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Variety Puzzles – Entertainment Game Review
Variety Puzzles is a Entertainment/Puzzle/Word game from Norman Basham, first launched in 10th October 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 90+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Variety Puzzles Stand Out
Six great games all in one app. Your one stop puzzle app. It's like always having a puzzle magazine with you – play for minutes or for hours. The puzzles are witty and clever – give it a try!
• Great value, 6 games in one app
• 1,200 Puzzles
• One purchase gets you iPad and iPhone
• Highly customizable
• Optionally hide timers and scores
• Consistency across all games
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Variety Puzzles is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th September 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Super fast performance update and support for all new iPhone and iPad models.
Download & Availability
Variety Puzzles is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Variety Puzzles 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:
We finally found a game we really enjoy without ads. Thank you.
We love variety puzzles and we think we hit the digital jackpot with these. Reasonably priced, truly no adds or in-app purchases, just simple variety puzzle fun in different levels of difficulty. We hope theres more to buy because Im about halfway through all of the puzzles.
Hello John! As usual all of your programs are outstanding and well thought out. This makes our 38th year on cryptograms! This Developer is a trusted, and outstanding creator of cryptograms. We have been playing his programs for years and cannot find a single competitor that out-ranks his programs. They are well thought out and offer so many available options. We prefer our cryptograms..for the keyboard not to remove used letters. We like the challenge in finding them on our own. Our biggest blunders are going to fast and missing that simple helpful answer. But, we still like to challenge ourselves and have been playing this as you see a very very long time. Our only wish is more and more quotes, as we see others wish too. Again BlackLabs has the best ever! If Norman is retired then we hope you can provide them, additional quotes. Lost his e-mail so we cant send him a message hope you are all well. Glenda.
We love the game-play and the different levels on the games.
Absolutely the best variety of puzzles on our list of puzzles! Not too hard or easy! Just right.
We love this app! It is fun and is a great way to keep our brain from getting lazy! The different types of puzzles are fun and entertaining. We love reading all the different quotes from so many different people. Even our kids like doing some of the puzzles with us.
Keeps our interest! Many different levels and games! Addicted.
We love always having puzzles to play not matter where we are. The quotes are very interesting. There are 6 different games in this app and we love them all.
This is a fun app, but we cant get Quotefalls to play. It displays a msg to put your phone in landscape mode, but thats it. No game ever starts. Im apparently missing something. Emailed the makers but got no response. We like the other games tho.
This has been a fun collection of daily puzzles we have enjoyed for years. We do not do every puzzle every day, but we do enjoy being able to pull up something quick to pass the time. Just lately on the picture memory game, there have been blanks. No picture, as if the creators neglected to finish the daily puzzle. It may have been intentional to leave blanks , but it sure takes the enjoyment out of that particular game.
Paid for this and The app froze on first opening. We tossed it and tried to reload it several times but it just gives us the opening page and wont go further. Please help! Total waste of 5 dollars.
This game is a lot of fun and really helps with memory retention.
We love this app…especially the cryptograms. It's one of the best electronic versions we've seen. It brings back the memories of playing these from the morning paper as a kid and competing with our dad for who could solve it fastest.
Great game for puzzle lovers. Great variety of choices. We love them all.
Love it. Before computers we always had a puzzle book in our bag. Great app.
Love being able to play our favorite games.
Best game ever for folks with ADD or just plain puzzle enthusiasts.
Best selection of games. Clean design. Probably the best sudoku around.
This app is fantastic, it's hard to put it down. All five sections are great!!! Highly recommend.
This app has great puzzles and games at different levels which are great for all ages, we especially enjoy playing the memory game with our grand kids. We find them a good way to relax and unwind, and so nice to have anytime and anywhere on our iPad.
Great assortment of games/puzzles. Fun and quick, great way to kill some time waiting for Dr. Appointment. Or on line at grocery store.
This app is tons of fun with many different puzzles to suit any mood.
It's so much fun and you just cannot stop. Great app :).
A really great selection of games. Our kids and ourselves have our favorite games and there are even more options to try. Looking forward to trying them all.
If you like word games like we do then this is for you. This is a lifetime supply of word searches, sudoku, memory games and word puzzles all in one easy to use place.
Fun app but there are occasional misspellings which can throw you off. We wish there was a way to report them.
We love Daily Puzzles but you can only play once a day so we bought this thinking it's done by black labs as well & would be the same but the layout on sodoku is different & much harder to use. We really wish sodoku as well as the other puzzles in this app were the same as in daily puzzles. It's also incredibly annoying that if you leave the game to do something else even briefly you loose the puzzle you were working on.
We really like this app and the variety of puzzles. We love word games. But we're finding a lot of spelling errors. However this won't stop us from using this app a lot.
Bugs ruin this otherwise mediocre app. No bells, 0 whistles design-wise, which is fine. If you have to force close the app which we've already had to do a couple times, it restores the settings to default. Then there's no menu button to change the settings after you first install the app, unless you want to do it game by game, and even then you don't have the same options you originally had. This is fine if you don't mind the default settings but we hate playing with a timer, and we don't want it to show us incorrect letters (kind of defeats the purpose). The only way around this was to delete and reinstall the app, but then you have to start over and do all the same puzzles again. So just never mind, we'll find another app.
Sometimes words are misspelled. Example barbecue is not spelled BBQ.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1
- Size: 15.46 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Norman Basham
Last updated: 18th September 2017 | Genre: Entertainment, Puzzle | Developer: Norman Basham