Boggle: Arcade Edition

The multiplayer mode is glitchy and consistently full of issues. It’s frustrating and makes the game worthless.

The best part of this game is playing against friends, and the game heavily encourages multiplayer. Unfortunately, multiplayer is unreliable. Frequently I’ll challenge a friend (or they’ll challenge me), but the game never appears in the other person’s app. One of us ends up waiting days for a turn that never shows up. On one phone it says “waiting for your turn,” while on the other there are no open games at all. This happens most often in Classic mode. Great game when it works, but the multiplayer sync issues seriously hurt the experience. There is also an issue of when the daily challenges reset. For some reason they reset in the middle of the day rather than at night. You are supposed to do the challenge 5 days in a row for a prize but if you do the challenge in the morning on Monday, then the game resets around noon, then it resets at noon again on Tuesday and you do it in the evening on Tuesday, you don’t get the prize because you missed a day. Another issue is the word filtering. The game appears to intentionally block certain non-profane dictionary words while allowing explicit profanity. For example, some words are treated as invalid as if they don’t exist, while words like the f-word and the S-word are accepted. The filtering feels arbitrary and inconsistent. Seems like they are censoring what sensitive people would call “trigger words” and I’m not referring to racial slurs.

Developer gives fake impersonal responses. The same when reporting issues. Update: The app has a bug where a level ends before the board is even rendered. When this happens, the app thinks you lost without finding even one word (obviously). What happens if you lose, the game gets condescending and gives you a much easier level. And what do they offer when I report the glitch. “Please record your screen in a video.” Uhhh! Why would I buy screen recording software and record 2 hours hoping to catch the glitch that the developer clearly could care less about.. So, “tassle” is not a word but “teargases” is a word. Yes, spelled just like that. 🧐 Look it up. Playing against the app when the app cheats is frustrating to say the least. If I get a bad word grid, as in not enough “real” words for me to meet the score goal, it offers me to “try again”. At that point I think I would get the same goal with different letters, but no, I get a lower goal as if I can’t reach the goal. The other issue here is it thinks in terms of cheat words. Another issue is the 9 two letter words goal. It’s mostly the same words every time. Many of these words are also not words. This goal becomes nothing but an annoyance. Playing the built opponent is also unfair. The game counts all these fake words against me, so then I lose too often. This is not Boggle by any means.

The game is totally fine as a Boggle emulator. It can only reach a certain level of fun and you can only do so much with it. I get that part. I woulda given it 4 stars if not for one glaring issue. If an opponent doesn't play their next or final round, the game declares A TOTALLY RANDOM WINNER. Seriously... it's random. I tried it myself. I was in an obvious beating and it declared me the winner. I was losing by a ridiculous margin. Seriously, I was getting crushed and all I did was not play my last round. Using the highest point total doesn't work either cuz I've seen people score 1000+ points in one round. If your opponent doesn't play their round, then the game should be a draw or it shouldn't count at all. A winner should definitely not be declared and people who don't complete games should suffer some sort of penalty. Game is good but the main win mechanic - determining a winner - is super broken.

I like this game a lot but we need a different shuffle for the 3-letter words only levels. It's the same board every single time. Please provide more variety in the boards.

I enjoy playing this game, however on Adventure mode, I see the exact same boards repeatedly. It’s Boogle, the letters should appear randomly so you don’t get the same board over and over again. I find it frustrating and boring.

It is so much fun to look for vowel teams to quickly make words.

Sometimes words that are commonly used are not accepted and some words or abbreviations are bizarre or unheard of.

Fun but there are a few issues: The game gets repetitive very quickly. There are “hints” that reveal a word after like 30 seconds of inactivity, and you can’t turn them off. This ruins the game.

It repeats letter combos. Boggle doesn't allow 2 letter words but this app prioritizes them. The challenges are regenerated instead of allowing for repeated tries.