Last updated on January 30th, 2026 at 08:50 pm
Classic Words (solo word game) – Board Game Review
Classic Words (solo word game) is a Board/Word/Education game from Lulo Apps, first launched in 18th July 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 113,290+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Classic Words (solo word game) Stand Out
Classic Words is the best word game to play against your iPhone or iPad (solitaire mode). Scrabble for victory and enrich your vocabulary thanks to the built-in word definitions!
6 languages are supported: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Dutch.
Tired of stumbling across cheaters or waiting for hours for your online opponent to play in multiplayer games?
Try out Classic Words for instant fun, no matter if you are a beginner in crossword games or a tournament player!
Choose the difficulty level (from beginner to expert), pick a word list, and use your strategy skills and vocabulary to try and defeat the iPhone. The English word lists included in the game are inspired by the official lists used in Scrabble tournaments: NWL and SOWPODS.
Classic Words gameplay is classical to crosswords board games: create and place words on the board and boost your score by placing letters on the high-scoring Double Letter, Double Word, Triple Letter, and Triple Word squares.
Use all 7 letters from your rack to play a Bingo and get a 50-point bonus.
This game is a great time killer for all fans of board games and strategy games. It is also an educational game that will allow kids (and adults :-) ) to improve their spelling and vocabulary.
Thanks to the fast reactivity of the artificial intelligence (AI) and to the official word lists, Classic Words can be used by traditional word game enthusiasts to play quick training matches and learn new words from the computer's moves.
Unlike with multiplayer board games, where some dishonest players use anagram solvers, there is no cheating possible when playing in solitaire… Letters and blanks are always picked randomly, and the computer's artificial intelligence does not have more information than you do.
Only your tactics and creativity can make the difference…
Will you play strategically enough to outwit the computer and its extensive vocabulary?
EXCLUSIVE FEATURES:
- 6 levels of difficulty
- Automatic display of the definition of the iPhone words
- Distribution of letters and points are adapted to the language
- Supports offline play
Languages and dictionaries supported:
- English (SOWPODS 2025 + NWL 2023)
- French
- German (with support of Umlauts, and Ezset to be replaced by two 'S')
- Italian
- Spanish
- Dutch
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Classic Words (solo word game) is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Minor improvements.
Download & Availability
Classic Words (solo word game) is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Classic Words (solo word game) 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:
Fun! This definitely helps with vocabulary and strategy.
Love this game as we can play against IPad and there are no ads! We like the fact that there are different levels of play making it more challenging. No waiting for IPad to respond so game goes quickly.
Improves memory, focus and cognitive skills.
We have been playing this game for a year or 2 and we love it. Suddenly this month Ive been getting pop up ads. Whats going on.
We finally found a very good replacement for Scrabble. We like the levels of difficulty and that we can play against the computer. Its free and challenging. We really like it. It helps our brain.
This is the only game that we play. Pick up and put down at will, but its always waiting with a fresh combination and new challenges. Learn new words and beat the system.
Love it, play it every day for years.
Great game! Fun to play. You arent waiting on anyone because AI is playing you and its always ready to play. You choose your strength. Its fun.
This game is extra nice to play and straightforward in playing. Its also easy because it correctly monitors what your spelling. It keeps our mind busy its great.
We have been playing for 5 years.. We LOVE THIS GAME.. We are 84 and we do not want to play any other game.
We appreciate how stimulating Scrabble is. We can play anytime, anywhere, continuing games with extended pauses and our scores documented. We also think this is good for engaging our brain.
Unlike the big WWF game, this game does not try to frustrate you into making purchases by giving you all vowels or consonants, play after play, game after game. What a delight to have fair gameplay again.
Ive had this game on each and every device Ive owned. Yes it has ads, no it does not dig into your playtime. Now go download it. Youre welcome.
This game is amazing, awesome and not to mention there are no ads once you start to play.
Love the different levels of the Scrabble so you progress at your own speed.
No ads!!!!! Makes playing absolutely fun!!! Thank you.
Its a great word game to play when youre waiting at a doctor office or just to challenge your brain!!! Its still fun even though we beat the computer 99% of the time.
Tried a lot of games. This was the best. We play it every day. Settings make it fit your skill level and its very enjoyable.Gagamc52.
Ive enjoyed this game with 0 technical hiccups and few advertising interruptions for years. It is very close to the Scrabble board game.
Its easy to play and it makes us think of words that we can use. Very easy to use.
We love how easy this game is to navigate. The ads are do not interrupt your playing time either.
Love this game! Have been playing for several years now. Its a lot of fun and educational. The ads are very short and easy to close. The banner ad at the top is very small and unobtrusive. Just an all around great game.
Great execution of a classic game.
So much fun, so stimulating to the brain! We love it and Im so happy its available off line also.
We love this game! Super fun! And challenging.
It's sadly rare to have an offline game function normally and this one is a perfect Scrabble-like game to help kill 5 minutes while waiting.
This is a very fun scrabble game. Not too many ads. Its a go to game for us.
Functional, easy to use and understand Sensitive touchscreen Effective commercials that arent annoying The game is good for Brain Thank you for your Service.
We enjoy playing Classic Words solo game. It is always there when we want to play. The algorithm is fair. The game adjusts to your strategies if you play often to make it more challenging. No irritating ads.
We love this challenging game and have played it for years. It is fun playing at the most difficult level and not have to worry about men wanting to talk instead of play. Our favorite game by far. However, the past few weeks it forces us to quit the games we have just won. Normally we would move on to a new game but now we have to quit before we can. By quitting points are deducted for quitting and we are not getting credit for the points we earned. We hope someone will fix this malfunction. It is a little downheartening. ( not a word but makes our point).
We have played over 12,000 games and Im still not bored with it. We look forward every day, to playing our usual 10+ games. We have learned several new words Id never use in conversation but found them interesting. We find it a relaxing way to wind down before bedtime.
Moments come during any day that find us at a standstill, for various and assundry reasons ..And immediately Ill realize that we have our Classic Words game to play! It is for us a relaxed challenge which fills the little areas in any day when find ourselves, at an unexpected opening in time. Oh! We can play our Classic Words game and then we do. We dont know who reads this, but Im very thankful to have this game. We think its a great game with opportunity to play at different levels. Most appreciative. Jklj.
Our favorite App. Keep our brain challenged 24/7.
We like that you can choose different levels of difficulty.
Ive been playing this game every day for years. In the last few weeks it changed drastically for the worse. Many many vocabulary words arent recognized like before . No definitions are offered either.
Great challenge for our aging mind.
Enjoying our brain exercise this game provides.
Its nice to have a good game without all the ads and commercials interrupting.
Id like the game better if it had an integrated dictionary and best words suggestions.
Please stop ads that make it look like your phone has a virus. Its impossible to get out of these ads. We had to u install and reinstall the app.
Game Uses words that players are not allowed to use.
Give iOS the settings cog icon – why does only Android have this? Android users have a settings cog icon where they can turn off 'our luck' and users report this makes the game play more realistic. As it is, with extremely hard game play level, we're winning 98%of our games but there's no way we're really that good.
We like it. Its just that its really hard sometimes so Im gonna let our sister play but also we like its really really hard for us and we can never really spell a word but we think its a cat.
Nice format but never challenging point wise. And some words show as allowable even though they are not in scrabble dictionaries.
Good, fast paced game, computer opponent makes it challenging.
We do enjoy playing but the annoying ads and the difficulty in removing them severely limits the enjoyment.
This was a great game, still is, but having video ads pop up overlaying the board at random intervals is driving us away from it. It completely destroys concentration and game play. Also, it also makes us want to avoid the product or service being advertised. It may be time to look for a new word game.
The game is obviously rigged at the highest level. The problem is twofold. Clearly the computer knows the players letters. And the players only know their own. Secondly, invariably when the computer is about to lose, it mysteriously is able to find and play all seven letters to reach an insurmountable score. Thats rigging the game.
We could tolerated the Temu ads when the game ends but adding new adverts the game play screen is distracting and unnecessary. We deleted the app. Seeking a subscription non-advert version of Scrabble.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5.4
- Size: 83.30 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Lulo Apps
Last updated: 14th November 2025 | Genre: Board, Word | Developer: Lulo Apps