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Conundra – Education Game Review
Conundra is a Education/Word/Puzzle game from Sarah Pierce, first launched in 8th December 2010.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 301+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Conundra Stand Out
~ A quick & easy word game that's great for your brain! ~
Conundra is a simple anagram game that is easy to learn, but hard to put down. Solve anagrams that are from from six to ten letters long. See how your performance varies over time and by time of day and day of the week. A great way to find out when your thinking is sharpest!
Conundra is a fantastic way to improve your performance in games like Scrabble, the jumble, cryptic crosswords, and countdown. (We're not kidding about this–try it for a week and see how much your Scrabble scores improve!) It is also great for improving spelling and vocabulary. It takes some serious skill to get a perfect game, but that is what makes it so addictive!
Features:
• Three free levels
• Great for building vocabulary and spelling skills
• Perfect training for games like Scrabble, the jumble, Boggle
• Tracks your scores over time
• Shows how performance varies by time of day
• Paid levels with longer words for those who need an extra challenge
• A fun mental exercise to keep your brain sharp!
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Conundra is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th September 2020
Recent improvements include:
What's new:
- Bug fixes
- Improved support for all screen sizes
Thanks so much to everyone who has sent me feedback! Your comments are so, so helpful, and I really appreciate when people take the time to send in bug reports and other ideas. If you notice any new issues please let me know. I hope you enjoy the update! -Sarah
Download & Availability
Conundra 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:
This is a great game, we like looking at our stats and trying to outdo ourselves in the next round.
Love this game. For those who think its too hard, try the practice puzzles. Theyre not timed. We play that way because Im one of those people who always freaked out over timed tests. We enjoy the game much more that way.
We have played many word games, and this one is, by far, the most frustrating and plain, flat out hard. Seriously, the words that appear here are really difficult. Really, seriously, no baloney. We have no need of this level of aggravation. Sarah Pierce has some great games, but this one is not one of them. A challenge is one thing; an ordeal is quite another.
We want to like this game but when ad comes up you cant passed it! Please fix.
Love this app! Elegant and colorful interface, interesting stats, multiple levels of difficulty, words up to 10 characters – all these and more make this a delightful app for logophiles and puzzle-lovers. Unreservedly 5/5.
It sharpens your mind…great stuff.
Not flashy. But a good thinking game. If you want to race the timer you got that, or take your time while having brain farts in practice mode. Interesting stats to look at afterwards too! Only suggestion would be to have sounds like a 10 second countdown ticker the last ten seconds.
Clean interface and simple controls make it pleasant to play. This game is surprisingly challenging. Theres a timed mode where you can quickly play a round during a short work break, and an untimed practice mode. Im hoping it will help us get better at Scrabble. We like the scoring data average, percentile, and trend over time.
Sharpens the mind & fun, too. One of our favorite games.
It opens and relaxes our mind to help us find words in chaos. Develops skill better than cheat apps.
What we dont like is that sometimes you have to hit a letter several time before it takes. Otherwise we think its great.
Love this game! Our go to when held hostage by doctors, etc. However, when a new game is started, the ads blast out! Cant get them to stop – touching the x does nothing. Not what you want in a quiet setting. Why would we be interested in downloading the AirBnB app while playing a game? Please turn down the ads.
We have quite a few word games and love playing them but Ill come back to this one just to sharpen our skills. We only play the practice, easy and medium levels which is perfect for us. The practice is great because it isnt timed, and the medium is just difficult enough with just enough time to figure it out.
We love this app because it is one we struggle to solve. Scrambled words are usually easy to solve but the medium setting on this app can be difficult.
Challenging game, but not impossible or frustrating! Love it.
Gives you enough time to work things out, but throws some difficult words your way. We like it.
Use to love this game. Now we cant get through a word without it freezing up. BUT the timer doesnt stop! What is going on.
We're enjoying the challenge. It's amazing how the mind gets stuck with a pattern at times and then you go omg! Why didn't we think of that.
We were looking forward to this game to help sharpen our brain and skills like it suggests. However, on the very first word we couldn't even figure it out. And that's on EASY MODE. Actually managed to figure out the other four words in that set. Started it again and the first two words AGAIN we could not figure out. We know that we are not illiterate. We have a decent IQ level. We are highly disappointed in this game.
Such a challenging game! Great also for a brain teaser. Love it so much.
Good way to pass the time and get smarter at the same time.
This game is turning out to be one of our favorites. A good word game is hard to find, and this one really hits right on target. It is an entertaining challenge and we find ourselves coming back daily.
On numerous occasions, we have had the word correct, app does not recognize it and then it comes up with that word as the answer. We thought, am we not paying attention, but after this happening over and over, we were a litte ticked. So, if you are using the app, do not get too upset. Not your fault, it is the app.
Sometimes rockin' it, sometimes low and rollin' in it, lovin' working on it.
At first we were not super impressed with this, but as we advanced our word jumble skills, it became lots of fun. And while we still may not be a stellar scrabble player, we assure you we are a word jumble pro.
Better for our brain then crushing candy :).
We like this app a lot. We used to get scrabblegrams from the newspaper, this app is better.
This is a challenging and engaging game. It's worth the download.
Fun, easy, and useful for passing the time while waiting.
Easy level is still a bit hard for us. Hope that doesn't mean we're stupid.
We love word games, it keeps you on recognizing easy words.
Great game. Very addicting! Can't stop playing.
What a great way to wake your brain up! Love this game, very challenging.
This game is addictive & delightful! :).
Have patience. You will get better at this game with practice.
However, it needs to give you 40 seconds to complete the medium words.
This is a wonderful game for mental stimulation.
The anagram format is familiar, but the game is great. It uses longer words than usual and some words are so refreshing that they make us smile. The timed aspect of the game adds to the enjoyment. We can feel the mental muscles flexing.
Good mental exercise. Graphics and layout is outstanding. Easy to use. Works smoothly on iPad 4. If you like word games than this game should be on your we device. Might be cool feature to have a clue button that starts the word for you but deducts score if you use it.
Love this game. Totally addicting.
We love this game! We particularly like the tracking of the time, rankings and other statistics.
Perfect for anagram lovers – challenging, but not too cruel. And it's nice to have your stats available after each round.
This game is great exercise for the brain! Hard to put down.
Hard game but fun! Makes us think.
Quite entertaining and tests the mind to find the right combination of letters to discover the missing word within the anagram. We never thought we'd like anagrams this much but we're enjoying the challenge.
Love the game. Don't like your use of "stupid" as a category of achievement. You're a wonderful teaching aid and "stupid" is never a productive or encouraging term. We would suggest "try again" or "seek help"; anything u can think of that doesn't a person off at the knees.
Love the challenge great brain game lots of fun.
We always say we'll just play a few rounds…ha an hour later we're still playing.
This game is challenging and addicting. The words are all random but the higher the difficulty you choose, the less time you get. Sometimes you find that you guess the words just as the clock hits zero. Definitely worth the free download for sure.
Very entertaining, indeed! Wish we could track progression and, hopefully, see improvement over time though.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.0
- Size: 12.45 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Sarah Pierce
Last updated: 17th September 2020 | Genre: Education, Word | Developer: Sarah Pierce