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Word Fiends -WordSearch Puzzle – Family Game Review
Word Fiends -WordSearch Puzzle is a Family/Word game from Mindstorm Studios, first launched in 21st March 2018.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 284+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Word Fiends -WordSearch Puzzle Stand Out
Word Fiends is a casual and addictively fun word game that will keep your hooked on to your device for hours. Play with your friends or random players from all around the world to find as many words as possible in two minute rounds. Swipe over the scrambled letters to form the words and use special tiles to collect more points than your opponent. Stay tuned for a bonus round at the end of each game to get a trivia question to get bonus points. So hurry up and come join the new boggle word fiend revolution!
Story
Fiends, are the little creatures from the planet Cinco, are on their annual vacation to planet Earth and have been greatly inspired and awestruck by the capability of the humans of this land to form words out of thin air! 7.6 Billion bogglers have made friends with each human on Earth to cheer them on as they Level up and take on opponents from all around the world in this boggle styled online multiplayer!
The fiends of the best player will be crowned the next King of Cinco, so fight and use all your wit to be the best friend a boggler can ask for!
Features
- Play with your Facebook friends in this scrambled word brain teaser game.
- Play with players from all around the word and put your word knowledge to test against the world in real-time in Boogle Style challenges and rake up the trophies
- Unlock all 7 of the amazingly beautifully designed rooms as you increase your trophies and increase your chances of winning more gold
*Get a taste of challenging trivia questions in the bonus round to score more points! - Upgrade your letter cards to score more and more points in the battle and increase your chance of winning
Collect multiple fiends along the way (under development)
Smart Match: Find other players that match your skill level through Smart Match!
Daily Rewards: Get prizes for logging in every day to win cool prizes! - Play with your friends and connect via Facebook and see who can help their fiend become the next king of Minutia!
STAY TUNED More rooms, cute characters, gameplay, tournaments and surprises are on the way!
Get access to 100,000 words in the boards to increase your vocabulary.
Get hooked on to a constant challenge in this brain teaser. Are you tired of old and repetitive gameplay? Get on with Word Fiends with interesting boards and trivia. Make the obvious words before your opponent to ensure you get more points in the match. Relive the nostalgia of old word games in a completely new real time boggle design. Play as many rounds of words with every round giving a different challenge.
Sit back, unwind and recognise the word patterns in the grid to make valid words. Highlight the letters to form a word in your wordsearch. Play with friends or family in this family friendly game.
Are you greedy for more points? Get the trivia answer correct in the bonus round to boost your score. Trivia questions are from a number of topics but there is only one valid answer. If the questions gets too tough for you then you can use a hint to get a clue.
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The game is free to play; however, in-app purchases are available for additional content and in-game currency. In-app purchases range from $0.99 to $99.99 USD
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Word Fiends -WordSearch Puzzle is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th April 2018
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
2 new rooms added to your word journey!
Download & Availability
Word Fiends -WordSearch Puzzle is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Word Fiends -WordSearch Puzzle 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 seem to open this app at all and dont know why please help us with this problem.
We continue to get the message to check internet connection. It is working. This has been going on for 3 days now.
This is a great game!! So far, the only issue we have is: EVERY single time we hit Rematch it says opponent left. Nor am we receiving ANY rematch requests!! It would be cool if you added a way to click your opponents name and request them as a friend, not on Facebook but in the actual game. So u can request a match w/that person whenever u want! Maybe u could even send each other gifts. Even w/lots of FB friends, that does not mean they play or want to play! Therefore,There should be a way to add people u play in the game & send each other a gift a day. We try to get people to play certain games but there are soo many games out there & everyone has different interests. It is not logical to be able to get even a few of FB friends to play all or even most of the games you play! Even if we get your kids/siblings/friends to play, they may not have or able to have FB. Other than that, we really like it! Thanks dev team! :).
This is a 5 STAR app, no question!! We not only LOVE this game but it is quite possibly one of the BEST word games we have ever played & for SURE the BEST word search game we have encountered!! Unfortunately, we cannot play it!! It worked for quite a while on our old iPad & on the iPhone. Then, one day, it suddenly quit working all together. All we got was the first loading screen (the one that loads for a bit when you first install..then loads a little faster but still takes a few seconds when you open it) … W/ Cute little sayings Like it is expelling xs etc. We could never get it to open again! Believe us, we tried everything we know to try…which is quite a bit!! (Although, we are TOTALLY open to more suggestions if anyone has any!!) So, we figured, when we get our new iPad, at least we will be able to play it then (figuring it must be an issue with using an old version of iPad) but sadly, that was NOT the case!! We got our new iPad recently (It has been about a year ..maybe a little less ..since it has opened on any device) … We have a newer version iPad & have not had a problem opening or installing any apps/games. This one STILL will not load!! We are VERY surprised! We thought FOR SURE if there were more issues (aside from ours) people would report them & the developers would handle it by now! We would LOVE to be able to play this game again. Tomorrow, we will see if there is a support contact spot somewhere but we figured we would mention it here (even though we do not usually write support issues in reviews. We try to write a fair review based on what we like & what we hear from others..however, seeing as we have not had a response to our question or issue anywhere else, we figured its worth a shot.
This game is fun for the word game fanatic, but the same play boards are always used so it gets boring. And you can tell people have played these boards over and over by how fast they make words. Shuffle the letters and put out some new boards already.
Just downloaded the game and it wont open. Oh well.
Heard about it on a recent NPR podcast. Downloaded it but it wont get past the initial screen. Will be deleting it.
Wot open even after deleting and reloading several times. Not worth it.
We heard about this on Office Ladies and was excited to try it! It is downloaded on our phone but after it goes through the dotting our is and crossing our ts, it never opens or does anything else.
Overly advertised for being a complete waste of 340+ mb. Dont bother.
We heard about this game on a podcast we listen to and….nothing. Its never opened. This is very disappointing.
We were excited to play but it wont load.
We downloaded this game after hearing it on our podcast and Ive deleted and redone loaded it several time and it wont load past the loading screen.
Downloaded game, then wait, wait, wait and wait more. Deleted the app and downloaded again still same deal. Waste of time.
Not liking it already. We cant even open it. Ive tried 5 times and it keeps freezing. Want our money back.
Wont open we just downloaded it and we cant get it to open it freezes on the loading screen.
Useless….the app wont load. We heard it advertised and thought we would give it a try. It goes through the startup sequence and freezes. We tried deleting and downloading again. Nothing works. Maybe it will work for you.
Update 11/2018 The game has been removed from the developers site and the game no longer runs events which is the point of the game. Do not spend money on it. The game is dead. It has issues. It has a lot of spelling errors like tyres (tires) and desserts (deserts because the answer is camel). It also doesnt have a lot of boards. This is an issue in the beginning but when your bonuses with letter scores matter then it gets somewhat interesting. That being said, there are letters it wants you to upgrade that are completely unplayable. Those are Q, Z, and X if you were wondering. Either they are not on any board or in the case of Q it appears on one board in a corner surrounded by consonants. The game also does not recognize all words (ex. Stealth). Once you get higher up that is where the cheaters show up. It is obvious when the words come in so fast the game cant keep up. It would be a slight annoyance if there was not a gambling mechanism with micro-transactions attached. How does the game combat this.
Seems like a great little fun game if thats how you treat it – a game. We dont care about winning or losing so its not bad but if you care about anything like actually seeing the whole screen, getting your words judged/spelled right or knowing what your score is…game is worthless. Needs a block function so you can block those that write algorithms to find words before the puzzle even shows up or answer the clue so fast you dont even get to see the question.
This is the most inconsistent game Ive ever payed. Clearly computer generated. You will win a few and lose a lot in the beginning. Not authentic or real…our advice…move to the next game. We love word games…this is not the one for us.
We love these kinds of word search games. But recently, we noticed that some players seem to enter words unnaturally fast – to the point that the iOS graphics cannot keep up with how fast your opponent is playing words. Then we did some math – one of their most recent tournaments, the high scorer would have had to have played the game for at least 20 (winning match) hours to rack up the amount of points to earn the Amazon gift card. In fact, Im not 100% sure if Ive ever played a human opponent because on 100% of our matches, we are player one – and our word entries affect what player 2 can enter, so this cant be some server-level trickery. They could justify this by claiming that youre playing this computer to rack up points compared to other humans, but their disingenuous way of presenting this leads be to think they just never bothered finishing the code for a true two player match. Ive noticed the same player names are online 24 hours a day, seven days a week – so either theyre insomniacs like us, or bots. Implementation on iOS is also marred by careless porting – not all game elements fit on the screen. The word dictionaries have some curious omissions as well – threads, according to this game, is a word that does not exist. Spelling errors are rampant on the riddles at the end of each round. Overall, sloppy work.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.3
- Size: 376.44 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Mindstorm Studios]()
Last updated: 17th April 2018 | Genre: Family, Word | Developer: Mindstorm Studios