Cryptogram: Word Logic Puzzles

The way to play the game has been changed, and I hate it. I liked it better when the entire alphabet was available. Now, we can only choose from 5 random "cards". At least the Daily Challenge is still the same. If that changes, I'm out. Also, as others have said, there are too many ads! Response to others' complaints about the ads are always "We are actively working on this to improve your experience." You've been saying that for over a year.

lately there is a birds game app ad that is impossible to get out of and takes several minutes, no exaggeration, to finish before u can get back to the puzzle. I was enjoying this cryptogram game very much until this! so disappointing. am about ready to uninstall.

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User-friendly game app. Enjoying the game. keep it up.

rated 5+ with a 3.7.1 update) where players decode hidden quotes by matching numbers or symbols to letters. • App Rating & Reviews: • On the Amazon Appstore, a version of the concept by Joyteractive holds a 2.3 out of 5-star rating from about 50 user ratings, often noted as a fun brain teaser though some users find the difficulty scaling or interface ad-heavy.

I love the challenge. A great way to pass time.

get off-line game

2 is a generous score. More like 1.5. Firstly, like everyone else says, the ads are intrusive and some of them go on f..o..r..e..v..e..r. Also the game is not as advertised. The advert shows it as a code breaking game where they give you a key and you can work out what each letter would be accordingly. It isn't like that. Just because the letter A is number 5, does not mean that B is 6. Instead each letter is assigned a random number. In the end you have to watch more ads to get clues.

Great entertainment 😎

way to many ads. I would just done with two sets of ads and get a ad break which is a very waste of time.

uninstalling the game. Game was good, but way too many ads.. multiple times ad pops up in middle of the game. feeling irritated

It's an amazing game, but there are just so many ads. Without the ads I would give it a 5.

lovely, best,amazing game

it's an amazing word play

so fun!!

Game devs insist on adding distracting features like a huge "watch an ad for hints" button if you don't enter a letter for a bit. Stop making it difficult to use this game as a way to relax. Edit to add: I've been ad-free for literal years. I'm okay with ads if I choose to watch them but you've made it very blatant and obnoxious.

good

takes along time to completely bring the cptrogram up and slow when you put letter in up 11-4-26 update and it's even taking forever to get the game going. I like this game going to see if and of the other cryptograms take this long

dalinder game aahe

Overall, the game is great, but the excessive amount of ads just ruins it.

love these games. flexing the mind to stay sharp.

love the concept of this game. Its super fun and enjoyable, I would love to play more games like this. However this game has WAY too many ads, they are after every level as well as when you are completing a level you may get hit with one half way through. I was completing one and got hit with 2 while trying to complete a level and it just took away all the fun and annoyed me throughly. If a game forces ads after every level, things get interrupted by ads I immediately uninstall. Way too many.

you gotta watch ads first before you can play

was a great game til it ran out of ideas and started quoting far right fascists.

entirely too many ads. love the game, hate ads every 3 or 4 letters.

how do you get back to the game after 3x's?

this used to be good, but now all it seems to be is an ad generator. it also heats up your phone like crazy.

This could be such a fun game, but the sheer volume of ads means you get more ads than play time. An ad after every game or to restart or revive is fair, but having an ad every 10 seconds is just too annoying!

Soooo many ads. I used to like this game. I especially like the side event where they serialize a classic novel (Dracula last year, Frankenstein right now). But now there's an ad immediately after opening the app, several ad breaks interrupting each quote, an ad after... it's become unplayable.

good and peaceful

too many adds, ads in between the stage , not one atleast 4 in daily games. please reduce that, keep them for new stages not between

only thing for me that I think should be different in the game is once we get a right letter, it needs to show how many the are. the game is great though

fun, short phrases. relaxing, doesn't overwhelm your brain but uses just enough to be mildly thought provoking...

It used to be a good game, however recent updates require watching ads whether or not the move is correct. will be uninstalling.

rigged so you have to use hint from the very start and to many add

its basically an ad you finish a game ad mid game ad you lose ad .. uninstall

It is not working right! There are 6 minutes left to complete the fallen stars event, but when I try to play, the puzzle does not contain any stars to earn. This has happened before, and when the puzzle was done, no stars were awarded. Please fix this! And give me the 3 stars I needed to complete the event.

very fun

started off great but has become so slow and buggy its almost impossible to play. I dont want to delete it and lose my progress

too much ads have to uninstall it

entertaining and mind bogling

This game is quick, loaded with AI... It carries well to another app.

would not even start. meaning: not even load.

you are very pro game and I love it 😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️

great game

Too much ads, even appearing multiple times within a single game.

It's a really fun game exactly like the ad says it will be and it gives you a fun quote at the end of every round

I really liked it before the update. They added "timers" on some letters where you have to solve them in a certain amount of moves which stresses me out. I'll be finding another game now.

sad that all "non daily puzzle" are the bs card which i must pick one of these... and absolutely then add blank numbered spots... I get wanting to make some more challenging, using the card method really slows down being able to fill in some words as known but letters needed won't deal out. really slows down making this not so fun

good

best game I have ever seen

love it just is the best to satisfie my mind bent as it it this way of thinking 🤔

One of the worst game, Even internet is connected it will show no internet connection, Waste Game 👎

do you like ads? if yes this is your game. ad breaks about 3 times a puzzle. ruined it for me

Great idea, awfully executed in a typical money-grab app. It has an unbelievable number of ads. I got two ads in the middle of a single level, one of which took SEVEN CLICKS to skip. Also the "No ads" button offers no price tag and immediately throws you to a pay screen (that Google thankfully stopped). I'll have to uninstall unfortunately, as the ads make the whole app unusable.

USED to love...now the ads are non stop and ads take over screen n won't close.... Have to close and restart the system... it's useless now. so sad. you had a great opportunity but you're clearly so money hungry that you don't care about good experiences any.smh

The game is wonderful don't get me wrong but I'm giving a 2 star review cause the bad outweighs the good....first is the rampant ads like every time there are ad breaks in the middle of you racking your brain, it's annoying seriously, put ads but in moderation . next is the lagging year even in strong wifi the game just isn't fast when I'm typing and causes me to mess in places ......plz check on it, this is a good game and it would pain me to drop it

All y'all getting out of hand with the Ad breaks in the MIDDLE of a level. This is the only reason I'm uninstalling. I used to play this game, opened it to an update with these highly intrusive adds. I will never support an app or dev that does this bs. Ads between stuff is understandable for a free app. ridiculous

Fun game, but basically unplayable without purchasing no ads. I could also do without all the weirdly sexual and grossly misogynistic quotes :/

The game is quite OK, but the ads are very annoying. Ads at every level and most annoying ads during play (ads break). Sorry, uninstall

the frequency of the ads..... it's absolutely absurd. more than any other game I play. game play is very much to my liking but the ads makes me want to find a different app.

very challenging

I am almost certain the latest story event was done using ai and not a single person proof read it. I've read the actual story of Frankenstein several times and I can't follow it at all. it makes no narrative sense and it's so frustrating. it's lazy on the part of the game devs

I've been playing for quite awhile and enjoy playing but got a new device. Unfortunately, Support won't respond to requests to help transfer progress like they promise. If I need to start over I might just try a new game instead. 1 star for lack of support.

this game is full of long adds, before, during and after games. some of the ads freeze so you can't continue the game. I am deleting it!

This is a good game. I'm only giving 4 stars because the interface responds too fast which results in unintended repeated alphabets as I type.

Find the game addictive and really enjoy the challenges, but over the past two days the game won't open for me so may have to switch to another similar game.

I waited for more than 10 minutes but the app didn’t open. so I am uninstalling the app. it’s totally worthless.

TOOOO MANY ADS!!!

I love this game and especially the book challenges but would really appreciate more time to complete them.

terrible. you get to a certain level, the whole thing glitches, and then you have to uninstall and start all over again. you should be able to have an account or something so you can start back where it glitched out. I'm so annoyed. trying to contact anyone gets you an AI agent who does nothing.

Far too many ads. Even "add breaks" during puzzles that break concentration. $5 to remove ads.

GRRRR they BROKE their own game to try and suck more money out of their players. It used to be that you could select whatever letter you wanted to in a given space. Now they force you to use a new mechanic where you can only select from a handful of letters they deal you out at a time. This is LESS fun and really now quite a different game altogether. So who was it made to benefit? UPDATE: Having contacted them through the app and email I can verify they don't care one bit. No response at all.

The only annoying part is some of the ads take me all the way out of the game if I click them wrong

Incessant and obnoxious ads. Ads in the middle of a game, followed by another when you complete the level a minute later.

It was a great cryptogram game. Now it's more like a solitaire game. You just match letters and numbers on cards. It's much too easy and boring.

the game is extremely laggy

used to love this, but it's unplayable, and I hate it.

WHEN the app opens, works well. Takes forever @ times to open & often will not open at all.

Hate the cards, get rid of the cards, makes me not want to use the app. The bombs were bad enough, now theres cards. At least make the cards like a side game or something. A special event, a different way to play. Loved the game before, it was fun and relaxing, absolutely perfect. Why does every game have to make it more and more challenging. Have enough stress in life dont need it from my relaxing games.

terrible. way to many ads

No other app makes my phone blazing hot and kills my battery like this one. Starting to think it's crypto mining in the background.

wish there were less ads. fun and love the puzzle. I don't like that the ad will pop up mid game.

The game is a little challenging, but sometimes that's what a person needs to keep interested.

I love this game but am driven crazy how too often the ad break closed the app and my progress is lost!! I have to start from scratch!! Why does it do that? I also hate the stressful timer mode but luckily this is occasional. Please fix losing progress after an ad break!!!

love the inspirational quotes once you solve puzzles.

game is messed up do not play

I installed this app somewhere along last year, and it was fun. There were very few ads and basic features that made it basic and fun to play. But with time, they've added more events and modes that I couldn't care less about, and the long ads are everywhere now, which makes it impossible to enjoy. Also, the new "mastermind" level where you have to fill the gaps with cards? Awful. I don't recommend it at all anymore and I'm deleting it. Stop making it worse, please.

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Nice game 🎮 👏 👌

The forced ads DURING the middle of game play is so obnoxious. Removed and looking for another that doesn't force me to watch an ad during game play.

Ad break is ridiculous that highly disturbs your puzzle solving. Uninstalled!

loveit it's challenging

Fun and challenging.

The ads are crazy over the top in this one, avoid

Its a real challenge! the game gets harder as you move up

too hard don't recommend

disgusting

having ads play in the middle of game play is so annoying. I got three adds before even completing the last puzzle I was on and closed out the game and Uninstaller. if your going to have ads. put them in between the puzzles and not while we are solving. kept losing my place. good game ruined by greed.

Adds are overwhelming and become more and more frequent to the point of multiple adds within one level. They are long and make you decline download 3 or 4 times each. Game goes from easy to a quick jump to hard with long quotes with none or only one letter clue to start and you only get 3 mistakes per level and a LONG add to get one single chance at a time. Adds force open Play Store every time!!! I'm deleting. So not worth it. Not fun enough to outweigh the nuisance from adds. DELETED.

I enjoyed the game, but I'm uninstalling, because ads occur in the middle of long puzzles that interrupted my thought process. I don't have a problem with ads; I have a problem with their timing. Also, I end up guessing letters a lot with a small number of mistakes and either have to start over or watch ads to get one more chance. It can be time consuming.

Base game play is entertaining enough but I'd seen a bunch of low reviews from 2025 about ad frequency and wanted to see if it they'd fixed it. They have not. By stage 5 ish there was an ad mid stage, immediately after, and then before starting the next stage. No game is worth sitting through that, let alone something as simple as this.

this is a good game, really- but the ads are a bit too much and frankly I'm a bit disappointed, the game in and of itself was good and I've liked it, but something I've seen said multiple times, and I share as an opinion, for awhile now, is the need for a dark mode yet they now have a card collection thing which is fine- I guess- but it's incredibly unneeded, and I'm frankly dissapointed in the developers that this card thing has been added but there's still no dark mode. not to mention the ads

Ads between levels would be annoying but acceptable. Ads literally interuptting the middle of a level without a request for a hint ? nope instant uninstall. Also the "give us money to stop the pain". The complaints on ads has been here since 2025. you aren't making an effort to improve the free player experience. you are happy to let it continue. Enough other games of this type to just move on.

ads 100% will ruin this game for you... if not online, then you can enjoy this game, but once online again, ads are constant and most of the time, ads don't show an exit... gotta restart app to get past or maybe click on the ad (but not doing that). Had to uninstall after a couple of days because of ads...I have no problem with ads for a free app, but these are too much And give you no way to get past them sometimes... GOOD OFFLINE ONLY GAME.

Paid for no ads. App requires you to watch an ad to go to the next level regardless...there is always a loophole to the definition of no ads. So requested cancelation. Concept is straightforward and easy to play I will play the AP until the ads get too annoying... edit. AP gives you lives and you either have to wait long periods for more lives. So basically a never ending pay to play scheme. Dropped from 3 stars to 1

The game is actually very entertaining, and I would love to keep the game, but I can't. there are way too many ads. banner ads, ads between levels, multiple ad breaks during the level. I can get behind the banner ads and the ads between levels, but ads DURING game play, not just once, but MULTIPLE. And based off the reviews it looks like that's not changing.

The puzzles are too short/simple. many can be solved in under 90 seconds. I usually don't mind an ad before a new puzzle or level, but 90 seconds of game play followed by a minute plus of all (you have to wait it out. no skipping through some of them) means not enough game play.

I am back once more to complain. After trying uninstalling and reinstalling the app for about a week, the game didn't lag one bit, but I had to start fresh which was very annoying. But now it's lagging again. I don't know what's causing it, my phone has plenty of space and it just seems to start lagging once I start playing the limited game mode a bit more. I love this game but I can't even watch ads because the game just crashes when I try, so I can't even get free hints etc.

Way too many ads, can be as many as 2-4 between levels. Many of the ads take you completely out of game mode to advertisers website. Often advertisement will freeze up game activity. Each time these two events happen you cannot just resume the game and have to wait for a period of time before the power up option is functional. Game developer advise that they are fixing issues, not true. They also speak of ad free options. I'm unsuccessful in finding this option. They need to do better.

I like this kind of puzzle and their implementation is fun but I am not interested in the social options but still want something harder. I wish there were also puzzles that jam all the words together without spaces and then cuts it into five or six character blocks so we aren't so easily able to figure out three letter words or suffixes as when the word breaks are preserved.

I used to love this game, but more ans more the loading is taking a long time. Also just tapping on a letter is taking longer. I don't have anything else running on my tablet to delay processing. The lag is almost to the point where I am thinking of uninstalling the game. I would bring it up to get a quick game in, but now there is nothing quick about it.

This game is really fun, but...the ads started to often bring me to a website without my tapping on anything, and then it would boot me out of the game. Sometimes it happened when I was watching an ad to try to get a hint, which was really annoying. I'm uninstalling the game because I'm really tired of dealing with that.

Update review: The one good way to play is to put it in airplane mode. This allows for uninterrupted gameplay. Unfortunately, the ads that run in the game take so long that by the time they finish, the game times out and restarts. Fix Those Ads !!! OMG! Every single time an ad runs, for any reason, the game quits and tries to reboot. I'm so frustrated. I love this game and would play every day, but when I have to wait for the reboot I just end up shutting off the game and go read a book.

I love cryptograms. However, the ads are not properly placed in the game. They should be placed in between levels rather than in the middle of game play. It's very frustrating to figure out a letter, and as soon as you choose it for the first time, there's an ad break. There's a good chance to forget where you were in the puzzle whenever you return to the game.

I used to have this game and it was so bad I gave it 2 stars. I didn't realize it was the same one is was installing over a year later but I LOVE it. One of the few games I actually paid to not have to have forced ads. I do have one minor complaint though, the special story time events, I really wish that we were allowed to watch ads to complete them like we can for the daily puzzles. I've had a few I was close to finishing but couldn't and I really wish there was a way I could go back...

There are way too many ads! This game is not worth it! I love the puzzles and the challenges but I have watched more ads in half a day on this game than all 5 other games on my phone in the last week. I refuse to pay $5 to remove the ads as well. 2 stars is beyond generous especially since the ads messed up my timing because I would forget where I was at on a puzzle. The puzzles are awesome if you like brainteasers but the ads piss me off royally!!!

I have had this game downloaded for years. It was relaxing, with no ads (at that time).I admit, it fell to the wayside for games that didn't repeat so much. the other day I found it again and so played it. I extremely dislike it now, the relaxing charm of the game is now filled with stress of guessing a random letter correctly or watching a video or paying money. All of the joy I found in this game is gone. I will be deleting it as soon as this is posted.

I have been playing this game for a long time. I paid to get rid of ads 9/4/24. The recent software update resumed playing ads.Broken link to buy out of them. The recent changes to the way stories and fairytales are played (by letter grouping) had greatly increased the time for clearing those levels. I used to be at the top of the tournament and leagues. Their customer service is pretty much useless. I'm getting really close to uninstalling.

If I could give this app negative stars, I would. Sooo many ads, I even went so far as to purchase the no ads version. What happened, you ask?...Still multiple, minutes long ads. The sad part, is that this game is actually fun, but because of the ads it's completely unplayable.

I had this game installed for a month because while I love the gameplay, I can't stand the constant ads. Between levels is fine but when doing special challenges, if I'm on a roll, suddenly the app calls for an "ad break". Then when returning to gameplay, I can add two more letters and suddenly I need another "ad break". Had to uninstall because I can't get through a challenge without at least 8 ad breaks. No longer worth my time putting up with this.

Tried again to see if any improvement. Even more ads than before. Yes, anyone who understands economics knows ads pay for the game, but not 10 to 20 per game. Ad to start a game; multiple ads through the game not simply one at a time either, 2 or 3 and for 15 to 30 seconds EACH; and, the ultimate- when you finish a game your reward is ANOTHER AD. Spending exponentially more time waiting on ads than actually being able to play is not worth it.

⭐☆☆☆☆ Ruined by Greedy Updates I used to love this game. Cryptogram puzzles are supposed to be relaxing and satisfying. Adding fog to multiple words at once makes it nearly impossible to finish a puzzle without using hints. You did not add a challenge, you removed the puzzle. I already paid to have the ads removed and now core gameplay is behind a paywall too. That is not a challenge, that is just greed. Fix it or lose players. I am not paying twice to play a game I already paid for.

The game can be fun, but the system is very frustrating at the same time. tell me why I rolled for a benefit, got the double shield, and rerolled 10 times (not exaggerating) and ONLY got the double shield. What is even the point of rolling at all? Why does it play so many ads during a puzzle? It really takes away from the enjoyment.

I have played this game for quite awhile now and tolerated the ad interruptions. But recently (possibly with the 5/2/26 update?) when I try to finish an uncompleted daily puzzle I get a "no internet connection" message and can't complete the puzzle when I am ABSOLUTELY connected to the internet! I believe this is a bug that needs to be fixed.

Immediately uninstalled after literally spending 5 minutes to go through their list of "vendors" that had toggled on "legitimate interest" for over 50 vendors. I didn't even make it all the way through the list. Come on now.... I know our data is sold but that's ridiculous just to try to play your game and have to toggle off over 50 pre-toggled on selections from the vendor list.

I played the game daily for a year and a half. When I got a new tablet, customer support sent me a code to transfer it so I didn't loose my progress. I had purchased ad free and that originally did not transfer. The ads/breaks take the joy out of it. Customer support again took care of it with a code. It's the best game, but you have to pay the $4.99 to really enjoy it. Customer support very good.

Way too many ads, also just way too many ads. It's a fun game but really way too many ads. I think I played one level and got like 5 break ads, and I needed a hint so yeah another ad. It would be one thing if you could click out of them on the break ads but nope they're still like 30 seconds.

The frequency of ads is too high compared to difficulty and time. You get 1-2 letters in a phrase that don't repeat. 3 guesses to get the 15 other letters used. Watch an ad if idle for 5min. watch an ad if you guess a letter wrong. I like the gameplay, but lower the difficulty or fewer ads. A 10 min game shouldn't be 8min of ads

I like it for the most part. It's got some glitches, hidden rules, or something, where I'm not allowed to put the correct letter in a space. I know it's correct because it is elsewhere on the board. Also the constant ad interruption is annoying. I'm not opposed to ads, just leave them in between levels not every 30 seconds or whatever in the middle of trying to solve a puzzle.

You can,t play for more than 2 minutes tops before an advertisement pops up which does NOT allow you to close and return to your puzzle. you have to close the app and reopen to play again, then repeat every 2 minutes until you finally get an advertisement that pops up the second you start the app... can no longer even get to the actual puzzle anymore.

I understand the need for ads, but there are FAR TOO MANY here. Several ads in the middle of levels interrupting players' thought processes, if you choose the lower prize after a level so you don't have to watch yet another ad, guess what? You get an ad anyway! I love puzzles like these and I want to love this game. Please tone it down. No I'm not going to pay to escape the barrage because I don't reward bad behavior.

overall the game is very good. The biggest complaint is get in upper levels over half your playtime is watering hing ads.. cut the ads down,, don't mind once in a while but nearly after every play you get hit with 2-3 ads before getting back to playing. Giving it a 3 until ads slow up. Probably will uninstall if ads don't slow up.

The games are fun. The ads are ridiculous. There are 2 that come up often. There is a countdown in the upper right corner that ends with a nect arrow that just takes you to a video with a countdown in the right corner. That next arrow takes you back to the beginning. Does this again and again before you can get back to the game. Waste of time.

doesn't always have the correct letters to finish challenge. happened 4 times in a row now. for the current one I have to wait 11 days for it to expire before a new one appears. has a lot of ads which I expect for a free game but now the ad keeps freezing and not letting me move on in another puzzle available. not worth it.

There are more Ads than the puzzle time itself. This is supposed to be a relaxing game and one to use your mind. Well the relaxation gets destroyed when there is an advertisement break every 8 to 10 letter placement. I lost interest after doing 8 puzzles because my stress level was uncomfortable and my heart was anxious. Not worth playing this game at all. Uninstalled.

I like this game, and I would rate it higher, but I am tired of being thrown out of the game after watching an ad, and when reloaded, it makes you start over instead of continuing. This happens whenever game ads send you to the Play Store. Please fix this bug. It now has hard levels where you have to solve 2 puzzles and it is totally unacceptable when you are finished with the first and 90% done with the second and you are forced to restart after watching an ad. I will no longer repeat these.

Unfortunately, I really like this game. I hadn't played it in months, but wanted to pick it up again and remembered why I stopped. The ads are ridiculous!! I watched no less than 5 ads while trying to complete ONE puzzle. Look at the other negative reviews and listen to the warnings: too many ads! Sure, you can pay $5 to put an end to them, but I would rather choose to support a company because I like their product, not because I was so annoyed by the frequent interruptions while playing!

This game is messed up! I can't get past Level 185, which is labeled Super Hard. It's not that the puzzle is too hard. It's too long & I'm only given moves in increments of 3 and have to watch ads each time I need 3 moves. So, eventually, one of the ads freezes the puzzle and you have to relaunch the app. Instead of being able to continue my progress, I have to start over again! I've tried SIX times to complete this puzzle. Why is it that I solved 184 Levels without this happening? Game sucks!

The game has been great until the last couple of weeks. They offer an optional storybook challenge that reads through different fairy tales/classic stories like Gullivers Travels and The Three Musketeers, but the last couple of weeks they changed it from the normal format for their puzzles to some card game where you only get 5 letters at a time to try to find where they fit into the puzzle instead of having the whole keyboard available. I wish they would change it back to how it was.

game is a lot of fun. good challenge. one thing really gets me. the bloated ads. I play a good bit of games similar to this, and used to getting ads here and there. this feels like every thing you do there's an ad. go to a level, get an ad (sure. that's normal). get an ad mid level (uncommon, but annoying imo). leave the level to do a challenge,get an ad. and the ads have been more so long and non skippable, or resetting. im all for getting ads, sure. its needed, but this is much.

Started out fun and building up the right amount of challenge and tutorials, but by level 8 I was getting "adbreaks" interrupting gameplay every 30-60sec. Ads between levels are understandle for a free game, but I saw 6 ads in the 4min it took for a single level. That's way too many for me to put up with and took the fun right out of the game, especially when I'm trying to think. I'd rather have multiple ads between levels

I love cryptogram puzzles. I wanted to love this game, but the ads are too frequent and not just between games! I can figure out one of the letters and it will just take off to an ad. By the time the ad is over and I get back to the game, I've forgotten where I was. Also, there is no Easy, Medium or Hard puzzles to choose from. They start out hard and get harder. I'm searching for a better Cryptogram app and uninstalling.

I actually like the puzzles very much. and I am comfortable with ads between puzzles, it's how I've found other fun games. However, this game has MULTIPLE mid-puzzle ads per puzzle. It's ridiculous. There's no warning or anything. I would be actively searching for a particular letter and BAM, an ad would pop up. By the time it got back to my puzzle, I will have lost my train of thought. it is exponentially disruptive. DO BETTER app builders. Uninstalling now.

I used to love this game! I didn't mind all the extra ads. But, the new "alarm" feature makes the game horrible! For anyone looking at getting this app, An "alarm" is set on a random letter and counts down. There can be several alarms popping up randomly all over the playing area. If it counts down, you get hit with losing a life or watching an ad. Or in my case, an error! Do Not play this game until alarms are removed!

Ads inserted after every third guess, it seems. An alternate puzzle gives you a limited number of guesses (say 16) and then forces you to either start over or watch another f-ing ad!!! Screw them. I understand if I don't opt to pay I should expect to watch a few ads. But this game is ridiculous. Too bad, because it is a fun game. But stay away unless you want to pay for it.

I like these kinds of puzzles, but the ads are excessive. I got an ad before the level, after every single subsequent level, and an ad popped up in the middle of the level for an "ad break." Sometimes the ads wouldn't allow skipping until after a 30 second timer. I understand they need money, and I generally don't mind ads, but the ads in this game are completely disruptive and excessive, and I am uninstalling solely because of that mid-level ad break.

New update ruined the game. I've had this game for years and enjoyed playing it casually. The number of ads has increased, which I dislike, but the addition of a timed element or you lose the round (or must watch an ad) is unacceptable. I have zero interest in playing with a timer and will uninstall this game if that persists.

I've played this game on and off for probably about two years now. There's a lot I wish I could say but I only get 500 characters for a review so... 1) don't pay for ad-free, it's a straight up lie. There is no ad-free. 2) I kept having a lot of issues with the app freezing until it became unplayable, went to uninstall and reinstall, thought nothing of it because I've done that with other games... All my progress was lost. All my 300+ levels and two years or so of daily challenges, gone. 🤬

Fun game. Not too flashy or loud. Just simple. However the ads beat it half to death. I'll get an ad as soon as I open the app. Then another halfway through the level. I just made my 3rd mistake and watched an ad to revive, except it didn't work. So I got irritated and restarted the level. As a result, I got an ad. I don't need cryptograms in my life THIS badly. I ain't no beach.

It's almost a good game. Playing ads in the middle of games that are starting to get interesting, just ruins it. *Response* Yes, I know ads help you. They aren't helpful to your game, at all. I got this as therapy, after a brain injury, and was actually excited for a minute. I remember this game because I was actually engaging with it...and then an ad would cut the puzzle short. The placement needs to be reworked. Badly. The ads are ruining something potentially helpful.

Too many ads. Literally got an ad first thing after opening the app. I hadn't even started playing the game yet and I had to watch an ad. When you do get into the game, it gets frequently interrupted with ads with 0 reward. Do not waste your time on this app. Your time in this life is finite and game developers like this do not care if they waste that precious time so long as they can milk money out of you in the process.

The game is fun, but after spending $5, there are still ads if I make 3 mistakes in a game. I shouldn't have to watch an ad if I paid for an ad free version, and the ads are almost a full minute. Some of the puzzles are insane, too. They give you two letters, which only appear once each in the puzzle and expect you to get it without making three mistakes? Yeah, ok. I would give zero stars for that alone.

The game seems wonderful! Played it and had fun.... way too many ads, though. Ad after every puzzle you solve, and I mean every-- even ad breaks??? An ad if you press PLAY on the treasure hunt and / or regular game. it's frustrating at this point!! Sometimes, when I press revive, go through the ad, and click the x, it restarts my game fully!!! And then I have to restart the puzzle and it's very annoying.

I saw their ad which showed a cryptogram using color blocks to represent the letters. For some reason that really intrigued me and I wanted to play THAT game. So I bought it, & it's not there! I asked the author about it and they said that was just an example OF WHAT COULD BE, and it wasn't really in the game! Deceptive, sneaky and an outright lie representing their game. False advertising, they should be reprimanded in some way. Getting a refund is not the point. SHAME

Would be fun but the ads are the WORST. I don't mind having a game with ads, but when they all take 60 seconds or MORE it's just absolutely absurd. Uninstalling after only 3 or 4 levels... You know, a smarter app would get you into the game, let you play like 20(ish levels to get you hooked before introducing ads. I pay for plenty of games to be ad free, but only if they give me the chance to get into them. This one fails to have a solid hook and doesn't feel worth the time. Bye Felicia.

The ads timing is horrible. You click play, you get an ad right away, and sometimes you get 2 30-second ads. You play for roughly a minute, ad break. You need a hint you get a minute long ad. There is no reason for any game to have that many ads. Especially the same ads over and over in which it destroys the ability to continue to play the game because the ad gets stuck. Change the timing to after 3-5 completions and only 30 second ads. The game play itself is fun and challenging otherwise.

Seems like later levels are way too easy. Earlier levels had letters you needed to solve in certain amounts of moves, some of the early levels were impossible without hints. Now I'm getting levels that have like all but a few letters solved. Used to be somewhat entertaining but now it just feels like I'm getting them more ad revenue quicker.

Unplayable. It glitches and loads so slowly that it causes you to double-click often, which counts as a "mistake." The ads are pretty much constant (there's an ad to start a game, finish a game, and multiple ad breaks in the middle of the games, along with much longer ads to undo any "mistakes" or to get a hint). Frequently crashes and closes any other active programs on your device.

Have to give this a 1 star. The game is engaging but way too many ads. An ad when you finish a puzzle, an ad before you can start the new puzzle, on long puzzles there's a lengthy ad halfway through, and just when you can't take any more ads, up pops a double ad. If you hate ads, don't download this game, you'll spend 75 percent of your time dealing with them

There are far too many non-optional ads. There are ads after completing a level, before starting the next level, and ads DURING levels. Additionally, this game is rather frustrating to deal with. It is extremely hard to logically figure out words if no clear themes are given and standard English rules are not applied (for instance, one of the levels involved "la-la-love" as part of the phrase, with only the "o" given at the beginning of the level). I would not recommend this game to ANYONE.

Gameplay is great, though the number of adds was frankly ridiculous. I did end u buying the add free option. What annoys me the most, and brought this down from 5 stars to 3 stars, is the bouncing free gift (with ad watch) in the bottom corner of the play screen during puzzles. It's incredibly distracting, and makes me not want to play the game. If it was at least not animated, I could tolerate that. I tried watching it a few times hoping it would go away. Unsure if I will play more.

ADS!!!!!!! Last game I played (level 7 maybe) I'm not finishing, because it's been interrupted by 4 ads so far. 2 since I figured out the quote they are using, and I'm not even halfway through filling out the puzzle, so... also, it's terribly insensitive. You touch the space you want to insert a letter, and it just doesn't select. You end up navigating with the arrows, which I'm guessing isn't helping the ad timer situation.

UPDATE: I've had enough. After finishing something like 3000 levels, I am uninstalling. The ads are way LESS annoying than the long pauses and other bugs. The daily game has stopped saving! Was a great game, but ever since the Thanksgiving game and now the Sherlock game, the game lags soooo badly when placing the letters. It causes me to want to play ahead without waiting for the game to catch up and this is making me have more errors than I should.

I enjoyed the game itself enough to keep playing despite the disruptive ads. It's annoying to have to click through two, three, or even four layers of an advertisement multiple times per level, but the puzzles were a lot of fun. Unfortunately, some of the ads I'm getting now are uncomfortably sexual in nature, and the company hasn't responded to my message, so I'm uninstalling this app and going to look for a different app with similar puzzles.

Ever since the update, this app is just terrible. I remember it being a lot more in depth using symbols and shapes and everything. Now it's ad this ad that, the ads just get in the way of gameplay, even interrupting you in the middle of a game. There used to be a choice of puzzle instead of levels. Also, all my progress was completely erased after the update. I'm uninstalling the app, this game is almost unplayable now. I am so disappointed, I really liked the game before the update

The puzzles range from easy to hard, all mixed together. You can't select a difficulty--you get what you get, which is fine. Ads aren't too bad. I usually don't see them unless I opt to watch an ad for extra points. The Events timer is broken--every recent Event closed and said that I ran out of time even though the timers all said that I had over a day left. That's frustrating since I pace myself based on the timers. I'd give at least 4 stars, maybe 5, if it weren't for that.

Pros: This game is very challenging and fun because the puzzles are hard....but that makes it fun! Cons: There are too many ads!! I have never played a game that had sooo many ads. There are other Crytogram puzzles, so I'm looking for a new/better version. I also noticed the developer does not respond to any of the reviewers' comments. (Unlike many other games where they acknowledge the reviewers, respond, and at least give feedback). What a shame!!

I love these types of games, but the 'ad break' many times while I'm playing a game does nothing for the game itself. To be interrupted when placing letters aggravates me. Never should a game app be interrupted in the actual game. Before and after a game, yes. It's annoying as hell. Other than that, it's a nice game, but I'll look elsewhere for a one that doesn't interrupt the game in the middle three or four times or more.

I like the actual game, but it is infused with an exorbitant number of ads. Your puzzle will be interrupted at least two or three times before you can even finish one puzzle with ad breaks that are 30 seconds long. So it breaks your concentration and focus. Then literally at the end of every puzzle there is another ad, pretty much at every turn, there is an ad. It is the worst app I have ever installed as far as intrusive, cumbersome and long ads. It makes it completely unplayable.

Interesting spin on word games. Really liked the concept, but the execution fell short. Once you figure out the letter, the game makes you go through every instance to plug that letter in vs automatically populating. In long phrases, can be annoying. Understand the need for ads, but they interrupt you frequently in the middle of a puzzle. Having them in-between puzzles is enough.

Fun but ad heavy. I'm fine with watching ads to get bonuses etc but I can't stand "ad breaks" which are really just ads that interrupt the game. Some of the interrupting ads aren't skippable either so you have to watch the full 30. I even had one for a drug that wouldn't close and I had to close out the game. The game also did not save my progress and I played 35 levels before closing it out and clearing my cache. It started me over and I'm not willing to suffer through it a second time.

The ads were so outrageous I couldn't take it anymore. They played before, after, and even in the middle of every level. It would randomly pop up with an ad break, completely interrupting the level multiple times throughout. It would be a pretty nice game if not for the sheer number of ads. If you're looking for a chill free game, then keep looking cause this isn't it.

I've made into the 160's levels. I would have rated this a 3, but I have some issues with the frequency of adds. Early on you get your normal adds, between boards and if you miss a letter combo 3 time. But one of my concerns, is when you complete a board you get an ad, AND when you start a new board, you also get an ad. So basically 2 ads before you can start a new board. The 2nd issue, when you get into the longer, more challenging boards, you get a "break" to watch another ad mid game.

The game itself is entertaining and challenging at times, BUT IT HAS WAY TOO MANY ADS SHOVED IN EVERYWHERE POSSIBLE. You spend more time forced to watch ads than you do playing the actual game. Having to give it up. I play games like this to relax, and this one isn't relaxing. It's frustrating, when you have to watch an ad between every single round, and randomly throughout the game in between solving the puzzle. It's just too much. Gotta draw the line somewhere, and this one is way over it.

Just about ready to Uninstall this game. Reaction time is slow. Press a letter and you never know if it takes it or you have to select again. Worse Tech I ever seen. Then the ads that come during a game. I can go to select a letter and poof, I touch an Ad!! During the damn game. In one game its possible to sit through a dozen ads to get to the end. Asinine!!!!!! BYE!!!!

Excessive and frequent ads. They let you play the first couple of levels ad free and then, WOW, they pour it on! Ad timing is annoying as they interrupt game play and break my train of thought--can't even get back to where I was. I play several other free games and the ad timing and frequency is nowhere near as awful as this. I am good with you creating as revenue in exchange for an enjoyable gaming experience, but really? I do not recommend. Uninstalling.

So solving the puzzles is pretty fun and I like that they tell you how many people solved it first try. Makes it a fun little comp with yourself to get it right first try. What I don't like are the ads. Start a level , partway through the level , taking a bit on the level cause it's a large one with a lot of words , wanna get more than the one free hint , and then another ad after you finish the level. It's too much and I'm Uninstalling.

Game is cool, but ads suck. Used to be able to skip them, but now it is intolerable. I won't be continuing to play. I really enjoyed the puzzles and don't mind watching ads at times, but every time I load a puzzle, finish a puzzle, numerous times while doing a puzzle, it's just too much. Also had it randomly opening web pages as if I had touched the ad when I was no where near the banner. My experience has gone downhill fast.

It's really not a bad game, really makes you use your brain. However as so many others have stated there are way to many ads, one after beating a level, one before starting the next level, and multiple ads while trying to solve each level. I even tried putting my phone in airplane mode as I do with most games but it wouldn't let me, there by forcing the ads and lowering the amount of time able to play the game. Would rate 5 stars if not for that. Will change my rating when the ad is dealt with.

The game itself is really fun. Ran into a couple trial-and-error situations where I kinda just had to try a few different possible letters to see if any of them worked and the difficulty balancing is kinda screwy, but for the most part it's fun. But the ADS are just utterly abysmal. Ads after you beat a level. Ads before you jump into the next level. Ads IN THE MIDDLE OF LEVELS. And occasionally Amazon scam links or Norton antivirus automatically opens in Chrome??? Utterly unacceptable.

Look, I get you have to have ads in free games. However, I only got to level 10. You get an ad at the beginning of a puzzle and an ad at the end of a puzzle, meaning you have to watch two back to back between puzzles. Annoying but fine. By level 10 you will also be getting 3 "ad breaks" in the middle of a single puzzle. WHAT? You can also use an ad to get one more life or restart, meaning you watch an ad either way if you accidentally click wrong 3 times. It's suspiciously easy to do as well.

I like the game; solving the codes is challenging, fun, & interesting. But, as so many others have said, the amount of ads shown while playing is very annoying!! It's even more annoying when you have to TRY to click the x 3 times before you can get back to playing. I hate when my game is interrupted by ads and if I don't precisely hit the x, it brings me to the advertised game page. It's irking! What's worse (as Cameron Freeman posted) it'll randomly open a Chrome page with suspicious content!

They get you hooked with very few ads that are really fast or can be skipped. Then you get to the 5th or 6th puzzle, and there are ads between matches AND multiple "ad breaks" right in the middle of solving! I didn't even switch apps to cause the ad break. I was just about to solve a letter and I'm interrupted! So frustrating! And you have to be online to play this game! No redeeming qualities. Uninstall!!

Fun game, but the entire experience is TOTALLY RUINED when there's 1-2 video ads at the start, an ad in the middle of play, and 1-2 ads at the end of each level PLUS STILL HAVING FLASHING BANNER ADS at the bottom. The actual game has to be smaller to make up for the space too, so you're more likely to hit the wrong space and get flagged as a mistake. I didn't mind ads when done right. They support the developer. This is way too far. Uninstalling.

The game itself is okay but there are way too many ads. And when the ads do play, it actually affects your time of solving the puzzle. So a puzzle can take you 2 to 3 minutes to solve, but because they run ads for a minute to 2 minutes, you're now up to 5-6 minutes for solving a puzzle. Additionally, once the ads reach to a point, you can skip the ad. The commands don't work most of the time so you're stuck watching the ad wasting again more time

I find the puzzles stimulating and enjoy the concept. Something I find incredibly tedious is that you cannot jump to new instances of the same number. For example, say that I've already determined that 6 is the letter "E" in a puzzle - scanning the remaining blanks for every other 6 isn't challenging. It's annoying. I don't mind that hints are walled by $$$ or an ad b/c I find then unnecessary (although occasionally convenient). I agree with other reviewers that ads are excessive.

I enjoyed the game but sometimes I accidentally selected wrong characters. Also there's no pause; if you come out of a game challenge before it is completed and go back in, it's treated like a quit. That's really unfortunate for the long challenges. I feel obligated to complete the challenge without leaving. If a whole game is not completed within a day and you go back in, you can't finish it. A new game starts. That makes it much less fun.

Some glitches problems. First the game is slow, it take 6 to 9 seconds for the letter to go to the next, so you can make error because of that. The second problem, this is not the first time it happen but while I'm doing a special or a event, the game stop! I'm almost done and days to be left but the game erased or stop saying I'm out of time left! Which is not! Last time I have 3 days left and it reset! Very frustrating!

This is a fun game with just the right amount of challenge. My main critique is that you have to watch an ad or two after each level, then immediately watch another ad or two (2 part ads) when clicking to begin the next level. There are also "ad breaks" during the levels that disrupt concentration. if I have to watch 2-4 ads between levels, I'd really prefer not to have any during the levels.

The game itself is great, but the ads make it unplayable. I've never encountered an app with so many ads. There's an ad before you begin a level and if it takes you more than a minute complete, the level will be interrupted with an ad, and then when you finish a level, there's another ad. Then yet another ad before the next level begins. You spend 2-3 times as long watching ads as you do playing the game because most of them aren't skippable and you have to watch the full 45-60 seconds.

Game is fun and challenging. WAY too many ads. Complete 2 or 3 letters and you get a mid-game ad. You get an ad after you solve the puzzle and then another one before the next one stars. WAY, WAY too many ads. I don't mind an ad here and there, but this is utterly ridiculous. There's really no reason to keep the game. Just plain greedy by the developer. Do better.

Some of the lengths of the puzzles are absolutely awful and exclusively exist to farm ads from you. You cannot beat these puzzles within 2 mistakes. So you have to watch an ad to continue, but even THAT is a way to farm ads. If you watch to many, you'll eventually get "no internet" and have to start over anyways. This game is designed to farm as many ads as it can. The puzzles are fun but its completely ruined when they're impossible to do in the limited amount of guesses. Change to 5 mistakes.

Too many ads! An ad pops up every minute or so while playing, which is extremely annoying. Then you have to watch an ad when the game is over. After that, you click for the next game and have to watch another ad. At least let me play a game without ad interruptions. It really disrupts my concentration. It's really a nice crytpogram game, but the ads are too much to deal with.

Buggy as the Florida Everglades. The ads are almost non-stop, and about 3 in 5 crash the game. I put it in airplane mode, which seemed to help. However, the touch screen response slowed drastically. The basics of the game are great. It's simple code breaking, and the quotes are pretty good. Would have been 4 stars, but the constant crashing makes it all but useless.

It is really fun at first with the quotes because they are from famous songs, movie, or just people. But then I ran into a MAJOR problem. Alot of times when either an ad pops up randomly, or I tap an ad to revive it will crash and bring me to the loading screen restarting all the work I did. And with the daily word quote thing it's a paragraph long so I get really far, but then it crashes. On one puzzle it has done this 3+ times within 30 minutes. PLEASE fix this, and then it will be way better.

First off, the game is so unbelievably slow. The game starts to get slower and slower until it takes ages for the letter inputs to finally be registered. Another thing I hated was the ads. The constant ads were annoying, and would pop up when you started a new puzzle, finished a puzzle, or made three mistakes. The ads would even pop up in the middle of you playing a puzzle. I had paid for no ads, but I wish I hadn't because this game is not worth paying any money for. Don't waste your time.

The game used to be fun, won coins with the option to buy different puzzles, symbols, music notes, etc. I had to reinstall it because it froze and wouldn't unfreeze, bad idea I lost everything and had to start at level 1 again. Now I am on level 269, and it's like that option is totally gone. I keep waiting for it to be back, I keep checking for updates. You also need an option that we can save our progress.

It was fun at first, I liked the challenge of shapes and symbols instead of just numbers for clues. But recently the ads have getting tedious and annoying. It's fine if you can simply tab them away but more often than not they cause the game to close and it has to reload all over again, also changing the clues. Some ads you can't even get rid of and are forced to watch the thing. I also don't like the ads before playing a puzzle. I'm sorry, but I'm deleting the game.