So You Think You Know Words Pro

by The Smyth Group, Inc.

Product Details

• ASIN: B007EFG61Q
• Original Release Date: January 28, 2012
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 27, 2012
Rated: All Ages This app may include dynamic content. What's this?

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (320 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,069 Paid in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Paid in Appstore for Android)

Product Features

• 500 puzzles!
• Shake to shuffle letters
• Turn on hints if you get stuck
• Post to Facebook to get help from your friends

Technical Details

• Size: 847.6KB
• Version: 1.31
• Developed By: The Smyth Group, Inc.
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • Open network sockets
  • Access information about networks
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.2
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 10 seconds

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

50 of 60 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars App and reviewers review July 29, 2012

By Woody1

Amazon Verified Purchase

Two things to be said. The app needs work and the self-promotion is cleverly disquised.
App:
Pros: it works, clean interface, straight forward game play
Cons: no screen rotation, no settings, one time one letter hint per word, devoid of a color scheme, un-original

Difficulty is not a plus in this setting and no effort to really engage the gamer was but forth. It is a bulk upload of pictionary words without clues.

Self-promotion is shameful:
Pattern of five star reviews are masked by "verified Amazon purchase" but with 15+ developers that contributed to them and looking deeper into "other reviews", "location" and "content you will see a pattern. Clever tactic to boost self-promotion but I would challenge those that don't normally write reviews to step up today and try the app and give an honest opinion as if they SPENT $2 on this app. Is it really worth your money vs. all the alternatives? Is it really worth $2 of fun?

My opinion was it is not and it now lives back in the cloud. Thanks for the trial though.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Equally fun and frustrating July 30, 2012

By Juli

Amazon Verified Purchase

I do enjoy playing this game app. Some of the puzzles are easy, some are challenging and others are downright impossible. Many of the clues are just too vague. Perhaps if there was an option to add up to 3 letters per hint and a settings menu that allowed for turning the sounds off, I'd rate it 5 stars.

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Have to agree with the REAL reviewers: This is REALLY horrible. Really, really horrible. July 29, 2012

By GemDragon

I have never seen so many fake 5 star reviews solicited by a dev in any other app. One of their plants was even stupid enough to state right in the review that she was asked by her friend who developed the app to rate it from her Kindle!! (over on the free version of this app, where you will also find other reviews by friends intended to pad the ratings). When a dev has to pad the ratings up hoping to fool customers, it means even they do not think the app can survive on its own merits.

As far as the game goes, it really is ridiculously difficult to figure out three words of varying lengths based on a loosely defined (at best) category. Maternal type foods are tomato and holllandaise?? Are they kidding?? And the arm category would not recognize ulna, but instead, wing. The answers are not hard or for the more intellectually blessed, trust me. Has nothing to do with being SMART or having a superior vocabulary. Sometimes I found more appropriate words for the first word, but was not accepted because the creator had three OTHER words in mind. And the words are SO TOTALLY "OFF" for what you would "think" the category even is! You are not even told THAT!! You have to guess what the category is by the annoying cutesy titles. So if THAT is not known, how do know what category the words even belong to?

Also, I got a 1st word correct, had to leave the app for a few minutes, then went back to the puzzle and the first word was MISSING and ther were only 7 letters left to complete the other 2 words that added up to 12 letters! The UI is a little screwy. No mute button for the music in the is just dev laziness, as is not making the app go to the external SD card by default. And the ASK YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS button is a cheap way out of not employing additional hints as needed because they want you to post your frustration at not knowing the answer all over the internet! What are we, their PROMOTERS?? Nice try, devs. If you want the answers, go ask your friends LOL, cause you won't get them in the APP! Nice, nice try devs. The only thing worth posting on FB is that the app SUCKS.

Even with more hints given, it doesn't detract from the fact that the 3 words they chose are not always very good choices for the "categories" they chose, whatever those categories may be.

It's not TOO HARD for some people because of lack of intellect. It's just TOO ESOTERIC and often ABSTRACT, and definitely not always LOGICAL.

If you are thinking of actually paying for this app, you might want to read more reviews that more thoroughly explain the criticisms before doing so, because there are SO many obvious fake ones here. Apparently, one of the devs was asked why he posted the fake review, and he deleted it and then rated that customer's review as unfavorable. This is shameful behavior by a dev against Amazon customers.

We just deleted this app after spending way too much time TRYING to like it. It wasn't even fun on any level, just annoying like so many others said. I should havve listened to the REAL reviews before wasting my time with this.