Crossword

Havos Word Games

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Play crosswords that are tailored for UK players. The crosswords use a style of grid where every square is part of two words, to maximise crossovers. This is a rewarding way to play, since every letter you find helps towards finding other words, allowing for more rapid progress. These crosswords give considerably more crossovers than an Arrow Crossword, and nearly twice as many crossovers as a traditional or British style crossword. This style of crossword is very popular in American crosswords, such as those in the NY Times, USA Today and other major US newspapers.

Note that all the answers and clues use UK spellings, and that the general knowledge clues are aimed at UK players.

Features:

• You can zoom in & out of the grid, and move around, making it possible to play larger grids even on smaller screens
• There is a large range of built in grids, from sizes 11x11, 13x13 and 15x15 at different difficulty levels
• In addition new grids of sizes up to 8x8 can be generated on-the-fly by the app, meaning unlimited games to play
• Many 1000's of clues, both straight and general knowledge
• Choose between US or UK English spellings
• General knowledge questions tailored to your country (currently US, UK, Australia and Canada)
• Ability to save and reload games, so several games can be played at the same time
• Numerous aids in case you get stuck, e.g. validate word/letter, reveal word and even a built-in crossword solver to show potential matches
• Easily flip between different crosswords, just like a crossword puzzle book
• Also includes crosswords in French

Ratings and reviews

Its pretty good one. It would be great, if after entering the right words, it should be confirm ed by some animation. Here you can only know which are the wrong ones after completing the puzzle.

The occasional bad clue doesn't detract from a reasonable crossword game, but what does is that auto-generated puzzles are limited to 8x8. Still, a decent game that doesn't force the player to sit through the optional ads.

Works well but there are some very dubious clues and I've come across a few where the clue is just wrong - mainly related to 1980s pop. What a shame, it'd be a good game if they'd done their homework properly.

What's new

1) Bugfixes