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Too Many Updates

What a disappointment. The games are engaging, but the user interface is terrible. The format, Home Screen, and organization of the game change way too often. It drains the fun out when you have to figure out how to navigate the app every few weeks. I can’t recommend it.

Terrible updates

AGAIN I’m fuming over this app. I absolutely loved it when I first downloaded. I played religiously and loved tracking my performance against others. Then an update change the whole layout and I thought I lost the daily challenge entirely, and thus the ability to compare against other players. I wrote a scathing review, but then figured out that I had to beat a certain number of levels to unlock it (levels originally weren’t a thing). So updated my review, made my peace with the loss of the Plates game which hasn’t come back, and tried to get used to the changes. No sooner did I get used to it, there’s another update. Now I can’t see my score compared to other players, AGAIN. There’s a screenshot of the leaderboard in the app’s photos, but I can’t find that anywhere. Plates is still missing, they changed the Mambo colors for no reason which is messing with my focus, and to make it all worse, THEY CLEARED MY MONTHS-LONG STREAK OF HARD-LEVEL PUZZLES?! I get it if you want to make the hard puzzles harder. They were a bit too easy. But only change the future ones. Don’t wreck my progress and scores. I scored “better than 100% of players” on several of those hard levels, and now that’s gone forever! I tried joining the WhatsApp group for feedback, but it’s full. Otherwise, I’d be very vocal there too. In conclusion, if the leaderboard stuff gets fixed, and if possible my streak restored, I’ll give this app one last chance. If it gets ruined again, I’m deleting, never recommending it to friends again, and permanently etching my frustrations into history with a brutally honest review
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wayyy too many ads

this game is so much fun but the ads really ruin it. They are both repetitive and constant and it really takes away from the game. I know there’s an option to pay for no ads but 1. i don’t want to pay for anything in game and 2. there are good ads out there that help me find fun games like this one .
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Good but one thing

I've been playing this game for 4 months, and it's really addictive. They have a lot of puzzles and other stuff. There's just one issue: you should be able to link accounts on different devices. I just got a new phone, and I had a 90-day streak. I was also on level 200. I had to start all over.

New updates are ruining the game

I downloaded this game after two months ago and would do the daily puzzles. Loved doing those each day and seeing a fun fact about the day. In these newest updates they removed the daily fact and removed how quickly I’ve done them completed to other people. I would want some stats back overall and for each puzzle and for sure the daily fact back and would definitely keep playing.
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It was an awesome game now lots of ads!

It was an awesome game now lots of ads!

kinda fun

this game is a lot of fun but the mosaic levels are impossible and the game is a complete ad farm

Unfortunately the new update sucks.

Edit: 1 star. I have since learned this is vibe-coded AI slop which makes total sense considering the feel of the newest update. Uninstalled and would not come back even if they reverted the changes.

If you haven't updated it, don't. As many other people have pointed out, both the entire format and UI getting a complete overhaul at once is both jarring and unnecessary. Why fix something that isn't broken? It's unfortunately no longer engaging for me, like at all. From a UX/UI perspective, it's super overworked and overly responsive. Making something more snappy or flashy doesn't automatically make it better. It seems as though they've decided to prioritize making it "bite-sized" and game-ified to keep you on the app longer; the new level progression mechanic is an obvious cash grab. More "levels" = more ads. No surprise there. I loved the way it was before, it was super relaxing and I looked forward to maintaining my streak, but I don't see myself touching this game again in it's current state. I get free apps need to make money somehow, but it shouldn't come at the expense of your user base's wishes. The only reason I'm not giving it 1 star is because it was good before it became whatever it is now, at least.
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🥹🥺

Broken😞 , but not bad

Way too easy way too many ads

Feels like there’s an ad every two minutes, got the first “impossible” difficulty offered to me in about 3mins. Real shame the games are fun and the graphic are lovely. Classic app trying to get you to play every day with daily challenges so they can rinse you with ads and make loads of money under the guise of “this is good for you”. Plus can’t say for certain but seems to include AI art which again is disappointing
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Not a Fan of the last update

Used to easily get to past unplayed days, now I have to scroll back over a year. Playing past days is one of the reasons I paid for a subscription.

ads :(

although a fun game, it lures you in by not playing ads during the first 5 levels, but after that, it starts playing ads after every level, which gets to be annoying pretty quickly

used to be great

this used to be hands down the best daily puzzle app when it was a simple do these 4 puzzles every day no fancy extra stuff. for a couple days there was a new update that made you unable to do past days without paying, but it was very quickly reverted; i would have been fine with that, but this new update completely changed the format of the app. i don’t care about levels, i just want a daily puzzle with two difficulties. why completely change your app? i deleted it with no plans of reinstalling. it’s not like any of the puzzles are original anyway, i can play them elsewhere. just sucks that you chose to do this.
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Great game

Love most of the challenges. Is it me, or is the main screen interface changing access options every couple of weeks? Kind of annoying. Great puzzles and challenges though.

used to be 5 stars.

there’s been like 3/4 updates since i downloaded and every time the experience gets more and more confusing and less and less fun.

right now most of the expert puzzles are the exact same regardless of the day.

the back button to go to earlier dates is gone which is super annoying since i have a streak of 402

just wish it would go back to how it used to be.

i dont even remember what it was that i purchased anymore when i got zen mode. like i dont even know what it means anymore considering all the changes. so im canceling it if only to see.

sucks because ive really enjoyed playing and would play for my entire commute to and from work. but now i barely even play daily.
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Was great until…. Updated review

Update: The updates just keep coming and the quality just keeps dropping. They introduced an Expert mode. Cool. But now they keep changing how it scores completing a day. It was a great app when I started 160 days ago. I’d play all the available games for the day, get all the rewards for it and roll on. Please stop updating it. Can we get a “downgrade” back to a better version?

This was a 5 star app 160 days ago. The I ranked it as 3 when I wrote the review. I’m down to a 2 star.
This may not be the updated review the developer wanted but neither were the updated versions we got so….

Original: This was a great app. The puzzles are a good challenge and all. Now though you have to watch a video to u lock a challenge level even though you paid to not have to watch videos. They keep making large updates adding features while introducing new bugs.

Developers: please just fix the bugs and stabilize the game. Bring it back to what it was a week or two ago. Then slowly add features and not take things away. This is like a completely different app.
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Logic heaven

I am loving the challenges. Keeps me coming back daily!!

Too many ads

Too many ads

Great game

I love this game the gentle mind puzzles are rather relaxing and I love that you can have different levels depending on how you feel or progress HOWEVER!!! The updates are annoying me like mad. I love getting a streak and I started this game got a streak of over a hundred then update happens and takes away the streak ability. Then it updates again and it came back but it was lost then it updates again to a whole new interface and it continues. There’s a puzzle where you have to get the right titles in a line and rows and then they changed the colours of the tiles and it’s not a huge issue but when I push once for one colour and twice for the next colour then they change the colours completely I have to remind myself if the colour I want is one or two click so takes my puzzle completion time from 30 seconds to over a minute. Stop constantly changing the interface and puzzles please!!! Also there was a game that they just completely removed and it was a fun one.
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Used to be my favorite but gone downhill

This used to be my favorite daily puzzle app and was a paying subscriber. But ongoing updates have continued to take away beloved features, and functionality has gone down with added unnecessary animations and such that slow down and lag the puzzles. I had been holding out hope that they would revert some of the changes according to customer feedback, but they seem to keep doubling down. It’s really disappointing because I used to love playing the daily puzzles and seeing my performance on the leaderboard, but now with the removing of features, I am no longer interested in returning day to day.
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