Acrostic Crossword Puzzles

It’s how I get to sleep at night, the only thing that helps my insomnia. I play it for 30-45 minutes and it wears my brain out enough to finally sleep. Works better than melatonin. Wish they had anagram magic squares as a game app though. That on is my favorite Penny Press game.

The PennyPress acrostics are not as satisfying as the other brand.

There are some issues here. Sometimes the clue states that the answer is two words, but it’s only one. Choosing to erase mistakes will sometimes erase correct letters. I’ll immediately put the correct answer back in and retry to erase mistakes for the correct answer to now remain. There’s a bunch of little things like this that make this app not worth investing my time or money in. Update: to the developer, the puzzle where I experienced the most issues, and the one that caused me to stop, but not the only puzzle where I experienced these issues, is the one that uses a quote from Simon Singh’s “The Code Book.” I was on the newest app update, iPhone 14 Pro Max w/ most recent version of iOS. I don’t recall any specifics about which individual puzzles than what I listed above. I played around 40 puzzles and was working my way through the expert puzzles. I hope that helps. I can add some specifics about the puzzle I listed. I had all answers correct and the puzzle wouldnt finish. It stated that I had an incorrect answer. Checking for mistakes erased correct letters and I put those back in and finally got it to accept that the puzzle was finished. I recall one answer being “selectw”. It would erase the first e and t and did so multiple times. Then it was just the t that was erased and then it stopped marking it as incorrect.

I do these daily, why did you take away my volumes? If this is a new system it stinks. I would like my volumes back Linda Hoffman

I really like this game and it’s interface. Puzzles are challenging and fun. Please add a daily challenge and you would earn five stars!

Such a great challenging puzzle!! Puzzle Baron is the best one, due to size of puzzles and fitting on cell phone!

It's a good interface, with just enough hint-offering to bail me out from time to time. I wish I could make the font bigger, but that's why they well cheap reading glasses. I do wonder if there will be more and harder ones on offer once I've worked through these... Oh, and thanks for the kids-level puzzle - time to get the grandkids to try this out!

These are some excellent puzzles. My mother used to buy these magazines and I’d spend hours trying to figure them out. Fun to see them in an app. However some of the puzzles are very dated.

This is one of my favorite apps. I’ve enjoyed acrostics since I was a kid, but doing them on paper required lots of transferring letters from one part of the puzzle to another (it reminded me of double-entry bookkeeping). With this app, both halves of the puzzle are kept in synch, so it’s easier to guess words and see if they fit. The puzzles themselves are well-constructed, with a mix of tricky and easy clues. And the add-on packs let you keep refreshing new puzzles at a reasonable cost. Many thanks to the developers!

I don’t like apps that interrupt you in the middle to ask you to write a review, so I rape them harshly.