Puzzword

Higgster

Contains ads

About this game

Simple but addictive word guessing game, inspired by Wordle / Jotto / Word Mastermind with loads of new features on top no purchases or data, ever.

***Game Features***
- No purchases or data, ever.
- Play offline at any time, as many times as you wish.
- 3700 words in en-GB (British English) and en-US (US English)
- 2000 5-letter, 6 and 7 words in es-ES (Spanish)
- 2500 words in fr-FR (French)
- Emoji Mastermind Mode (See below)
- Puzzle modes for 4, 5, 6 and 7 letter words
- Number mode, with 4,5,6 and 7 digit number puzzles.
- Win statistics, with sharing options
- Winning streak and longest streak stats
- Ability to enter keys in any order by clicking on them.
- Timer and fastest result tracking
- Number total mode where you're shown the sum of the answer, to help you decipher the puzzle
- 9 colour themes, including a high-contrast theme and “Beeber’s Theme”, aimed at different sight preferences / colour deficiencies
- Persistence so games can continue after closing the app

** Game Options / Toggles ***
- Disable letters that we know are not in the word (makes it harder than Wordle)
- Hide incorrect keys to make the keyboard options smaller and make it easier to visualise than other number or word puzzle games
- Allow submission of non dictionary words to allow for easier deciphering of hard puzzles.
- Toggle to automatically fill in previously correct guesses.
- Haptic feedback option that makes your device vibrate on performing an action
- Option to switch the delete and submit keys
- Option to remove words with duplicate letters

** Emoji Mastermind Mode**
- Similar to the main game, you guess at a combination of emoji.
- The results show how many are correct / almost correct but not which ones
- This makes it a tougher, logic game of eliminating the possibilities in 12 attempts!

** Other features ***
- Accessible by default. Big focus on colours and border styles, accessibility labels and touchable areas.- 8 colour themes including high visibility
- Letter cursor on screen to show your current input
- Landscape mode for tablets

***Puzzword Help***
The game is simple. Take up to 6 guesses at a 4, 5, 6 or 7 letter word. For each guess, the results will show which letters are in the correct place (green with a solid border), in the wrong place (yellow with a dashed border) and which are not found in the word.

See https://www.higgster.com/puzzword for more help.

***About Puzzword***
Like the recent Wordle craze, Jotto, or the old game "Word Mastermind" but with a few tweaks. Puzzword has more word sizes, modes that change the difficulty of the game entirely.

***Wordle and More***
Puzzword is not just another Wordle clone. On top of having the core Wordle puzzle functionality, you can make the word puzzles slightly easier by disabling the "dictionary words" option, use 2 hints per game to get free letters and even the ability to remove words that have duplicate letters. Number puzzles have the option to see the total of the values, which changes the dynamic entirely.

***Why it is free***
My aim is to produce a high quality word puzzle game / number puzzle game that everyone can enjoy. It is entirely free and always will be. It's never going to have intrusive adverts or in-app purchases. There is no data collected by the app. It's also child-friendly as there are no offensive words, which makes it a great spelling game.

I want to make Puzzword one of the best quality word games / number games on the store, so feedback is truly welcomed and appreciated. There are lots of wordle style games since the popularity of the web version rocketed but Puzzword aims to be head and shoulders above the rest. With more features, more options and a slicker, more accessible UI.

Loads of feedback actioned already, please keep it coming.
Feedback welcome via Twitter @iamthehiggster or email [e-mail].

Ratings and reviews

A fun word have that requires a little brain work, and with no ads, I can share it with my family! 👍 Thanks for that. The only improvement I'd recommend is moving the little pop-up comment box ( "no hints available" "the answer includes G" ) above where the keyboard is; speed is slowed when keyboard isn't viewable. Otherwise, really great game!

Update: The developer is really kind and responsive! I was able to make contact and the changes I suggested below were added quickly. Highly recommend! Old review: I really like the daily Wordle puzzle so I thought I'd give this a try. I only just downloaded it and found an error in a puzzle. Not a big deal, so I took a screenshot and emailed it to the developer but the email address listed below doesn't exist. That's frustrating. I'm also a little annoyed that, unlike Wordle, you cannot play letters that have been greyed out. It changes the strategy and makes the game too repetitive.

+3 No ads or tracking, +1 controls and settingings options easy to understand +2 good game +1 can enter letters out of order. -1 it zeros out my stats when a streak ends. Good game, good ap, recommend ---- additional info, it keeps the main won/loss tally- but the breakdown of how many words it took me each time zeros out when a streak ends--

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