Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 07:27 am
Word Search Party – Education Game Review
Word Search Party is a Education/Puzzle/Word game from Lightwood Consultancy Ltd, first launched in 7th October 2010.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 105+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Word Search Party Stand Out
Word Search Party is a polished and fun word puzzle game which lets you challenge your friends or find opponents online using Game Center.
It's the first ever competitive multi-player word search game, and the best looking and most playable word puzzle on the App Store!
Game features:
- The first ever competitive multi-player word search game!
- The best looking, most playable word puzzle game on the App Store
- Unlimited puzzles – it's different every time you play!
- Track your progress using Game Center Leaderboards and Achievements
- All features and game modes are available in the free app
- Upgrade via in-app purchase to access more word lists, or create your own
- Unlock "hidden words" mode for an extra challenge!
- Supports accented characters for non-English word lists – use it as a study aid!
iPhone/iPod touch Features
- Play solo, head-to-head or online against up to 3 opponents in real time!
- Game Center integration: invite your friends or find random opponents online
- Stunning retina display graphics with a choice of six colour themes
- Three levels of difficulty
- Play using any word list from the Word Search Party library
- Quick Play option gets you into a game in seconds
- Brag about your victories to your Facebook friends
iPad Features
- Designed with teachers and classroom use in mind
- VGA/HDMI output for connection to a monitor or projector (on all versions of iPad!)
- Multi-touch enabled, allowing groups to play collaboratively on one device
- Several users can play together without interfering with each others actions
- Play head-to-head against another nearby iPad, iPhone or iPod touch user
- A fourth "extreme" difficulty level, exclusive to iPad
- Game Center integration (requires iOS 4.2 or later)
Our word list is constantly growing, with contributions by gamers using the iPhone app and teachers using the free WordSearchParty.com web site!
At the time of writing, there are word lists covering the following topics:
- Vocabulary
- Spelling Lists
- Mathematics
- Science
- TV & Movies
- Music
- Sports
- Lifestyle
- Geography
and many more…
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This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Word Search Party is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 23rd February 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Updated for latest SDKs.
Download & Availability
Word Search Party is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Word Search Party on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Game is great, but as of late, it hasnt been loading or connecting at all. Was the game discontinued? It rarely loads, and whenit does, it says it cant connect to the network, but isnt specific if its the overall network or the servers for Word Search Party. Would be nice to hear from the devs about whats going on.
We have enjoyed this game for years and we are very happy with it.
When we try playing multiplayer there is no connection only spins while searching.
Very Good and quite Entertaining.
Fun game but doesnt work with iOS 13.2. It freezes up and generally drops off. Reloaded three times with no improvement.
We like this game. Hate that very few games are entered daily. Despise 30 second ads after working a word game. Why 30 seconds? Most games have 10-15 second ads. Please add more daily game puzzles that are at no extra cost. And lessen ads time.
Actual games are ok and work but multiplayer needs serious improvements. Sometimes loading app is really slow. Its really a drag to have to re-invite friends every 5 minutes to keep playing. It would be nice to play each other until you decide to disconnect.
We loved the word searches overall. They helped set our mind and felt less tense after each word search. The only problem is the multi player aspect. It doesnt work (believe us.) we were looking forward to competing with others. So if you want a game to play with others, you may want to choose something else.
Fun but it keeps crashing on multiplayer and you cant pause on multiplayer online.
Keeps freezing. Works fine then either just closes up or wont even open. We have to delete it then reload for it to work again. This is an ongoing occurrence sine last iOS update.
We went to play this game yesterday and all the word searches were gone! What happened to this app? We do these word searches with our coffee every morning.
Our special needs adult son loves this app, but it has stopped working.
Local multiplayer does not work.
We were really excited about this game, but when we open the app it says no network available, tap to try again. We have deleted and reloaded the app, also restated our phone. Same message, and our wifi is working fine. Huge disappointment.
The game keeps closing. Cant play it.
The game doesn't load on our device it. And when it did we purchased the upgraded version and now it trying to recharge us.
This game was unplayable. The ads navigated to app store and web sites and trying to get back kept redirecting. After doing this several times one of the ads timed out and left us on an empty word search screen.
We had ads pop up randomly closing us out of the game and unable to go back into the same game. Other ads caused it to be stuck on one screen and not allowing to start a new game. Overall the game itself isn't terrible, other than the way it looks, but the ads ruin it. Deleted after one day.
Great game, has been keeping us busy and.
Like that you can make it as challenging or not as you like.
Makes you think it's fun and by golly it makes you smarter.
Since the last update this is just crap we're thinking about deleting this app it is constantly sending us to the app store and we don't like having to go back to the game. You need to fix this problem or we're gone.
How do we play Word Search Party? We click on a category, it takes us to the App Store and says we have to buy the category for $1.99…how do we play this without buying a category.
Every time that we play it send us out of the app and to the App Store while we're in the middle of a word search.
We love word search puzzles. They are fun.
After updating for iOS 8 the app stops working when you complete the game. It does not recover when you choose to leave the game. This is on an iPad mini running 8.3. Must have been a temporary glitch. All is fine now.
We love word games. This is a good one.
We have always LOVED this app until the latest update. We purchased the upgraded version & in the middle of our "searching" we get pop-ups for other apps! Happens after we find a word. It will also crash! Very sad! Please fix these problems.
This app is fun if you can past the constant barrage of ads — even during a search! The game is fine if you can click out of the ads fast enough. We also wish more people were available for multiplayer games. We're uninstalling it.
Ads for additional apps literally open up every 5-20 sec! We can handle ads every few min or after completing a puzzle but this is so annoying it's not worth playing. Just started with last upgrade. If not corrected we'll probably delete soon.
This is a very soothing game we know it may sound weird but it's true! We love it can't get enough of it.
We love the game. We love word searches.
Great game. We have really enjoyed it. We really like Word Search. We have played so many times that im afraid we will run out of puzzles. Is there a way to get new ones.
Great app to play and pass the time when you're bored and want to work ur brain.
Great puzzles. Relaxing solving them.
We really like this game! Lots of fun.
We think this is our new favorite word search app because we're so addicted to it, since we love word searches(there our favorite type of word puzzle)! We like how the app has tons of different puzzles & new ones get added once people create them.
It's all good and lovin' the game. It is our latest guilty pleasure. Only problems are that it is very difficult to put words on the two side columns! Very frustrating!! Also when you return to pick up another game it takes you back to beginning and you have to do a lot of scrolling! Other than that we are addicted.
Great app, wide variety of categories. Great way to relax. Could spend all day doing word searches. Just keep this app updated and we'll keep on playing.
Great game to while away the time while waiting for appointments, etc.
The only time we play this game is when we're on the crapper. Great way to pass the time.
We enjoy this word game very much.
We like it, but we don't like that you can't do puzzles with every single word in the list.
Like playing game. Great way to pass the time while waiting for appointments.
Fun for a few minutes of brain workout without complications signing in. Thanks, Paula.
Really like this app lots of fun.
We love this app but we just wish you could play more then a few puzzles a day and have unlimited access to all of the puzzles like you use to.
We have had this game for a long time, & we do the epic word searches every month, but would it be too much to ask if in the future there would be more freebie packs and no annoying adverts scrolling across the bottom of the screen? We mean, no one likes the adverts, especially us, and it's ridiculous to not be allowed in-game purchases unless you sign up for it. We have never liked the adverts, especially for war games.
We enjoy the game but every time we open it, there are a lot less actual words to find than what is listed initially under "view words". The result is that it's a short game and not as satisfying. We wish they'd fix that part.
We really like this app but wish there was a way we could play it (solo) when our iPad is offline. If this was an option, we would rate the app 5 stars.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.94
- Size: 20.12 MB
- iOS: 7.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Lightwood Consultancy Ltd
Last updated: 23rd February 2017 | Genre: Education, Puzzle | Developer: Lightwood Consultancy Ltd