Last updated on December 12th, 2025 at 02:30 pm
Sticky Terms – Puzzle Game Review
Sticky Terms is a Puzzle/Word game from Philipp Stollenmayer, first launched in 1st March 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 2,616+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Sticky Terms Stand Out
»Farpotshket« is Yiddish for »trying to fix something, thereby ruining it«.
Puzzle through this and 249 other words that have no equivalent in other languages.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Sticky Terms is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th July 2024
Recent improvements include:
Fixed minor bugs
Download & Availability
Sticky Terms is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
The challenges are great! Only problem is to get to other levels, you have to watch ads.
Hello! We have just 100%ed your game, and we have come across one word that we think is glitched out. The entry reads as follows : [KAAPSHLJMURSLIS– Latvian– Riding in a hopelessly jammed bus or train] for whatever reason, it only shows up as "kaapshlmulis" in the puzzle itself, not to mention one of the parts is partially hidden offscreen! Please fix and look into this.
Best puzzle game out there. Loved playing this but wish a new selection of sticky term words was available.
Honesty this is the best game Ive played all year and thats saying something it also lowkey hurt to finish the game we didnt want to . 10/10.
Fun, challenging. We wont blow through it in 1 day. Finally.
If we were to describe it using a word from the app, it would be Ostranenie: Presenting unfamiliar objects in a way that appears familiar. This is actually a description of what you need to do in order to play the game: present the stuff that doesnt look like any legitimate words, or letters, in a way that makes sense, or that it all, like the game goes, snaps together.
Worth the adds. There are ads, but Ill go through it for such a satisfying game.
No bombarding advertisements just fun puzzles and cool new words a very enjoyable game overall.
Among all the games Id play, sticky terms is one youll be able to get addicted by. Sticky terms is about gluing lines and dots to make letters and connect them to make a word or phrase like age-otori thingamabob and our favorite, silvabot which mean (you are the fatty layer on our warm milk) and we also learned that ouch is in Esperanto but we wish there is new levels new phrases and new categories.
Seriously, this guy makes the best games on all of the app store, his visuals are so unique and wacky and his sound effects are so enchanting they take you to another world. His ideas are so simple and straight forward, as soon as you set it up youre just in it and it takes you a few seconds to figure out how to play and immediately fun in just a few seconds, you just load up and play. We already downloaded all the games and suggest everyone do the same. This guy has an amazingly creative mind and a unique design perspective that keeps us amused and dazzled. Marvelous games, fabulous everything! Three thumbs up.
Also we like the ad structure. Especially compared to other mobile games, one ad every 7-10 levels isnt bad, especially since you get to choose when you watch the ads.
For the price of- wait, this game is free? No ads, nothing annoying. Just a bunch of fun spatial word puzzles. A lovely snack.
We really like the concept behind this, but it really need one thing! There should be a button when you finish a word that speaks the word, just like Google translate. That would make the experience just one step better! :).
In love sticky terms with all our heart but we just wish when you beat the game it congratulates you.
Sticky Terms is a really well made game. We love how in the begging you peel apart the letters and we love how in the end they click together. Honestly all of the apps Ive gotten from this creator have been amazing! And there arent even that many ads that pop up in the middle of a level. The thing we love most though is how its just a plain screen, no distractions. 100% recommend.
So fun! Recommend strongly, 1 RECOMMENDATION! Hints. We wish you could have about 3 hints to make life a bit easier, but other than that,.
This app is our favorite! We are addicted and in love with it! Typically, when we write a review its about a complaint, but this for app its to talk about how awesome it is. First of all, Ive tried some of your other games (Bacon and o k a y ?) and Ive loved them too! We look forward to trying some others that this developer has created. Secondly, Ive been studying French for almost a year now and we just started learning Latin; once we become an advanced French speaker we hope to learn French to Italian. Basically, our point is, Im interested in learning other languages and learning about other languages. Not only does this app show some languages vocabulary, but also culture! For an example, Casu Marzuan Italian cheese with living maggots inside. Also we never knew dj vu was French until this app! Our native language is American English and there are some English words that we havent heard of before! We would highly recommend this app both to anyone who is learning a language (or has in the past) and to anyone who has no interest in speaking any languageexcept their native language. Third, we appreciate your effort in creating this game! We know it had to take a lot of research. The gameplay is satisfying when you separate the sticky words apart and the relaxing soft vibration that youve completed a level. There are no pop up ads. However, if you want to unlock more sets, you have to watch a thirty second ad. The only two things we would like to be added, like in an update, is hints during the level and some form of pronunciation. We saw on one negative review that someone got offended because the word Layogenic means someone who is only attractive from a distance. First of all, the developer(s) have no control that Layogenic is an untranslatable word. Therefore, they also have no control over the definition of that word. Besides, this word was in the collection Insults. Kind of a no brainer that you shouldnt watch an ad to unlock that set of you are easily offended. Another negative review said that there was a set called Yuck and that was ethnically offensive. There must have been an update (or that person is fibbing) because there definitely is not a set called Yuck. There is, however, a set called Yummy. Anyway, sorry that this review is long (and the little rant at the end) and we hope you have a blessed day.
Phillipp Stollenmayor is a true creative genius. His use of collage-art and texture is unseen in modern games. This is a truly unique take on a puzzle game, with a dictionary element. This game is surprisingly difficult on some levels. Keep making these games, Kamibox.
We finished the game. Give us more content.
Finished in like a day, enjoyable.
Love this game! Please add more terms – Im sad that we have run out of levels to play. Its relaxing and educational.
This game is super relaxing, and very interesting. We just finished it. Its not a super long game, and the ads are done in a way that its not intrusive to the game. We wish more games were designed this well.
…Yet this puzzle succeeds. Unlike anything Ive ever seen and enjoyable in ways we never could have predicted. Well done to the creators. Well darn done.
There are only 2 other games on our iPad. The fact that this is so intriguing and also informative earned our attention and then delighted us. Id love to see another set and would be willing to pay for it. How about it? And meanwhile, thank you.
Love it! Please add more terms.
Excellent fun! Very satisfying, and the words fill in gaps in English vocabulary that we hadnt realized Id always needed. (we dont know how we got along before without the Yiddish word farpotshket.) we even love the sound effects and the way the pieces grab together. We come back and do them all again every few weeks, and its always freshly delightful. Thank you and a tip of the hat to the creators.
We really enjoyed playing this game. It was funny to watch the letters and parts of letters wiggle around. We also really enjoyed sending some of these to our friends who are learning the languages in this game. They even have an option for colorblind people (since the letters are colored)! We definitely recommend this game for anyone learning languages or really anyone who likes puzzle games and random facts.
Amazing concept, love the simplicity! Dev is nothing short of genius.
We loved playing this game! It was interesting to learn the terms from other languages and being able to look back and reference them with the dictionary in the app.
The game is straight up dope! Though we feel for improvement, it would be super dope if there was a recording so u could learn how to say the phrases. We just wanna say stuff no one understands. It would be a great improvement.
Ive played all the levels twice by now, please make more! Its unlike anything else ive ever seen and its amazing.
The game is so fun and cool and By the way we love the languages.This is such a puzzle that is why we love this game! This game tests your brain so much it is such a puzzle we adore this game so much! We play it every day.
We played through the whole game. Such a fun little time killer with amazing game design. We do wish that there was some sort of secret or reward for beating the game but besides that this game is pretty much a perfect little puzzle game.
Good puzzle game, cant say much cus others have said it we think the habits stage is broken, on the second to last level nothing sticks together and there seems to be no other options.
Love it. Only wish the word would be pronounced in the native tongue.
We get most of them quickly and enjoy learning the words but if it takes more than a couple of minutes, we would appreciate the offer of a hint.
We love the game, but considering that most of the words are things that a lot of people probably cant pronounceI think it would be great to add the word being said aloud once the puzzle has been completed.
You can put the peice of the k and the e upside down and still connect it itll be like an upside down flipped L and a P and a arrow pointing right merges.
We loved the game but we cant give 5 stars because we ran out of levels the first day we played.
We love this game, but it would be really nice to add more levels.
4 stars for a good game, minus two stars for painfully long ads, minus one star for ads that automatically open the App Store. Final score: 1 star. Great example of poor advertising choices.
Learned so many new terms to describe ourselves.
Please? Other than being short, it's kind of perfect.
Theres not really a game like Sticky Terms on the market. In fact, its difficult to call it a game at all. Its almost like a curiously satisfying learning experience. What are you learning? The meaning of words like chutzpa, eshaku, and our personal favorite, agiyag zockni. Yes, these words are foreign (and real), but dont bother putting them through a translator. You see, Sticky Terms is a game about words that people across the world use every day, but that have no sensible translation. To discover the meaning of these phrases, you must piece them together out of odd clusters of lines and curves. Boring? It might sound that way. But theres something inexplicably satisfying about hearing them snap into place. And gaining a little knowledge in a lighthearted way like this is as sweet a reward as it gets.
We have replayed this game twice! Please add more levels or a different mode.
Really fun, wish there were more words.
Wonderful – fascinating – unique…. Such a marvelous, fun and creative achievement. Love this game! More levels please.
Json.prettify takes a string or table (got a number) caused this app to crash as soon as we opened it for a while. We decided had to reinstall the game, losing all our progress. And by lose we mean it was saved in the Cloud. Scroll left on the group select screen and theres a cloud icon in the top left. What a total bro move.
We love this app so much its really fun and Ive learned so much. But recently every time we open the app it says there is a runtime error. We have an iPhone 11 so idk if thats an issue. Update: we deleted and downloaded the app again and its fixed.
Lovely game with very fun and creative mechanism. It is nice to learn some unique/beautiful words while playing a game. However we noticed that some terms have the wrong definitions, or slightly off definitions, not sure if thats done on purpose though.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.04
- Size: 68.00 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, ES
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Philipp Stollenmayer
Last updated: 6th July 2024 | Genre: Puzzle, Word | Developer: Philipp Stollenmayer