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Words with AI – Board Game Review
Words with AI is a Board/Word/Education game from Oleksii Harbuzenko, first launched in 18th May 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 69+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Words with AI Stand Out
English version of famous Russian word game Erudite, originally inspired by Scrabble. The game is meant to enrich vocabulary and develop logical thinking. You need to compose words on a game field with tiles of different value. Unlike original game there are some differences: you can put several words at a turn, starting 7-letter word is always placed on start, etc.
Play the game offline versus AI, or with your friends!
Features:
- 5 difficulty levels!
- OSPD dictionary
- online thesaurus for words description
- detailed graphics with Retina and iPhone 5 support
- time and score limit settings
- options for disabling two-letter words
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Words with AI is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th January 2022
Recent improvements include:
- support for iOS 15 and different screen sizes
- fixed issues with disappearing letters
- fixed online dictionary lookup
- lots of other internal changes and fixes
Download & Availability
Words with AI is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Words with AI 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:
Im not addicted to the board game Scrabble, but this is perfect for our needs. Single player versus AI is easy to configure with levels of difficulty and types of words allowed! Im not sure what Im missing, but its essentially Scrabble as we remember it as a kid and young adult. We would give it 6 stars if it was possible.
We like being able to play at our own pace with AI. But it can get annoying when AI uses weirdo words, foreign words or doesnt recognize common English words. And l cant change tiles but AI can. Simple and straightforward and relaxing.
The Artificial Intelligence is probably named Damien. It will sabotage your moves, then steal them. Its a queer opponent. Its not fun. We play games for fun, this AI took all the fun out of it. Adios, Damien.
The bugs are so bad its frustrating to play the game.
We have played this game for years and am addicted to it. It is both fun and educational. As a tutor, we recommend it to our students for vocabulary growth. We highly recommend Words With Al.
Basically scrabble except you can play more than one word at a time. And at last a game that doesnt have a bunch of other nonsense added like coins or jewels when all you really want is to play! Only one ad at start of each game and then thats it.
We always win on any level! Whats up with that? The AI just quits trying.
We love the game and have played it for years. We prefer it over scrabble. Our only negative comment is that sometimes the game freezes and we have to delete it and download it again. Doing this makes us lose our stats. But, it is fun to play.
We adore this game it.keeps us alert Goldie we enjoy this game day or night we are a good player and al knows this.
Just like scrabble but no ads constantly popping up after every turn.
We love this game. In fact, we're addicted..but, it's wasn't opening on our iPad Air 2. Thanks a million for the update.
Best game of Scrabble type games.. It does often freeze during game requiring deleting and reinstalling – this bug should be fixed.
We played for about three weeks and enjoyed it immensely. Then, out of the blue, the AI started playing two separate words (not on an axial intersection, but in separate parts of the board) on a single turn. We thought the first time was a burp, but it continued game after game. Hahaha. Had to delete it after that. 4 stars for a good try though.
We like this game quite a bit but its dictionary needs to be updated or corrected. Quite a few words that are played by the app in the AI mode are not words that appear in the English dictionary. A suggestion for improving the game is to add a definition feature that shows the definition of the word when tapped. Otherwise a fun word game.
It doesnt recognize some English words. We could have played wilderness on a triple word score, but it wouldnt recognize the word. Instead it played wildered in that spot. An archaic word not even in use today. But it still beats Scrabble Go.
So far, it does entertain you, but there are some glitches. Some of the words are not in the dictionary but ai uses them. Its not Scrabble.
The highest computer setting is not very competitive. We are not a genius, but we win every game. Also, why does the AI seem to stop playing at the end? Surely there is some possible play to be made. Not as good as the old Scrabble app that was just removed, but many times better than the Scrabble Go app that replaced it. Also there are some questionable words that it accepts. (c**t). That should not be in any dictionary.
Minimal ads, only occurs before starting a new game, one time and thats it. Missing a couple of things in our opinion such as, ability to remove tiles when you place them because you cant make a word, or a win/loss tally. Minimal things. We like that we can just play a game and not have bothersome tasks or need to collect coins or anything. Its not overly flashy, just a basic game of making words. Unfortunately Ive tapped out because we have beat AI almost all the time, even on the most difficult level setting, we think Ive lost maybe a handful of times out of more than 50 games (thats a guess since theres no win/loss tally, could be a hundred matches played and 6 losses). Overall, if you enjoy scrabble, then this just might be your game to play. Thumbs up for us.
Scrabble or Erudite with multiple skill levels and no ads. We cant ask for anything more.
Yeah, no constant ads! Would love more features in the game. But cant beat this game for keeping your mind sharp. Really enjoying it.
The app has an option to use Scrabble rules in the game. We set that but the game still takes 2 turns essentially by adding letters to the board on more than 1 row or column. Plan to delete.
We love playing Scrabble and am enjoying Al but the highest difficulty level needs to be more difficult. Im accustomed to playing against Zoey but she seems to have disappeared. Toughen up your game Al.
Great for learning new vocabulary. But it needs a dictionary. Also needs a pass feature. Minimal ads. Simple design which we like.Would be hire rating if it had those two features.
There is glitches and also the Game would not let us put the letter s on bathroom, says its not in the dictionary. But we have fun playing anyways, but would be better if the error glitches were fixed & the game would recognize more words that are in the dictionary.
Many words are not in the dictionary, like AI used the word garveys. What is that? And it wouldnt recognize words we used, like indie. They need to update the dictionary AI is using. We deleted the app.
We were excited to find this so we can play against ourselves during quarantine. We like to look up AIs words we dont know to expand our vocabulary. However, several words are not even in the dictionary, and it uses slang, foreign words and abbreviations while it wont let us do the same. We switched from Erudite to Scrabble and it still added multiple words in different parts of the board.
Nice, simple. Some of the scoring is wrong though, like you score points for blank tiles, and you get 50 bonus points for using all your tiles even if you dont have 7 tiles.
This would be a great game if the bot didn't make up words. Don't know what dictionary is being used by the app, but merriam-webster doesn't recognize many words it plays & there is no challenge available.
At first we thought the AI and its dictionary were just very advanced until it denied correctly spelled words and used words that were either archaic or completely misspelled. Fix your dictionary.
What is this? Random words that are not in the American dictionary. Sometimes the AI is playing , sometimes youre playing with / against yourself. The words are ridiculous and makes the game not fun at all. They need to update their dictionary to allow the AI to play with American words, not foreign words. Its ok to play but definitely go find another app where the words played make sense. Not just two letters places together to ruin all of it. Lame.
While trying to play this game we get stymied by a few things. First. This has happened a few times. Whenever we try to add a word that contains a letter at the end of one of the Programs game pieces we're told our "Word is not properly placed." " Words should cross fixed tiles in a field. " This comment does not make any sense to us. The words are being played to appropriate positions and we cannot find any explanation of this in the rules. Example: Play is positioned near the right edge of the board. The computer had played an R to the end of our horizontal word LOVE creating LOVER. Above the R was a Blank triple word space and left of that was a blank space above the E, below the VE was the word AH. We Attempted to add the word YO in the spaces above the ER ( which included putting our O in the triple word space. ) This would have additionally created Vertical word YEH formed with our Y positioned over the E in LOVER and the Vertical word OR with the O positioned in the triple word space over top the R in LOVER. Another issue is the Program doesn't recognise many UK common English terms. Like the word LOVEY. Finally the dictionary doesn't seem to exist and when we click on the Programs words we get a message in what appears to be Russian. All this is a little frustrating as we started this App to replace our a classic Scrabble game that has been discontinued. We're hoping there's some remedy for these issues and please add details to the Rules listed in this App. Thx.
It was nice that you had an AI option. However, the AI usage of words that aren't really words, lack of inclusion of actual words, and truly terrible difficulty algorithm (normal plays normal, but average deals you impossible tile sets while dealing good to AI) combined with kludgy tile placing makes this something that really could stand some improvement.
Great game but out of the blue it started doing odd things. We had to delete it and reinstall it a few times. Hope it gets fixed.
Both times we downloaded this app we played a few games and the we got a pop up both times forcing us to click ok if we wanted to continue. It didnt seem related to the game and was in Russian. So we had to delete the app.
We can deal with obscure words, but the AI is putting 2 or more words at their turn. Thats no version of Scrabble Im aware of.
We were astonished to see the computer play the word yid on the board. Are you kidding us? Ive deleted the app. Hate speech being offered by the computer is absolutely unacceptable.
We have had this game for over 4 years and it had occasion small ads. NOW the permanent ad bar takes up most of the bottom row making it impossible to play the game!!!! We' m uninstalling! Too bad for the maker.
Really liked it until it started to use Yiddish words. Any language other than English when it is defaulted to English is an outright cheat. Not everyone in the world is Jewish.
Won't work since the last 2 updates. Too bad 5 stars otherwise.
We have been playing this game for years and we're totally addicted to it. In fact we rate it above all other similar games. It freezes every now and then and we have to delete it and reinstall it, but we'd rather go through that hassle than download any other word games.
Great word game! We play it at least twice a day. Great advantage to scrabble is that it lets you know if your combination makes a word before you submit the word.
We had lost our scrabble game and didn't want to pay $9.99 for it so we found this app and now it is our favorite word app. More challenging than scrabble game because you can rely on dictionary and word help buttons. We like this game better.
Fun game! Great for those starting and want to grow into deeper vocabulary.
Recently downloaded…another app had endless intrusions of ads…this one has not had those interruptions…and moves swiftly…has not crashed.
This is a fun word game, similar to Scrabble. There are no ads to ruin the game and it runs without stopping. There are settings from beginners to expert and you can play against the computer or with another person. The best thing is that this is all Free! We'll never go back to the user-unfriendly Scrabble again.
Finally a game similar to Scrabble.
We don't feel guilty playing this game.
We tried others but this is the best.
Loved the game right from the start, both versions. We highly recommend this game.
This is a very nice Scrabble clone. It's ad supported but they do NOT get in your face. This is very well done, and we highly recommend it to any Scrabble player.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.5.2
- Size: 43.69 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Oleksii Harbuzenko
Last updated: 12th January 2022 | Genre: Board, Word | Developer: Oleksii Harbuzenko