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Very good game, just needs some tuneups
The game is very fun and addicting. I especially like the new color-specific puzzles that make it more challenging.
Couple things they need to fix to make this game 5 stars:
1. Make the cost of each puzzle visible without having to click on each square. I’ve wasted so much time clicking around 50 squares to find one I can “afford” with my current coin total. Would be so much better if you just put the amounts on the puzzles themselves, show only the ones we can afford in some other way, or let us search for ones in a certain range of prices.
2. Stop ripping people off. I spent some money to buy a bunch of coins early on in the game and I assumed I spent enough to open every puzzle. But i was WAYYY off. It’s not worth buying coins unless you’re willing to spend 100s of dollars. And if you are, I almost feel bad for you. Just wait for the daily “allowance” and spend those coins. It keeps you from being too addicted and doing all the puzzles at once anyways.Show lessmalonej7
Great game! Just a couple tweaks
I’ve played through about 250 puzzles at this point and have enjoyed it a lot! One issue I see however is that it can be very easy to go through tokens, especially when even some super easy puzzles cost up to 50 tokens (the max I’ve seen) and take a very short time to solve. My suggestion to fix this would be a conversion system from coins to tokens. I do realize this is incentive for the players to purchase more tokens, but for me it is just a deterrent from playing. For players like myself who also don’t like using any hints, this would give some value to the coins. Another fix I’d like to see is a change to the screen where you are selecting your puzzle: when you tap on a puzzle, you can see the part of the picture underneath it that is to be revealed after solving the puzzle. I think this just may be a glitch. Another side note, there are also just a few puzzles I’ve seen so far that have multiple solutions, but that doesn’t really seem to be a problem. Other than that, I think this is a great game! Numerous puzzles to keep you interested for a long time.Show lessPlatimor
So obsessed
I dont usually write reviews, and by usually I mean never this is the first one I’m writing, but it said to write a review if I’m enjoying the game, and I’m really enjoying the game. I don’t even know how long I’ve had this game but I absolutely love it. I didn’t think that a puzzle game would ever not be boring, but somehow I’ve never gotten bored of it. I love how the packs are themed and it makes a big picture that goes together. I’m really surprised that I’ve had this game for so long, I usually get bored of games within a week but according to the stats thing I’ve spent almost four full days in the game. The ads aren’t even that bad, you can skip them after 5 seconds. I usually get really annoyed by ads but they aren’t bad. I really like how you can watch ads for one puzzle, but I wish the option came up more often. I wish it were easier to get tokens too but then I guess it would be boring because you could do them all at once. This is a lot longer than I intended it to be but basically, this is a GREAT game, and I’m obsessed. The only downside is I have to wait for tokens which is why I’m writing this but I’m not complaining about the tokens, it makes sense. I guess that’s it. Awesome game!Show lessAbby021202
I wish I had something to do with my coins?
I really love this game. Yes, the finished puzzles often aren’t recognizable but if I want a beautifully finished puzzle I would just work from a nonogram physical book (I have some that go up to 50x50 grids!), which is much more rewarding anyway. The token system is not my favorite, but I’ve never had the issue of not receiving tokens for a quest, as many others have complained about. Maybe I’m just lucky.
I don’t find the “super hard” terribly challenging but they do make me wrack my brain a bit. I’ve been making myself solve “super easy” and “easy” puzzles without using any x’s and that’s given me a new challenge I enjoy.
So why, after all this, did I give this three stars instead of five? Because I have 134,290 coins and literally nothing to do with them. I’ve never used a hint and don’t see myself doing that any time soon. Completing the puzzle is rewarding but I always inwardly groan a little when I get coins instead of more tokens. To the developers: If we could convert coins into tokens, even at a high exchange rate, that would ease some of my frustration with this useless commodity. Is this something you’ve ever considered?Show lessvaguefamiliarity
Amazing! I don’t know how they do it.
What’s so amazing? Well, I’ve played hundreds of these “nonogram” type puzzles, and it seems, eventually, you’ll find a puzzle in a series that you will be forced to use a clue or two in order to solve the puzzle. In Picture Cross, I completed every one of the summer puzzles without ever needing a clue! That doesn’t mean I didn’t have to start over from scratch a few times; I’m not saying I don’t make plenty of errors, but when I patiently went back and reworked the puzzles (often more than a few times!) I found I could complete every one of the puzzles from the simplest to the trickiest without resorting to any kind of clue whatsoever! That, to me, puts this game way above all others in this category.
The only change I would like to see is for the Xs (that you put in the squares) to be either much thinner or greatly toned down to like a 30% value. The bold dark brown Xs as they stand are just a bit too distracting. It would be nice too if we could change the color of the boxes as well. Brown is…well…brown.
But my thanks to the developers for making this game so enjoyable, challenging, and somehow always solvable*. *well, as far as I’ve gone, this is what I’ve found to be the case, anyway.
Edit: I’ve now completed the “winter” puzzle and still have had no need to resort to the use of hints.Show lessddkemp
Wish I could give it 5...
Because everything about playing is spectacular! I actually give this game credit for helping me quit smoking - kept me so distracted and occupied that I made it through the temptation! It’s challenging, problem-free, friendly interface, I love this game.
BUT - you earn barely enough tokens to play, nor enough coins. I did spend money along the way to buy tokens (considered it better than spending on cigarettes). And I have replayed most all the medium / hard puzzles countless times to get more tokens, and have endured the ads over and over again as well. But there’s just no way to enjoy this game unless you’re willing to spend money. As you accumulate tokens, It raises the cost of the games. It has all the silly quests etc., but you get virtually nothing for completing them, nor for completing a board. And having completed EVERY puzzle, I am in the situation where I can no longer play at all. I can’t earn coins anymore because there are no new puzzles, and without coins I can’t even replay puzzles.
So developers - Check my account - I’ve spent a considerable amount over the last few months. And you’ve effectively locked me out. Come off you’re greed just a notch or two and I’ll gladly give you five stars.Show lessDumpster Diva
It’s good but it’s not as fun as it could be
I definitely like this app but I don’t love it. It’s more occupying than it is fun—at least for me. I do have a couple suggestions that might make it better but one of them is based on a different but very similar game and might be a big change. 1) Let us zoom in! It’s so hard to press the correct tiny square and I can’t stress enough how annoying it is to constantly be tapping unnecessarily on 5 different squares before getting the right one. 2) I used to play this game on Facebook called colorcross but I can’t find it anywhere else. What I liked about that game is that in each puzzle there were multiple colors and you had to fill in the entire picture. Personally I think it makes it more fun because we can see the picture coming to life while we’re working on it instead of leaving it looking incomplete. I just started playing this game so I’m not sure if this feature shows up later in the game but I’m not very hopeful that it does. It’s a good game but it definitely could be better.Show lesscallyfornia
My good review of this game will be mentioned last
This game is fun until the need to spend money comes into playing the game. You get a max of ten coins to recharge. Most of the puzzles cost more than that to unlock. 11 coins to unlock a puzzle and sometimes 40 to unlock others. How can I avoid paying money to finish it? They offer watching ads but you only get 5 coins maximum and other times they don’t even offer watching ads to earn a whopping one coin per ad. So now I’m at a point where I’ve worked through all of the puzzles and now I have to wait for the daily reward of just opening the app without playing just to save up enough coins to play maybe one puzzle every couple of days. This game is pay to win. My love for the game started at two stars for the frustration but now I change it to one star because now I’m talking about it. Make a game to be fun but if you’re going to charge for it, charge me, don’t charge my loyalty. You won’t get any money out of me for coins to continue playing a game. I’d rather pay 0.99 with ads than pay you 9.99 for enough coins to keep me paying for maybe an hour. This game is good. It’s worth charging money for. But it’s not worth charging you continuously.Show lessPoliticalcrysis
Misleading to the point of being fraud
First of all the game itself is fun and addicting. The problem lies in the tokens.
They only give you a hand full of tokens and once you get far enough each puzzle costs 20 to 30 tokens. They don't regenerate very fast so unless you do the "quests" you can't play the game anymore unless you pay real money (lots of it). So you look through the list of quests and they look pretty simple. That's where the fraud comes in. I find one that says "take a 2 question survey for 38 tokens". So I click on it, take a 5 question survey and get 2 tokens. Ok whatever, let's go to the next. This survey says 4 questions for 60 tokens. So I start the survey and it starts asking for all sorts of personal info, but I go along with it. About 50 questions later (when the app says it would be 4), I get a prompt that I have to actually order a product with real money to finish the survey. That wasn't what I agreed to so I skip it. I get zero tokens for that, but they took all my info. So basically don't expect to actually get tokens from the quests, they rarely actually give you what they say they will.
Between that and the constant barrage of ads, I can't recommend this to anyone. It's a blatant money grab game that will flat out lie to you in order to get you to click on things. It probably should be pulled from the store IMOShow lessStickboy46001
Fun game, but token system is slow
UPDATE - I am increasing the number of stars because I was just a awarded almost 300 tokens. Not sure if that was a result of this review, or because of the apps and surveys mentioned below. If it is because of the apps and games, which I suspect it is, it sure took a long time! But I am happy, and I do still love to play this game!
I love the puzzles, so fun to play, but I am abandoning this game. The token system is not working. I try to watch a video for one measly token and it always says I have reached my limit of eight tokens for the day. Do the ten max tokens I earn every half-hour count towards that?? If so, don't give me the ten and let me watch unlimited videos. Isn't that the point anyways? Advertising? Besides, I have also taken countless surveys, downloaded and played numerous games to the point where I should have gotten the tokens promised, but no tokens were actually awarded. I emailed once and they gave me some tokens, but I will not email each time. I am abandoning this game. Till they make the reward token system better.Show lessJill P.
