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Most frustrating game I’ve played
This game has such potential to be a really addictive and fun game, but instead it turns out to be super frustrating and makes me want to stop playing. There seems to be an algorithm to make you lose, there’s no way it can be randomized pieces. They only give you 3 at a time and you can’t rotate them at all and you can’t see what 3 will be next. Even with an almost empty board, you still end up losing because they give you 3 big weird shapes that can’t fit into your board. If that’s not bad enough, the ads aren’t long, but they sometimes pop up in the middle of playing and end up glitching the game making you place pieces in random spots you don’t want them to be. If you could rotate pieces, or if they gave you smaller pieces to clear some lines more often, this game would be super addictive and fun. Instead I’ll be deleting the app because it’s no longer fun, just frustrating.Show lessShawnaRae5
Fun well-designed game, but has flaws
This is a really engaging game, fun to play, challenging and rewarding. I also really like the simple, clean design and aesthetic. It’s quite attractive. Hence the four star rating. However, most annoyingly, there is no option to remove the ads from the game. I’d be more than willing to pay a fee for the game, whether one time or monthly, to avoid the obnoxious ads. Another flaw is it’s a bit annoying that the groups of three block shapes provided at a time do not appear to be randomized, but instead seem to have an algorithm to provide block shapes that specifically DON’T fit in open blocks needed to complete squares and lines. The lack of randomization in block shape provided is also apparent in that, having played this game almost daily for months, not once has a diagonal block shape come up early in the game, and not once have I gotten a single block later in the game. This makes the single block completely irrelevant as it’s never needed at the beginning of the game. Why include a meaningless shape? Finally, although I like the sub-games that make up the journeys, the journeys are much too long for the timeframe a player is provided for completion, and once the player has played a few journeys, they just get repetitive, and I find it boring to have to complete the same easy rounds over and over again to get to the more challenging rounds. Despite all these flaws, I do still enjoy the game and have recommended it to other folks.Show lessTRBOlizard
Fun until you get to a high level
I really enjoy this game, that is till I get to a high level. I only play the daily and the Journey. On Journey, each level gets progressively more difficult. There are 84 levels in all. I am a good player so I always get to level 70. Up to that point, the puzzles get to be or quite challenging but are still doable. Depending on the week, I’ve gotten as far as 80 and twice have completed the journey. Many weeks, however, the levels beyond 75 are impossible. The puzzle only generates large pieces that truly are impossible to place and I end up with no more space and have to start over. I’ve repeated a high level dozens of times and it’s always the same: the puzzle doesn’t generate small pieces and single squares to make the puzzle winnable. It’s very frustrating and I usually quit trying until the Journey ends and a new one begins. It’s no fun if the puzzle is clearly not winnable. I don’t mind a challenge but this is just annoying. That’s why I only give this app 3 stars.Show lessKathleen2157
Good game except I need internet connection now…
I love to play Woodoku every day but now suddenly I need internet connection to play and I don’t have access to internet connection much. If this is something that can be fixed, I’d love that. If not, I’m afraid I may have to uninstall the app because it’s taking up my storage space which I need.
I don’t want to uninstall the app but unless I can get this app to go back offline, I’m going to have to uninstall it. :/Show lessGalaxy1078
Fun with ads… except for one
Look, I will *pay* to have ads taken off. This game is fun, and I like filling out my daily puzzle calendar. But I am so tired of seeing the ads with the mom and her child suffering from poverty and the cold.
I know woodoku likely has no control over the ads that rotate, but the homescapes (or gardenscapes idk which one) ads are horrible and also happen to be the longest ads on top of that.
Finished the daily puzzle? Watch a sick trembling bed-ridden mom receive ice cream, her shivering daughter beg for the player to fix the fireplace (it stays broken), and them both stare at the player to fix the open window that’s been letting snow in this whole time (it also doesn’t get fixed). The viewer can’t actually do anything but watch. And there’s also ads from the same game where you watch the player purposely sabotage the mom and daughter from getting money from a puzzle. When they only get one coin out of hundreds, we watch them sob.
This game is my favorite nighttime thing to wind down with, but it gets ruined by these ads every time. They’re cheap, emotion farming, long, and so frequent. Please do something woodoku team, I like this app but it’s not worth seeing that same ad multiple times a week. I’ve been playing for 10 months, and I can’t imagine how many times I’ve seen that ad by now. I’ve reached my limit. I can’t do it anymore, man.Show lessCrysK9
ads eventually pop up out of nowhere, No longer Peaceful
I used to play wooduku and for the first week or two there were no ads. All of a sudden without any warning ads started popping up and interrupting the game, in addition some of the ads depict violent scenes of people with machine guns running about. I will no longer play wooduko, unless they offer an ad free service. I understand that companies make their money through ads but it's no longer calming to have bright busy ads interupt my thoughts while playing. I don't watch regular television because I don't want to deal with ads, instead I pay for subscriptions to streaming services. I find it very frustrating that the ads were just thrown up on me, and came out of nowhere. I know the developers are hoping that I can't live without their game and I'll tolerate their ads. But I won't I'll delete it off of all of my devices. bye...Show lessM&K&D
Does this game have an unfair edge?!
Hi. Sorry if this has already been brought up before. Although I very much enjoy this game and play it frequently, I can’t help but feeling that, as currently designed, the app has a distinct and unfair advantage over its players, by the simple fact that each new set of pieces is generated after the previous one has been placed by the gamer. As the game progresses, it will always come to a point in which it should be trivial for the algorithm to come up with a set of figures that are impossible to accommodate, thereby ensuring you lose. It seems to me that it would be better if each new set was created and displayed onscreen after the first two of the previous one have been placed, but before the last one is. This way, the player can’t benefit unfairly from viewing the next set in advance when placing the first two, but neither could the game gain an advantage, not knowing how the last piece will be placed on the board. This would also add an element of skill in deciding how to place it in order to maximize its effectiveness, considering what pieces will follow. I hope this suggestion is clear enough.Show lesschessacr
MargieE
I like this game. Great for a few minutes or for longer to get harder games. What is highly annoying is of course the ads! Suddenly they are full length - not bits you can turn off. And usually the same one over and over and over. Quite a new thing it seems. I have deleted and reloaded this game a couple of times already because of hitches but these ads are totally unnecessary and intrusive. Please do something about them and let us all know. Thank youShow lessquailafornia
Calming & comforting
The only app to provide long term calming and comfort to this Long Covid sufferer with cognitive impairment. Especially love Journey - but the difference between levels 1 & 50+ is just too great and becomes too hard. Otherwise a great tool!Fleanz
Will bog down your phone
I love this game. It’s fun, freezes, entertaining, challenging, addictive, buggie, unreliable, no version available for purchase, made my phone sick; Played the game for over a month despite all of its bugs.
It was so much fun, I would just wait for it to unfreeze & then I’d continue the game. If challenging peoples’ patience was the developer’s goal, well then, they succeeded.
I thought maybe the free version w adds was the issue and so I hopped over to the AppStore and was going to pay for the game! 😱{for real. I was actually going to purchase a game} And to my crazy, unfortunate surprise there is not a purchasable version.
The bugs became so frequent, I followed troubleshooting suggestions and removed app, reinstalled and when the apps I would use after playing this game began to freeze I deleted the sucker…
Yet here I am a few weeks later, wanted to play the game so I gave it another go…and nothing has changed for the better! It actually freezes and lags more than before! Fearful it deposited something onto/into my phone or left a data creek open because again, other apps are freezing and bugging out again just as this game is!
Deleted again and trying to sound the alarm, “Don’t do it! Pass this game up & maybe even the developer’s others and keep your phone and info safe.”Show lessTheweightoflieswillbringudown
