Paperback Vol. 2

After really enjoying playing solo, I talked my wife into getting this app so we could play against each other. Rather than the engaging experience from the solo game, where I could watch every move my AI opponents would make, as they made them - multiplayer just pops up a plain text message “your opponent is making a move” and you wait, bored, until they finish. Thought it was going to be fun, instead it was dull. What a wasted opportunity.

This was a problem with the previous version. AI is allowed to use proper nouns such as Ralph. Also I used pawn and game said it was an invalid word.

Created an account to play online. I didn’t receive a confirmation email. Please fix

Easy to play and a little bit different than the tabletop game. Very well done.

Developers fixed most of the bugs! Thank you!

Great game. BUT since the update: New feature, typos, doesn’t show up on mobile and inviting players for games or starting new games with other players causes the app to hang. Please fix.

My game won’t deal me a second hand any more. I even jninstalled and reinstalled. Full rules would be nice too e.g. what is a “typo”?

Review from 5-15-23: score 5/5 The issues have been fixed it seems and no longer is unplayable with a broken frame rate. Seems to run well again. Review from 5-10-23: score 3/5 Game is broken. Animations move at a snails pace. What did you change with the most recent update? Literally unplayable. It used to go 60fps now chugs around 10-15 fps. And this is on an iPhone 13 Pro. Was working perfectly fine before the update. Please fix. Great game otherwise. Would be rated 4-5 if not for the terrible “update”.

There are so many things wrong with this app. GUI is awkwardly laid out. Some buttons are way smaller than they should be. Push notifications don’t work for online games. Some of the effects on cards like the “Make an adjacent card wild” don’t always work. There have also been a few very legitimate words that the game rejects. Glad I own the physical game and also glad I got the app for free.

Overall, I was stoked to have the implementation of expansion options, but…there are numerous crash bugs making it unplayable…70% of the time. Computer players lock up when trying to make a word. This has appeared with more cards on hand, not fewer. Computer players (smarter AI) have not made words, or have made suboptimal choices. The first is more problematic than the second. After watching them make ‘FA’ or ‘SH’, I question them missing ‘THE’ or SO’. Computer players lock up while buying letters. I appreciate being able to skip their turn, but that just gets the game moving. It does not solve underlying issues. Finally, similar to PAPERBACK VOL1., the double score adjacency bonus does not always work. Again, thanks for putting the work in. Some more tweaks will get it where it needs to be. Mike