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Word Circle Cross by Big T

Word Circle with a crossword twist.

The same letter circle, but the answers land in a crossword grid instead of a list. The empty grid tells you how long every answer is and where they cross before you touch a letter — which turns slot length into something you can solve with.

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What the game is

A ring of letters sits under a crossword grid. Drag through the circle to spell a word; if it is an answer in the grid, it fills in, crossings and all. Every answer is built from the same set of circle letters.

Reading the grid before you touch the circle is the whole technique. The empty grid already shows every answer length and every crossing, so a word that fits nothing is not a target word — the slot lengths filter your guesses for you.

As in Word Circle, valid words that are not answers still score and still earn hint tokens.

How you play it

Building a word
Drag through the letters in the circle, then release.
Read the grid first
Answer lengths and crossing positions are visible before you start, and they narrow what is worth trying.
Shuffle
Rearranges the circle when a set of letters stops suggesting anything.
Hint tokens
Reveal Random, Reveal Choice and Mega Reveal — earned by solving puzzles and finding bonus words.

What the four difficulties actually mean

One more letter each step.

The same ladder as Word Circle, and the bonus pool explodes even harder here, because the grid constrains the target words while the circle does not constrain the bonuses: about 4 bonus words are available at Easy, against roughly 80 at Expert.

TierWhat it isWhat that changes
Easy 4 letters A small grid, and a circle you can work exhaustively.
Medium 5 letters More crossings, and slot length starts doing real work.
Hard 6 letters Dense grids with a large bonus pool alongside.
Expert 7 letters Roughly 80 bonus words available on top of the grid itself.

What is free, and what is not

Two hundred puzzles to start — fifty in each of the four difficulties.

Extra puzzles come as packs, sold one at a time. There is no bundle you have to buy to get a fair deal, no "unlock everything" upsell, and no subscription — you buy the pack you want and nothing else.

Easy pack 50 puzzles $1.99
Medium pack 50 puzzles $1.99
Hard pack 50 puzzles $2.49
Expert pack 50 puzzles $2.99

Purchases are tied to the account you sign in with, so they survive a reinstall or a new device. Prices are US dollars; your local store will show its own.

Why these are different

No ads. None.

Not fewer ads, not optional ads, not a "rewarded" video in exchange for a hint. There is no advertising code in the app at all, so there is nothing to interrupt you, nothing to accidentally tap, and nothing that starts appearing later once you are invested.

No advertising ID

The Android advertising ID is absent from every one of our binaries, and none of them asks permission to read it. That is checked automatically on every release build before it ships — it is a property of the artifact, not a promise in a policy.

We do not know who you are

No name, no email address, no phone number, no contacts, no location. When you sign in, the platform offers the app your display name and avatar; the app never reads them.

Your games are not linked to each other

Your identity with us is a one-way salted hash, computed separately for every game. The same person playing two of our games is two unrelated IDs, and we could not connect them if we wanted to — we removed the ability rather than promising not to use it.

Pay once, own it

No subscriptions. No expiring content. No energy timer, no "come back tomorrow", no currency to top up. You buy a puzzle pack and it is yours, on every device you sign in from.

What we do measure

Anonymous gameplay measurements: how long a puzzle took, whether it was finished, how many hints it needed. We use them to check that a puzzle labelled Hard is actually hard. Saying that plainly is stronger than implying nothing is measured — the privacy policy spells out every field.

You should not have to take our word for any of it. See the receipts

Comfort and accessibility

  • Themes — light and dark, plus a choice of colour themes.
  • The timer can be hidden. If a clock on screen changes how a puzzle feels, turn it off.
  • Portrait on a phone, landscape on a bigger screen. The grid needs the height, so on a phone it stays upright rather than being squeezed into a letterbox. On a tablet or an unfolded foldable it rotates and gains a side-by-side layout. Either way you can move the controls above the board, or put them under your dominant hand on a wide screen.
  • Tablets and foldables get their own layouts rather than a stretched phone one.
  • Nothing is on a clock. No energy meter, no countdown, no push notification asking you to come back. Your stats keep a day streak, and a long one earns a bonus hint — but nothing else is gated on it, and nothing you already own expires while you are away.

Read more

Finished and in final testing. Coming to Google Play soon.