Last updated on January 30th, 2026 at 07:30 am
Bonza Word Puzzle – Puzzle Game Review
Bonza Word Puzzle is a Puzzle/Word/Entertainment game from Minimega PTY LTD, first launched in 19th March 2014.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 9,398+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Bonza Word Puzzle Stand Out
App Store Best of 2014
"Bonza puzzles are instantly addictive!" – Will Shortz (Crossword Editor, The New York Times)
"It’s an idea so simple I can’t believe it hasn’t been done yet." – Mark Serrels, Kotaku
Bonza is a new type of crossword that has become an instant classic. It mixes word search, jigsaw and trivia to create something completely fresh. If you like a word challenge and you enjoy pushing boxes around with your fingers, then you'll love Bonza Word Puzzle.
DAILY PUZZLES
Every day you'll be able to solve a new puzzle designed by the Bonza community.
BONZA PUZZLE CREATOR
Create your own custom Bonza puzzles and challenge friends.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Bonza Word Puzzle is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th August 2024
Recent improvements include:
Fixed issue running on iOS15
Download & Availability
Bonza Word Puzzle is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Bonza Word Puzzle 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 and challenging. Keeps the mind sharp.
We absolutely love this game. The only thing we would change is to make the puzzles harder like the daily puzzles are. Download; you won't be sorry.
Its interesting and looks like it could be very challenging. We are enjoying learning a new game. Richard Glovik.
We have played Bonza for years now. We love words and crossword puzzles and Bonza keeps us engaged. We do have our kryptonite: LoR, D&D, any superhero universes shuffle. *****.
Its fun and the music is very soothing.
We love Bonza. We've been playing for years now. One of the few games we've will actually drop a few bucks on for ad-free and coins.
We thought this puzzle was going to be harder because Im not familiar with the cities of the Middle East It was fun! Especially when we can solve the puzzles.
We are enjoying this game. Occasionally, it seems as if some of the letters are missing. When we use the free hint option, the letters they say we need aren't always there.
Very very challenging!! Good one.
Almost finished with all puzzle packs and need more to keep us coming back.
A real bonanza! Love it! Challenging & super fun.
Puzzles dont overwhelm you. Smooth are just challenging enough to keep you engaged.
Easy-hard – something for everyone! We like the idea that we can choose a different puzzle if the one that pops up is too tough.
Just redownloaded this program after a short break. Still find this to be a wonderful challenge.
Bonza is a fun game to play. We enjoy the challenge in solving the puzzles.
Exactly what we were looking for in a word game! And customer support was very responsive when we had a billing issue. This game has quickly joined our daily play list.
Interesting twist on crossword puzzles! Makes you really think.
Just finished the starter pack and we think this game will be a good game, while youre waiting or relaxing before bed.
Bonza is great! It tests your knowledge of multiple different subjects, and helps you to concentrate and think as you manipulate the little letter groups to find each word, and place it where it belongs. Its very gratifying to solve each puzzle, and its a bonus that you can score them yourself. A wonderfully fun added feature is that you can invent your own puzzles! You decide on a category, then you choose the appropriate words that will go into the category. Our one wish would be to give Bonza players the ability to locate the puzzles theyve created, to see how theyve been scored by other players. That would definitely be icing on the cake.
Mostly we enjoy this game a lot because theres no timer, its varies in its level of challenge and makes us think of things we rarely think of. However Im continually rolling our eyes at the lack of diversity. Almost all the categories where names are involved include white men only. All the scientists are white males, all the film directors, all the secret identities, almost all the super heroes. Please do a little research to include more women and BIPOC. (Black Indigenous People of Color) Theres a wonderful educational slant to this game and wouldnt want it to contribute to the perpetuation of racism and sexism.
If you like crossword puzzles, and Wordle, youll like this.
Usually we get bored after awhile. Not so with Bonza; each and every game is unique and fun. Its sort of a cross between word puzzle and trivia. Great game.
Almost perfect. One price to stop adverts would be nice.
Still a very fun game but not as many hard puzzles for free as we would wish.
So Ive been playing a couple of weeks now and we have some opinions. First, by and large, its a solid word puzzle game with a good premise and decent execution. The UI could use a little bit of fine tuning, especially on phone screens where the limited space makes accurate selecting of pieces a bit too much trial and error. But thats whatever. Lots of puzzle games suffer a bit on phone screens. There are two areas, however, that impact the fun of the game. 1. The random nature of the daily puzzle is suboptimal. Frankly, combining the daily puzzle with the user submitted puzzles is a bad idea. The daily puzzle should be the central draw to bring players into the game each day. Therefore they need to be good. As is? Sometimes therere good, sometimes theyre not. They either need to have better curation or they need to be made by the devs, not farmed out to the players. 2. The puzzle should be making words to fit the category NOT trying to figure out the category. Ive gotten stuck several times. If Im struggling because we cant figure out how the pieces apply to the category, thats fine. In those cases its us playing (and failing) at the game we opted into. But when we struggle because the category is hidden and nothing is fitting together, it feels like a cheap trick. It doesnt feel good. Thats not the point of the puzzle. But hey, even with those issues Im still playing.
Have to remember which ads will bring you back to the game.
The mystery clues are annoying and dont make the game more fun. Otherwise a decent puzzler.
This puzzle was not well named.
Really trying to enjoy this game but we've never seen ads this long. We're literally just watching someone play a whole level of some other game that we don't want, and it's so boring, and we end up not wanting to play any more.
Ads have gotten so long that it isnt fun anymore.
Several years ago we purchased the remove ad option. We have tried to restore purchases but the ads still pop up. When we choose Support under tools, it brings up a blank website that says Access Denied. Its a great game but has no value with the ads.
We will NEVER answer Unity Ads! Will simply delete if it keeps asking for personal information. Two stars off for ridiculously long ads and questions. Like the game and concept but not enough to continue if this remains.
They spelled Michelangelos name wrong.
Really makes you think we love this game.
This game can challenge your thought patterns. Keeps us thinking.
We've had this game for sometime, but all of a sudden it wants us to share with our contacts. We're not on social media and we're not going to hassle our friends with a game we play. We can't understand this. Our husband had the game also, but you haven't locked him out until he shares his contact. This seems so wrong.
Always challenging and interesting. Easy to get hints without paying.
We love trying to figure these out. Some are easy and others are quite the challenge. Our family is playing too.
Helps us push back on brain deterioration.
We like earning coins to unlock puzzles. The daily one keeps us coming back for the challenge.
Fun puzzle to complete. Very entertaining.
We enjoy these quick little brain teasers. Theyre perfect for when we have a little bit of time to kill.
We have really enjoyed this game. Our question is, are there ever going to be new puzzles come out? Keep up the great work.
Title says it all. Ive downloaded this game to three devices now and love playing it when we are waiting. Different from the usual word games. Earning hints and coins is not as slow, aggravating and frustrating as many other games.
Not too easy, not too hard but gives the brain a workout.
Very good word game. We enjoy it tremendously. A little addictive. Congratulations and thanks for all your work. The very best! Sharp and entertaining.
Our therapist assigned this game for us, and its really fun! Challenging without being too forceful.
We have really enjoyed this game but lately there is a jumbled up mess of ads that lock up the app. Ive gotten tired of shutting down/restarting our phone so we wont play again until they fix the bad coding in that ad dump which is also very annoying and hard to follow since there seem to be about 12 different products in one ad. And im on latest ios version so its not us.
Love the game! Hate the ads. Takes way to much of our time.
Sometimes ads wont close when we choose the option for an ad to get a hint. We have to close the app, which means Ive lost up to a minute of our time and do not get the hint.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.0.5
- Size: 97.04 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Minimega PTY LTD
Last updated: 28th August 2024 | Genre: Puzzle, Word | Developer: Minimega PTY LTD