Simply Puzzles: Codewords Reviews

I love cryptography-themed games and this one is simple yet challenging. The two best thing it could possibly be! Totally recommend it!

for a fill-a-few minutes type game I would recommend it, though at present, less than halfway through, the puzzles do seem a bit easy - once you have one word correctly placed, the rest soon fall in without much thinking - but it is what it is and somehow I have frittered away four hours playing it on and off in the last two days. For the price I think it is worth it.

Excellent low-key puzzler. Very zen, puzzles are logical and fun to deduce with just enough randomness/guessing to keep it interesting. A healthy knowledge of vocabulary will definitely help here ("azimuth!"). Wish there was a dark mode, otherwise this is pretty flawless!

This is a fun and mildly challenging game for those "in-between" times when you don't want to invest a lot of time in one sitting. Can't beat it for the price. Nothing fancy, I would like to see some of the graphics improved (more contrasting/darker colors, maybe some 3-D effects on the "board") just to make it more pleasing to the eye. I think a more attractive appearance would attract more buyers. I am really good at word games and I find it challenging enough to keep my interest for a while. It is true that sometimes a word just comes to you and if it's a long word with common letters that are repeated elsewhere, you can finish a puzzle fairly quickly; however, there are other times when you have to ponder a while and do some experimenting before you are able to crack the code. I recommend this game.

I just purchased Ink Cipher and Simply Puzzles: Codewords to help give me a better selection of puzzle games. I liked Ink Cipher a little bit better than this game, but both games are low cost and worth purchasing to give you more puzzles. I haven't done very many Codewords puzzles in the past but now I have more than 300 puzzles available between the two games.

As stated, the game is simply the puzzle, no bells or whistles and as such it's fine. A few quick negatives: - language is american english and can't be changed (as a British dyslexic this is pretty annoying) - words get repeated far too often. I think there's even a repeated word inside the first 4 puzzles. Z, Q and J have a pretty small selection of words that they get used in.

I love word puzzles and this is a very nice one. It has the right combination of being a challenge without being too extreme and impossible to figure out. The user face is simple and calming.

This game is a great pick-up-and-play/leave it running in the background game! It is simple yet challenging enough to keep it interesting. Almost every puzzle starts out hard so you'll need to spend time thinking about word patterns. Then in the middle it gets easier as you fill in the remaining letters... then at the end you'll either need to find the box that is still missing a letter and/or fixing mistakes ("was that supposed to be jest or zest?") . I think the inability to easily find the missing box is a bit of a UI issue. When only one or two or left, they can be a bit tricky to find. I'm not too convinced that a 'find my mistake' button is critical. Maybe on a timer or counter or something (e.g., all letters are filled in and only two or wrong or something). BTW--the native Linux support is greatly appreciated!

It's like playing the daily newspaper crossword puzzle without the hints. I only have about 12 puzzles done in 3.8 hours, since I had to learn the game. It becomes simple once you can see words, but sometimes your mind tricks you and you need to move a letter here, and there, and eventually the word "guard" becomes "waned." I highly recommend it if you enjoy doing puzzles such as sudoku, crossword, picross, etc. Also, the developer is very nice, as they left me a comment on Reddit. I am definitely looking forward to playing more of their games!

Just buy Ink Cipher instead. The idea is the same, but Simply Puzzles: Codewords costs more for fewer puzzles. The interface is a lot less friendly; the all-white tiles make it hard to hunt down the last several singleton letters in a grid, and the controls don't support a drag-and-drop or a keyboard-only input method. Most importantly, the puzzles... just aren't that fun to solve. In Ink Cipher the 15x15 grid, plus the titles on each puzzle, allows the setter to occasionally build around a theme. A puzzle can be crafted around a certain phrase, or a unique and surprising shape. The smaller, nameless 13x13 grids here don't really allow for that playfulness, or for very good word choice. Every other puzzle has to make use of a proper noun, and several words start showing up multiple times; I saw "XMAS" at least three times, once as "XMASES". C'mon. In Ink Cipher, when I solved the puzzles, I had an "a-ha!" moment, or even laughed out loud. Here I just sort of felt glad they were over.