Crostix App Reviews

Ive worked a handful of these acrostics and so far, the quotations and word lists are top notch. But I miss the little cross-reference numbers that most acrostics have. The lack of punctuation is a bit off-putting, too. Doesnt mean I wont buy more! Its not easy to find puzzles difficult enough to entertain me as much as these do.

Very well done and good practice for trivia contests, teasing ones memory for snippets of poetry, history, geography and science learned long ago. Ross

Croatix combines two puzzles in one. What you figure out in one puzzle will help you solve the other.

I enjoy this app and have found the "elementary" Sherlock Holmes puzzles exactly the right difficulty level. Some of the short puzzles (captions, historical headlines) were too easy.

I adore crostics puzzles and these are the best! Challenging and entertaining.

Very challenging

I love this app! I rarely get the paid versions of games, but this was well worth it. I used to buy Acrostic books at Barnes and Noble. This provides the same enjoyment but in an easy to use format. No pencil and eraser needed. Nice quotes, clever clues, puns. Its all fun.

I paid for the Crostix Big Book a couple of years ago. Today I was sent an app update to "fix" bugs. Well she fixed me! Though I already bought it, my completed puzzles show blank. Then the HELP button told me to press "buy it" and it would not charge me since I previously purchased it. But it did charge me. I want my $1.99 back AND my completed puzzles. What a mess. Dont buy this. It was crashing a lot!!!!!

Ive enjoyed these quote-acrostic puzzle for a long while, and I recommend them to anyone else who like this sort of puzzle

While I really enjoy anacrostic puzzles this apps in game purchase feature does not work. I have already done the first nine books ad nauseum and am frustrated that I cannot buy the latest two books

I love crostics, and I deeply appreciate the way filling in a square in either the clues or the quote automatically fills in the corresponding square in the other. Ive bought most of the books available, and an enjoying them all at their differing difficulty levels. There are a couple of improvements Id love to see: First, Id love to have the ability to choose to skip over already filled squares in both clues and quotes. Second, Id really love to have a space (perhaps one that could be toggled in and out of view?) that shows the first letters of the clue answers. On paper, I can sometimes get useful hints to clue answers by recognizing names or titles thus spelled out, but on my iPhone I absolutely can never see more than three of those letters at a time, which really doesnt work!

I used to love double-crosstics in the NYT and magazines, and Ive been very happy to find and enjoy this app over the past year. Being online and able to easily delete a whole clue answer permits a much more fun approach to the puzzle than doing them in ink on paper. I too was frustrated that I seemed to be stuck in limbo for several weeks, unable to complete the purchase of Books Ten and Eleven, but just now I tried buying the Headlines for the first time. There was a new AppStore purchase agreement I had to OK, and then suddenly the floodgates opened for my other failed purchases in this App.

I have always liked acrostics, and the automatic cross-filling in the Crostix app takes away the only negative of this sort of puzzle. The choice of quotations for the app is a real plus. I have enjoyed some of the quotes so much that I have been inspired to read the books they are taken from.

I love the way this game works. I also love that the additional libraries are reasonably priced. I hope it keeps going for a long time!

I love crostic puzzles, and this app has an intuitive interface. Its easy to enter letters into either the clues or the quote. The app sometimes crashes, and I wish there were a few more hard puzzles. But its lots of fun and the quotes are interesting.

Ive had this app for some time, and I had loved it. However, I just got two puzzles in a row that were offensive--one used the word "Chinaman" and the second had a quotation on the topic of whether "Gypsies" could ever be honest. Extraordinarily offensive; Im deleting this app immediately and encourage others to do likewise. I can, and will, get my word puzzle fun elsewhere.

I love acrostics and have a hard time finding paper books, so I play here. I enjoy the puzzles a lot and am on Book 10 - almost out of books to play. What then? The only thing I wish were different is that the initial letters of the clue answers dont spell out the name of author and source. So these are acrostics, not double-acrostics. But I love not having to erase all the wrong letters.

I enjoy Crostics very much but do wish that there were more of the difficult categories. The short quotes and easy category just dont offer enough of a challenge.

Overall, way too easy. As mentioned elsewhere, in-app purchases do not all work. Almost a year and this has not been fixed???