Crostix

Name: Crostix
Rating: 4.76667 (30 reviews)

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Crostix

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30 ratings

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Brian Mountford

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$0.99 – $1.99

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User Reviews for Crostix

STILL THE BEST WORD APP!!!

AmaryllisApple, Oct 19, 2020

Great Game!

I love word puzzles and this is one that works very well - great interface; nice gradations on clues; super variety of topics and quotes.

Avalon440044, Jun 24, 2017

My favorite Anacrostics in electronic form

I’ve always loved Anacrostics. I’ve been doing them with pencil and paper for years. This app works just like the printed ones, but once completely filled in, you get immediate feedback as to whether all entries are correct. They’re fun and challenging, especially at the higher difficulty levels.

CCinTX, Jun 10, 2022

Great app but no updates for several years!

I love this app, but there have been no new puzzles for several years. It's easy to use and most of the puzzles are information and fun to solve.I like the more complicated puzzles, not the gag lines. However, the Sherlock Holmes puzzles are extremely difficult. I exhausted the Mumford puzzles quite a while ago, which makes the current version of the app worthless. PLEASE add more puzzles soon!

deserves no stars at all, Dec 10, 2019

Not bad

Overall, way too easy. As mentioned elsewhere, in-app purchases do not all work. Almost a year and this has not been fixed???Update: Still cannot make in-ap purchases as of Dec 2017. No way to contact the developer. Downgrading to one star, as is totally useless.

Frijitz, Dec 22, 2017

The Best

Excellent puzzles from easy to fiendish! I can't get enough!

Mama2Nine, Sep 01, 2017

Absolutely wonderful.

I have spent many hours enjoying these puzzles and learning many things I did not know before. I hope that will continue to be additions to the Crostix library as I have completed most of them that are currently available.

NSC41, May 21, 2017

Love it!

So much fun.

PN69, Apr 16, 2018

An excellent idea

I enjoy crostic puzzles much more than crosswords, especially on the iPad. The computer removes the greatest drawback to crostics--the fussy work of transferring letters between the word list and the quotation. In reducing the fussiness, the program also makes the puzzles much easier. You can quickly try out an idea in one grid to see whether letters land in sensible places in the other. I find that instead of laboring to complete one puzzle at a time, I can knock off half a dozen of these at a sitting. Unfortunately, this means that you can run out of puzzles pretty quickly.Another difficulty is that all of the puzzles are by the same constructor, and there's a good deal of repetition--clue words and even the clues themselves appear in several puzzles. For example, you might not initially know the term for the opposite of hibernation (sleeping in the summer rather than the winter), but you'll know it soon, and what ought to be a rather difficult clue will become a gimme. This is another reason the puzzles are easy. Allowing for this effect, there isn't much difference in difficulty between the easy puzzles and the "fiendish" ones, at least if you do them in order. It would be wonderful if the Crostix folks could get the rights to republish the work of other constructors, including some of the old classic Thomas Middleton puzzles.

Readingaloud, Jun 12, 2010

Great app

One of the few I’ll actually pay for which says a lot. I’ve always loved this kind of puzzle. I’d love it it started with some “free” letters on the puzzle to get you started but all in all I really enjoy playing.

tamikajo, Apr 26, 2019

Description

Welcome to the world of acrostics! An acrostic, also called a crostic or double crostic, is a cousin of crossword puzzles, with clues and answers whose letters are rearranged to form a quote from a famous (or not-so-famous) author. If you're familiar with acrostics, you will quickly see how convenient they are on the iPhone, because letters are automatically copied to the correct place as you type them in.

Crostix, the online library of acrostic puzzles, is now available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It includes 150 puzzles, from easy to fiendishly hard, and you can buy more puzzles right in the application. For free sample puzzles, download the aptly-named Crostix Free. The program has all the features you'd expect: - get hints for a single letter or an entire word, - see your score, based on how many hints you needed, - change the font size by pinching, - rotate the device as you like, and - get help on all program options. If you're new to the world of acrostics, the application also includes a short description to get you started. More tutorials about acrostics are available on our Web site!