Wordalot – Picture Crossword

Have just finished the Guru level and have over 300 points. Have noticed that doubling my reward has recently been impossible. Checked my internet connection; that’s not the problem. IPad just stops between “double reward” and the 30-second ad. Not a happy camper. Otherwise have enjoyed the game. But this recent development makes me suspicious. And now when trying to post this review I find that my nickname is “taken.” Maybe I’ll increase rating to more than two stars. See if that works.

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I liked the game. It was fun to play and I purchased coins several times. I do not like that you cannot see the progress you have made or how many levels are left to complete. I recently purchased coins that did not show up on the app. I waited to see if the purchase came thru my account. Meanwhile I continued to play the game and completed all levels. When i contacted the developer about my coin purchase. I was told to restart the app and check my coins. Now that all levels are complete you can not see your coins. When I replied this to the developer and asked for a refund. I was told no they could not refund the money. I would have to wait for new levels to continue playing the game. They may not release new levels for months and I will not be able to verify that my purchase of coins was deposited to my game. This is crappy customer service. I really don’t appreciate the response below. I have contacted you via email and got absolutely no help and now you want to try to assist because of this rating. I will recommend this app to all my friends so they may also give you bad reviews because of you poor customer service. You have my money and now you don’t want to assist. You have my email address and I expect and response via email. Then maybe I can change my review. Regards, A once very happy consumer.

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This app basically asks you to spell the items in the picture, is very easy and boring. Worse, it’s privacy policy is terrible, basically saying they collect whatever data they can (including location, social networks, etc.) and share it with everyone, including advertisers and social networks. Want to view or modify their data on you? You can, if you want to write and send a handwritten, signed letter to Sweden! They know no one will do that, hence you can’t access their data on you. Also seeing as their response to another review (wanting coins refunded) was that they needed to email from within the app to provide their user ID. Those two facts imply that either they treat your personal data less securely than “coin data”, or they really won’t let you access your data at all, even if you do write them a letter! Seems rather abusive of their data access for a little crossword app!

I played pretty obsessively for several months, but then the pictures became more cartoon and less actual pictures. I believe I just completed puzzle #620 something. The puzzle was an actual picture of 2 young boys looking at a globe wearing explorer type garb. The final “word” that I needed to enter was a 2 word (3/5) combination. In what world is a “globe” called “the earth”? There have been several puzzles since the last update that have left me shaking my head because the word needed to fill the blanks makes no sense. And enough of the cartoons already.... I started playing this because of the really nice pictures.... now I’m feeling like I need to give my phone to the grandchildren because the artwork is like coloring book quality. Not so great anymore.

I really enjoy this game. Some words are easy, some a little tougher. You hardly get any coins from completing a puzzle so I really like the daily challenge especially how you get even more coins with the winning streak. Lately, more often than not, after I complete the daily challenge, the app closes and I’m not awarded the coins. Sometimes I lose my winning streak. I emailed support thru the app but the email bounced back as undeliverable. So, if you never need to use any hints which you only get by using coins, this game is great. For me, I sometimes get stuck on a word and need those hints. It’s just super frustrating to win coins and not be awarded.