Challenging at times. But it must be making more creases in the gray matter. When you >>deliberately<< practice this kind of association, as you do in this app, you are doing it in a no pressure setting .. but, over time, practicing this will refine your attention to detail and hopefully improve your ability to see commonalities in things and situations that, in every day life, seem to be unassociated but actually carry a theme. This kind of skill is invaluable - in business, in life .. seeing beyond the obvious and discovering threads of commonality -- or conversely, disassociating things that you have previous seen as possessing a common string. I will put a reminder in my calendar to check back in in 4 weeks and report if I have climbed some abstract mountain or conquered or refined my capabilities in these sorts of affairs. Beside, it is fun - play it together with someone - either 2 person team vs 2 person team -- add a timer for an edge. Or play as a group to see who gets it right first. Or just 2 of you - plainly finding that you end up giggling at 3 am from the things you have to say about it.

I been playing this game for many, many years. As another reviewer mentioned, the system runs out of new puzzles frequently! It takes seemingly forever for new puzzles to be released! I’d like to see an effort to generate new puzzles frequently so a continuous supply is available to customers to download and play. Most of the puzzle pictures are relevant but there are many, many pictures that have little to no relevance to the pictures presented. I sometimes scratch my head, look up the word and the dictionary provides no connection to some of the pictures. It’s very frustrating when some of the clues are distracting and detrimental to my puzzle solving efforts! Please seek out these pictures and replace them with appropriate ones. Thank you!

This is a great word game for those who like to be challenged! The common word is not always apparent, and you sometimes have to really think beyond the obvious elements of what may be pictured. There have been plenty of sets that had me scratching my head, and sometimes I could figure out the hard ones right away, but overall this game will make you think. My main problem with the game has to do with how quickly the 10 second timer expires when you do the 10 in 10 second challenges. It can be maddening when you absolutely know that you solved a set in 4 seconds, only to not be rewarded the point! Other times, it does count your 9-second response, which comes as a surprise, so there is no consistency. Maybe there needs to be a time bar that reduces in size as the seconds count down, so it keeps it fair? Right now, without fail, I end up doing 14 to 18 puzzles, with one or two that I know took longer, and 3 that I know should have counted :-(. Overall, 4 Pics 1 Word is a fun game!