7 Little Words and More

Accessibility issues I have become accustomed to the format in place for 7 Little Words as it has been since September 2021. However, as a blind person, I still find navigating it a bit cumbersome. I especially don’t care for the fact that numbers, symbols, and especially accented letters are not truly readable. As soon as you’re on one of those characters, it automatically reads the next letter. At least the letters I can stop to find out what letter it is phonetically. I’ve also had times when I haven’t understood my screen reader when it’s reading the Sunday puzzle theme, for example. There doesn’t seem to be a way to actually read that character by character. It appears to be hidden text. I tried using the tutorial once, when I got a new phone and had to unlock the puzzles. I didn’t find it helpful at all. This puzzle used to be the most accessible app that I knew of. It was the first app I was really able to figure out how to use on my own without the assistance of a sided person, or even another blind person or a tutorial. I’ve addressed this issue with you all before, but never really got anywhere, but only to receive replies that came across as dismissive and belittling. I know that it has almost been five years since the last major format change, but I would like to see some kind of improvement. I understand the need for uniform apps, however, I don’t believe plug and play is necessary for this app. Thank you.

Fun but… Challenging, relaxing, occasionally frustrating but some of the ads are completely maddening. They run too long and sometimes freeze the game.

This game keeps getting worse I subscribed to this app for many years. I’ve been a huge fan and have spread the word to countless people who were looking for a new game app. Now it just keeps getting less and less enjoyable while it also gets more and more expensive. I don’t know what the developers are thinking. My first issue was when I’d completed EVERY daily puzzle from the archives, as well as EVERY available moderate, hard and impossible puzzle. Then I started them again. The previously completed puzzles used to have “last played” info so I knew where to start. That’s been taken away so I sometimes start a game and then realize I completed it fairly recently. The subscription price skyrocketed to a ridiculous price. Why would I pay approximately half the monthly cost of a streaming service for a game? Then came changes to the ads for the daily puzzles. Before it wasn’t a big deal because they essentially timed out and returned to the game. Now you have to complete a couple of steps to get rid of most ads. Sometimes . Then there’s the price of the individual games. Most include only 10 puzzles now, which I can often complete in about 15- 25 minutes depending on level of difficulty.. There used to be large puzzle packs that were special sales; 150 or even 250 puzzles per pack, reasonably priced. No longer. Now I warn people about all of the flaws. Too bad because it used to be such a great game! I’ve only ever reviewed one app but this one felt necessary to me.

Freezing……Please fix! Lately there have been downloading problems with the game. It freezes at motivational. I would have given a 5 star but this problem is exasperating

Doesn’t Load The last week or two the status bar is showing “Providing Motivation” and locks onto that status and doesn’t move forward to allow access to the games. WHATS GOING ON???

Love it bit… Lately it has been extremely slow to open. It is very frustrating to wait 5 minutes to play the game. What happened and can you fix it?

5 Star Review for 7 Little Words I love it. I found this game in our newspaper called The Sacramento Bee, in the comics section, along with a variety of other puzzles. I decided to look online for more of the exact same puzzles and found the actual app for it! I was so excited to find that they had the exact same daily puzzle and 4 bonus puzzles each day! And I love how it provides an extra month. So if you have a lot of puzzles incomplete before the end of the following month, like I have, you gotta rush! Which really brings out my intelligence! And it’s a good way to spend time with my incredibly smart girlfriend!

Recent Ads in Monkey Wrench Games This game is great, and I would give it five stars if it wasn’t for recently, there have been ads that are dropping down and hiding the clues in the monkey wrench games. Is this a glitch or is this just the way things are going to be from now on? Please fix.

TOO many ads all of a sudden! It’s one thing to sit through an add every couple of rounds. Now they pop up during game play. And they take up half the screen. FIX it please. You will lose your devoted players over this - me included!

Good game. Intrusive ads Have enjoyed the game for many years, when I would have given 5 stars, but the recent update implements ads that briefly but intrusively cover the top third of a given game. An obnoxious decision that diminishes the enjoyment of the game enough to make me look elsewhere for a word game.