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Crossword Master - Word Puzzle
Easybrain Ltd · 146,876 ratings · ★ 4.8
4.8
★★★★★
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Top complaints - extracted from 36 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
1
"game"
22 negative reviews mention this · 61% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Almost unplayable. Fun game, but there are so many ads that it’s nearly unplayable. They pop up what feels like every 60 seconds." - Val4444444
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"play"
8 negative reviews mention this · 22% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Almost unplayable. Fun game, but there are so many ads that it’s nearly unplayable. They pop up what feels like every 60 seconds." - Val4444444
3
"every"
7 negative reviews mention this · 19% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Almost unplayable. Fun game, but there are so many ads that it’s nearly unplayable. They pop up what feels like every 60 seconds." - Val4444444
4
"ridiculous"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many ads. Way too many ads and if they were shorter, it wouldn’t be bad but some are 2 minutes long. Ridiculous" - Eagle custodian
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"words"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Ads are terrible. Weird ads, the words yo solve is the worst stuff" - Alex Daviss
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"other"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It’s okay . . .. I do like the game but I so feel as if the AI I am going against is cheating because I needed and E and I didn’t have a single one but the AI had 4 for every single one I needed I just find that odd but it’s okay otherwise." - Trinity litty
7
"enough"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Crossword Master. Your ads in this game wear my battery out it’s enough This game would be enjoyable but you run ads that take 2 minutes of your life between each play it’s enough my iPad battery is drained after playing 3 rounds the ads you run for people …" - Tweetpotatoe
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"middle"
4 negative reviews mention this · 11% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Insane amount of ads!. At first try, I loved this App, but after one or two games Ads started popping up in the middle of a game I couldn’t close them!! I had to force quit the App and reopen it and even then often the ad would still be there! After about 20 time…" - Pamalitalaguera
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Ads
If you like watching ads, this is the app for you. They will even play an ad for watching the ad you just watched. Literally every turn you have to watch an ad. Ive even been shown ads opening the app to play!
Ads are terrible
Weird ads, the words yo solve is the worst stuff
Disappointing
I’m deleting the game because of the stupid ads! Not only are there too many but the suggestive contents are disgraceful! Who in the world would have thought it was a good idea!!
Ads refuse to close
They do a lot of ads but the problem is having to close app just to continue very inconsiderate.
The AI always gets the pieces it needs while the player gets the most useless letters
If there 1 or 2 letter left on a big word, the AI would magically have the words, every time you’re SO close to completing a word, the AI will have it, and it could be the most random letters too. It makes the game feel rigged after the 5th level to the point where you’re better off waiting until the AI put in most of the letters so then you can finish them.
A lot of clues are incorrect!
Just today I found 2 that were incorrect, causing me to erroneously lose points.. There was a picture of a cyclone/tornado and your answer was hurricane, which is incorrect…Also, I had the correct abbreviation for Georgia which is GA, and the app rejected it as incorrect! I deleted the app because it’s a waste of my time!
Terrible programming
Explain how the “opponent” magically gets every letter to complete the big words against you every single time and on top of that knows every single word on the board. At this point they arent trying to hide anything its ridiculous, make the game fair because there is no reason why a computer should be smoking me by multiple points every single time because he just somehow conveniently gets the letters to finish words and I of course receive letters to make up parts of a small word that neither of us have touched its terrible programming absolutely terrible.
Nice, but . . .
It’s a great idea for a puzzle, but there are a huge numbers of of ads. I don’t mind ads between games, but this app has ads during the games. It’s too much. That’s the major disappointment. A smaller disappointment is you can’t tell what some of the pictures are, and the acronyms don’t really make sense; it’s more like they needed to fill in 1 or 2 spaces with letters that fit in with other clues. I will not be playing this game anymore. 🫤
Entirely too many ads.
Ad after every tile you play
Predatory practice
Ads open your App Store without user input.
Crossword Master
Your ads in this game wear my battery out it’s enough
This game would be enjoyable but you run ads that take 2 minutes of your life between each play it’s enough my iPad battery is drained after playing 3 rounds the ads you run for people to get other games isn’t worth it!
This game would be enjoyable but you run ads that take 2 minutes of your life between each play it’s enough my iPad battery is drained after playing 3 rounds the ads you run for people to get other games isn’t worth it!
Ads Ads Ads
Fun to play but ads. many ads. After each turn, more ads. Takes the fun out of
Crossword Master
Way too many ads
Too many ads!!!
I can see having an ad every couple of levels but an ad after every literal move is asinine! Make the game unenjoyable.
Ads Ads Ads
Way too many ads. And in the middle of a game. Really? I’d watch them if they were less frequent but right now I simply close and reopen the app when an ad pops up. Much quicker than watching them. So now your sponsors get no views from me.
Ads, Ads, Ads, Ads
Tons and tons of ads.
Fun BUT
Fun game but so many ads I had to delete
Almost unplayable
Fun game, but there are so many ads that it’s nearly unplayable. They pop up what feels like every 60 seconds.
not even like the ads
Ok so there are so many adds and than like next it’s like nothing in the adds I thought this game would be really fun and it did look fun but it wasn’t I deleted it
Too many ads
Way too many ads and if they were shorter, it wouldn’t be bad but some are 2 minutes long. Ridiculous
It’s okay . . .
I do like the game but I so feel as if the AI I am going against is cheating because I needed and E and I didn’t have a single one but the AI had 4 for every single one I needed I just find that odd but it’s okay otherwise.
Too many ads
Fun game. Starts with a few ads but after 2 or 3 days ads after 1 or. 2 rounds of play. That means 3-5 ads per
game.
game.
Good game but MANY ADSSS
WAYYY too many ads!! Watch ads more than play the dang game
Start up
First time on game
Too many ads
I like the game but the amount of ads is unreal. This is the only game I’ve played that I can’t even get through one round without several ads playing, and I don’t think the game is worth the money they want to charge for ad free
Nice game
I love the game, but the constant interruption by these long ads, and several per game, are ridiculous. And $15 to get rid of them is just not right. What a shame!
Ads
The ads are awful. Can’t just play the game.
Battery drainer!!
Not sure why but this app will kill your phone battery 🪫 other than that its full of ads and fun.
Insane amount of ads!
At first try, I loved this App, but after one or two games Ads started popping up in the middle of a game I couldn’t close them!! I had to force quit the App and reopen it and even then often the ad would still be there! After about 20 times trying to close the ads, eventually (sometimes, and it was hidden) an option would pop up to ask if I was interested or not. I’d click “no” and go back to my game. Sure enough in just a few minutes a new bad would interrupt my game and refuse to close!! Finally I purchased the supposedly Ad Free version (which was obviously the point of all the irritating non closing ads)…so, everything was ok for about an hour, but now the ads are back!! Not as many but still it’s sooooo annoying since I purchased the No Ads version! Also I keep getting pop ups trying to get me to buy “coin packages”. I’m going to give it another few days since I purchased the license for the Ad Free version, but if this keeps happening I’ll report it. Just want to warn people that this will happen! Very disappointing since the App itself is good!
Meh....just okay
I was going back in time to do old puzzles and I realized that they just repeat themselves. May of 2025 is the same as May 2026. Ok until you get ayear in then you're just doing them over agian.
It’s okay
The game it’s okay, but the pic are hard to interpret what it is and the odds of winning is very slim
Repeating crosswords
The ads aren’t as bad as any other game I’ve played but I will say some of the words just aren’t clear enough to what they are, or don’t make sense to what the picture of hint is. After level 100 I keep getting the same crosswords I’ve already previously played over and over it’s just nothing new, it’s also crosswords I had JUST done the level previously.
Ads
Fun game but waaaay too many ads! There’s ads in the middle of play not just before and after!
Ridiculous amount of ads
Wayyyyyy too many ads
STOP EXCESSIVE ADS
WAYYYY too many ads. Literally when you open the app, after winning, after losing, in the middle of it. Constant. Way too much. I get you have to make money but enough is enough. I’m gonna have to delete. Sucks because it’s actually really fun.
Too many ads during game
Too many ads during the game, just not worth it
Sentiment summary
94%
Positive (4-5★)
4%
Neutral (3★)
2%
Negative (1-2★)