Reviews for Zen Word® - Relax Puzzle Game

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20 reviews

Review by Dr. Micheal Burns, MAEd, EdD (Mike Burns)
(1/5)July 25, 2025

I’ve completed over 2000 levels, paid for no forced ads, and play every day with my wife. I’m increasingly frustrated that the Zen Tournament is always packed with NPCs. I complete a level, they complete a level or two. I pause, they pause. Playing against a computer I cannot make progress against defeats the purpose […]

Review by Clarinda Arsenault
(3/5)August 10, 2025

Well, I like everything about this game except that the word choices are inconsistent. Sometimes proper names are allowed, sometimes not: “Erica” is valid, “Tom” is not. Some valid words are not allowed, and some of the slang and abbreviations allowed are just silly. Many obscure words included, which is kind of interesting, especially since […]

Review by Erik Pitman
(1/5)August 8, 2025

Part of the premise here is to get consecutive words right, whether list words or bonus words, and the points you get for each word increments by 1 point until you make a mistake and the points you get resets to 1. The problem is there are a massive number of words you’d find in […]

Review by Karen Valentiner
(3/5)August 24, 2025

Game has started doing auto-fill in my puzzles and I have tried numerous times and ways to get through to support and ask how to stop it but I can’t get to a screen that will allow me to ask – lousy support system!!! Fun game but there are so many games available and I […]

Review by Elizabeth Odom
(2/5)August 13, 2025

Loved it, but there are so many issues now. For some reason, it’s not recognizing simple words. Just now, it didn’t recognize the word “here.” It’s no longer recognizing other words too like ice, pot, etc. Recognizes died, but not die or dead. It always used to…what gives? The letter scrambler being moved to the […]

Review by Moody Deb
(3/5)August 3, 2025

I really enjoyed this game when I first started playing. I purchased the ad free version b/c the endless ads drove me nuts. The number of legitimate words which are rejected is truly frustrating. I was just playing & had ”fund”, “rape” & “die” rejected. While there has been an improvement in the variety of […]

Review by Michael Finch
(2/5)August 20, 2025

Fed up with the increase in ads and moving on. Downloaded a while ago and it was fun and kept me wanting to play more. I knew it was a free game and that there were popup ads but that didn’t bother me at first. The ads were basically waiting five seconds and clicking the […]

Review by Brian Scott
(1/5)October 2, 2025

I’ve enjoyed this game for a long time. The ads haven’t been too bad, they can/should always be less and less the more a person has played. My big problem is that recently I get a pop up for “Extra Words” in the middle of playing. It covers the puzzle, very annoying! I’ve tried to […]

Review by Candace
(3/5)July 31, 2025

Downloaded as a time killer and to sharpen my cog skills. I’m at level 4300 or so. The game is sometimes repetitive using the same letters/ words a bit too often. The ads are ridiculous. There are at least 4 between each puzzle and they are all scams. I should’ve deleted a long time ago […]

Review by Marcia Houk
(1/5)September 22, 2025

Six months ago, I could complete the daily games in about 16-18 levels. It was doable and I got my daily firecracker. Now it is 26-28 levels; complete with an ad after each level! No longer worth it. Addendum: I know reason for ads. But fixing something that isn’t broken, and then needing more ads […]

Review by celtic designs
(2/5)February 3, 2025

Very entertaining. However, they lack word continuity (words you use in one won’t necessarily count as words in a later puzzle with the same letters). It’s very annoying. As others have said, your tips and such will automatically get used if you step away from the game for a few seconds. For those of you […]

Review by Kate Eldridge
(3/5)December 30, 2024

The game is fun, as I like playing with words and puzzles. However, lately I’ve been getting the same puzzles over and over. I’ve cleared the cache but not the data, several times. Also (for unrelated reasons) restarted my phone at least once. I’ll raise the rating if this issue is solved; at the moment […]

Review by E&G Garguilo
(1/5)March 4, 2025

I have a reasonably new phone and a fast connection, but after 30 minutes of play, I am deleting this game. The lag is maddening! You swipe a couple of letters, and the game freezes mid-word! This happened very frequently. I also experienced ads which were just a black screen that forced me to reboot […]

Review by Gary Hood (Cerberus)
(1/5)October 15, 2024

The game advertises itself on other games as having “no annoying ads,” and for the first two chapters, the only ad you see is a banner app on the bottom. When you enter chapter 3, though, the game hits you with an ad after every level, and says you can pay to remove ads. This […]

Review by Nikoletti Darula
(3/5)March 4, 2025

This is my go to casual F2P game that keeps me sharper when playing the Scrabble board game with my partner. I enjoy playing this on the daily. A few ideas that would make this app better for me: a player dictionary of all the words we’ve found (a lot of times I don’t know […]

Review by Kerry Vosswinkel
(2/5)October 23, 2024

Just got it today so of course it’s easy to begin with, but so far they’ve kept their word about no ads. Edit: I barely got to about level fifteen and the ads started showing up. I absolutely despise companies who lie, whether it’s by showing an ad for the game that is nothing like […]

Review by Diana Flanigan
(3/5)July 6, 2025

I understand the ads for free play, but this game has ads after every single round. some of them, such as Nike, have no way out of the ad other than closing the game and reopening it. Even with that, though, I would give it 5 stars if it tracked statistics for the accumulation of […]

Review by Sabra Barker
(1/5)July 13, 2025

I reinstalled the game after the creators claimed they were going to reduce the number of ads. if anything, the ads have gotten worse. you clear a level and bam, another ad. on occasion an ad would pop up as I was playing a level. uninstalling again. Other games advertised zen word as being ad […]

Review by Izabelle Gailor
(1/5)August 6, 2025

Downloaded the game because they promised there were “no ads.” There were no ads playing it the first day and then the second day it’s like a popup ad every few seconds. I understand devs need to make money for their hard work but the promise of no ads being a blatant lie makes me […]

Review by John Macrina
(1/5)August 29, 2025

The ads are out of control! This game was fun but the amount of ads is ridiculous. I paid for the ad free version but every time I use a bonus to get a letter it takes you to a 30 second ad, the another page for 5 seconds, and a 3rd page for another […]