A Google user
4 years ago
Too. Many. Ads. This game is unique and challenging and after playing it for a while I was more than happy to purchase the ad-free package--until I saw the price. This company honestly expects me to pay four times what I pay for a streaming service for a mobile puzzle game. Eight dollars A WEEK to remove ads! That's utterly insane and I will definitely be uninstalling. It's fun, but not that fun. Get a clue and give me the option to pay once for an ad-free experience. This is not a good look.
Rachel Huddleston
3 years ago
The amount of ads in this game is absolutely absurd. I couldn't even enjoy the game, which seems like it might actually be fun. The amount of ads is far an away more than any other "free" game I've played, and the item shop is priced high. Most "no ad" items in games are $2-$5, in this one it's a monthly cost. I just bought a similar $3 game and will never need to watch an ad or buy anything else. Uninstalled.
Cece Skalski
3 years ago
Far too many ads - ruins an other wise awesome game. I understand you need ads to keep a game free. But this is ridiculous. It's not only when you need a booster: it's also "time for an ad break" and the 2 long ads. Really sucks considering the game itself is so awesome. Oh! And it is 14$ to pay for no ads. Like I said. Ridiculous. The game is visually satisfying. The game is fun (even though it's kind of math lol) only complaint is the ads. Such a turn off
Katherine Anderson
4 years ago
Way too many ads. Every time you add numbers, another ad appears. Many of which are right-wing political attack ads. Every hint or bomb used, another set of prompts for in-app purchases. The payment confirmation pops up with each purchase prompt too, making it very easy to accidentally buy something. I uninstalled after it kept prompting to send personalized ads every few seconds. Fun gameplay, but absolutely unusable due to ads.
Stones Throw
4 years ago
It's fun until you experience all the ads. I'm not saying it's a bad thing to have them but to be promoted Everytime you reopen the app, even if it's been 10 seconds, is obnoxious. The patterns that are listed down when you add lines are not random enough either. I've lost because the numbers keep repeating over and over again with no way to win no matter how many lines I add.
Maya Rohfeld
4 years ago
This is my first GooglePlay app review because I really want the developers to change where they put ads. I don't mind the ads in general. But not when they pop up randomly. I quit playing for a while because of it. Tonight I wanted to play to wind down for sleep when it bombarded me with 3 ads every time I tried to do something. If they kept the ads to JUST when you wanted a refill and maybe every couple games or so. This IS a really great and fun game. But the ads make it unplayable almost.
Jason Burmeister
4 years ago
Way way way too many ads. When you come back to the game after leaving it open and walking away from your phone for a few seconds or minutes you need to watch a 30 second ad (they get money from you watching an ad) before you can play again. No thanks. *Update* they even have 2 different pop up store menus that constantly urge you to buy. Definitely just after money. Such a shame for a good game concept.
Kayla Stephen
3 years ago
This seems like a simple and cute game and I managed to avoid the problem of ads everyone has mentioned by turning off Wi-Fi, but the scrolling vs swiping problem need to be a priority. It doesn't keep me from playing the game as you can tap as well, but it's very frustrating when swiping is much faster, more intuitive and you keep trying, knowing that you have the option to, but it barely works. This mixed with the knowledge of the ads and pay tactic ruined the fun.
Lady DainWinters
4 years ago
Started to play. Loved the game idea, but less then 5 mins in, it popped up with "stop ads forever? $9.99." I might have chosen that option after some play time, but I was not ready to purchase anything. I pushed the X to close it and it opened my Google play pay window. I went back thinking I hadn't hit the X correctly. No matter how many times I tried to close it, it kept trying to force me to buy. I do not like being manipulated. I uninstalled the game.
Bryce Wagner
4 years ago
The game itself is fun. Controls as intended, plays smoothly, very addicting and you can spend hours on a single game, however the sheer amount of ads literally incentivises you to not continue playing. Every time you add more numbers, everytime you start the game up, when you switch to another app and switch right back without closing, when you swipe down the notification bar and "accidentally" hit the special offer button every single time. Ad, ad, ad, ad, ad, ad
Kirsten Tamara
4 years ago
Terrible game. Numbers all look the same in that bubbly font that is just awful. 2, 3, and 4 disappeared after the first 2 lines, making it almost impossible to sum 10. I kept adding lines and it didn't get any better, plus I had to watch ads for it to ad lines that didn't even have more than one or two matches. This game is a ploy for ads, don't even bother. Not fun or even challenging, since they just supply the same numbers over and over diagonally, which creates a pattern but doesn't help.
Michelle Musgrave
4 years ago
I love the concept of this game, its well thought out. However, the amount of ads is so obnoxious I had to uninstall it. At first it wasn't bad, but then ads came after every round. To shuffle, it was watch an ad, then two ads, and then the app would say retry so it gave me more ads. One shuffle took me 5 ads! I get there has to be ads, but mixed with the crashing, just too much. And numbers started sticking as well. I'd tap a pair and only 1 would disappear. Please fix the bugs.
Chardonnay Jones
4 years ago
Fun Concept. WAY TOO MANY ADS. I spent 30 minutes working on a puzzle. But I kept getting interrupted by about 6 or 7 ads on my ONE puzzle. Not to mention every time you switch to a new puzzle, you have to watch ads in between..... No thank you. This game is not worth all of the interruptions. Plus, $7 just to get rid of ads? This is over priced. I haven't even gotten to beat one puzzle yet or even learned how to play this game fully by the time I am wanting to throw it away.
Duncan William
4 years ago
This is a really fun game if you enjoys things like sudoku and minesweeper,, however the ads quickly became absolutely obnoxious. Everytime you open the app: ad. Everytime you use one of the actions like undo or add a new layer: ad. Starting a new game? Be prepared to watch an ad first. They're also the type of ads that stop any music you're listening to in the background and occasionally if you accidently tap one they start an "instant download". Hate it.
Robert Brown
10 months ago
Way too many ads. This is the first game I've seen that stops in the middle of play just to show you an ad. Uninstalling. Responding to Appsyoulove: Every game I play is free and has ads. I have no problem with them coming at the beginning or end of the level, or if i want a reward. I have a problem with being stopped in the middle of playing a level to look at a commercial for 30 seconds. it makes playng your app unenjoyable. There are plenty just like it that don't do that.
Jessica G
9 months ago
I came back to this game after a while because it's such a good time waster and it is entertaining. I still think that there are far too many ads. It's excessive really. I don't mind watching ads to get some power ups or whatever but to add more rows, when I start the game, just randomly during game play is too much. It also recently started restarting my games randomly without my prompting it to and that's unacceptable. Unfortunately I'm going to have to just give this one up.
LeAnn
8 months ago
I have played this game for so long that I remember power-ups that no longer exist. With that said, the ads never really bothered me but they have started increasing in frequency which is troublesome. My problem with the app is the fact that recently there have been very spammy pop-ups happening. Not ads, pop-ups. Like the pop-up redirects you get online that push you towards you towards the "you've won a free prize" pages. This is the only app it happens with!
Shannon K Fleming (TheSeoulJourner)
6 months ago
Besides the fact that this game is P-A-I-N-FULLY slow to earn points, it never offers any challenges or changes to keep it intersting. It's boring. 50% of the time the ads freeze or don't play keeping me from accessing tools like bombs, hints, swaps or doubling up. I have cleared my cache, reloaded the game for maybe a few opertunities for ads to work only to have them freeze again. It's such a basic game, I don't get why it is having these issues.
Reese Pieces
5 months ago
I love this game... However the ads are annoying. I could get over that and I might even be willing to pay (but 5.99??) to get rid of them but that won't fix the issue of this game using SO MUCH of my battery. I can normally go an entire day and never get below 20% but if I play this for 30min to an hour, my phone will be dead by dinner time. Fix this and I would seriously consider spending the money for ad free.
Teresa Giusti
5 months ago
I would leave 0 stars if I could. Be very aware of this app. I had accumulated over 5 million points. Then, all of the sudden, different features stopped working. When I contacted them, I was advised to upgrade to the newest version. When I did, I lost ALL my points! Thinking this would be an easy fix for a game company, I contacted them again and was told that they don't have the ability to restore my points, but offered me a "consolation prize " There are similar but better apps out there.