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Best Variety Puzzle App
I’ve used this app almost daily for eight months now and have no plans on quitting any time soon. There is always an update every month (with the exception of one time probably due to the start of COVID) and you can go back as far back as 2018 to play puzzles. I have never run out of content and never get bored of it. If you are a puzzle fanatic, the subscription is very much worth the cost - I have definitely played way more than some games I’ve paid $60 for.
My only change would be to suggest a rework of the quest to complete one puzzle for 7 consecutive days, because the coins you are rewarded are not worth the time spent. It’s more beneficial (and cost effective) to just skip the quest and get a shorter one for the next few days.
Overall, I’d like to say thank you to the devs for always keeping the game updated and for coming up with fun new puzzles types every now and then. You rock!Show lessKkander
Been playing for a while now
I love almost every thing about this game.
It has a good variety of different types of puzzles to solve. A lot of them I had never even heard of before I downloaded this app. Also, instructions on how to play each puzzle, are very clear and helpful if you don't know how to play or have any questions.
I like that every day it gives you a new page to look at. I also like having the ability to go back to previous days and being able to play those puzzles as well.
The only thing I don't like is that you run out of the free coins that the game starts you out with, way too fast before they give you the option to purchase more, even if you arent spending any of them on hints, ect.
Now, I understand that the game can't be totally free. However, i think that the app should initially start you out with a few more free coins.Show lessLalaliz4eva
Nice Variety, great puzzles
I like that there’s so much variety. Can play at different skill levels (easy to hard) depending on how I’m feeling. You can play with subscription or build up tokens by watching some small ads. At first I thought I’d give it a miss because of ads ...and I don’t like monthly payments. I organized times when I could see the ads (while making a coffee) and that worked well. Realized how great it was I went ahead and bought the annual subscription. (That’s huge for me, I rarely buy apps) it’s great. Great, great.Show lessDi Henderson
Still too buggy to subscribe
I wrote a review about a month ago and gave this game three stars but complained that it was freezing my (dated) iPad much too frequently, particularly when you were watching an ad to get a puzzle. I also complained about the load time. The developers wrote to me and told me that my operating system may not have been updated and that was necessary for the game to work. I’m leery about updating the operating system, because doing it often means that an older machine will run too slowly and crash more frequently after an update, because undoubtedly they’ve added some new function or complicated graphics that you don’t need. But I went ahead and did the update. Now one of my other games that I liked won’t run anymore, and guess what? Puzzle Game still loads slowly and freezes all the time. So I’ve lowered my rating to two stars. I can’t see why this game should need so much memory to run — the graphics are primitive and the games don’t require much processing. This could be a good app, I would even have subscribed to avoid the endless ads, but I just don’t understand why they can’t get this game to run better.Show lessSaswin11
Great app, would love some tweaks
This app is lots of fun, I had it downloaded on my old iPhone and recently re downloaded it to this one. I love that it gives you a variety of puzzle types and they’re always updating and adding new ones. I have just a couple of suggestions:
First, it would be great to have some sort of dark mode. I often play at night and even with my brightness down the white backgrounds are super bright. Maybe the option could be added near the option to change the ink color?
Second, it would be great if with the crossword and challenger games there was an option to move sequentially through unfinished clues instead of having to tap on them within the puzzle. If I’m playing with one hand, it’s hard to reach all the way up to the top of the screen. Adding little arrow keys to move to the next clue would be super helpful.
Even without these changes, it’s still a great app, and they’re always prompt with bug fixes, which is a huge plus in my opinion.Show lesseli4414
Insane amount of ads - gets annoying.
Initially a great game, good variety and minimal ads.
Get up to 20 tokens for constant daily login (enough tokens to play 2 games on current day). And over time get up to 5 tokens but is 10 token per game (can be more per puzzle).
Watch an ad for 5 tokens to get the full 10 tokens to play - but even if you have the full 10 tokens force you to watch an ad plus pay the 10 tokens to play a puzzle... random ads after 50% or more of the puzzles on top of all the other ads. Plus also has banner ads too.
I’m fine for voluntary ads to get tokens (would need to watch roughly 6 ads a day at minimum just to do all daily puzzles. Many more ads required if you want to do the non daily puzzles.Show lessKampres
Bugs
This game is pretty good. I really enjoy the assortment of puzzles on a daily basis. Also, I really enjoy the challenges and achievements.
That being said, I’ve been playing this game for over a year now and have had the same problem occur multiple times. At first I thought it was a one time glitch and shrugged it off. Now, I’m pretty sure it’s a bug on the game’s end. Every so often I will reach an achievement such as complete 100 puzzles of a certain kind. Usually when you get an achievement you get a reward of tokens. As you get higher levels of that achievement you get more tokens. I have been gypped out of tokens at least 3 times on higher level achievements. Most recently I was supposed to receive 45 tokens, but didn’t. 45 tokens is a great reward and would let me play many more puzzles. This time when I reached the achievement, I looked at the box and it told me 0 more puzzles to complete, so I knew I got it. I restarted the app and suddenly I was on the next level with no reward. Again, if this had happened only once it would be no big deal, but it has happened many times.Show lessForreals&
So fun but so restricted
This is a great app. The variety of puzzles make hours of fun! One complaint is that special issues are so restricted. I pay for the subscription but can’t access all of the puzzles. This is a problem because I only like to play the most difficult. However, even subscribers must complete all puzzles in a special issue to open the next. Why do I pay if I can’t play the puzzles I like to play. Also, you only get five “free” special issue puzzles per day. Then you must use tokens. Again, why pay if I can’t play the puzzles that I like? It’s understandable to worry that subscribers might cancel if they can play all of the puzzles they want as quickly as they want, but I would not. I frequently replay my favorite difficult puzzles and follow a system so that by the time I replay one, I’ve forgotten the solution. They are losing a subscriber because I’m paying for puzzles I cannot play without spending a ton on tokens to race through the annoying, easy puzzles. Hate to cancel, but currently it’s not worth the money.Show lesscoolsteph86
Good
For the most part I love this app. I play it everyday, and I love that as long as I don’t mind watching ads I can keep up with the daily puzzles and even do a few of the special issues once in a while. I have a very tight budget so subscriptions to games are not something I can afford. However, a few programming changes they’ve made recently are a bit annoying, and one of them I think might actually be a bug.
1. After finishing a puzzle and getting the reward screen I don’t like how it sometimes kicks you out of the page you were on all the way back to the main daily page calendar. This seems to only happen when you complete a “quest” which is a new feature for getting additional rewards. Not really needed, but if it has to be in please have it send you back to whatever page you were on, not kick you out all the way back to the main calendar.
2. After getting kicked back to the calendar, if you were in a previous month BEFORE getting kicked out of the page, you will be placed into the current month but the previous month’s name will show at the top and any dates you tap on will take you to the same date for the previous month. This has to be a bug. You can fix it by sliding to the previous month and back to the current month again, but it’s annoying. Maybe just...have it not kick us back to the main menu after completing a quest. That seems like a really easy way to fix this.Show lessdollbones
Developer Response
Thanks for your review. We've subsequently made a number of updates and improvements to the app. If you are still experiencing issues like this, please contact us via the in game help or at support@puzzling.com so that we can assist you.Puzzles great - token system flawed!
Honestly if it weren’t for the great range of puzzles & straightforward gameplay interfaces I would absolutely switch to another app. The token system seems deliberately designed to make the free version as unplayable as possible and therefore force people to subscribe. You run out of tokens very quickly as each puzzle costs 10-20 tokens to play (so you can use 60-80 tokens on a single page), you very rarely get tokens through gameplay, and you can only earn 5 tokens at a time through watching ads which makes it very slow and annoying to earn back enough tokens to actually use the app for a decent length of time, let alone complete an entire page.
Meanwhile I have thousands of coins that I don’t need, so here’s a suggestion for the developers - why not, in addition to the in app purchases, offer an in-game exchange system where you can “buy” tokens using coins (e.g. spend 1000 coins and get 100 tokens or something)? There are plenty of other perks to subscribing so I’m sure the people who really want to subscribe still would, but those of us who can’t or don’t want to spend £5.99 a month on a puzzle app can still actually use it? Otherwise if you’re so desperate to get people to spend money on the app why not cut the pretense and just make it a paid app in the first place instead of offering a free version that becomes borderline unusable after a couple of days of regular use!Show lessStrangeMusician11
Developer Response
Thanks for your review. There’s a variety of ways to earn Tokens within the game including: daily rewards, completing specific objectives and participating in timed events. Please refer to the in game ‘Help’ section for more information.
