Dingbats vs The riddle box
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dingbats
This game challenges your wordplay and logic skills with various puzzle types. Solve visual riddles, decipher AI-generated idioms, guess family names, and unscramble letters. It's a fun way to expand your vocabulary and train your brain.
- Solve Dingbat puzzles
- Decipher AI-generated idioms
- Guess family names
- Unscramble anagrams
- Get clues and hints
- Learn new idioms
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Read between the lines is a game where you have to solve puzzles (Dingbats, Dangbits, Mr&Mrs and Anagram puzzles). ------------ Dingbats : One puzzle, one phrase : try to identity the meaning hidden behind each drawing. Play Read between the lines and train your brain by solving the puzzles. And if you have some difficulties, you can ask for clues or help from your friends to solve those wacky wordies. Have fun recognizing or learning new idioms through the levels of the game. ------------ Dangbits : How do AIs see the world? One picture, one idiom: can you guess the meaning hidden behind each image generated by an AI? Exercise your brain by recognising or discovering many expressions. ------------ Mr & Mrs : Mr & Mrs have children. Can you guess the name of their offspring ? Try to find the right first names and create funny full names. ------------ AnaQuiz : Rearrange the letters of the anagrams to create another word or phrase. ------------ New puzzles are regularly added to the game. If you have an idea in mind and would like it to be featured in a next release of the app, you can also send it.
The riddle box
Engage your logic and reflection skills with a game featuring a series of varied and increasingly difficult riddles. Challenge friends to solve levels you've already conquered for a fun, interactive experience.
- Varied and difficult riddles
- Logic and reflection challenges
- Increasing difficulty levels
- Challenge friends feature
- Riddle master crafted content
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Logic and reflection lovers, here is a game designed for you! A series of varied and increasingly difficult riddles. All concocted by our riddle master with love and tricks. Each level is a challenge for you. Ah, have you ever tried to challenge a friend or several friends to find the solution to a level you've already solved? It's going to be a fun experience. Thanks for playing the Riddle box!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dingbats at 4.7 against The riddle box's 4.0. Dingbats also leads on ratings volume (1.2K vs 4). The riddle box's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Dingbats sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and The riddle box sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dingbats holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dingbats has 1.2K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of Dingbats's written reviews are positive against 86% of The riddle box's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dingbats ships an update every 5 weeks, The riddle box monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dingbats | The riddle box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.2K ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews | 85.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Romain Lebouc | Gaetan Zanella |
Customer experience
Dingbats
The riddle box
In-app purchases
Dingbats
- 200 hints$0.99
- 60 hints$0.99
- 450 hints$1.99
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- 150 hints$1.99
- No ads - option 1$2.49
- No ads - option 2$3.49
- 1000 hints$3.99
- 350 hints$3.99
- No ads - option 3$4.99
The riddle box
- Skip level$0.99
- Chapter 2$0.99
- Chapter 3$0.99
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