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Fillwords: Word Search Puzzle
MALPA GAMES · 37,667 ratings · ★ 4.9
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Top complaints - extracted from 24 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.
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"game"
16 negative reviews mention this · 67% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It think I got dumber playing the game. If you are a kindergartener who needs to learn words and just LOVES adds this is for you. Five seconds to figure out the words followed by a 1min add. Even the larger daily puzzles are dumbed down by giving you the first letter of each word…" - Whoever 9876
2
"level"
6 negative reviews mention this · 25% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many ads too often. It takes less than 5 to 10 seconds to finish a level and then you gotta listen to a one minute ad. That’s why people wanna leave this game." - Jojo4212012
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"words"
5 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It think I got dumber playing the game. If you are a kindergartener who needs to learn words and just LOVES adds this is for you. Five seconds to figure out the words followed by a 1min add. Even the larger daily puzzles are dumbed down by giving you the first letter of each word…" - Whoever 9876
4
"watch"
5 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many ads to watch. You shouldn’t have to watch a million ads to get a clue or go to the next puzzle" - Joez213@
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"play"
5 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It think I got dumber playing the game. If you are a kindergartener who needs to learn words and just LOVES adds this is for you. Five seconds to figure out the words followed by a 1min add. Even the larger daily puzzles are dumbed down by giving you the first letter of each word…" - Whoever 9876
6
"every"
5 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Too many ads.. I know you get paid from ads. But I’m not watch 2 minutes of adds for every 10 second level. Ad time should not exceed play time. It makes it no fun." - GaryF315
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"playing"
4 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It think I got dumber playing the game. If you are a kindergartener who needs to learn words and just LOVES adds this is for you. Five seconds to figure out the words followed by a 1min add. Even the larger daily puzzles are dumbed down by giving you the first letter of each word…" - Whoever 9876
8
"think"
3 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It think I got dumber playing the game. If you are a kindergartener who needs to learn words and just LOVES adds this is for you. Five seconds to figure out the words followed by a 1min add. Even the larger daily puzzles are dumbed down by giving you the first letter of each word…" - Whoever 9876
9
"adds"
3 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It think I got dumber playing the game. If you are a kindergartener who needs to learn words and just LOVES adds this is for you. Five seconds to figure out the words followed by a 1min add. Even the larger daily puzzles are dumbed down by giving you the first letter of each word…" - Whoever 9876
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"seconds"
3 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It think I got dumber playing the game. If you are a kindergartener who needs to learn words and just LOVES adds this is for you. Five seconds to figure out the words followed by a 1min add. Even the larger daily puzzles are dumbed down by giving you the first letter of each word…" - Whoever 9876
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"each"
3 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It think I got dumber playing the game. If you are a kindergartener who needs to learn words and just LOVES adds this is for you. Five seconds to figure out the words followed by a 1min add. Even the larger daily puzzles are dumbed down by giving you the first letter of each word…" - Whoever 9876
12
"word"
3 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "It think I got dumber playing the game. If you are a kindergartener who needs to learn words and just LOVES adds this is for you. Five seconds to figure out the words followed by a 1min add. Even the larger daily puzzles are dumbed down by giving you the first letter of each word…" - Whoever 9876
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Lame
The value of the puzzles drop significantly the higher level and difficulty. Completely lame
Loaded with scammy ads
Bad enough how many scam ads there are, but ads pop up in the middle of gameplay, which is unforgivable.
LOTS of Ads!
The game is nice but you get an ad after each one. At end of finishing each game you have to close the game to get back to play. Annoying and takes away from the game being great.
ADS!!
This game has WAYYYY too many ads it’s ridiculous. Will uninstall
Too many ads.
I know you get paid from ads. But I’m not watch 2 minutes of adds for every 10 second level. Ad time should not exceed play time. It makes it no fun.
Scam!
Purchased the game and still have just as many ads as before purchase. Do not buy this game!
Not worth it
Incessant ads, overheats iPhone, drains battery
Too many ads
This game has so many ads. I got annoyed and uninstalled the game
Terrible game
I’m not saying it’s hard or anything. I think that there’s way too many ads after every level you have to watch one ad. and then after you watch the ad, you can play the next game. What’s fine you know that’s all mobile games but in the game, you can find other words on the word Cross, but it doesn’t give you any words you can use so you’re just kind of just finding random words that are actual words and they fill up a bucket and if you find so many words, you get so many coins it’s kind of like a word search, but if you find a word that they don’t count as a word, they just give you coins for it. What’s not really a word search? and they don’t give you a word bank or anything so you’re just guessing most of the time and it’s just really not a good game overall it was put together probably by AI and a very poorly game
Wow
This game sucks
Loved it until new update for ads.
The latest update now seems to allow ads constantly in the middle of the game. Trying to make words and the interruptions are now happening every 45 seconds of actual game play. Seriously? I watch an ad every single level anyway and don’t mind the banner ads at the bottom of the screen but the constant pop ups are ridiculously annoying. Makes it impossible to play now. Can’t even get through a level without a dozen or so ads popping up. Fun game until this. With such a highly rated and downloaded game, you wouldn’t think this new way of forcing ads would be necessary.
Inescapable adds
I don’t mind adds but not being able to exit them is maddening. It made me delete the game altogether
Kinda boring
Kinda boring
Uncomfortable words
I like the game, I just wish it didn’t have words like “devil”, “evil”, and “death”. Those words aren’t fun to find
It think I got dumber playing the game
If you are a kindergartener who needs to learn words and just LOVES adds this is for you. Five seconds to figure out the words followed by a 1min add. Even the larger daily puzzles are dumbed down by giving you the first letter of each word.
Too many ads too often
It takes less than 5 to 10 seconds to finish a level and then you gotta listen to a one minute ad. That’s why people wanna leave this game.
Too many ads to watch
You shouldn’t have to watch a million ads to get a clue or go to the next puzzle
Atrocious ads
I love your game but your ads are atrocious! I can’t X out of them and am forced to watch the whole thing!
Drains Battery
Fun game but drains my battery instantly and overheats so can’t charge while playing. Can’t play more than a few levels if I want to be able to use my phone for the rest of the day:/
Too many ads
Too many ads. I can't deal with it.
Ads on Steroids
Too many ads that take over. I have even tried waiting them out- as in actually watching them only to have more pop up. I have had to close my phone completely to end them because they are literally integrated into the game app. The developers should monitor and set better standards. I love this game but deleted it because of the confusing ads. They mislead people into thinking the advertised game is a part of this game.
Ads! Every Round!
Don’t bother unless you have nothing to do but waste time.
Ad flood
This game actually has potential to be fun… but ads every two rounds is out of control. You spend equal time playing and watching ads
Too Many Ads
I love doing word searches. This is definitely not your typical word search being that you need to find the words without being given the word list adding a fun challenge to the classic word search game. The problem with the game is the ads. I am actually surprised this game is given such a high rating due to the amount of annoying ads. I know ads are part of gaming apps but this is ridiculous. The first I’d say 10-15 levels there is none at all. After that the flood gates open…not only is there an ad at the end of each level which I’m on level 33 and it takes no more than 2 minutes to complete, BUT ALSO in the middle of trying to complete the puzzle! I’m in the middle of highlighting a word and screen goes to an ad! I can’t locate a word because as I’m looking at the puzzle the screen goes to an ad. UNLESS you pay the money to remove the ads. Honestly there are that many ads and I’m that annoyed that I just uninstalled the app even though playing it earns me fetch points. There are SO MANY puzzle gaming apps pick another one with less ads … this one will annoy you!
Sentiment summary
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