Ordinary Puzzles vs Puzzles Reloaded
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ordinary Puzzles
A minimalistic puzzle game where you extend numbers into lines to cover all dots. Each puzzle is solvable through logic alone, with no trial and error required. It's a free, open-source experience.
- Extend numbers into lines
- Cover all dots
- Logical deduction
- Single solution puzzles
- Minimalistic design
- Open-source
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The rules of Ordinary Puzzles are simple: - Extend each number into a line of that length. - Cover all the dots of the puzzle with lines. And that's it! Each puzzle has a single solution and can be solved trough logical deduction alone: no trial and error is needed. Ordinary Puzzles is free, open-source, with no in-app purchases. Forever.
Puzzles Reloaded
Enjoy a vast collection of classic logic puzzles, including Sudoku, Minesweeper, and Nonograms. This ad-free application works entirely offline, ensuring privacy as no user data is collected.
- Offline play
- Ad-free experience
- Privacy-focused (no data collection)
- Sudoku
- Slitherlink
- Minesweeper
- Nonograms
- KenKen
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Puzzles Reloaded is powered by the Simon Tatham Portable Puzzle collection and other contributors. This app is ad-free and works totally offline. No data or statistics are collected from you. Play our versions of Sudoku, Slitherlink, Minesweeper, Nonograms, KenKen, and many more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Puzzles Reloaded at every 2 weeks against Ordinary Puzzles's every 8 months. Ordinary Puzzles's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Ordinary Puzzles against 4.8 for Puzzles Reloaded. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 29 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Ordinary Puzzles's written reviews are positive against 90% of Puzzles Reloaded's.
Ordinary Puzzles ships an update every 8 months, Puzzles Reloaded every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ordinary Puzzles | Puzzles Reloaded |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (30 ratings) — better | 4.8 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 90.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 29 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matteo Mazzarolo | Kyle Swarner |
Customer experience
Ordinary Puzzles
Puzzles Reloaded
In-app purchases
Ordinary Puzzles
No in-app purchases
Puzzles Reloaded
No in-app purchases
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