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USA TODAY Games: Crossword+ App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Is this app dead?I play this crossword daily. It suffers from navigation bugs, which I’ve reported: but now it no longer is providing access to the new puzzle. It’s stuck on 18 November. I logged out and back in. I updated the app. I checked my subscription (and in so doing, noticed that the price will double upon renewal!). What’s up here?!?.Version: 2.5.3
✓ Better puzzle navigationCan you please update the app so that you can pick archived puzzles by month and year. It’s getting to the point where it takes me 5 minutes just to get to a unsolved puzzle..Version: 2.3.0
✓ Gets worse with each updateJust updated the app and something went sideways. It’s not recognizing some finished words and starts you on the second letter of words instead of the first. They also took away the one free crossword a day so it’s basically just another paywall app that still has ads. Bummer of an app..Version: 2.5.2
✓ DisappointedI’d been playing this crossword for a few years and then I got sick and took a break for a few months. I come back and now you have to pay to play more than 3 times a week. It was already annoying when I couldn’t play a puzzle because their ads would often not load before you were allowed to play. But now we have ads and are limited to 3 a week. No thank you..Version: 2.5.3
✓ Use to be good…. Not anymoreI used this app for a few years. One free puzzle a day and settings were easy to use. Could complete the puzzle in dark mode which is easy on the eyes. The calendar kept track of complete puzzles and you were awarded badges. This was taken away a while ago. I check in every month or two. No changes. Still awful and now forced to watch ads. Never can let good enough alone. Somebody always has to ruin It..Version: 2.5.3
✓ Skipping to second character in wordA new problem is happening where when you complete a word or you skip to the next clue you land on the second character in the grid for the answer whether across or down.Version: 2.5.2
✓ Fun but Repetitive and Trying to be too Woke?Agree with those saying the progression arrows need work especially when maneuvering ‘down’ clues. The reason for my lower rating however is the repetition (e.g., most all crosswords have “ale(s)”, “ante”, etc.) and that I feel like the creators are trying to be too “woke”. I’m generally all in favor of trying to increase ones cultural awareness, or learning an additional language, but I look to crossword puzzels more for mental/memory stimulation and maybe some vocabulary enrichment and not to ask for words in languages I do not speak or obscure cultural facts that at best constitute as cultural trivia. All that said, I do enjoy the one a day puzzles which tend to be pretty quick, easy, and fun, while still a little bit challanging..Version: 2.3.0
✓ Very disappointingBefore the most recent (Feb 2022) “updates,” this crossword puzzle app worked flawlessly and was enjoyable to use. Since the update, it is almost unusable. Arrows are useless now. Navigating “across” questions seems to work alright but trying to navigate “down” is impossible because it keeps jumping back to “across.” Text used to be larger - or maybe it was bold - but it was easy to read. Not now. A perfectly good app has been ruined. What a shame..Version: 2.3.0
✓ They LieI enjoy doing this crossword—when I am allowed to do it. Their site says you can play twice a week, and if you register, you can play three times a week. However, after my third game, I am locked out for nearly a month (28 days). So which is it, three times a week, or three times a month? Can no one carry out their promises?.Version: 2.5.2
✓ Crappy UpgradeThe recent upgrade has made it almost impossible to use this puzzle. I have been playing every day for years and now I just hate the thing. It’s hard to find the clues because they are no longer below the puzzle and they move up and down constantly which is distracting…sometime not even visible. The highlighting is so light you can’t see it. What a shame…because I loved the puzzle prior to “upgrade”. FIX IT, Please!!.Version: 2.5.1
✓ Previous versions betterThe jump-to-next word feature jumps to the second letter and the arrows won’t work, so I end up having to tap in the first square for each word. Really annoying and adds to the solve time. Maybe I should go back to the free app which did not have these bugs..Version: 2.5.2
✓ Good puzzles; bad appI enjoy the current puzzles, but the app is really rough. Banner and keyboard take up at least 2/3 of the screen, but my main quibble is about navigating between clues: No rhyme or reason about where you’ll end up if you tap through to the ’next’ clue. The toggle options (for skipping squares and jumping to next clue) don’t really operate as expected. Last update helped a little bit but it seems like a full rebuild might be needed..Version: 2.5.2
✓ Wasted gameThe free version only allows you to play 3 crosswords a week (if you sign in to USAToday), but the app just randomly decides if it wants to only let me do one a certain week. The app constantly says I have puzzles in progress that I haven’t started at all, so it won’t let me play the crossword for the current day. Best of all, because I didn’t start the previous days crossword, I can’t play that one either. Buggy app, and absolutely no customer service or support anywhere to be found. Not worth the time. :(.Version: 2.8.0
✓ It WAS okThis app was lovely at first when everything worked but now it’s infuriating. The letters I type in certain boxes will not show. It takes forever to finish a puzzle because of that therefore the timer on the puzzles are irrelevant because it won’t let you even finish the puzzles!.Version: 2.7.1
✓ Find a free alternativeUsed to make the crossword a daily routine but now I can no longer access more than 1-2 crosswords per week. App says I’m locked out until 9/17 which is Saturday. USA Today’s attempt to monetize everything made this app useless to me. I was fine with the ads being added recently but now I have more limitations so its no longer worth it. Recommend finding a free alternative in the AppStore..Version: 2.5.0
✓ Great content; terrible UINot sure why they're complicating things. It's a crossword app, give the full screen for crossword instead of the USA Today header. It seems like they're trying to be a bit different than NYT and thus fail terribly when compared. I consider the NYT app to be gold standard and USA today falls well below that. It's in unusable territory..Version: 2.5.2
✓ Game won’t launchOften times, the game won’t launch and it will only show the first screen (with just the logo) forever. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling... doesn’t work, it just seams to be random. When it actually does open up, I do like that there are very current answers…like some will involve a new Netflix original title or catch phrase. Unfortunately however, there seams to be quite a bit of cringe politics wrapped inside these puzzles. If you are a hard liberal, you may like them and feel a sense of inclusiveness perhaps, if you’re hard right, eh I’d pass…might be a little touchy and frustrating. I personally would rather no politics be in my games but that’s just me lol this game is my unwinding/go to bed game, not my tik tok news channel. 😂.Version: 2.8.0
✓ No Sound while playing!?I very rarely take the time to review an app, but the fact that I cannot do the crossword while playing music in the background is infuriating! I typically do these daily on my commute to work, but have stopped doing them almost entirely bc the fact that it’s 2022 and I can’t overlay other audio over while using this app is absolutely ridiculous. Patch this please USA Today. Get it together lol.Version: 2.3.0
✓ Good game but interface issuesGreat crossword but please PLEASE give us a dark mode. I like crossword puzzles before bed but the white background is glaring in a game I look to for enjoyment. The order of the words will also get stuck in the loop, will push me to go back instead of forwards and get stuck between..Version: 2.3.0
✓ Stopped WorkingI have been playing this once a day for several months and have enjoyed it quite a lot. However 3 days ago I opened the app and the screen was solid black. Nothing at all! I would open it several times a day hoping that it was somehow my error, but to no avail. Very disappointing!.Version: 2.3.0
✓ Buggy and slowThe most recent update removes the previous and next arrows to jump between clues. This makes navigating the puzzle very frustrating, especially when there doesn’t seem to be any logic behind what clue you end up on after completing one. Loading the puzzle archive takes forever, and it defaults to showing all puzzles instead of unplayed ones, so you have to select the option for only unplayed puzzles and then wait forever a second time. After I’ve completed a puzzle, if a start a second, more often than not I can’t type in the boxes. The keyboard acts like it’s working but no letters appear. I have to force close the app and restart it, then go though the slow multi-step process to get to a puzzle from the archive again. The puzzles themselves are pretty good but there can be a lot of word repetition from day to day. In difficulty, they’re roughly equal to a bit easier than an NYT Monday puzzle. It’s about right for me now, being a crossword newbie, but I feel like I might outgrow them in less than the timeframe of the one year subscription I purchased..Version: 2.5.0
✓ Not worth the aggravationToo many quirks in the app that make the process of solving a puzzle more irritating than it should be. The navigation is cumbersome, and I find myself getting frustrated trying to enter or change letters. And to top it off, the app itself is temperamental, and sometimes won’t load. The puzzles are ok - a little on the easy side - but the actual game play needs a major overhaul..Version: 2.4.0
✓ Can be entertaining but....Many of the puzzles repeat words and clues. It's very repetitive. And of course at least every other puzzle has something to do with transgenders and forcing that crap down our throats..Version: 2.7.1
✓ Recent update is badThe last update took away some features. The ability to switch from across to down by clicking on the clue. The presentation of the clue above the keyboard, you now have to look at the list for a clue. Not very usable in landscape mode. Doesn’t really support the use of external keyboard connected to iPad with Bluetooth. I just subscribed and I get a bad app. Please fix this or I will be forced to unsubscribe..Version: 2.5.0
✓ Needs Offline ModeDesperately needs an offline mode. One of the best times to do some crosswords is on a plane yet you can’t utilize this app on a flight unless you happen to have a flight with free internet. Frustrating! And I know people have been requesting this for a while..Version: 2.8.0
✓ A Good App Became So-So, Then GarbageThere was a time when this app was free for all to use instead of linking to the same puzzle on the web. Granted, this puzzle is always mediocre, whether in print or electronic format. Nothing v close to great puzzles like the NYTimes. Still, it was enjoyable to use and tracked your scores, encouraging you to play. One could play any game within the current month and more. The interface was friendly and easy to use. Sadly, the next generation reduced the number of games available to the current day, plus access to two previous days if those puzzles had been started. Moreover, the app added long, annoying advertising videos before the game each day… some far too long. Still free but very limited and less friendly. Puzzles remained mediocre. The most recent revision restricts users to 3 free crosswords per week, still with annoying ads. There is nothing about these puzzles worth paying a subscription!! The editors seem to be working under the illusion that they have an outstanding product to sell, which is nonsense. These puzzles are just quick to complete without requiring any deep thinking. I certainly won’t be subscribing and hope no one else does either. The manager in charge should be relieved of his puzzle duties. In summary… Don’t pay for a puzzle that is unchallenging and mediocre at best. If you are willing to pay for a puzzle, pay for a better one..Version: 2.5.1
✓ New bugs in every releaseThis was a good app, but recent releases have introduced new bugs that are progressively making the app considerably less usable. Several areas of functionality that helped navigate between words are broken or missing. Please fix these and then the app will again be great..Version: 2.5.2
✓ Slow and poor UITLDR; great puzzles, terrible app There is no way to navigate using a keyboard. You have to touch the box you want to type in. No tab, no arrow keys. Makes for very clunky use, to the point I won’t continue after the free trial. That is a shame, as I do like the puzzles themselves. Small things like the font is too small and is not centered. It just takes up the bottom half of the box (ugh OCD.) Add to that the lag from typing until the letters appear and it actually makes it frustrating to play..Version: 2.6.0
✓ Missing feature?The latest version on the iPad seems to have lost the display of clues at the bottom of the screen, just above the keyboard. I used to be able to navigate to the next clue by clicking the arrow next to the clue's display. Now that display and the arrows are missing. Only the sidebar showing all the clues appears with no navigational shortcut. This makes the entire crossword harder to play..Version: 2.5.1
✓ Developers don’t know what they’re doing?What do you mean “performance improvements”? It’s very clear to me that, when I filter for unplayed puzzles, the app is loading page by page until it finds some. Every time. I’m playing puzzles from back in August and it takes literally over 30 seconds to load unplayed puzzles. Two suggestions. First, filter puzzles server-side. My phone should not be involved at all with the logic of displaying unplayed or incomplete puzzles. Second, just give me a “play next unplayed” button. There should be absolutely no reason for me to look at the archives, change to unplayed, then click the first item. It takes about a minute to find the next puzzle and about 5 for me to solve it. I swear some developers never use their own apps, or this would be painfully apparent from day one. I’ve canceled my subscription until they can make the app reasonably usable..Version: 2.5.3
✓ Puzzles are great when they actually workI frequently have one or more puzzles that say “loading,” but just get stuck there. Now, for several days, I just get the opening white screen and nothing else. When the app works, the puzzles are great, but it’s disappointing to have access limited so frequently..Version: 2.7.2
✓ Worst Crossword App ImaginableI love the USA Today crosswords, but this app is absolutely hideous to use. They need to study the New York Times crossword app and come up with something like that. You can use the app off-line and you don’t need to have an Internet connection to use it. With the USA app, anytime you leave the puzzle, you have to go back in and go through several menu selections to get back into the puzzle. That’s just the beginning of the hideous design. The moves from square to square within the app are ridiculous also. If you have a clue that has five boxes and you fill in the last two it should automatically go back up to the first empty box in the word. It doesn’t. When you’re finished with the puzzle and you want to find any errors, you have to toggle a switch. After you look at the errors, then you have to go back in and turn that toggle off or it will show errors on any future puzzles as you solve them if you make a mistake. If it wasn’t for the fact that I enjoy the puzzles, I wouldn’t use this app in a heartbeat..Version: 2.6.0
✓ Nice puzzles, clunky interface.Puzzles are well constructed and are on the easy side. The interface is not as well done. For example, when trying to overwrite an entire word, instead of automatically advancing to the next letter to be replaced, the cursor jumps to the next word. The word and each subsequent letter must, therefore, be manually reselected. Accessing the archive is painfully slow, especially for unplayed puzzles. It takes several minutes. That is when it works at all. Too often searching the archive for unplayed puzzles returns an “empty list”..Version: 2.5.3
✓ Used to love this app, BUTIt is advertised as a free puzzle each day. That has been true, until the last week. I’m now told I’m out of puzzles and need to pay to play. I’ve found other crosswords to replace this one. I’ve never minded having to watch an ad, but I hate having to pay when the ad says free. They were fun puzzles. Sad.Version: 2.5.1
✓ Puzzle not functioningI wrote a few days ago when I paid for the full year to get more puzzles per day. WHERE are they?? I paid for the puzzles that now are missing the navigation arrows. WHEN will that be fixed? When finished with the puzzle it doesn’t save your stats. WILL you be fixing that? I feel I paid for a bum deal and you took my money for it. Before I paid for it you said I was at my limit for the free puzzle thus why I went for the paid version. I DEMAND a REFUND or it FIXED!! I am one frustrated customer and no response from them!!!!.Version: 2.5.1
✓ Buggy appI use this app daily. Crosswords did work well, but now when a new puzzle is started, it starts on the second letter of the word. Big PITA. Switching between crossword and word cross use to be a struggle, works better now. Another user commented on archive puzzles. You can filter which is nice. However, there are times when I access a puzzle and can’t type a letter. I have to close out and restart app. Sometimes two or three times. Frustrating. I am probably going to remove with all the bugs..Version: 2.5.2
✓ Latest updates terribleRemoving arrows from puzzle navigation is counter productive. Auto skip after completing a word moves to second open letter. This needs to be fixed ASAP! Very poor testing on last release. Last release seems like total fail and a big step backwards!.Version: 2.5.2
✓ Not the bestUpdate: The same words keep being recycled OVER AND OVER to the point where it just isn’t enjoyable. I suggest avoiding the crosswords written by *Erik Agard*. His vocabulary is shockingly small. I received a free 3-month subscription for this app. I’ve done two weeks of crosswords so far. The crosswords themselves are decent. They’re not too hard, but still challenging. My only complaint is that there’s *A LOT* of repeat words. Half a dozen words were reused within 3 or 4 days of crosswords. It seems very lazy and takes away from the fun. The app itself is poorly made. It abuses the screen real estate with banners and titles and menus to the point where only ⅓ of my screen can show the actual crossword with the keyboard open. No fullscreen option is available. For smaller screens, it’s very frustrating. Overall, it’s a fun app, but I would never pay for it..Version: 2.5.3
✓ Misogynist crossword puzzlesI am a crossword junkie, & I subscribe to all the major newspapers (NY Times, the Times, London, the Los Angeles Times, etc.). However, I have never come across a more blatant misogynist crossword puzzle as USA TODAY. I’m guessing that one of editor’s is neither a trans woman or a heterosexual male who are fixated on women bodily functions, women’s body parts and women’s intimate apparel. You’ll notice there is never a clue for men’s jock straps, penis, condoms, premature ejaculation, viarga - only clues & answers for the female equivalent are used..Version: 2.7.2
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