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I definitely preferred the previous version of your game. It’s disappointing for those of us who started out with using coins to play. You cut the video bonus coins in half! I agree with another user who said the words that are generated when you pay using the lightbulb are words I’ve never heard used and never saw in writing anywhere else! I’ve had to close out the game due to no vowels being given after the very first play that I’ve made! So we need someone to listen who will give us an option of playing the older version with coins instead of hearts! I’m not enjoying the game as much as I did and where before I’d play every spare moment I had and now I may play only once a day or not at all. How is this better for the developers? Maybe newbies don’t know any better but for us loyal players it seems like you took more than you gave with your new format!

I’ve enjoyed playing this game up until this last update a couple of days ago. With this latest update the ‘first aid bulb’ square soo does not work for me anymore . Previously I was able to tap on the ‘first aid bulb’ and see where I ‘may’ be able to play tiles. With this new update if I tap on that bulb there is one option only..to play/use the ‘first aid bulb’ and I’m extremely unhappy with this update so much so that I’m tempted to not play but alas I don’t have another fall back game as yet This is from someone who NEVER writes reviews 😏

So this is a basic scrabble game and it’s enjoyable BUT there are no explanation for these power ups or “extras”. For instance, I have a TON of gems but there is no explanation what I can use them for. So I keep accumulating and have no use for them. I’ve tried googling, searched every last screen in the game, no explanation at all. Plus when you’re playing the computer mode, some of the words it uses are ridiculous and it’s like you’re playing a scrabble dictionary because 90% of what they play you’ve never even heard of in your life. Also, Facebook group is useless unless you want live videos of people doing tarot card readings Plus my screen doesn’t look like others - they have lives and I have gems and need coins to play. This doesn’t make sense!!

This game is fun and challenging but as you get to the higher levels it becomes extremely frustrating. You will have 6 moves to accomplish the goals and receive no vowels. It is impossible to build words without vowels. You can lose a move to change out letters but still get no vowels. To buy an extra letter costs a lot of coins and you don’t earn very many throughout game play. You earn enough to play the next level sometimes. It is set up so you have to spend real money to complete the levels. I have played many levels where I only received two vowels the entire game. I refuse to spend a ton of money to play any game.

I love the game and making my brain work to figure out words and strategy but I have put money in for the no ads, which worked for a while but now the ads are back-not the ads I chose to earn extra coins or rewards but the ads between games. I’ve lost so many coins and boosters because I’ll be playing the game and have to pause for phone call or so other distraction and when I go back it starts me all over and I have to use coins again to play a level I was already working on-I still play but I have gone back to some of my other favorites bc I’ve spent enough money, of my choice, but have lost what I’ve purchased due to bugs in the game-

Hello! I just started playing this game a few weeks ago and I really like it. There are a couple of things that get kind of frustrating. One is that the game will just shut off and go back to app screen causing you to lose your coins and resulting in you having to replay and use more coins to replay the round you just finished and won. Also, there are times when you don’t get vowels while playing and after using your free swap you have to use moves in order to swap out tiles to get vowels often causing you to lose because you ran out of moves unless you purchase them which I have done. Otherwise it’s a pretty cool game.

I have serious issues with several of the game boards. There is at least one board that seemingly cannot be surpassed. All pathways to the black and white square are blocked and it is not evident what is required to get around the roadblocks or break the bricks blocking access. I also have a big problem with the number of coins required to buy a letter, an extra move, clues, and losing turns to swap hands. Also, using up your boosters but not knowing in advance if the boosters will help. Finally, most of the boards cannot be played in the few moves allotted. I have spent entirely too much real money on this game only to feel like I have been scammed during play. I enjoyed the game for a while but I would be crazy to continue throwing money away on a game that is not very fair. The game developers did “compensated me by giving me 1000 coins. If you have ever played this game, you know 1000 coins is meaningless. Let that sink in...1000 coins is meaningless. I have wasted thousands of coins (and the real money to acquire them) on this. I’m sorry to say, but I’m done. It’s a pretty cool game and can be addictive. Hopefully someone will take this under advisement and make some changes.

I’m considering deleting this game because there are way too many ads in It. It seems the longer you play, the more ads come on. Now it’s every time I complete a puzzle and some of them are really long. I really don’t feel like waiting for a full ad to complete just to move on to the next puzzle It really ruins the continuity & the desire to continue playing and I think $9.99 is too much to pay to remove them. Just my opinion, but it bothers me enough that this is the first review I’ve EVER written for a game app. Does anyone agree with this? I haven’t read a lot of reviews yet, but so far I haven’t seen any regarding this. BTW, I do play games with ads in them, just not this many. Update: I just read more updates and my mistake, there are plenty complaining about the ads. They continue to say they will address this, but so far nothing.

I love the game play. I like the scrabble type of challenges that change up regular through the levels that ke things interesting. The levels art short making it easy to play for a short time and then move on. However! Shortly after the game figures out you like it, the ads start getting more and more frequent. I buy the no ad package. Ok it will be worth. I find it odd that you never pick the higher value stars. Obviously it is not random or in over 100 picks, I would have gotten 1 larger one. But ok, it is a freebie, I am ok. Then at about level 20, you stop getting any vowels, forcing you to use moves to swap letters and buys or pay coins to replay rounds. Too bad a concept in overwhelmed by greed. If the company fixes the algorithm to make it fairer, I will adjust my rating. And oh yeah, the games crashes some.

So I bought the puzzle package and it said my purchase didn’t go through but they took my money out my account. I go to help so someone can either give me my money back or give me my purchase and no one has responded. So y’all just taking people money and why no vowels or at least a quit button. This game seems to be designed to take money from people. The concept is great but it’s not very gamer friendly. Poor customer service. I’ve spent a lot of real money on this game and now y’all stealing money from folks. I want my money back right now!!!! It may not be a lot of money to you but I don’t throw money away. I should be able to get what I paid for. I almost want to report y’all to Apple and Google and tell them y’all are scamming people. No vowels, the game lags sometimes, some of those words are made up or in another language, you have to spend coins if you can’t make a word just to get out of the level and start over. Fix this and fix it fast. Please don’t send me the same message I keep seeing on other comments from some bot. Y’all need to update this game again and make major changes. Nobody is happy with the way it is now. Please be careful when downloading this game because now they taking people money and you get nothing in return. Thieves!!!!!!

I don’t know what this developer was thinking when s/he decided to put ads in the game for every move and after winning a level. It makes me think a FOUR YEAR OLD develop this app. The ads are ridiculous!! I will NEVER pay to remove an ad. The developer make MILLIONS A DAY just by players downloading and logging into the game to play it. Playing the game counts for even more. So with ALL of these ads they are really racking up. I just started playing last week and on level 200+. I can’t continue to play a game that full of ads. You spend more time watching ads than you do playing. In the middle of playing, there goes an ad interrupting your game. It’s was good while it lasted. I’m about the delete this game!!! It’s not designed to enjoy playing. It’s design to rack in revenue from ads. A toddler would get tired of watching ALL those ads! You cant contact anyone about the game. I NEVER IN MY LIFE SEEN in ANY LANGUAGE(S) that a word doesn’t contain a VOWEL. The game gives you nothing BUT CONSONANTS & NO VOWELS. I don’t understand that. How the heck can you spell a word without vowels? Also, words that are actual words, they don’t allow those words. This game is a joke and the joke is on the developer. I haven’t spent one bronze penny on the game and will never spend any. It’s too childish of a game.

The game itself WAS a lot of fun, but they kept doing so many updates to the game that made it more complicated to play. For instance, it use to take 500 coins to get help for a bonus word or bonus letter which was hard to get to because they don’t offer many coins on anything. They then increased the coins to 700 for help. Which was really really hard to get to. I would have to watch ads every day to get more coins for 1 time to play. I would end up buying additional coins which I have historically never done. Now with the news update the 1200 coins needed to get 1 Letter of help is outrageous. Because of that I deleted the app. The 1200 coins wouldn’t be bad if you gave more but with each app update the coins given have remained the same so now it’s just unobtainable. When I went to go write this review I learned the app is always tracking me- so with everything stated above - I deleted the app. Lost revenue for this company since I did purchase many times from in app purchases.

I’m so upset that no one w this ap developer can fix or address my concern. Even w a Facebook login to keep progress up to date across all devices, and after deleting the ap and reinstalling, I lost all progress - including over 10,000 coins I had been building. I also spent over $100 on upgrades and sales .....and I know a waste of $, but when I like a game, I will splurge. Any other game deleted w a Facebook login works, and can played across devices. I now have 2 UID numbers, and when I try to contact them again, no response! The first time I contacted them in October about a crash, they responded immediately and also reimbursed me for my crash issues w some coins. Now, no communication! Do not start this game, fall in love with it, if you do not want to end up upset and disappointed. I’m actually missing the game, but after days of no resolution, I refuse to start over and i will def not put $ any upgrades. Sooo upset.

While initially the game fun I was very surprised when was trying random letters at one point, not realizing exactly what I was entering, until it accepted the word “kike”. When I clicked on it for its definition it said “a Jew”. When I wrote them about it and asked how their “acceptable” words were selected they refused to answer. When I again inquired and reminded them that no derogatory terms are acceptable they simply commented that they would take out all bad words. Who knows what they actually consider bad if this was allowed. No remorse for their “oversight” or actions. Basically a short handed auto response. Unacceptable! They are disgusting and prejudiced! UPDATE: Despite repeated attempts to find the resource of their word selection they refuse to acknowledge and just give the automated response that they will be removed. Again, no accepting responsibility or reassurance of steps taken to resolve this situation. DO NOT PLAY and tolerate their horrible behavior!