Simply Puzzles: Codewords

Simple, fun, relaxing. Wish it had dark mode.

Great way to kill time, cheap game, well formatted, easy to read. Keep in mind that American spelling and proper nouns are used, and you should be fine. Only took me a few hours to get through them all; would be happy with paid DLC or a second game with more puzzles.

A somewhat unique take on word games. Each letter can be used once and you have to solve the crossword without any hints other than the 2 or 3 letters you are given. I've enjoyed it thus far. A good way to relax while watching a stream on the second screen.

inexpensive and challenging way to pass the time

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.

Got this extremely cheap on sale, so I'm not gonna bother asking for a refund, but this one is a disappointment. There are a hundred different "hand-crafted" puzzles to solve, but wow - even in the first few puzzles there are some really strange words (including proper nouns); this game would have been more fun if the grids had been of more common words (a six-letter word ending in "I"? Seriously?). For me, there were few, if any, of these puzzles that were an enjoyable difficulty. They either were simply impossible for me (not being able to recognize even one word based on the letters given) or else trivially easy (I could recognize a starting word or two, then the rest just fell into place). I guess it was tricky for the developers, because each grid had to contain words that used all twenty-six letters of the alphabet, and so they ended up using some pretty strange words. On the plus side, you can easily select any of the one hundred puzzles, so if you get stuck on one, you can at least go do another one ...