Lettercraft - A Word Puzzle Game To Train Your Brain Skills

I play word games to relax and pass the time. This game starts out fun but quickly becomes anything but relaxing- the colour changes of letters and shaking is annoying and severely distracting when you're trying to locate words. I've noticed that I can quickly locate long words when the match starts but the constant colour changes quickly make the screen an unreadable mess. Wish it could get an update that offers some alternative signal about the letter countdown, until then I've stopped playing.

I'm a word puzzle geek - I love doing Sunday NYTimes crosswords. I love Boggle (the 5x5 board - not the skimpy 4x4 version). I don't get caught up in just any old word puzzle, though. To grab and keep my attention, it has to have fairly simple rules, a clean design, and above all has to be challenging. Lettercraft hits that trifecta, and then some. Pros: totally, completely, maddeningly addictive. The design is clean, colorful, and intuitive. Each level has a different, but simple, rule to follow. You can choose from multiple difficulty options. And the pressure created by unused tiles "heating" up and eventually disappearing is maddening and brilliant all at the same time. It's awesome that you have unlimited "lives," so you can keep trying a level over and over and over again until you get better and pass it. I've made it through all 200 existing levels, am thoroughly addicted, and am going through withdrawal waiting for more levels! (Are they coming soon?? Please??) Cons: multiplayer requires Bluetooth, which is really limiting. Serious bummer. I'd love to see a better multiplayer option - via Game Center, perhaps? Another negative is that the game can only be played with your phone/device in vertical position. A minor quibble, for sure, but it would be nice to have the option of playing with your phone in horizontal position.

This game has been a joy for me and others whom I share the game with, namely my beautiful girlfriend Ashley, who shines like a star in the night sky. Onward from this I play this game all the time, and just once today I attempted to input America and was completely, utterly, and unequivocally horrified to the point of nearly having vomit spewing not from my mouth only, but nose and tear ducts as well.. I recovered shakily from this abject state of fear and oppression and resolved to write this scathing review. My pure distaste for the lack of patriotism displayed, and the almost completely out of character behavior of my favorite letter based word game, has brought me here. I give it 3 stars because it's good, let's face it this game is God's gift to train thumbs, the part I lost my 2 stars was the loss of all 50 when you forgot to include the American values and tradition that the word America invokes. The fact is, I usually use America as a verb, maintaining its capital letter. To america something means many things the most of which is freedom. Put America in the game, this is a simple and with out doubt the most important necessity of any recent, or soon to arrive updates. Please. For the red and the white and the blue. For the love of God man,( lady), do it! Thank you for you time.

Though some of the other reviews on this app have made me cringe, such as people not reading the level description and then leaving a bad review, or getting personally offended (and, apparently, having mental breakdowns) over the lack of inclusion of "America" and "Christmas". The fact of the matter is that though there is likely no political agenda whatsoever behind which words don't work, some English words just... don't work. I'm an app developer myself, and this issue is just... silly. A quick Google search shows there's an APK called Lexicontext you could use to fix the dictionary, or there's a workaround to access the phone's dictionary. User input could be checked against the phone's dictionary in one quick conditional statement. This is an easy fix. Anyway, five stars for your otherwise clean programming, good design, and because some of your other poor reviews were undeserved. The dictionary issue would take maybe half an hour to fix and would resolve the vast majority of complaints about your app. I would highly recommend you push out an update.

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At first the game is relaxing and simple, but I'm not sure how the team selects words for their dictionary. The app does not tell you upfront which words are not counted, such as proper names of cities or the like. The app also doesn't recognize many words used today or different variations of spellings. For example, it corrects bleu - as in "bleu cheese" - to blue. Although the first spelling is technically French, it's the correct way to refer to bleu cheese. I guess what I'm saying is there isn't much leeway when it comes to vernacular.