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Fun and challenging but…
Love playing it but there’s only a few different scenarios. I do really like the mystery levels. Even more challenging and definitely doable. The scoring does indeed seem to be arbitrary, as someone else mentioned. And so now I ignore it. But I have a around 15,000 coins and can’t spend them. Nothing unlocks. That’s pretty frustrating. And I notice that I’m almost out of levels. Don’t know what’s going to happen then. I did play to have no ads. Felt the cost was reasonable. I drop a few bucks on a coffee or pack of gum without a second thought. I don’t get why people are moaning about the cost of getting rid of the ads. Anyways, my biggest complaint is that there are no instructions or explanations and when I emailed the developers, they never responded. Maybe they’ve abandoned the game and thus, there are limited levels, no instructions and random scoring going unexplained.Show lessVeggie doc
Even the “No Ads” version has ads
I’ve seen a lot of reviews talking about how solid and addictive this game is, and I agree. I’ve also seen a lot of folks saying they’re unwilling to pay $3.99 to get rid of the ads. I can respect that, since it sort of feels like extortion considering how many ads there are, but I decided that I’d played enough of the game that the developers deserved my pizza money. I purchased the “No Ads” add-on.
It did not remove all the ads from the game. There are no more ad banners or ads between rounds or attempts, but you still must watch an ad any time you want to add an extra bottle to the puzzle. You may be saying “That’s a skill issue,” and you’re not wrong. The goal should always be to complete the puzzle without adding places to sort balls into. In a way, I’m more incentivized than ever to avoid taking the helping hand.
Nevertheless, I paid for no ads, and I’m still getting some ads. DO NOT BUY THE “NO ADS” PACKAGE.Show lessTrekkie Smurf
Highway Robbery
I was enjoying this game so much that I paid for the “no ads” feature. It worked for a short time, no more than a week or two. I noticed when I paid for “no ads” that no time frame was given, but hoped that it would be like other, honest games and would last for as long as I kept the game. All of a sudden, I started getting ads right in the middle of the game. The makers of this game are hard to reach and unresponsive when finally contacted. I feel scammed and can no longer enjoy this game. I’m going to complain to Apple to see if I can get my money back.
2024
I tried this game again years later. This time, I let it show the annoying ads. Now, however, it looks to me like they’re insisting on using my personal information to please their ad companies. I don’t want them to have access to my personal information, and much less do I want them to share it, so I’m going to delete this game again. There are plenty of others out there.Show lessJumping Jack 49
Way too many ads.
The game itself is pretty good. Sort the balls into tubes, and the difficulty of doing so gradually increases.
Where I gave it one star lies in its ridiculous ad placement. I can’t do anything in the game without running into a 30 second ad that has a billion “skip” buttons I need to press. One or two of them per day, when I played it, was ok. But as I played it more I noticed the game put an ad whenever I wanted to restart a level, move onto a different level, or really do anything else. I stopped playing because I was so focused on solving a puzzle and then would get violently ripped out of that concentration by one, two or even three ads. And no, I will not pay the developer actual money to get rid of the ads. Because that would allow for this scam to continue. It doesn’t take a genius to make a ball sort game, and it also doesn’t take a genius to realize that people don’t like ads. But coupled with a sort game and lots of ads, and an option to PAY to get rid of them, the developer has two sources, not one, of income: the ad revenue which is quantifiably higher with the ridiculous amount of ads I come across within a few short minutes, and the poor fools who payed into the scam to get rid of them.
I refuse to be a party to this. There are plenty of other “sorting” or “puzzle” games out there.Show lessŁöwëł
Ad Free GREAT Game
I’m sorry but the people who are saying this isn’t truly an ad free game are just flat out stupid. I don’t normally say that but I’m sorry they are. You pay a very low fee to remove ads and it is a wonderful game. Its just ball sorting. Obviously you won’t receive unlimited boosters, it’s a game. If you add 10 beakers that’s not really a game is it? I don’t need boosters to play this game, no one does, it just takes time. It is one of the very very few that are out there that doesn’t cheat you. what a novel idea, just a game that I paid for. if I want to add cheats to help me then I have to watch an ad. Big deal. That’s a good incentive to use your brain and quit cheating.Show lessLittle Baby Seamus
VERY buggy
Attempting to move a ball of a certain color from one receptacle to the next requires a tap on the target ball, and another tap on the destination. Repeatedly, the tap on the destination results in a selection of a ball in that receptacle. Attempting to move that one, out of sheer futility, results in the selection of the ball in the intended destination. Insanity, and while this game would otherwise be an interesting way to pass time and exercise a little basic logic, this bugginess led me to simply delete it, for squandering more effort on trying to make the thing work, than to actually solve the puzzle intended. Oh well. Better luck next time. I hope the developers read this, in case they can fix this rather annoying bug.Show lessDocbeepsjb
It’s 5 stars for levels 1-100, then 2 stars
Great fun game. Lots of ads for apps that pop up between each level, but the $2.99 purchase for the no-ad version is worth it for me. 5 stars! Past level 100, it gets harder, but there’s an option to get more spaces on additional “tubes” so you have more flexibility as you sort the balls.
But here’s the stinker, even if you’ve purchased the app, that $2.99 price doesn’t turn off the ads for apps every time you select to add more tubes (like when you begin a new level). And these ads are on a longer clip, not just the “wait 5 seconds and click the x”. So basically, as you start a new level, you get these long ads. Sheesh!
Even if you give in and say “OK, I’ll get this app that’s being advertised and download it”, the next time you want to add a tube, there’s another ad for another app.
The tediousness never ends. So past level 100, the game becomes a 2-star experience.
As far as game design is concerned, it’s like a built-in mechanism to frustrate and ultimately turn off players. At some point, game designers should realize that players just want to pay and play and we’re not marks for unlimited ads for more apps.Show lessjayesstee
Love it, just maybe add horizontal rotation l?
Absolutely love it 10/10 even with ads, they aren’t that bad maybe one every couple levels which when you’re in the two hundreds and there’s 14 tubes to sort, it takes plenty long enough to finish those two levels to be worth it and I’m sure that even if I paid for no ads, I’d still have to watch them for extra tubes when wanted. But especially when you get to fifteen if you add a section it gets too small on my phone, and I don’t see why it wouldn’t be possible to add a horizontal option. But I still can’t stop playing it… 🤣🥰Show lessAzara Thunderbird
Even with purchase, there are still ads!
I love this game, however I paid the $2.99 and there are still ads. I wrote a complaint and they basically said sorry, they aren’t fixing the issue. If you click the back button to remove your previous play 3 times an add will pop up. If you click to add another tube to drop the balls in, ads lasting up to 3 min pop up.
There are no hint buttons or alerts to let you know there are no more moves to be played. If they fix these issues I would recommend this game. Otherwise save your $2.99, because there are still ads that last about 3min before you can resume playing the game.Show lessCheeka Mo
Another game with ads that can’t be muted
I’m perfectly willing to watch ads to get free gameplay. The game has to make money somehow, right? However, I’m not willing to sit through aggressively-loud ads that I can’t mute. I like to listen to audiobooks/podcasts while I play games. I can’t do that if the adds come without the ability to mute them. The end result: this game lost a user that would have been willing to sit through the revenue-generating ads. I enjoy this type of game, so I will look for another (there are plenty from which to choose). I’ll delete any one of them that allows too many unmutable ads.Show lessItalianRoastYummmm
