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Word Unknown – Education Game Review
Word Unknown is a Education/Strategy/Word game from Cinq-Mars Media, first launched in 12th December 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 11+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Word Unknown Stand Out
Word Unknown takes inspiration from both hangman and mastermind to create an incredibly fun and simple word game experience. Your objective is to guess a randomly generated word in as few moves as possible using both lexical and deductive logic. Once a legal guess is made, you'll get X's and O's in response. Each X represents a correct letter in the correct position, and each O represents a correct letter in the wrong position. There are five different difficulties (word lengths) to choose from and a daily challenge for each so you can compete with friends! Best of all, the game is 100% free and open source!
Word Unknown is the second word game developed by Christopher Cinq-Mars Jarvis. His first is Synonymy, narrated by Richard Dawkins, which received distinctions at GDC and E3.
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Word Unknown is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st March 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Long overdue update addressing UI and performance improvements as well as improvements to the gameplay.
Download & Availability
Word Unknown 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 the game but have discovered the occasional buggy wordmy guesses lead to a specific word but the game does not let us enter that word. Two examples are rape and Cuban. For rape we got 4 correct letters for pear, pare, reap, and aper; 3 Xs for rapt and tape but was prevented from entering rape.
Not as good as Synonymy, but still fun for wordophiles like us.
We can see it having real educational value.
Brilliant experience, cant get enough. Definitely worth the download.
Way too addictive! There is a bug preventing one from guessing a proper noun and yet we have gotten stuck in games without end where the word was clearly Hebrew, Muslim, or Mormon.
Very fun and makes you use your full vocabulary.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.0
- Size: 15.09 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Cinq-Mars Media]()
Last updated: 21st March 2017 | Genre: Education, Strategy | Developer: Cinq-Mars Media