Last updated on December 17th, 2025 at 02:05 am
Word Connect: Association Game – Education Game Review
Word Connect: Association Game is a Education/Board/Word game from Neil McGrogan, first launched in 12th December 2023.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,896+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Word Connect: Association Game Stand Out
Sort four tiles at a time by their secret category.
- Select four tiles then press 'Enter' to see if they belong to a common category.
- Continue to play until all four categories have been found.
- Press 'Clear' to deselect tiles.
- Press 'Shuffle' to switch up the order of the tiles on the board.
Category difficulty.
- The categories on the board range in difficulty from easy to hard.
Categories.
- There will be four distinct categories such as:
Cities: New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago
_ Day: Mother's, Labor, Memorial, Valentine's
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Word Connect: Association Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 27th May 2025
Recent improvements include:
Added puzzles, fixed bugs
Download & Availability
Word Connect: Association Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Word Connect: Association 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:
Bring your thinking caps for this fun and exciting game.
Clues fit in more than one connection too easy not challenging.
Game has you watching commercials. Although thats not a bad thing in itself, Im seeing AI generated Dr. Oz selling stuff. Some of these puzzles are more difficult than TV Jeopardy. Most people would not have a clue. Other puzzles seem to be easy. In general they do test your gray cells.
Bought two games from the developer to support them. We wish they would update the tiny bugs. When a game is complete, the little X is non responsive. It instead needs to be swiped down. Please remove the X. It was frustrating.
Every puzzle is full of words most people have no clue what they are. Takes the fun out of it.
This is too difficult for us. Im trying to sharpen our remembering.
Good game but there are words we have never heard of. Guess thats a good thing. We need our phone by our iPad so we can search to see what they mean. Keeps the mind working.
We liked the game at first. But, seeing repeat words makes it less challenging for us. We need one that will really make us think.
Need to be able to purchase clues.
We love being able to continue guessing until we get it. It would be nice to be able to start over if it gets too frustrating.
Very fun when your bored and want something to think about.
This is an okay game not very good though.
Totally worth a few dollars to play many puzzles! Thank you.
Addictive learning too interesting fun frustrating! WAYS TO DESCRIBE CONNECTION GAME.
Overall, this is a good game. Its challenging and the connections range from easy to hard to eclectic (songs by a specific singerif you dont know the singer, you wont make the connection). But Ive run into a couple of typos. One made it a different word (bald was written as bold) so no way to make the connection. Another was a palindrome that, misspelled, was not one.
We appreciate that some puzzles are challenging and the ads really arent that bad compared similar games, but it seems as if the puzzles are developed by AI or perhaps folks for whom English is a second language. We have lost turns because the clues dont agree grammatically. For example the category/connection is bubbly personality, but the clues are lively, outgoing & joyful (all adjectives) and the fourth is enthuse (a verb). This is one example of several like this. Ill stick with it for a few more rounds, but its defeating to lose on a developer consistency error. We hope this gets fixed because the UI is really nice. :).
This is a cheap knockoff of the popular New York Times game. Dont bother. Some of the clues contain incomplete or misspelled words or words that dont even fit the category. For example we had a game where the category was ice____ and one of the words was icicle. Ice icicle is not a term anyone uses. We just failed puzzle #49 where the category was palindromes and one of the words was peepp which isnt a word or a palindrome. Dont bother.
Not too many ads. Entertaining.
We love this game. Its fun and the ads dont really bother us because they are easily skipped. However, we just reached level 92 and its glitching. We got all of the connections but we cant move on. We wish we could play more but theres really no way for us to move past this level :(.
In one game, the wine Chardonnay is just chard, as in Swiss chard. In another game its Chardonnay. In another game, one of the words for influential inventions is simply inventions. In many other games the categories they decide to put words in dont make sense. Some word answers dont fit with their word types, for example mislead is in a category with nouns (falsehoods), but its not a noun. Some of the words are missing a single letter at the end, so its hard to guess what the word is. There are other issues but those are just the ones we remember. Ive only played about 15 games so far, and our conclusion is that the quantity of issues this early in game play is the result of lazy development.
Most of the categories are straightforward and too simple.
Game has you watching commercials. Although thats not a bad thing in itself, Im seeing AI generated Dr. Oz selling stuff.
We loved this game. Got addicted almost immediately. But we got to #92 and its glitching. We chose 4 words and when it turned the color of the set, it switched to 4 words that we didnt choose. It keeps glitching in several different ways. We deleted from our phone, re-downloaded, got all the way to #92 againand the same thing keeps happening. Id love to keep playing but this is frustrating.
On #97 we solve one row, and a different set of words show up as solved. We continue and solve the remaining two and solve the previously solved one and it glitches again and now they are all colored, but not solved. Waste of money. Dont buy.
This game is awesome it is educational we shouldve down loaded it long ago/when we got our phone love it best that Im older now so it will help a lot.
Unlike the NYT game, theres no sense of satisfaction when you solve because all of the games are so easy. We wish there were different skill levels you could choose. Please improve.
This app is a great start but we get at least one, often two or three, of the same groups of words each time we play which makes it boring. Also its Bryce National Park not Bryce. Lethal is misspelled as leathal too. Add a lot more groups of words so you dont get the same ones over and over and you will have a winner.
Game used straight for body of water instead of strait. These mistakes make it unreliable to play.
Just like the NYT version but better because you can play as many times as youd like in a day.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.3
- Size: 5.89 MB
- iOS: 16.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Neil McGrogan]()
Last updated: 27th May 2025 | Genre: Education, Board | Developer: Neil McGrogan