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Word Mess – Education Game Review
Word Mess is a Education/Word game from Masala Games Private Limited, first launched in 13th March 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 28+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Word Mess Stand Out
Find words in beautifully designed word clouds. Improve your vocabulary and visual scanning ability! Featured by Apple as a "Staff Favorite" and "New Games We Love"
Word Mess is fun for word enthusiasts of all ages! It is great for kids in middle school as it boosts spelling, word recognition and general knowledge. It is also being used in special education programs and by occupational therapists.
Word Mess has four different modes.
Find Mode – simple word finding, boosts visual scanning
Rhymes – find words that rhyme together. Great for little kids
Categories – boost your general knowledge with endless combinations of hundreds of categories!
Bonus Round – Odd one out. Our personal favorite!
Contact us:
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This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Word Mess is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 24th April 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Fix for broken graphics on iPad.
Sorry for the trouble everyone!
Download & Availability
Word Mess 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:
We enjoy playing this game. Today, however, we found a mistake, we think. In the category Biblical names we were stumped for the last one and out of desperation tried Lucas and it registered as right. Really? We checked searchable versions of the KJV and the NRSV and it was not found in either. Our husband and we would like to know where and in what version Lucas is found.
Im getting older and we think this game keeps our reflexes sharp. Its the perfect game when you have some time to pass. We love the music too.
Out of all the word games we have installed this one remains our favorite. Most others we have deleted. It looks easy but it has a way of tricking your brain. Makes it challenging and good for your mind.
Excellent game. Smart, quick and challenging. Good for play with family and friends. Love it.
UPDATE: The app is fixed so we're revising our review back to 5 stars. 4 for the game and an extra star for the prompt manner in which the developer addressed the issue and personally replied to our review! Experiencing the same issue as other reviewer's on the iPad where the screen is too large. Please fix so we can give you the 4-5 star rating that the game itself deserves.
Yay, thanks for the super fast fix.
Thank you for fixing the game. We thoroughly enjoy playing it. Like the little 'eye' help.
This is a fun game! When we take our mother to appointments we always play because the words are big enough for her to see. After an intermediate update the screen did not fit our iPad. (Couldn't see the top and bottom of the screen.) we wrote the developer who fixed it right away. It's all good again and offers great support. Thanks.
We love this gameplayed a lot while recovering from surgery. Why dont you include educators with Professionals? We know we all have college degrees and beyond. Also education should be with college studies. Shame on you for leaving teachers out.
We have had this game for several years and we love playing it. However, it needs a change in categories and how random the same ones circulate. Ours rotates the same categories over and over again. For example, we had European countries about a month or so ago and havent seen it since.we play this game about 5 days a week. It would also be nice to earn tickets instead of having to pay for them.
We would rate this game 5 stars but It gets boring real fast. It needs a variety of challenges!!!! Three challenges one rhyme. One find the word. Boring.
As others said, update makes the game unplayable on iPad. Too large for screen. 4-5 stars otherwise.
We use Word Mess with our Chinese students, it's a great way for them to learn and practice saying new words. Every time they find the word, they must say it.
When we were in third grade our school iPads had this game and when we were in fourth grade we looked at our iPad and we were so sad because this game was our FAVE!!!So we love this game and we hope this company will make awesome games like this.
We don't play games and have no games installed on our phone/pad. However this is great! Well-excuted, fun, educational! We like it.
This game is quick and challenging. Color is used to hide some words. May increase your vocabulary.
Great fun. If you like word games give it a try.
So Much Fun!!! Super challenging & several ways to play! Best word/brain game Ever!!! Must get.
We are addicted. Our favorite is categories. We must say that if we played much with rhyming, we wouldn't be so happy…words are not always matched correctly, even when taking various dialects of English into consideration (both American regional and across countries). However, categories is very appealing, and if you're not careful, you'll lose half a day without even knowing it.
This is a great game for increasing one's ability to read, perceive,visual acuity, learn rhymes, and other language skills. However , it is disheartening to have to start at level one every time you fail and do not have tickets. It would help if one would be penalized by loosing 3-4 levels only. Even then one would tale a lifetime to get to the end of the levels.
This has the potential to be an extremely fun game, even for an adult. It is unfortunate that the writers made a few glaring errors. The one that annoys us most is in the category of hairstyles. Should anyone responsible for this game happened to be reading, please make note: quaff refers to a beverage, coif is a word for hairdo.
About to check this out but the description is deceptive. Says #1 word game September 2014. Considering it's only March they must be time travelers.
You sometimes lose because words that are not there during the game appear out of thin air when the game is over.
This could be an enjoyable challenge except that many of the rhyming words don't. The games sets you up to fail.
We loved this game until we played it last night and the theme was English writers. Wasn't happy that plastered all over the screen among great writers all listed with their full name was the name "Obama". No first and middle name or initial like everyone else, just Obama all over the screen. We play the word games to escape the news, not to have that name glaring at us in what was a fun game. Will be deleting this app after posting our review. Shame on you.
The premise of this game is relaxing and fun to play. However the puzzles are extremely limited in number. The same puzzles are recycled again and again. Hoping we could increase the number we tried buying tickets. We made a $10 purchase at the maestro level. We ended up spending $30 because of the ambiguous questions asked at time of purchase. It is difficult to believe that the wording of the question is unintentional. The problem could be fixed with the addition of one word.
We have the same problems as others mentioned…rhymes (spare has a long A and does not rhyme with star) have several errors as do categories; however, some categories seem to be wrong until you think fully about them…alternative meanings. Nonetheless, we give it a 5 rating as it is lots of fun and keeps our old brain thinking.
Not going to lie, this app is kind of addictive.
Exercises your brain. Great word game. Well-polished. Sometimes hard to find the really tiny words even on the retina iPhones. Fat fingers don't help either.
Our only complaint is that the description said it was free until 11:59pm today and it is 10:20pm and it isn't free. Not meaning to be nitpicking but specify what time zone you have to be in to get it free.
Love the game. Fast paced, challenging and a great time waster. We can spend a couple of minutes, or get caught up in it for hours.
Love the game but we have two issues: 1. As previously mentioned, it loads upside down. 2. It would be nice to have a feature where you didn't have to go all the way back to level one when you fail at level 18. For instance you could go back to level 10 or 15 if you fail at level 20, and go back to level 15 when you fail at level 25.
This game is really fun and addicting!!! But we have one of those iPad mini cases that can stand up but we can't use it because it is upside down. But we still love it.
We were unsure about this game but after the first round in quick game we totally love it. Our only issue is small but we wish it was optimized for the iPhone/iTouch 5. The black bars on the borders of the game can be distracting.
Saw a video someone had made on the app and was immediately hooked. Purchased and have never looked back. Be warned this game is totally addicting!!! Totally! You will be spending a lot of time playing, telling yourself just one more time, just one more…just one more. This game is really good.
We love playing this at all hours of the day; however, our favorite time for playing this game is when we don't how quickly we will have to put it down, e.g. The doctor's or dentist's office, or in a restaurant. One night while babysitting, our 8 year old granddaughter wanted to use our iPad to play games. First though, she & we played several rounds of Word Mess together. It was such a wonderful bonding time. Several days later, we told our husband we were proud of ourselves for recognizing a scientist we had barely heard of. Then we pulled out the game while we waited on our order in a restaurant, and we played together. When our food arrived, the waitstaff also thought it looked like lots of fun. We also pulled it out while waiting for the dentist. We quickly finished our game as she got out new gloves for her hands. There are so many ways to play, and if you're having an off day, that's all it is. Welcome to a whole new way of enjoying word games.
We wish you could save progress & play against other ppl.
If you like word games then thus one is a must have. We absolutely love it. Great job.
Love this game…so do our co-workers, they need to get their own.
Best word game we have come across. More levels please.
By LanaRich This game is a thought provoker. We can't leave it alone.
An original take on the word search puzzle. Amidst all of the scrabble and boggle clones on the app store this is a real standout. You need to have a contact email for bugs as this game depends on accurate lists for rhyming and categories. "Spare" does not rhyme with "star"and "steak" does not rhyme with "weak". It was very frustrating to loose due to an game error.
DDReviews, spare DOESNT rhyme with star. That's not an error. It's not spar it's spare. Two different words. And they're pronounced differently.
Helps you find. Things. In hurry. So much fun.
This is the most relaxing and fun game!!! We just bought it and can't put it down! Worth all $0.99!!!! You won't regret getting this awesome game. It's simple enough that you can just pick it up and play to pass time while you're waiting, yet fun and creative enough to keep you addicted.
It teaches you to be quick moving.
This game is so much fun as a warming up for our class , we really wish for a feature that allows us to choose or write the words ourselves . Just to make the game more perfect . Other than that it's the best our class liked it so much thanks so much.
Love the addictive aspect and the fact that you go back to square one if you goof up. Great job.
This little game is such a little refreshing surprise! We've downloaded so many little word games since the app store opened, and when we say "so many" we mean well over 100, probably more, only to play a time or two, then delete. This one is just fantastic. We really wasn't expecting to love it but we do. We're glad it came up on genie, or we may have never discovered it. This should definitely be in the top ten.
Every time we play we just can never se to put it down. We also love that there is no limit of levels. Definitely worth getting.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.4
- Size: 23.40 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Masala Games Private Limited
Last updated: 24th April 2017 | Genre: Education, Word | Developer: Masala Games Private Limited