Blackbox vs Clever cubed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blackbox
This puzzle game challenges you to solve intricate problems without touching the screen. It utilizes minimalistic visual cues, sonic interfaces, and haptic feedback to guide you through unique challenges that require thinking outside the box. Discover a new way to interact with your device and prove your cleverness.
- Touchless gameplay
- Minimalistic visual clues
- Sonic interfaces
- Haptic feedback
- External puzzle solving
- Easter eggs
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So you think you understand this thing you’re holding? Think again. Stop tapping. Stop swiping. In fact, stop touching the screen at all. To crack Blackbox’s puzzles you’ll need to find solitude and stillness, climb mountains, call on friends, get in tune with the cosmos, and think outside the box. Minimalistic visual clues make for incredibly satisfying “Aha!” moments, while sonic interfaces provide an extra level of guidance and nuance that makes Blackbox accessible with or without vision. Thoughtful haptic feedback, Easter eggs on Easter eggs, and solutions that can’t be found beneath the glass of your screen redefine what a puzzle can be. You’ll never see your device the same way again. Think you’re clever? Prove it. (Blackbox is a living game under active development by Ryan McLeod. When not eating burritos or drinking coffee, he’s busy designing and developing new Blackbox challenges.) ■
Clever cubed
Experience the ultimate challenge in this dice-rolling puzzle game. Master new strategic options with five new dice categories, a number joker, and advanced betting mechanics. Compete globally for high scores and unlock new achievements.
- Five new dice categories
- Number joker for strategic options
- Advanced dice betting mechanics
- 18 new achievements
- Weekly global highscore lists
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If you already like "Pretty clever" and "Twice as clever", "Clever cubed" is the ultimate challenge for you! Whether you're a high-score hunter with hundreds of games or just an occasional game, "Clever cubed" offers you new and exciting challenges to master. Of course, there are five new dice categories, including the arrangement of bonuses, which make it quite tricky again to find the best moves. In addition, the new number joker offers completely new strategic options by allowing you to rotate a dice to a different number value before placing. And that's not all: If you choose the turquoise dice, you don't just bet this one, but up to 2 additional dice if they are of the right value. As you can see: Countless new possibilities and 18 exciting new achievements are waiting to be discovered by you. As always in the "clever" series you can compete against the worldwide community in weekly highscore lists. Don't just be "Pretty clever" or "Twice as clever", be "Clever cubed"!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Blackbox at 93% against Clever cubed's 23%. Blackbox also leads on price (Free vs $3.99) and rating (4.8 vs 3.8). Clever cubed's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.6). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and chart position 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
Blackbox is free to download; Clever cubed costs $3.99 up front. Blackbox sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Clever cubed sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Blackbox holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blackbox has 109K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Blackbox's written reviews are positive against 23% of Clever cubed's.
Blackbox ships an update every 9 days, Clever cubed every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blackbox | Clever cubed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.8 (109K ratings) — better | 3.8 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.6% of reviews — better | 23.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 109K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #34 — better | #37 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 209 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shapes and Stories LLC | BrettspielWelt |
Customer experience
Blackbox
Clever cubed
Bugs and requests
Blackbox
Reported bugs
2 issues- Hints not working as expected
- Progress reset after app update
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to earn hint credits through watching ads
- Include more free puzzles
- Improve accessibility for users with limited mobility
- Provide better guidance and instructions for puzzles
Clever cubed
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Blackbox
- Tiny Hint Pack$1.19
- Small Hint Pack$2.39
- Erudite Pack$2.99
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- Push Pack$2.99
- Coffee for Ryan$4.49
- Basic Pack$4.99
- Medium Hint Pack$5.00
- All Knowing Pack$7.99
- Large Hint Pack$10.00
- Extra Large Hint Pack$20.00
Clever cubed
- Clever Cubed - Challenge 2$1.99









