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Editorial Reviews
CodeWord is a word game with a splash of logic.
CodeWord includes two different types of word decryption puzzles in a single title: cryptograms and codewords. A cryptogram is a puzzle where you must map letters to numbers to solve the code. All of the cryptogram puzzles are based on famous quotations, but each letter is replaced by a different letter or number. A codeword puzzle is similar to a crossword, but with no clues. Instead a number in each square represents the letter, and you are given a word to start you off.
CodeWord includes 50 codeword puzzles and 50 cryptograms for a total of 100 puzzles. Hints are available if you would like some help, and if you get stuck you can give up and reveal the solution. You can play at your own pace or against an optional timer if you want more challenge. You can also reset each puzzle so you can replay as many times as you like.
People of all ages who like puzzles and word games will enjoy playing CodeWord.
CodeWord includes two different types of word decryption puzzles in a single title: cryptograms and codewords. A cryptogram is a puzzle where you must map letters to numbers to solve the code. All of the cryptogram puzzles are based on famous quotations, but each letter is replaced by a different letter or number. A codeword puzzle is similar to a crossword, but with no clues. Instead a number in each square represents the letter, and you are given a word to start you off.
CodeWord includes 50 codeword puzzles and 50 cryptograms for a total of 100 puzzles. Hints are available if you would like some help, and if you get stuck you can give up and reveal the solution. You can play at your own pace or against an optional timer if you want more challenge. You can also reset each puzzle so you can replay as many times as you like.
People of all ages who like puzzles and word games will enjoy playing CodeWord.
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I want a refund the words they use you cannot guess and it is confusing. I never complain but this is TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love word games and am addicted to this one. I especially like the codewords game that is a cryptogram in crossword form. A great, challenging game!
I LoVE this game. it is worth the cost, I only paid 99 cents so even better. each game has fifty puzzles. I love cryptograms as well as codewords. I also reset the puzzle and challange my daughter to beat my best time. I give it 5 stars all day.
Another great Kindle game..... both puzzle types are great on the Kindle. (There are 50 of each type.)
Display is great, easy to use, no delays, navigation is simple. You'll be surprised how quickly you'll go through the puzzles. I've had mine for 2 days, and I think I've completed more than 10 puzzles already.
It's really nice to have this electronically. If you change a letter, the entire puzzle repopulates the new letter automatically and deletes the previous letter... much better than pencils and erasers.
Enjoy! If you're a word game person, you'll love these!
Display is great, easy to use, no delays, navigation is simple. You'll be surprised how quickly you'll go through the puzzles. I've had mine for 2 days, and I think I've completed more than 10 puzzles already.
It's really nice to have this electronically. If you change a letter, the entire puzzle repopulates the new letter automatically and deletes the previous letter... much better than pencils and erasers.
Enjoy! If you're a word game person, you'll love these!
This is my favorite Kindle game to date! (I have about 10 different Kindle games, ranging from ones I play regularly to ones I deleted) Hours of entertainment, just the right amount of challenge, easy to use on my K2. I LOVE it. I have always loved cryptograms, in this game I enjoy both the cryptograms and code crossword puzzles. GREAT game, and a bargain value.
I have always loved Cryptograms. This is pure joy for me. It works just fine on my K3, and the best part is when I make a mistake, there are no erasure marks! Anyone who has worked these puzzles on paper will know what I mean. If you make a mistake with one letter, all of those same letters have to be removed. (I have had it happen to me were I had to erase almost half of the puzzle :( )This is so much fun! I hope the developers are working on more. Very low cost for hours of fun! Same goes for Code Word, very enjoyable.
Ever since Amazon started having games for the Kindle, I hoped for cryptograms. And here they are!
First, let me say that I haven't had any of the problems noted by twinsmom, and since the game was pulled for a day, I assume they have been fixed.
These are nice, clear, easy to use puzzles. I was a little confused by the strip across the bottom where you enter the letters, but I figured it out soon enough and would probably have figured it out sooner if I had read the instructions. Which actually points out the fact that you don't need instructions to figure out how to play either of these games.
The quotes in the cryptograms are from a nice array of people, and none of the quotes I've finished are so famous that you already know the answer.
I had never seen the code word game; I tried it but it didn't hold my interest, (who knows why one game is so interesting but another is so boring?) but if you like the game, it is clear and easy to use. Well designed.
I am looking forward to volumes 2, 3, 4 ... Thanks Oak systems for a great game
First, let me say that I haven't had any of the problems noted by twinsmom, and since the game was pulled for a day, I assume they have been fixed.
These are nice, clear, easy to use puzzles. I was a little confused by the strip across the bottom where you enter the letters, but I figured it out soon enough and would probably have figured it out sooner if I had read the instructions. Which actually points out the fact that you don't need instructions to figure out how to play either of these games.
The quotes in the cryptograms are from a nice array of people, and none of the quotes I've finished are so famous that you already know the answer.
I had never seen the code word game; I tried it but it didn't hold my interest, (who knows why one game is so interesting but another is so boring?) but if you like the game, it is clear and easy to use. Well designed.
I am looking forward to volumes 2, 3, 4 ... Thanks Oak systems for a great game
Excellent Word Puzzle For Your Kindle
First I'd like to note: This game was available for a very short time period and was pulled. (I don't know what the version # was; probably 1.0) That version had some bugs in it, as mentioned by another reviewer, and I found two puzzles that wouldn't even load (CodeWord #33 and #36) If you were one of the few people who also got this puzzle game during that short time period, I highly recommend you go to your "Manage Your Kindle" page, scroll down to "Your Orders," click the + sign next to the game and download or send to your Kindle again.
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I'm basing my review on the latest version (version 1.1 at the time of this review)
Since I was young, I've been a big fan of "Dell's Pencil Puzzles & Word Games" paper puzzle books and both CodeWord and Cryptograms were two of my favorite word games. So, when I saw this offered as a Kindle Active Content item, I just had to have it. The puzzles here are just about, if not exactly, the same as the ones in the paper books, and not some mediocre knock-off. (I've seen some PC versions of these two types of puzzles that were really lacking; not by this developer, of course)
The interface works smoothly for me. I've noticed no lag time when scrolling through and choosing the available puzzles or filling out the puzzles themselves.
The puzzles are easy to use on the Kindle, the area where one has to scroll with the 5-way cursor is in a small area, so moving back and forth, up and down, is minimized as much as can be seeing there are 26 letters in the alphabet :)
The puzzles are easy to see, both in the main puzzle area and the area where you do all your adding and removing (to fix mistakes you may have made) of letters.
I noticed with the update that there are now little arrows in CodeWord's main puzzle areas that correspond to whatever number you have highlighted with your cursor. That is very helpful. Thanks for that, developers. :)
I also like that I can clear the puzzles and do them over again in the future.
All in all, this is a fine little puzzle game if you are a fan of word puzzles. I am happy to give it five stars.
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I'm basing my review on the latest version (version 1.1 at the time of this review)
Since I was young, I've been a big fan of "Dell's Pencil Puzzles & Word Games" paper puzzle books and both CodeWord and Cryptograms were two of my favorite word games. So, when I saw this offered as a Kindle Active Content item, I just had to have it. The puzzles here are just about, if not exactly, the same as the ones in the paper books, and not some mediocre knock-off. (I've seen some PC versions of these two types of puzzles that were really lacking; not by this developer, of course)
The interface works smoothly for me. I've noticed no lag time when scrolling through and choosing the available puzzles or filling out the puzzles themselves.
The puzzles are easy to use on the Kindle, the area where one has to scroll with the 5-way cursor is in a small area, so moving back and forth, up and down, is minimized as much as can be seeing there are 26 letters in the alphabet :)
The puzzles are easy to see, both in the main puzzle area and the area where you do all your adding and removing (to fix mistakes you may have made) of letters.
I noticed with the update that there are now little arrows in CodeWord's main puzzle areas that correspond to whatever number you have highlighted with your cursor. That is very helpful. Thanks for that, developers. :)
I also like that I can clear the puzzles and do them over again in the future.
All in all, this is a fine little puzzle game if you are a fan of word puzzles. I am happy to give it five stars.
Great games - works on my old Kindle2 just fine. Only drawback: for those over 40 years old, the small numbers in CodeWord are hard to see & there's no way to enlarge or magnify the area - maybe I will get those bifocals my doc keeps telling me I need.
Traditional games fit kindle device perfectly
The two types of games in this app are well suited to the kindle device and well executed. Using the 5-way button to navigate, the logic puzzles are completed step by step. I was seeking a grid-style logic puzzle and could not find one. Pleasantly surprised with this application. Not a big crossword puzzle fan, this game brings back lovely memories of working cryptogram puzzles with my grandmother. You do not have to be a fan of WORD games to like this game. It is a letter replacement/logic game. The only thing would like to see: zoom hot key for code word. But even without it I am looking foward to vol 2
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I just bought this game and have done 3 cryptograms and 2 codewords. I love word puzzles and always have a crossword/variety puzzle book on hand at home for when I get a "craving" to do some puzzles, but the one thing I have always skipped in those books were the cryptograms because I always found them too hard. Well, of the three I have done so far, two I did without any clues and the other I needed to get 1 letter filled in for me and from there I was able to solve it. I think they are challenging but not impossible (especially if you don't mind asking for "help"). (However, my mother who is a cryptogram "queen", thought the 2 she did were quite easy, so I guess it's a matter of perspective.) The cryptograms each have a "title" of a person (except for a few Mystery ones), so I'm guessing that the puzzles are quotes from that person. I'm not sure how much help that is really going to be, unless you are familiar with lots of quotations. Knowing the people in the three puzzles I did (Oscar Wilde, Aristotle and JK Rowling) did not help me solve them. Though I did recognize the quotes by the time I solved them, I personally couldn't attribute them to their speakers.
I personally found the Codeword puzzles to be more fun because you are just figuring out a bunch of random words (these words included proper nouns). One word is filled in for you at the start of the game, thus giving you a jumping off point for filling in the rest of the blanks. As you use each letter it is grayed out in the letter list, so you can easily see which letters have not yet been used. Oddly enough, I find these to be easier than cryptograms, but others may not. However, I didn't think they were too easy. I like a challenge but nothing so hard I can't finish it and these fit the bill perfectly.
Maneuvering the screen was easy for me to figure out, but not so easy for my mother. She had to ask me for help. Basically, you only arrow between the letters/numbers at the bottom of the screen, which is the "code grid". (The code in the cryptograms is letter substituting for letters. In the codewords, numbers substitute for letters.) Down in this grid, you find the letter/number from the puzzle at the top and type in the letter that you think it should be. For example, if in a cryptogram you think the word "BQQ" at the top is "TOO", you scroll to the B in the grid at the bottom. When you stop at the B, all the squares on top with a B will get little arrows in them. Then you type the letter you want to put in there, in this case "T". T will populate all the B squares at the top. Then you would scroll to the Q and type in "O" and O would be filled in to all the Q squares at the top. Your cursor never actually goes to the top part of the screen. Also, in the cryptograms, the grid box has some letters blacked out. That just means that those letters were never used as part of the code at the top, not that those letters can't be in the answer.
Overall, these are very fun word puzzles. If you like to do these types of puzzles in paper format, I highly recommend it. If you haven't done them in paper before but like word puzzles, give it a try. $.99 for 100 puzzles is a great deal.
**UPDATE**v1.1 I just found a problem with this game that is very annoying. It doesn't seem to be saving my progress on the Cryptograms (and the codewords status is iffy). I did a Codeword first. When I was done it showed "Best Time" next to the Codeword puzzle I had done. Then I did 3 cryptograms. It showed "Best Time" next to the 3 cryptograms I had just done. Then I went back to the codewords and it no longer showed the codeword I did as having been done. Instead it said "Unplayed". Not good. I replayed that Codeword (in record time now that I knew the answers) and did a 2nd Codeword. Checked the list and both showed times. Ok. Back to Cryptograms, now my Cryptograms were showing that I had never played them! Grrr... I re-did a cryptogram (again in record time, LOL) and it showed as finished in my list. I went back to the Codewords and luckily my codewords still had the time showing, but when I went back to Cryptos again, my cryptos were showing as unplayed! Grrr...again. HOWEVER, I just had my Mom check her Crypto list and all of hers are still showing that they have been played. Not sure why her's is working and mine is not. But just wanted to give a warning. In the meantime, I have found a workaround to get your progress to save (if you have the same problem I do). If after you are done with the cryptograms and you are on the cryptogram list menu, instead of clicking "Back" to get you to the main game menu (which is the only way I've found to get to the game main menu from either the codeword list or crypto list), click "Home" and exit the game entirely. This seems to keep your saved progress. After exiting the game and getting back in and checking my crypto list, I find my cryptos have been saved. Very frustrating. Due to this bug, I changed my original 4-stars to 3-stars (since the codewords still work, I didn't want to rate it lower) but I sure hope the developer will fix this issue and give updates to anyone who has bought it so far. **Due to comment from another reviewer, I checked my game version and it is 1.1 and I am still having the same problem saving the progress in my cryptograms. However, Amazon saw this review, called me this weekend and told me they were working with the developer on a fix to this problem and would contact me when they had one. I will update this review when a fix is available.
**UPDATE 4/18/11: Bug has been fixed in version 1.2 and the game is now saving properly. Yay! I have adjusted the number of stars to 4. Amazon did an amazing job working with the publisher to get this fixed and even called me personally when they read of the problem I was experiencing in this review. Fantastic service!