Osmo Words Classic
Experience one of the top-rated Free games on the App Store, Osmo Words Classic! Developed by the innovative team at Tangible Play Inc, this Board game provides a unique gaming experience like no other. With a content rating of 4+, it’s perfect for a wide range of players. Since its initial release on 31st May 2014, the game has seen numerous updates, with the latest version launched on 24th July 2023.
Are you a fan of Board, Education, or Word games? Then Osmo Words Classic is right up your alley! You won’t be able to resist its appeal.
User Ratings of Osmo Words Classic
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How Much Does Osmo Words Classic Cost?
Good news! You can download Osmo Words Classic on your iOS device absolutely free!
Osmo Words Classic Release Date
Eager to know when Osmo Words Classic first graced the App Store? It was launched on 31st May 2014.
When Was Osmo Words Classic Last Updated?
The latest version of Osmo Words Classic was updated on 24th July 2023, ensuring a more enjoyable gaming experience for all players.
Where Can I Download Osmo Words Classic?
To get started with Osmo Words Classic, head over to the official Apple App Store.
A Glimpse into Osmo Words Classic
Explore the land of Words, a magical place where characters challenge you to guess and spell the on-screen images. Play collaboratively or competitively with your real-life friends or our loveable characters!
Words have power in this adventure! Will you become the Word Champion?
"This interplay between the physical and digital realms looks and feels like magic." – Forbes
"Osmo has been a revolution in our family." – Wired
Awarded:
Best Design – Good Design, 2016
Best Product Designs – Fast Company Finalist, 2016
Innovative Toy of the Year – TOTY Finalist, 2015
Best Inventions – TIME, 2014
*Requires the Osmo Base and Words tiles found at www.playosmo.com
- Please see our device compatibility list here: https://support.playosmo.com/hc/articles/115010156067
About Osmo:
Osmo is using the screen to create a new healthy, hands-on learning experience that promotes creativity, problem solving and social interaction. We do this with our reflective artificial technology.
What’s New in the Latest Update?
Find out what’s new in the latest version of Osmo Words Classic updated on 24th July 2023:
- Adding support for the iPad 10 (2022)
User Reviews on Osmo Words Classic
Looking for more information? Read a comprehensive review of Osmo Words Classic below:
Nothing came out on the menu screen is there a bug.
Our child is trying to play the shell level. It keeps saying, Please way, downloading. Please fix!
But still allows you to dl the app.
So we recently brought an OSMO for our 3 yr old . The app was working fine. Our little one just got a hang of it and now it keeps crashing.
There is almost no time at all given to the child to allow them to figure out the letter before the letter is then forcibly given to them. Our 6 year old becomes extremely frustrated by the fact that the program is not allowing him to figure it out before placing the letter in front of him. We dont understand why there isnt a slide setting for a slower or faster setting (or no timer), depending on childs level, because even that would be helpful… But as is, its more damaging than helpful. With the fish math game there is always a lot of time allowed to the child, but with this one, its just very intense for a child who is just trying to learn and who is then constantly being interrupted by having the letter being thrown at them, instead of allowing them time to figure it out. Its defeating and our son now would rather do anything else than play that game.
We enjoy the other Osmo games, however this one has a bug. It closes out after 1-2 minutes. We tried to delete and reinstall but it still happens.
We want to give this zero stars but that just means Im not reading it. Anyways so this app is bad because its literally like how are you supposed to find the letters in a mountain of little piles and when its like owl versus you or like one of those versus ones, its literally so fast and they should give you more time to actually find the letter because, overall you know the letter, but does the app really give you time to find the latter. No and that also goes for a detective agency but it doesnt really time you. That is all. Thanks for reading this.
Its a shame, we were excited for this product. It seems like a great concept but the software keeps crashing. Tried to delete and reinstall multiple times to no avail. Wed happily give this app a higher rating if we could get it to run stable.
We are trying to supplement our daughters work in kindergarten and the app closes unexpectedly when she completes levels in Adventures. Very disappointing.
We have been unable remove the non-English words that pop in about 5% of the time during spelling games. For beginner spellers to be expected to know non-English words is counter productive and it is certainly not chic. We had to Google search the words and meanings. Even our French speaking granny and Spanish speaking auntie didnt understand the nonsense words being used. It is annoying! Especially when double checking the settings, it is clear that the only choice was for English that we were using.
We love it, but we cannot get to the desert world.
We saw lost reviews were reporting the same issue started April, and still nothing get changed. Very disappointed. Dont waste your money on this product.
Upgrade we pad now none of the 5 games we have will work. Tech support said we are just very small firm. We dont have resources to figure it out. Give us break.
The people that give this app one star are Karens.
Fun game but took 2 months to get downloaded.
Very disappointed there isnt a simple word game where all the letters of the word are showing and our child can match all the letters. Seems that should be the 4 year old option. Not something with words like Lizard! And bucket!
Our daughter is learning words faster then with out us helping so this app is a good app.
When playing Osmo Tangram the app continuously directs us to move our pieces to within the boundary. When we move them the app does not self correct, but stays frozen on the screen. We have not had this issue in the past. Please help. Thank you.
This is a hard and challenging game. If you bought Osmo to help you child with reading, youll only find them discouraged. How exactly does yoga result in the word zen? How is a seven year old supposed to know what that is? Im afraid this game has a pedagogic agenda that Im not sure we agree with. Additionally, using a brown child vacuuming in the photo for the word domestic seems strangely racist.
We were expecting a matching letters level and was initially a little disappointed. However, we see the developer response to this issue so we are excited to try it.
We wish this started with the alphabet to teach toddlers the capital and lower case letters. Then sight words. Our daughter struggled with this at 5 as she was just learning sight words. Now she doesnt care to play it. We wish we waited to introduce her to it until she knew her sight words. Great concept just misses the mark for the target audience.
We have the brilliant kit and it doesnt come with the letter tiles. Where can we purchase just the letter tiles?
More levels! Just like we said for numbers words needs more levels to! Overall the concept is great and we really like the toy just more levels please!
Rather than picking words that are aligned to the age group selected, like short easy words for 4 year olds, it uses words too big for them to learn to spell but makes it easy by only requiring them to guess just the first letter. Lazy on the developers part. Worst of all, no way to turn off the clues that the character gives. Doesn’t allow our kid to try to figure out the letter. While he’s thinking, it’ll just tell him what the letter is. If he makes one wrong guess, it’ll just tell him what the letter is. GIVE THE KID A LITTLE TIME TO TRY TO FIGURE IT OUT!
Our little girl really seemed to be enjoying this app until her progress was stopped. She was unable to move forward because the app needs to download albums. The download never starts and we are stuck at "Please Wait…. Downloading album". Waste of money.
Please ,please fix! Our son got this for Christmas and we can not get this app to work. It wont open or anything! When we tap on the icon to open , the screen just goes black and then goes back to main screen. We have a very upset boy and no idea how to fix this. Please help!
Please fix. Its Christmas and the app will not open.
We just got the suite for our grand daughter (7yr) and tried word. We love to play word games in our family, but your photo clues (though beautiful pictures) are really very difficult and obtuse. A beautiful fall photo of a farm in rolling hills and this is the clue for CLOUD which is maybe the top 8th of the pic. How is this going to help a 2nd grader learn to spell. Come on!! We love the product the drawing and the puzzles, but please review this!!
The pictures do NOT emphasize the actual word!! This is way too hard for a second grade class!! Heck, we can barely figure them out after letting it put a couple letters for us. The pictures are very nice though, but not what the game is about. It’s obvious why they include this game with the starter set, no one would ever buy it!!!
This app and its issues are a large part of the reason why we sent back Osmo the day after receiving it. The app double counts letters and sounds a buzzer (as in "wrong!") if your child doesn’t move the letter tile quickly enough. Also, the app was recognizing the letters incorrectly and again giving a wrong buzzer even when our son chose the correct letter (example: recognizing a b as a p.) This caused frustration and made him feel he didn’t know how to sound out a word that he was, in fact, spelling correctly. The idea of Osmo is a good one but it seems they were in too much of a rush to get it out in time for the holidays and didn’t have some serious kinks worked out.
Our son is learning to read so we only play the learning words level. The problem with it is that it goes through about 12 words and then just keeps repeating the same 12 words over and over. How does the "learning words" level not use all the letters? C, E, H, F, G, T, W, B and D were the only letters used. What about the other letters? Are they not important enough to be in this app? Shouldn’t ALL the letters be used? Why not have more than a handful of words you teach kids? If this is supposed to have many words, clearly there is a problem and it needs to be fixed. No update has ever fixed this problem so we have very little hope that this app will ever be worth anything.
App won’t work even after update.
This is very hard for us and we’re 9! Crazy it has a bunch of stuff on the picture and does the one YOU CANT SEE SO DUMB everything else is good.
Since the last update on Feb. 1, the app freezes up on the loading page. Also our Tangram app doesn’t work. We have deleted the app and reinstalled it 3 times, restarted the IPAD and nothing. Help!!!
We are using Osmo apps for our son with special needs (although our typical kids like it too). One area for improvement is to offer more options at the lower end of the functional scale. In words, a level that involves building levels of Dolch sight words would be incredible. Also, allowing parents to load their own images and words, such as family member names, etc. Would be a huge plus.
We can’t find any other way to contact the developer about this, so here goes. We have been trying to update this app for 2+ days and the update freezes and will not finish updating. In the meantime it is draining our battery because it is constantly working trying to update. We tried deleting the app altogether, but it won’t allow us to. It was a fun app for our grandchildren before, but now it is unplayable.
Our students LOVE it!!! We love how they can be independent.
This app is a bit of a disappointment. Our 3 year old has virtually mastered the app after just a handful of plays, and it’s not because she’s a genius or anything, it just could use a much larger vocabulary.
Our students love this app. Even our students that traditionally struggle with spelling enjoy this game. We like the interaction while students work on spelling and vocabulary skills.
The app is well designed and has great potential however the pictures are vague (often the central object is not the word). Even we as parents were challenged to guess the words- so for a kid ( 7- 10 years old it is very difficult. Please improve this app!
We really like this game, but we haven’t played it in a while. We tried today. The camera was on, but nothing appeared when the app opened- just a white screen. Not even the instructions appeared.
The app opens in French but the tech support responded right away and it let us change it a couple pages in. It would be a even better app if our stinky husband didn’t beat us.
We also accidentally had our words game set to French and then couldn’t switch it back to English. Customer service responded to our email within minutes and we were able to reinstall the software to fix the problem. They also assured us that a fixed version of the app will soon be released to allow for switching languages without reinstalling. The game itself is very fun. Great for our 5 and 8 year olds to practice their letter sounds and spelling! And the harder game is fun for older ages too.
The language cannot be reset. For the price of the required hardware, it’s not merely bad, it’s BAD.
We just saw there is an update and we haven’t we stalled it yet, but b4 the update it just kept crashing. Ill post weather the update made it work or not. Ok, UPDATED version still not working after trying to actually use the game, please fix.
Got this yesterday. Much too frustrating (but read our addendum below). First of all be careful how you hold the letters: a "D" held the wrong way will be recognized as a "C" and an "A" can be misread as a "V". You get an error charged against you as a result. Guessing how the picture and the word relate is frustrating too… How does a picture of a palm tree relate to the correct answer "leaf"? Palm trees have fronds. Kids will need lots of help with this…. If for nothing else than to avoid being misled: at first we attempted to use all the letters to spell out the answer: "eggs". But while we were looking for a second "g" the game told us we were correct with only "egs" on the table. So be sure your kids understand that they are not to spell out the word with tiles. Box design seems to be very clever and rich looking until you try to put 52 letters back in the tray… Frustrating!! This needs more engineering…13 squares with four letters in each square would be easier (there are two of each letter). "LIFT" rather than "PULL" to open the box. Magnetic closure is clever. We do have to write an addendum here and up the rating. Our 11-year-old and 8-year-old grandkids are here today because of a snow day and are thoroughly enjoying the Words game and the Tangram game. The games must be played on a table or flat surface. We were using it on the arm of the couch yesterday and it just was difficult to use.
This game is freakin’ great!! We bought the Osmo for our 9 year old son, but he hasn’t gotten a chance to play this game yet! Our wife and we have been battling with each other and haven’t given him a chance to play (I know, bad parents. Lol). Our 15 year old even got in on the action, too. The knock (a small one) is that someone can push the other player’s pieces out of the way. There should be some sort of divider to keep each on their respective side. We’re a very very competitive family and we were almost short one son because he kept "accidentally" knocking our pieces out of the way before they registered. Just sayin’. We can’t wait until our next party to break this out! We’ll keep it good, but we could see "drinking game" potential with this. Here’s an idea: "Couples Edition" with different pictures. Nonetheless, too much fun to be called a "kids game."