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Qiktionary – The 4-letter Game – Entertainment Game Review
Qiktionary – The 4-letter Game is a Entertainment/Word/Puzzle game from FOUR LETTER WORKS LTD, first launched in 13th May 2015.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 653+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Qiktionary – The 4-letter Game Stand Out
For fans of QI, Wordle and all things puzzling and interesting, we bring you the updated Qiktionary – the free-to-play, award-winning wordgame – gleaming in its brand new interface.
Curated by the QI Elves, enjoy in single player to unlock a library of fascinating facts, or challenge friends in multiplayer mode.
Simple to understand but harder to master, Qiktionary is a game all about logic and lexicon, where puzzling out concealed words will reward you with amazing facts.
PLAY QIKTIONARY FOR FREE
– Solve challenging word puzzles to unlock interesting facts from the QI elves to build up your own Qiktionary collection
– Play through 2 free Wordpacks of increasing difficulty
– Play 4-letter Qiktionary matches against friends in multiplayer, where whoever wins the best of 3 rounds is crowned champion
UPGRADE TO A MONTHLY QIKTIONARY SUBSCRIPTION
Qiktionary offers over 100 free rounds to play, but by upgrading to one of the subscription packages players have access to so much more:
– A subscription to Qiktionary offers access to all-new themed Wordpacks every month, each with a collection of brand new facts to unlock
– Also includes a generous serving of Hints to use in game
– Access to our full collection of over 70 Wordpacks (and counting!) for hours of gameplay
– Play unlimited multiplayer games with multiple friends, with 4 or 5-letter word challenges
PAYMENT DETAILS
– Payment will be charged to your AppStore Account at confirmation of purchase
– Subscription automatically renews, unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the existing subscription period
– Account will be charged for renewal within the 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be identified
– Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal can be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase
– Cancellation of the current subscription is not allowed during an active subscription period
QIKTIONARY SUBSCRIPTION PRICING
Qiktionary offers a 2-week free-trial followed by a monthly subscription price of £2.99 ($3.49).
For more information, please read our terms and privacy policy at http://qiktionary.com/policy.html
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Qiktionary – The 4-letter Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 26th May 2022
Recent improvements include:
- Complete overhaul of user interface
- New home page provides one-click access to current games, unlocked facts, Your statistics, new wordpacks and Multiplayer games
- Your Qiktionary is now searchable so players can locate QI facts more easily
- New ‘Your Statistics’ screen
- New, interactive tutorial now available in home-page hamburger menu
- Over 70 wordpacks now available
Download & Availability
Qiktionary – The 4-letter Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Qiktionary – The 4-letter 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:
Ive just about finished all your puzzles. Hurry up and create more puzzles. If you think Im going to answer the round about Trump, you have no idea how much most of America hates that Insurrectionist traitor. Get him out of the game.
Its ridiculously difficult. We just started so maybe Ill get into the swing of it, but right now Im ready to give up.
This app would benefit from more user testing.
Fun to play on our own or matches.
Fun new take on word games, and some great trivia.
Love this game. We're playing it and we are playing it night and day. Figured out shortcut and deductions to make higher scores. Our question is if we buy the extra packs of words for our iPad, shouldn 't the new word packs work on our iPhone as well? Isn't this what iCloud is for.
This game stimulates something we don't use enough today, our minds… Love the different difficulties available. Especially fun to play with a timer, it makes it fast paced and a little harder.
Deceptively hard. Like hangman but harder, you don't know where the correct letter goes or which letter of the word you guessed is correct! Fun, we've been trying to get our family to join in.
Most addicting game ever. Just when you think you've got it, you're thrown a curve ball. Love the random facts too.
We love playing this game and trying to figure out the words. It's a great setup – you find out the letters but not the location of them in the word. Super fun! We would probably play it everyday if they made just a few adjustments. We really enjoy the 5-word puzzles, but there's no way of knowing what you're buying when you buy an individual word pack. We would more buy more packs if we could tell what level the packs are and how many letters. You don't know until you purchase it. Also, we're not a fan of monthly subscriptions. We much prefer buying more puzzles, but wish you got more puzzles per pack.
Learn the rules takes 60 secs. Solve a 4 letter puzzle…maybe never. We love the this game, but, you might try it out alone because the simplicity is a deception. We embarrassed ourselves, and we are still playing. Thanks, great game.
Fantastic game! We think the game would be much more addictive if your "golf points" actually were used in the game. In each game pack, points should be kept up with. We think it would be cool to know how you did overall when you finish a pack. Did you finish over or under par? Maybe you scored a hole in one by finishing a certain amount of points under par. Maybe you scored an eagle (-2 par) or double eagle (-3 par). We think scoring each game with an over/under par is neat, but you could really add a whole other level to the game if you kept up with the overall score. Just our two cents! Great game though.
This is a great game! You really need to use your talent for deduction to get the Words your looking for and the facts they give you once you've solved them are very entertaining. A great way to spend your time.
Which both happen to be 4 letter words. Totally addicted and enjoying it.
Certainly makes you think. Time flies and we can't put it down.
No such thing as a four letter word we can't sort.
Love this game! Once you start playing you can't put it down! We would of gave 5 stars if they let you earn back hints in the free version, but they don't! So therefore, 4 stars.
Great game mind bending, can hurt your brain by strain. Highly recommended if you like words.
We have subscribed more than once, and we're going to cancel it, because the puzzle packs aren't changed out often enough (we've finished them all). We didn't play them ridiculously quick, there just isn't any new content. Weeks have passed and we have had none to do. You can replay packs, but, boring. This could get 5 stars even though the value of the app calls more for a small one time fee than a subscription. All they need to do is care about the subscribers and give us more puzzles.
Our daughter introduced us to this game and we were really enjoying it until we ran into a big problem…get so far in any of the difficulty levels and you'll get stuck. The reason for this is that you are given a puzzle that once you reveal the correct letters, they don't form any English word, and believe us, we looked. One set of letters in the four letter game are "LAUF". Lauf is a word, but it's not the answer and there are no other words that exist with those letters. The same thing happens when you play the five letter game, the letters are "TLAIN". We're quite certain of our letters so there begs the question of why. We almost wanted to pay for the hints to see what they'd claim the answers are but we don't like the method they use to keep us playing. We were considering paying for more packs, but we don't like being manipulated. We're moving on to something else instead.
Bought the app. Played for months – even signed up to play multiple games at $.99 a month Now we can play our games sometimes -but it won't let us submit our turn we've tried emailing the developer 2 times, no answer – we have deleted and re installed the app – we have restored our purchase multiple times and nothing. Nada. Zip. Great game WHEN it works. Unfortunately it doesn't work.
It seems like it should be really easy, but you do have to think.
Very addictive. The bits of trivia that you win are the best part.
The game is very fun and we welcome the challenge. The facts are fun. If the other reviews are correct about honoring the "do*^%ld", you are going to lose support. We enjoy the pace of the badges and how the levels of difficulty increase.
Excellent work for the developers.
This is a fun, yet challenging, game.
This is surprisingly addictive.
We do find the five letter words easier to solve.
Ever since Chicktionary got butted off our iphone we missed it . We love finding the words..yayaaaa.
We're still on the easy words but we like it.
Simple rules, but challenging. Great mental exercise.
Easy to get the hang of and a great way to spend a few minutes.
We have really enjoyed this game since coming across it. Great quirky little facts and it actually allows u to play until we find the word (unlike lingo games). Good times.
This is a great game. While it seems difficult at first, you can find strategies that make it easier.
Fun, addictive, challenging but not impossible.
This game is fun and challenging. We would highly recommend it. The only reason we don't give it 5 stars is because we hate subscription games or apps in general. But we would gladly pay $5 for this app rather than a subscription. If we end up playing this game long term multiplayer, we'd even pay $10…depending on how long it holds our interest in the long run.
We'd keep playing if it had a one time payment and not subscription. Great game.
Good fun but surprisingly not that easy! Who knew guessing a four letter word could be so difficult! The option to 'earn' hints, as opposed to buy, would have been also great.
If we want to keep playing, that's when we know the game is a keeper. This one will stick around for a while.
We like the game a lot but it stopped working for multiplayer. It just keeps loading but never working. As well as the leaderboard and achievements screens. And we just subscribed for a month. We're not happy right now. It needs to start working again for multiplayer. Not fair.
Honoring "The Donald"? No thanks.
We love the fun facts. If you like to figure things out, give this a try.
Really enjoy this one. Much more challenging than it sounds like.
We are updating our review to reflect that it is back to working normally again. If you have issues with game icons spinning interminably, lost hints, no communication to challengers etc., sign out of the Game Center and then sign back in. This may be obvious to more tech-savvy folks but to old folk like us, it was a revelation. We deleted and reinstalled the app but never considered the Game Center. Our previous review: This is a fun game! Very engaging, but we have a hard time sometimes tying the words to the category. Our biggest gripe is that we wished there were a reward of a token or two for solving well under par. Really, really love the facts at the end. Also, call us naive, but we wish they had explained that the tokens don't replenish at the end of the round. We used them all up on the first round when we were learning to play. Ergonomically, we wish the hint button were positioned away from the keyboard. We have hit it a few times now by accident when we didn't even need a hint.
If slow paced strategy is your thing this is the game for you. No time limit is very nice. We hate games the are high stress. Life is full of stress we don't need it in a game too.
Solving words to get interesting facts is a great concept and this game makes it work. While it is not perfect, it is still a great game to provide great mental challenge.
Occasionally get words we've never heard of… Makes the game difficult.
Love the free version! But we agree with other reviews that there should be a reward for solving under par.
Challenges your vocabulary of short words. Probably the only time in life you can actually use four letter words without your mom giving you the look.
Found a game perfect for our nerdy self.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.1
- Size: 12.07 MB
- iOS: 14.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: FOUR LETTER WORKS LTD
Last updated: 26th May 2022 | Genre: Entertainment, Word | Developer: FOUR LETTER WORKS LTD