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  • No ads. No nonsense. Just puzzles.

    This collection of both classic & original logic puzzles is clean, simple, and to-the-point. If you're looking for fancy graphics or high-stakes timed games, keep looking. But if you're sick of all the ads and unnecessary bells & whistles in most mobile puzzle games, this is the game for you.
  • 4-4.5 love the puzzles but no accessibility options

    I love this puzzles app. Huge variety of simple, old school puzzles without ads or other distractions; love the win/lose graphics; and!! It works across a wide variety of devices, including on my old iPhone 6!! Lots of options for game board size, regarding number of spaces to play for complexity. Puzzles recall your specs and place even after full shutdown.

    No accessibility features. You have to be able to see the board and touch it in right places completely as is, in order to play. No dark mode, even, for those of us with light sensitivity, tho the gray (vs white) background does mitigate it some. Idk if anyone is tracking this for updates anymore, but even zoom and color shift to phone specs options would be a good start.

    This is the first review I've ever written because i enjoy this app so much. I have few accessibility needs for phone use and have loved playing some of my old favorites. Thank you!
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  • amazing

    several free puzzles with no ads completely free this is amazing
  • Phenomenal app

    This app is truly amazing. No ads, no paywalls, and the puzzles are generated each time so there's no worry about ever running out or reaching the end of the levels. I am so grateful for whatever kind programer made this app.

    The only tweaks I would suggest is making the instructions clearer for mobile use. The instructions are clearly for use on desktop. That said, it's not hard to figure out how to use the controls.
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  • Could use zoom + long press alternative

    Some of these puzzles are a little difficult to play with a touch screen because of the lack of ability to zoom and reliance on long presses. For example, playing Loopy at higher levels means you can barely control where you tap and long pressing reliably is essentially impossible, so your solve is full of "errors" that aren't the player's fault.
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  • Best game on the app store

    No ads, infinite replayability, easy to understand. Love it
  • A small UI tweak would make all the difference

    First off, I want to say how much I love this app. The games are wonderful and it’s free with no ads. I really appreciate this developer.

    There’s really only one thing I would change, and that’s for the sake of usability on the iPhone. The game makes heavy use of the long press. Unfortunately, the long press doesn’t work along the left edge of the iPhone screen. This makes certain games difficult to play, especially when you set the board to large.

    The iPhone also makes a loud and annoying click every time you long press, which can only be disabled by putting the phone in silent mode. That’s a complaint I have with the iPhone, not this app, but because of the heavy long press usage of this app, I have to choose between potentially giving myself a migraine with the constant clicking and turning on silent mode and potentially forgetting to turn it off and missing alarms and calls.

    Both of these issues would be easily fixable by putting in a UI toggle to switch between the two modes (right click and left click, long press and tap, or whatever you want to call them) and eliminating the need to use the long press.
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  • Excellent for basic puzzles

    I was so exhausted by the constant ads and pushing microtransactions and feature-creeps of other free puzzle games. This is a great little collection of puzzles, both familiar and new :)
  • Great puzzles and no ads

    Great simple app with a good variety of logic puzzles, works well with no ads or annoying animations - perfect
  • It’s just puzzles!

    I think this is the first iOS app I’ve seen since I was a little kid that has had no adverts in.

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