Leave a Review Hard Penny Dell Logic Puzzles
Absolutely incredible app
First: none of these puzzles contain any errors. I’ve solved 729 of 730 puzzles and have never had to use a hint. As the app itself tells you, the puzzles are HARD and they’re not just saying that!!
This app is so extremely satisfying for anyone looking to exercise their brain. Like I mentioned, I’ve completed all but one puzzle—the Extreme 4x5 titled Free Parking. It’s been driving me crazy for over a year now and I LOVE the challenge!! I periodically revisit it whenever I need to really work my brain.
My only “complaint” is that I’m dying for more puzzles!Show lessmbb817
Not as good as it was
Have enjoyed this app for a couple of years now but the quality is dropping away. The last four purchases of new puzzles have had either super easy “extreme” puzzles that have taken two minutes to complete along with ridiculously poorly designed “challenging” that defy logic. There is also overuse of the same model of puzzle i.e. the same clues being used for all puzzles so most of the enjoyment from working your way through a new set has gone. Sadly could not recommend with the current inconsistency and dull overuse of the same format for puzzles.Show lessGillh2bB
Developer Response
Edit: We're working with Penny Dell to switch back to the earlier type of puzzles. Based on your and similar feedback, we asked and they checked and found they had switched sources from one of their logic puzzle magazine collections to a different one. We'll have some more of the earlier style puzzles (with authors) coming out in the next couple of months with a little luck.Original: Hi, thanks for this review. Do you mind emailing support@eggheadgames.com with some examples? Penny Dell should be supplying us with the same quality puzzles for new volumes, and I'm definitely not aware of the same clues being (re)used and would particularly like an example of that too so we can fix it. Thanks, Michael @ Egghead Games.comStrange Puzzles (both a good and a bad thing)
I've enjoyed some of these logic puzzles from the free version quite a bit. The types of hints are a bit unusual and most of them seem to rely more on weird wording to trip you up rather than genuine logic puzzling. Some of them I like quite a bit though! One thing I will note that was the main reason why I took off two stars: Some of the puzzles' hints contain SO MUCH information that you don't need. One of the puzzles ("Free Parking") talks about the position of different people's parked cars using blocks (e.g. 'Joe's car is 3 blocks west of Jane's car). None of the puzzle has to do with the position of the cars in relation to each other. In addition, one of the hints is literally useless because it tells the user that 'the last person to arrive was wearing an ascot'. None of the puzzle has to do with when everyone arrived at the event. So there's no point of the hint being there at all. Some of the puzzles are decent and have really good hints that really make you think. But some of the puzzles' hints are just annoying to deal with. TBH this app is the logic game equivalent of horror movies which rely on using cheap jump scares 99 percent of the time rather than prolonged and suspensful horror.Show less2009keke
Developer Response
One of the joys (struggles!) of the Free Parking puzzle is that it requires the use of information that doesn't even appear in the answer. I need pen, sorry I mean pencil, and paper for solving this puzzle. It turns out that (without giving too much away) grouping people into "parked a block away" vs other locations is indeed a key part of solving the puzzle. I don't know of any other way to solve it. So, rather than those hints being "literally useless", they're absolutely necessary. I'm happy to be proved wrong on this, but this puzzle has proven so challenging that we prepared a PDF, with drawings, that step through the solution. Feel free to email support@eggheadgames.com if you'd like a copy - or, please, provide some way to solve this puzzle without using the blocks information and, of course, without guessing! I think you'll find another 2 stars are well deserved :) Cheers, Michael @ Egghead Games