Crosswords with Friends vs Prose & Codes
Crosswords with Friends
Crosswords with Friends is Zynga's more social take on the age-old word game of crossword. The game offers players free new puzzles daily, each of which has their own specific theme, namely Movie Monday, TV Tuesday, Wayback Wednesday, Top 40 Thursday, Sports Fan Friday, Smartypants Saturday, and People Sunday that puts your pop culture knowledge to the test with one-of-a-kind, People Magazine celebrity puzzles.The puzzles themselves are extremely well-made, which is not at all surprising considering the all-star crossword writers they have managed to assemble. Of course, when things get a bit too tough, there are helpful hints for you to use as well. Being a social game, Crosswords with Friends also has a leaderboard system where players can compete for the top spots by earning as high a score as they can.
When it comes to choosing the best crossword games on mobile, Crosswords with Friends is ranked pretty much at the top. So, if solving crosswords is kind of your thing, this is one game you'll want on your phone/tablet.
Prose & Codes
Prose & Codes is a fun and fairly relaxing puzzle game where you’ll need to solve simple substitution ciphers involving excerpts from both popular and obscure literary classics that are listed as “public domain” while being serenaded by beautiful piano music. The game features book excerpts from 7 different genres, ranging from children’s stories to tales of epic adventures; several difficulty levels to choose from, and if you like what you’ve deciphered, you can even hop on over to the online library that is Project Gutenberg since all these books are available to read and download for free.Even if you’re not a whiz at solving ciphers, Prose & Codes will have you hooked from start to finish! The levels are very well designed and tailored to the difficulty setting of your choice, and the excerpts are all very well-selected. If you’re a book lover, not only can you have fun decoding the ciphers and bookmarking the excerpts that you love most; you can also take this opportunity to discover new titles that you might be interested to read.
Finding the corresponding book is easy as pie too since the game provides you with a nifty button that will direct you over to Project Gutenberg where you can download and read the books (in eBook form) for free.