long ads, it was fun to play. I am on level 321, and every now and then a word I need to solve for is an unheard of word that I would swear has not been used by those who speak American English in the last 100 years. Ridiculous. Add to that the frequent times I’m told a word I played is not a viable word, it just doesn’t make sense and gets to be more frustrating than fun. I get the sense that perhaps the source for words guessed vs words to solve for are not the same. Please find a different source with more words that are current in the language of the person playing the game. Otherwise it looks like you will lose your fan base for this game.

I discovered Word Bound when looking for something to occupy my mind while being homebound. This is the perfect app to exercise my brain, make me take a break and relax, and remind me that an active mind is a happy, healthy mind. Recently, I discovered a strange glitch in the daily challenge when I suddenly saw a message that I would be out of guesses even though there were three lines empty. I’m glad it happened because now I have a chance to tell you that Olivia and Lauren are absolutely fabulous helpers when it comes to troubleshooting and working to understand this glitch. Now, I can appreciate not only a fantastic app, but also a fantastic, above and beyond support system.

I love word related games and this is my new favorite. It makes you really think as I try to solve the word to continue the star collecting streak. I love having the letter color hints. The only issue for me is that the green and blue colors are kind of similar so when I play in the dark with my phone brightness on the lowest setting it is hard to see whether a letter is blue or green. Maybe instead of blue you could make the non letters to be white or red so that there is more contrast. Or maybe there can be a setting where you can change the colors to suit the person using it. For color blind people maybe having different patterns instead of colors can help them play the game as well.

I have to say, when I am bored, this game for me is ol’ reliable. Not visually pleasing, but constant! You can play forever without any timer to replenish lost lives, like in other games. And if I’m COMPLETELY stuck, I screenshot it and ask a friend for help...or if I put it down for a while it usually is easier when I come back and look at it again. I like the daily challenges as well. It’s a great escape from a challenging word you may be stuck on in the regular level. Also, the difficulty level progresses nice and slow. There were only a few words so far that seemed harder than should have been on my level, overall a great job increasing difficulty. A surprisingly great game.

This is like playing the game show Lingo with Chuck Woolery! Really addicting. Fun and challenging. Having said that, there’s these ads. There are quite a few of them. I understand that the ads keep the game free. I didn’t spend a dime and I love it, but in order to get five stars, the ads need to be tweaked. Most you can opt out of after a few second. Really not bad. The two types that kill me are as follows (less annoying first). I watch this ad. It gives me an X at its time and a hit it. Then I’m made to watch another 5 seconds and X out a second time. Just don’t give me the option to X out so soon and don’t make me X out twice. Last, some of the ads will silence my music. I have app sound and music turned off so I usually just have to wait silently for the ad to finish. Too many times, upon finishing, it has disabled my music(Pandora), and I have to swap over and restart my music. When I switch back to the game I then get another pop up ad before I can play again. That is incredibly frustrating. If those can be fixed somehow I would gladly rerate at 5 stars.

I have read many of the other reviews and everyone’s complaining about too many ads. Hey, it’s a free app so you’re gonna get ads! Deal with it. Whenever a longer ad pops up, I just set my phone down, close my eyes or take a nice relaxing deep breath (or both!) and before ya know it, the ad is over and I can keep playing. Sometime that helps me to refocus when you have a challenging word. I’m on level 375. Here’s the pros & cons: Pros: it’s a great, fun game! If you like Mastermind and word games, you’ll love this challenging twist to solving a word puzzle. I like that you don’t get penalized for guessing an incorrect (illegal) word. I also like the shuffle feature that helps rearrange available letters. It can help see the word sometimes. Cons: there’s a few...therefore only a 4 star rating. There should be some kind of reward for solving the puzzle (finding the word) in as few a moves as possible. The quicker you solve, the greater the reward. As of now, it doesn’t matter how many times you guess, it’s the same reward amount. Also, the hints are way too pricey (120 coins); this needs to be less. Finally, some of the words are indeed obscure and therefore hard to guess when you’ve never even heard of them. Process of elimination with guesses keeps me from buying hints though. Overall, I really like it! I just hope the developers act on all the users suggestions.

This was a fun game at first. But it gets harder as it progresses and as far as I can tell, there is no way to earn points, no matter how well you are doing. If you get stuck and need a hint, you have to pay $.99. Once you pay at least $.99, the ads stop coming up, and you are free to play without the annoying advertisements. However, once you start getting into 6 and 7 letter words, they are difficult to come up with, and the game gets a bit excruciating. I can’t see paying .99 every time I need a hint. It would be better if you could accumulate points for all your past good behavior (finding words), and then use those points for hints. So I don’t think I will be playing this game anymore. I don’t see any way to go back to an easier level either.

The ads are not bad in the beginning but as you reach higher levels, they become ridiculous! I’ve had a 30 second ad sometimes after every word solved. On three occasions I had about a one minute ad! What!?! I already know the answer...”we’re sorry but the ads allow us to keep free play, and let me take your money often for no ads!” But probably worst of all...there is a free coin option ...you have to listen to another ad to earn coins (to use for pricey hints). A good third of the time, it doesn’t give the coins. You promised coins if I watch the ad!!!! That’s just fraudulent. I’ve contacted the developer and they don’t know the answer, of course! New phone and never have this problem with the many other games. Such a fun game, but extremely annoying. I’m about to go look for a different word game and delete this one!! You have way too much of the same in your reviews and you are not listening. That’s going to hurt you down the line. And check your dictionary, I’ve played words you reject and confirmed they are real words.

This game is fine, I like the concept of it where you can create any word and do some cross elimination to find the right word, similar to Lingo. But I don’t agree with a lot of the words in this app that you have to discover, they need to be more simple words that we use everyday. It’s a challenge in itself to find the correct word but to actually have to guess randomly what the word may be is too complicated and not RELAXING. I don’t mind a challenge but some of the words that you have to figure out I don’t agree with and especially where it’s ages 4+!!!!! A 4 year old would never get through the whole app in a million years (first 100 levels) not saying they have to be words a 4 year old uses but words that we are ALL familiar with. I’d say 60% of the words I do agree with but it needs to be 100%! Too much strain the brain you need to simplify it see it’s enjoyable to play at ANY point. And the cost for hints should be half because of the little reward you get for watching an ad. As of right now, for me, on a scale of 1-10. I give this app as of right now, a 6.

I wouldn't mind the ads but they all play sounds. I have the sounds in the game settings turned off but when the ads pop up, it's full sound. So any chance of getting in a quick game during a meeting requires me to disable all sounds on my phone then remember to turn them back on when I'm done. Too much hassle for a quick game so I uninstalled it. This is not an oversight by the devs since their Help section says to do exactly that. To be clear, I don't have a problem with ads. I know that's the price of admission for free apps. I also don't have a problem that ads have sounds. My issue is that when I use the settings to turn off all sounds that they don't turn them off for the ads. Game is great. 5/5 rating. Ads ignoring my sound settings: 1/5. This gives my overall rating of 3/5.

About ten minutes of playing had me watching an ad in between every one or two puzzles. The game itself is ok, maybe 3 stars. October 26 Update: I gave this another try. The game itself is more like 4 stars. It could be a little snappier (faster animations, particularly after completing a level) for my taste but it’s not too bad. I still stand by my rating of 2 stars for the app because of the frequency of the full screen ads and how each ad has two “X” buttons to get back to the game. I know people who play this in airplane mode to be able to enjoy the app uninterrupted. It has fewer ads in the first five minutes or so before increasing to the point of being in between each and every puzzle. This is really unfortunate during easier puzzles when the ads take up more than 50% of my time with the app. It’s like a plate of really good food being taken away for 10-20 seconds before each and every bite or drink of water. It doesn’t matter how good the food is, I wouldn’t have an enjoyable meal and couldn’t recommend that restaurant to other people, especially when similar restaurants (word solving apps) have fewer interrupting ads. I wouldn’t mind constant banner ads and the occasional full screen ad, especially if I knew when it would happen, maybe once every 10 minutes or 10 puzzles.

In the beginning of the game, there are no ads. Everything goes smoothly and it's pretty fun and addicting. After a few levels you get a pop-up to review the game and at this point, most people would rate it a five because there are no irritants and it's fun. Then go figure, a few more levels in the ads start. One at the bottom of the screen and a 5-30 second ad you have to watch every 3 levels. I was blowing through the levels fast so every 30 seconds or so I was being forced to watch a new ad. I understand it keeps the game free, but the amount is overboard. That is just greed. Not to mention you can't buy a permanent ad removal. You have to make a coin purchase every month to remove ads. Sure you can get a $0.99 coin purchase every month but I really hate the underhanded way they used to get a good rating because if they showed ads before asking for a review, I guarantee it wouldnt be as high. Most people don't change their rating they just delete the game leaving the rating high. These developers are manipulative and dishonest.

So, a few things... 1. The hints are WAY too expensive when compared to other games that require ad-watching for free hints. 5 ads worth for 1 hint? Come on, don’t insult us and waste our time. 2. As stated by other people, there is no reward for guessing the word on the first try, nor are there any incentives to continue with the game at all!! Other games like Candy Crush and Glass Tower at least motivate you by providing a map of levels you’re progressing through—if you really want to engage game players, change it up and add more variety to this fuddy-duddy game...which brings me to my last point... 3. The words in here are not always commonly used. Chanfer? Recognized as rare. Pottage? Terser? Jollity? Sallow? ALL regarded as ‘rare’ by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Not that I don’t enjoy learning new words, but when you need to guess words with a limited choice of letters and use all the spaces, please be mindful that our guesses aren’t drawn from the courts of merry England, or from ancient scribes. We guess words that WE know, not words used only by scholars in their 23rd year of schooling. Those are my main complaints, but I do share the sentiment of others’ gripes as well. And if you really want to look like you care, please give an earnest, sincere response that’s not auto-generated by a disingenuous bot, but by an actual person. Otherwise, it’s you—the game maker—that looks like the fool.