how is this game tagged as casual?

[The King Possum]

this is in fact a hardcore game. this game is not casual at all. this game is very hard. I challenge all hardcore gamers to play and beat this game without use of the achievement guide that gives you the answers. I could not do it. in fact the only reson I got 100% achievements is because of the guides.

[Cassima28]

I agree ; ; I went into this game expecting a casual language puzzle game, but it's so hard D: It doesn't help that English is not my first language, but the 'puzzle' part about it is also not very easy for me to understand, in a logic kind of way... I mean, when there are 4 possible letters for a open space, and you have about 20 of these open spaces, I just don't know how to begin making a word.. So I also ended up looking at the guides To get at least a start out of a puzzle, I take a quick peek at the solution so I can fill in 1 or 2 words, and then I try to finish the puzzle on my own.

[Two Clicks]

Well Ive been playing this game for nearly 30 hours w/o any aid or guide.

English *is* my first language.... barely! ;)

And I have to agree that the hard difficulty puzzles are not casual. However most of the game is casual so perhaps thats why its tagged as such. Casual doesnt have to mean the entire game is casual to beat.... but casual to play.... or does it!?

For the hard puzzles it really helps if you can identify where the vowels could go first or what combination of consonants can go together: i.e. FR, FL, SC, MY, etc....

[The King Possum]

english is my first langauge though I don't speak proper english and the medium and hard puszzles are somewhat complicated with easy being fairly easy. it is a good game and I hope they release another one as it is a great way to learn words, how to spell words and just see things from a different perspective.

[Jerez]

English is my second language (but I'm fully fluent) and I am doing this without a guide. Having said that- this game already annoyed me by tossing in a Latin abbreviation in one of the very first puzzles. I happen to have had a little Latin way back when, but it never ocurred to me it would be used in an English word game. Urdu next? Sticking with it however because I'm stubborn.

[John C Flett]

Casual would appear to mean different things to different people.

To me casual means simple mechanics and designed for short sessions of drop in game play. In that sense this is very much "casual". It doesn't mean easy and I've played many games which are casual but can be pretty tough at the same time

[Timmy]

Originally posted by John C Flett:

Casual would appear to mean different things to different people.

To me casual means simple mechanics and designed for short sessions of drop in game play. In that sense this is very much "casual". It doesn't mean easy and I've played many games which are casual but can be pretty tough at the same time

gotta agree, i too read 'casual' thinking of a game you can pick up at any time, and which does not require particular dedication or a long session to be fully appreciated

in that way, 'casual' is a fitting tag for lexica, or at least that's how a few people i know and i myself use to play it... with about a 5min average completion time, i know that if i can't solve a scheme in about 5 minutes, it doesn't matter how long i stare at it, the solution is not going to magically occur to me in another 5, or 20min for what it's worth, i just move on to another scheme. currently working on the last few medium schemes, and i have more than half an hour on some of them -_- oh well, sometimes brilliance strikes you at first glance, but more often than not it doesn't

[Vercinger]

I agree with OP. It would be casual if there was no timer though.