Penny Dell Daily Crossword Wiki

I have been familiar with Penny Dell Crossword puzzles due to the Penny Dell Crosswords magazines I’ve been buying at newsstands in airports and train stations. I was quite happy when looking in the Apple App Store to find that these same puzzles were available in a free app. I can do crossword puzzles every day for free using the app, or I can buy them in the app’s store and keep them in its library until I’m ready to do them. I can do the ones in my library off line when I have no access to wifi or data. Another thing that is very convenient about this app is that I can do the puzzles at night in bed when my husband is asleep without bothering him with the light. I recommend this for crossword fans at three levels There are easy puzzles, medium ones and also more challenging ones available.

I used to play New York Times Crossword Puzzle until they got snooty and started charging to play their puzzles. Since then I have tried to find a puzzle app that I really liked without much success. Then I found Penny Dell and it’s the bomb! I love it! Three different skill levels and they don’t charge you to see the wrong letters. All you have to do is watch a short video ad. Many of the other puzzle apps are set to the younger crowd with questions about rap songs and the titles or artists and frankly in my opinion only an idiot would listen to such garbage so I would just wait until the next day to see if they had something more my style. No such problems with Penny Dell. Thanks for a great App.

I’m so glad I found this app. I’ve used Penny Dell crossword books for years and now I can complete them on my phone or tablet. I find it extremely relaxing and calming especially since I choose the Easy or Medium modes. There’s so many puzzles to do free and for a small amount of money you can but lots more. Cheaper than what I was paying to but the crossword puzzle books. I haven’t been subjected to any ads which has been an unexpected surprise. Although I would have no problem paying a small fee to remove them if they show up.

I enjoy doing the easy ones because that way I get to finish a puzzle, instead of becoming frustrated when I can't. It is much more fun to win. The puzzles are put together very well and cover a wide variety of subjects. I have been doing crosswords all my life and feel I have improved my vocabulary and spelling capabilities as a result. Good fun and a reward in writing abilities as well. This has been a great help in writing reports which I have had to do for the 34 years I worked as a police officer and supervisor. KATO II

GREAT! I love crosswords and these are excellent, especially for travel. I am a regular crossword book buyer. After I finish the ones I have, I'll probably buy some on this site . If the owners of this site read this--YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB!!! Thanks! My second review: I had to take this app off b/c my old phone was low on storage. My new phone has plenty. I still really like this app . I’m an old man who has worked crossword puzzles for MANY years. This app is great , and SO handy. Thanks again for the great puzzles!

Though most people will know almost every answer the first time through each puzzle, it’s still fun to guess the answers. I tend to make it a speed thing: how fast can I finish the whole thing? One knows the puzzles are not challenging from the get-go; they are, after all, intended to be simple. The good news is that one can ask for ore challenging levels, so there’s something for everyone but the true puzzle afficionado. Have fun!

Good puzzle. I enjoy playing each day. The only reason it for the 4 stars instead of 5 is because if I happen to not finished a puzzle in one day the next day I have the same puzzle. If I finish it on the next day I cannot get a new puzzle until the day after that. There are times when I start doing the puzzle and have to put off finishing it until later but am not able to get back to it that day. Sometimes I have very little to finish. The next day, which is after midnight, the unfinished puzzle is there. However, when I finish it, I can no longer get the new puzzle of the day.

I’ve only done a couple of puzzles but I’ve really enjoyed the easy puzzles & all the options that make it easy to style them just for me. I can ask for a hint of one letter or even the entire word, turn the sound off or on, change from up & down or side to side. It will let you turn on correction mode so you Know when you’ve made a mistake or wait until the end to know if you’ve got errors. It’s so much easier than trying to keep up with your puzzle book & pencil, since you generally have your phone with you & thats all you need ever!

Good app for daily use. Suggestion- have a timer or show the elapsed time on the display. I do want to report a bug- on the iPhone, when I use the puzzle, there is a persistent repetitive sound from the app (almost like static on the radio) that pulses in and out. The sound is faint but is there. When I close the app, the sound completely disappears. I have turned sound off in the Settings of the app, so there should be no reason for the sound. It only appears when I use the app. Please check and fix it. Excellent app otherwise. Thanks.

Update: after the last update, I now get an annoying “loading” screen. Please get rid of this screen. Also, please let the iPhone’s status bar at the top be visible so that I can know what time it is and the battery life and wireless icon. I downgraded to 4 stars until this is fixed. I requested the status bar when I wrote my original review a long time ago but it still is not visible. Thanks. First review: I have been a daily user for a few years now and enjoy trying to solve the puzzles. I was never very good with crosswords but I can handle the easy and medium ones because I know when I put in a wrong letter. I’m trying to keep my mind active now that I’m getting older and no longer working. The only thing I would suggest is that the phone’s status bar with the time and battery status could be displayed at the top of the screen. Thanks for a great app!

I have thoroughly enjoyed this app. It is one of the few that I have actually spent real money on. Which leads to my only real complaint. Each difficulty level for the daily puzzles they want me to watch a 30 second ad. Sometimes even multiple ads per each level. I've paid you $30-$40 for your puzzle packs. The least you could do is allow me an ad free experience. I've actually refused to play for over a week due to the long and intrusive ads that were forced on me. I have no qualms with deleting this app if you persist on forcing me to watch long ads in order to play. If this is fixed, this is an outstanding app. Reward the people who pay you their hard earned money with an ad free experience.

The new ad for some very sugary sweet cereal that I would never eat much less give my kids, takes two to three times to run. Sitting through two minutes is not the same as sitting thru a 30 second ad. Is it you or them? And as I just read from another review, some ads crash. Get it together. Or is this a hoax? Are you reading these and laughing? I'm giving you one star. A week or so later... Tonight when I started your game I noticed that the ad was taking a while so I decided to time it. It’s been on for over 11 minutes and it’s not over yet. I know you want us to pay to use your game so we don’t have to watch the ads but this is a bit extreme. I have noticed that there’s a whole new way ads are run and new types of ads, not just for other games. And this is true for other games I play. I have seen this ad many times now (for iPhone photo school) and it’s length varies. So, when I finished a game and the ad started - it was the same ad and was going to run for 15 minutes. Are y’all aware of this?

I downloaded yours because I wanted some easy crosswords, I have used your books, and what I got was one fun and easy crossword. When I tried to do another at medium difficulty, another 45 second ad, then when I asked for a hint ,or something else simple, another 45 second ad, only this one wouldn’t give an X out when it finished, so the only way to proceed is to shut the game down and restart and , yep ANOTHER 45 second ad. I’m sorry, I know you needs ads, but in the short time I’ve had this game, more time has been on ads than playing the game, that’s ridiculous. Just charge a couple bucks and get out of the way. I’m deleting this now , which is a shame, because I like to support companies that are not intrusive with the data they collect. But this is abusive.

Again, I ask, who writes these darn puzzles?? Is it one person? A team of people? A computer word-generator?? Whoever or whatever it is, they need to quit being complacent and think up some new words!! I do at least the hard and medium puzzles every day, and I can give you ten words that each have a 75% chance of being in either the medium or hard puzzle, or both: Era, eon, age, eer, ere, ewe, erne, ore, oer, and owe. Not to mention any clue that includes doing something “again.” You can’t just use the prefix “re” before anything and make it into a real word! 95% of puzzles also include one or more clues for a random Greek letter... There are 24 Greek letters! They might as well use the clue “pick a number between 1 and 24”! Not only do they reuse the same clues every day, they aren’t even good! “Before, to a bard”??? These clues are so, for lack of a better word, cheesy! If it’s one person writing these puzzles, read a dictionary! If it’s a team, have more brainstorming meetings! If it’s a computer, supply it with a new database! So I say, pun intended, to whomever or whatever writes these stinking puzzles, get a clue!