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My favorite phone game for 5+ years
Love love love this game, it's the only one I've seen that matches seemingly endless puzzle packs with an "in game currency" situation that only requires you to buy into if you want to binge a TON of puzzles in one sitting. Usually I do a few or log in just to spend the free 10 you get so that it can refill over the next half-hour. Every 4th or 5th puzzle will give you 10 tokens plus another 10 if you watch an ad (always worth it). My tip—once you get to 10, spend them immediately so it refills again (you don't need to finish the puzzle, just start it), otherwise you're missing out on freebies. And if you have 20+ sitting around, search for the most "expensive" puzzle you can afford so it won't be a headache later.
Also, find an easy-ish "hard" puzzle to memorize and farm for 3 tokens each time you redo it. If that's too boring, go back and replay a pack you've already completed, as once you complete them it costs coins (which you should have plenty of) and instead rewards you with tokens you can then use on the new packs. Hope this never changes!
Happy puzzling everyone, and huge shoutout to the team who made this; it's gotten me through a lot of sleepless nights, long poos, and awkward moments where I've needed to just do my own thing for a bit. <3Show less1784957729927400
Definitely a keeper
I have been playing daily for years. The puzzles are all able to be finished with absolutely no guessing or having to think 2 or 3 moves ahead to see if a spot works. No penalty for placing an X or square in the wrong place. It’s simply that the puzzle won’t complete. You can always go back and replay puzzles by spending coins and earn tokens. You can stop in the middle of as many puzzles in a section as you want and go back without losing your progress. There is a monthly “event” that keeps things fresh. The only issue I have with it is that it says “Event ends in dd:hh:mm:ss” and then the new section becomes available for you to unlock and play new puzzles. Before then, you have to pay $10 for the “premium rewards” and the puzzles in the new section will unlock with no tokens. No problem, but when the time expires, it adds “Bonus time” and you have to wait longer if you haven’t paid. That is frustrating. I’d like to see them available for play by spending tokens at that point, but still allow players to have the extra time to collect their rewards.Show lessFlybabyapril
Developer Response
Thanks for your review. The current month's event puzzles are locked as they can be unlocked through the event rewards. Once the event ends, any remaining puzzles will become available to unlock normally using tokens.Seriously download this game
This game really helps keep my mind occupied and it's what I need sometimes. It's always an app I go back to. Seriously, out of any game that is like this, this is the ONLY one I play. It's easy to do yet also makes you think. Some can take less than 10 seconds, while some I can be sitting there thinking where things go and that's what I love about it - they're not all impossibly hard. Oh my god, and the fact you can walk away from that one you're having issues with and then go back to it and your progress is still there? FANTASTIC.
Here's my negatives though; not a lot free tokens, can only do 2 pictures at most (but keep in mind I'm thankful for those tokens do not get me wrong). I also wish there was a way that if I wanted to start over, have it where I can restore my previous purchases. I also kinda wish I could zoom a little when it comes to on my phone (but that I'm not quite sure how it'd work, I think it's just better to play with a bigger screen), but typically I play on my iPad (not at the moment due to me wanting to start over but don't want to lose the money I put into the game).
My positives outweigh the negatives, please download this gameShow lessqueenfischbach
Too tedious
2023 update: nothing has changed. Still trying to unlock the arcade. But every two weeks there’s two new 100lvl packs. Each pack still takes over a month to finish due to token cost/limit. STILL can’t spend coins on tokens. STILL CANT play the game some days when the level costs 40+ tokens and your daily bonus is 5 tokens. How is this game still around?
2021 Update: There are still days you can’t even play one level because the token cost is 35+ for ONE PUZZLE. You can only get a max of 10 for waiting, so you literally have to wait days to play a single puzzle. Let me spend my 500K coins on tokens. There is almost no chance in ever unlocking the arcade at this rate because Devs add new packs of 100 puzzles but each pack takes more than a month to complete because of the time gating.
Original Review: Game starts out simple. Get green tokens. Play levels. Then the levels become too expensive. Either A) buy them with money or B) watch an ungodly amount of ads. Either way, the devs are making money, which I understand is the point. But man, sometimes you can’t even play ONE LEVEL some days because your daily reward reset and you only got 5 free tokens. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE increase the cap of tokens to 20 or something. I really want to delete the app when I open it and see my next lvl costs 50 tokens, but I only have 10 when I wake up and have my coffee.Show lessAltier
Developer Response
Thanks for your review. There’s a variety of ways to earn additional Tokens within the game including: daily rewards, completing puzzles or objectives. The puzzles can be unlocked and played in any order if you want to avoid leaving the puzzles with the highest token cost to the end of the pack. Coins cannot be directly converted into tokens, however they can be used to replay previously completed puzzles for a token reward. Please refer to the in game ‘Help’ section for more information.Awesome Game
I love this game, pretty much without reservation. Even though I do need to buy tokens sometimes so I can binge play like I like to do, the price is extremely reasonable, I can always get a 50% bonus coupon before I need to buy them, and the need to buy more is fairly infrequent. I almost never feel a pinch when the time comes to buy more and I am a low-income person (sadly). This is an only-slightly-guilty pleasure. If a person just wanted to play a few puzzles per day, they might be able to avoid buying anything, or at least make it a rare occurrence, since players cam get quite a number of free tokens and coins by logging in and watching 30 seconds (or less) of an ad each day. The game itself is challenging, but not frustratingly so. One feels a true sense of accomplishment when finishing some of these puzzles. I must admit, as an older woman, that I feel I am helping in my effort to stave off mental decline by playing this puzzle. Most of all, it’s just fun. I highly recommend it.Show lessJcprins
Love the game ,not the support BEWARE
I have been enjoying this game so much. The puzzles are in categories making it easier to know what your going to be working on. Everything works well. Daily you get free tokens and/or coins and you can run out fast on tokens if you like playing. They have specials on buying coins and tokens which I took advantage of. This was a special on tokens of 1500 instead of 1000 for $9.99. I took this special and they shorted me 500 tokens. I wrote support they wanted proof of purchase which I sent my PayPal receipt. They then wanted the Apple receipt ,I sent that too. They have not responded now for 2 days nor honored my purchase. Will not purchase from them again and will stop playing once I use up what I have invested. Now that that is taken care of, let’s see about these pictures. In more than one I have found mistakes that make it impossible to complete without using at least 2-3 hits which we shouldn’t have had to. This costs aggravation and money. Please look over your pictures and the grids to follow by.Show lessKathiemitchell
Obsessed!!! (updated with recommendations)
I have became obsessed with this game! I love it! The only con I have is that I’m spending money for tokens, lol. I play so much that the 10 tokens they give you to play is not enough. Considering a lot of the puzzles take more than 10 tokens. Also, I don’t know if it’s because I’ve purchased tokens, but there are no ads in between games, which is amazing!
Edit:
Still addicted! Lol. And I have to admit, once I began playing this game, I saw the 15x15 puzzles and was intimidated! I thought I’d never be able to start them let alone complete them! But now that I’ve been playing, the hard and super-hard puzzles are the ones I prefer! Which brings me to my one complaint… or more of a recommendation.
Now that I’m getting close to the end of the packs, I’ve noticed there are less “super-hard” & “15x15” puzzles. Which, in my opinion, is odd because if you’ve made it almost to the end, it means you’re no longer a beginner… the puzzles shouldn’t be getting easier. My only recommendation would be to offer packs that are all one specific level. For instance, one pack that contains only hard or super-hard puzzles. Because I hate that I have to do the easy ones just to get to the next pack. I hate to admit how regularly I purchase tokens for this game.. especially with it being a little more expensive than other apps, I wish there were more options.Show lesscaitlynjustice
Best Game Ever
My dad discovered this game a few years ago and got me hooked. I played religiously and never skipped a day. It took me about a year to complete all available puzzle packs and then I would patiently wait for new releases by playing old puzzles and saving up on coins and tokens. Just a couple weeks ago, I went into the app to watch my daily videos for free coins and tokens when all of my progress was lost. I immediately panicked and started crying. Definitely an irrational reaction to such a thing, but I had dedicated so much of my life to this game and it all came crashing down. I had over 10,000 tokens and close to 1,000,000 coins. Multiple years worth of work gone for absolutely no reason. Nothing I tried brought my progress back. I’m not sure if it was a glitch in the game or if it was caused by my stupid phone. Either way, I’m devastated. This is an incredible game and I highly recommend it to everyone. I wish that I appreciated it more when I had it. I considered starting from scratch, but this is my official retirement from Picture Cross.Show lessrosebudd930
Amazing step in the right direction.
I want to first start this off by saying my previous review was in poor taste and something I shouldn’t have written. I will be honest, I felt a lot of what I said was justified but it was really vial and I’m sorry for what I said. I do have to admit that this game is by far one of the best of its kind. While it does get a little bit bogged down the longer you run the game, it’s all very responsive and pretty enjoyable. This game is a favorite past time for me when I need a break from it all. I’m proud to see the changes and I’m really enjoying not being bombarded by in house ads and etc. . The puzzles feel fresh and learning them for later use it amazing too! There are great opportunities to work towards your goal rather than buying your way there. I’m proud of this game and I commend you for the changes you all have implemented. Thank you!!
As stated I should be ashamed!!
“As stated you all should be ashamed.”Show lessKrusnik Abel
Best logic game I have found
This game is solely about logic. I have played literally every puzzle in the game and they all can be solved by thinking only one step ahead. The tokens’ availability keep the pace of completion of the game at a good rate. Many reviewers comment about having too many coins and not enough tokens, but you can replay puzzles by paying coins and receive tokens! Every few packs there is what I call a “secret” square where it is only a 10x10 or 12x12 that is really quick to finish but it is listed as “hard.” That means you can get 3 tokens for replaying it. My favorite one I can finish in less than 10 seconds. It’s good to be smart about playing your tokens wisely. For example, on day 5 of bonus, if you watch the video, you will end up with 60 tokens. Hunt around and find a 45 token and a 15 token puzzle (or two 30s, you get the idea?) instead of just choosing the one with the ? on it until you run out. This applies to times when you receive the “reward” of extra tokens and have 20-30 tokens afterward. I’m patiently awaiting some more packs and visiting daily to rack up some “daily bonus” tokens and coins.Show less
