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Unolingo: Crosswords Without Clues – Puzzle Game Review
Unolingo: Crosswords Without Clues is a Puzzle/Entertainment/Word game from Equazi Enterprises LLC, first launched in 13th December 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 393+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Unolingo: Crosswords Without Clues Stand Out
If you like crosswords or word games, then you'll love Unolingo, a fun and unique new twist on a traditional crossword puzzle.
Every Unolingo puzzle is a 10 x 10 crossword without clues and 26 empty squares that require the precise placement of each letter in the alphabet.
What a Sudoku puzzle does using numbers, Unolingo does using each letter of the alphabet!
Select from your choice of four difficulty levels and use your word knowledge, reasoning, and deduction skills to complete the puzzle.
Each puzzle is hand-crafted from a carefully curated list of common English words more likely to be heard at a party with friends than in the classroom.
This fascinating word puzzle can generally be completed in 5-15 minutes and is fun for the daily commuter, the casual puzzler, or the serious word buff.
Features:
- 20 introductory puzzles offering hours of enjoyment with additional puzzles available in-app purchase or social media sharing.
- Unique hint and audit functions to help you solve the most difficult puzzles
- Bonus puzzles accessible by sharing your scores and achievements on Facebook
- Flexible design supports casual play, collaboration with friends, or time-based competition.
- Extensive performance statistics to monitor your progress and compare with others.
For more information on Unolingo, visit us at Unolingo.com and follow on Twitter @unolingo. Also check out the Facebook fan page at http://www.facebook.com/unolingo
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Unolingo: Crosswords Without Clues is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st April 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Added Series 9 puzzles with 160 new puzzles.
Download & Availability
Unolingo: Crosswords Without Clues is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Unolingo: Crosswords Without Clues 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:
This is one of our all time favorite word/puzzle games. We have cleared and redone all of them multiple times just trying to improve our stats. Im still waiting for new ones, but recently everytime we try to play the app crashes as we complete a puzzle. Im sure its a compatibility issue, but we beg you to fix it even if you dont plan on adding content.
We LOVE this app! We've been playing for nearly 10 years and still find ourselves coming back! Every time we run out of puzzles, we delete and redownload so we can do them all again! Its never boring, and consistently keeps our brain both exercised and entertained!! We really do wish the developer would come back and give us some new puzzles, though.
We love this game. We love that you play it alone and that it tracks yours stats for for all 4 levels of difficulty. We really really want more new ones. Im down to our last 27.
Im amazed that this game hasnt become more of a sensation, like Wordle. Its fantastic- a sort of sudoku with letters! The puzzles come in a range of difficulty, and some of the four-star ones are really challenging. Ive purchased all the sets, and am almost out of puzzles. We hope the creators will consider making more, to the same excellent standard.
The game is addictive. The price isnt too expensive to purchase more games. We wouldnt have purchased it if it had been. Even though the easy levels are easier, they are still challenging. Its cool that you can challenge yourself by racing to get a lower time or by getting more points. What would make this even better is if you could compete against friends – like a Unolingo With Friends. Also, it would be better if you could just touch the spots to place letters instead of dragging them.
Perfect way to wake the brain up each day. Its part of morning routine.
Perfect if you need something quick to do when youre bored! We play all of the time. Like a mix of crossword + scrabbled + Wordle.
When are more games going to be available? Im on last set.
This fan of Scrabble and crosswords first discovered Unolingo on the Shockwave game site, and was instantly hooked. So when Shockwave set up a paywall, we were happy to discover this dedicated Unolingo app. The concept is original, the user interface is simple, and we especially love that its free from ads or subscription fees instead, it provides a basic set of puzzles and offers the option of buying bigger sets of puzzles a la carte without requiring a subscription fee. As for the game itself, its addictive and smart, challenging your brain to mentally fill in words that mesh together without giving any clues and using each letter of the alphabet only once! Its like a hybrid of Scrabble and crossword puzzles, and playing it can sharpen your skills in both types of word games. Great stuff.
One or two players. As of July 2021 the first twenty (20) puzzles are free. A series of one- hundred sixty (160) puzzles is a reasonable $4.99 in cost.
A good word. Helps to keep our mind sharp. Good variety. Definitely worth trying.
We are a big fan of this game. It is in the form of a crossword puzzle but uses logic. No verbal clues. They partially fill in each word and you complete the puzzle bot can only use each letter once. Helpful tools if you have difficulty ithout additional help.
Now this is a fun game. Not too hard, not too easy, keeps you thinking, and just all around fun to play. It seems like all the word games now are just drawing lines between letters to make four and five letter words. Im so bored with that. We never get enough of this game. And no ads interrupting every few seconds. Makes you think about word structure too. Great game for any age.
This is our favorite word game app: better than any crossword puzzle. Highly recommend it: Hope they come out with more series.
We love this game! Makes you think and the various challenge levels are perfect.
Great game. Challenging and fun. 1 request for support… Could you make it so that game rotates to be played when when one turns their phone upside down??? This would eliminate the frustration of the letter bank being so close to the bottom control area that gets dragged up when trying to drag a letter from the bottom row of the alphabet. Would be most helpful.
Now, this is a word game. No dippy music, no insultingly easy puzzles, and no sappy pop up Congratulations! Messages. Solving the puzzles actually requires you to think, and not to go for the easiest or most apparent letter placement. When you get down to the last few letters needed to solve the puzzle, it gets interesting. You have to be able to determine which letters you can swap to get to the final answer. Excellent game.
Seems crazy to start a review with a comment about ads but they have become so intrusive in games that the absence is notable. This is a really fun game that takes some thought and strategy. We are really enjoying it.
Great game. Keeps the mind sharp.
Love this play on crosswords. It is really fun.
This game is a nice way to start our day. It gets our mind moving and we enjoy the challenge.
Love the puzzles. Very entertaining and a variety of levels to keep you challenged. Customer support is awesome. The first time we have actually had the developer call to help resolve an issue. Turns out it was a problem with the most recent upgrade to Apple.
We're Very frugal with in-app purchases but as long as you keep giving us the option of turning off the timer display, it's also a very healthy distraction for us when needed. Keep developing it.
Really enjoy this. A great brain teaser.
We are a senior citizen always on the lookout for games to keep us thinking. On a recent flight cross country the young man seated next to us was engaged in playing game after game. We had to ask him what it was. And as soon as we had access to our tablet, we downloaded it and have been playing ever since. Try it.
This app is great. We can't stop playing.
In this modern day of electronics, it's a refreshing thing to know that there are wonderful, fun & educational games out there for adult and child alike. Unolingo is most definitely that game! Crossword puzzles with a twist that makes them a very enjoyable and fabulous way to pass away a study hall, lunch break or to challenge your family at home.
Great play! One of those "ohhhhh, now we get it!" Feelings in almost every puzzle.
Love this game! Am eating through our puzzles like crazy! Forget email! Lol. Better than pinning.
This is a great app. Fun to play and quite challenging. One of our favorites.
We like the puzzle. What a different way to go.
Fun game! Nice and challenging, but no pressure :).
If you've ever felt discouraged by attempting crossword puzzles, meet your new friend. What a great game to motivate and teach you how without frustration.
Thoroughly enjoyable. This was recommended to help us rehabilitate following brain surgery.
We love this app. We never make in-app purchases but we've bought 3 or 4 of the puzzle sets already, and we plan on buying all of them. We have 2 complaints: 1) the letter bank is too close to the bottom of the phone so that when we drag letters up, sometimes we pull up the control center on our iPhone, and 2) after a while some of the same words keep reappearing. Although this may be because it's difficult to keep coming up with new words due to the nature of the set up of the game.
Love this game. It is a real brain challenge.
The game is fun. You get 20 puzzles (levels 1-3 only). You get 10 level 1 puzzles and 5 each of level 2 and 3. After that you can purchase 160 puzzles for $4.99 (assuming the level 4s are in the purchase). Its a fun game but we blew through the free 20 in a day Also if you have an iPhone you will see the control screen often due to having to drag the letters to the boxes instead of being able to just tap the box and then the letter you want.
Good game and keeps us coming back but too Many words are slang or almost made up words. You really have to stretch your imagination. Seriously, cam? Ha.
Different. More challenging than most crosswords. We enjoy.
We like it more than we could have imagined.
Love this game, but the app has been crashing nonstop on our iPhone 15.
The game is fun. You have to drag the letters to their spots instead of two taps. The bottom row of letters sits at the very very bottom of your screen so if you have an iPhone prepare to see your control center constantly.
We like unolingo and play it daily. The star ratings are a pretty good indication of difficulty. In this implantation of the game dragging the letters into place makes is clumsy. It would be nice if there were a pause control for when interrupted. The number of games is quite few. In a day or two we'll have used up the games that come with it and we suspect then they will want money.
… But the app ate all 160 puzzles we purchased and thus our $4.99. Didnt get to play even one game. We dont want to buy more at the risk making purchases and then losing them. Im sure we did something wrong but it was too easy for our $5 bucks to disappear. Also we agree with the other reviewer who mentioned that the keyboard is too close to the bottom of the screen. When we need a bottom letter we keep pulling up our control menu on the iPhone. Otherwise life is good. Thanks.
Very challenging! Surprising how many words that can be made from letters given.
Just hard enough to keep us interested but relaxed, this game is way too much fun.
We are becoming addicted. Maybe it's the novelty combined with the challenge but we like this crossword with no clues.
We flew through the free puzzles and happily bought the best value pack. According to the stats we've played this game for 9 hours in the 5 days we've had it (oops). Obviously it is addicting and fun.
Playing in an airport as we write! Six minutes passed quickly waiting for our bag. Where is it??? Oh well, another game.
We love Unolingo!! There is nothing Xrated about it but quite addicting. It's challenging enough to hold our interest but eventually always solvable. There are so many possibilities for each word but only one correct choice. There are also many strategies to keep in mind, including Q placement early in game, common suffixes, running through letters of alphabet, consonant grouping, process of elimination etc. However, if you're stumped, you can get a hint or audit the letters already used. However, that will cost you a bump up in 30 or 60 seconds on the timer. We like the timer, as a personal challenge tool, although it can be hidden. Knowing that seconds count keep this game zipping along for us. Both word games like Unolingo as well as timed games are excellent for brain health, cognitive strengthening and prevention of dementia. It is on both our phone and tablet. Our sincere thanks to the developers.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.9.0
- Size: 7.56 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Equazi Enterprises LLC
Last updated: 1st April 2015 | Genre: Puzzle, Entertainment | Developer: Equazi Enterprises LLC