Blockudoku - Block Puzzle Game Reviews

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RIGGED! This WAS a great game until a few weeks ago. I’ve loved playing this game, until it was recently updated. Prior to the update, I was able to score over 17,000 points at my highest, and multiple times over 10,000. Now it’s almost impossible to score over 4,000. I say almost because I’ve been able to get a little over 5,000 since the update. Basically what happens now is you reach around 3,500 points and the game stops giving random pieces and just gives you a bunch of garbage pieces until you lose, typically between 3,700 and 3,800. It is so frustrating, and it feels like having a video game where you are stuck on an infinite loop of level one. I don’t think I’ve ever wrote a review for an app, but after reaching out to support (crazy, I know), and hearing back that they are sorry that I don’t like the update but that they did it for the enjoyment of all players, I’m just frustrated enough to be writing this. I can only imagine the idea is to close the performance gap between players as it relates to tournaments or something, which I never do. As long as you are new to the game and can’t break 3,000, you might still like the game, but once you cross that threshold, get ready because the game wants you to lose.

Enjoying the challenge!. Most games I see available are games of chance. If you are dealt just the right combo of cards or given great letters to spell out words worth plenty of points you are able to score enough points to beat the competition. That is how this game is so different! You have a grid placed before you and you are then dealt random shapes made from cubes. The object of the game is for you to calculate how to place them onto the grid so you have space to continue playing when the next set of shapes are given to you. If you just randomly drop the shapes in you are likely to end up losing. As you fill in one section completely most of those blocks will disappear giving you more options to “play” future shapes . I find this game to be one of the more stimulating games out there and it is currently my go to for entertainment. There are similar competitions available. Some have cubes of varying colors.

Good App but a few suggestions. I like almost all the features yet from a potential standpoint I think a few additional features are necessary to make it a truly A1 app. One change is to allow you to disable in settings the ability for it to glow before you place the block down so you don’t know how your decision will affect the turn. Another more important feature would be to save states. For example, if you added a third game mode for practice you should allow the ability to move backwards in plays and the only way to do so would be to keep track of the states whether that is through an array or otherwise(stack) this could even be implemented as a setting features on any game mode or in a premium version as it would be a crucial tool for learning from your mistakes! Edit: In addition look at A* search or Greedy algorithm to create a system of which blocks you generate for the turn. This should allow to integrate a difficulty setting into the game because you will know which blocks produce the most points and you can if let’s say they choose hard difficulty make sure it’s only giving them the blocks that only fit into one particular spot on the board.

Game has changed. This had been my favorite game for a long while. Recently it was changed to higher goals and much harder games. In the past, it was a fun wake-up challenge for the day and exercised the brain to start the day off in a positive way. Recently it has become more difficult and is now an exercise of frustration. I understand there might be players that want an extra challenge but could you not have kept your game as is and developed challenging sidebars instead??? You are losing me as an avid player. As for your days-long tournaments, they are much too long to hold interest - perhaps a one day tournament would be more fun???? It is almost as though someone entirely different is running this app, or a new philosophy has arisen. Please, scale it back to old times. Your fun app has suddenly taken a dive and I no longer look forward to it with my first cup of coffee. JUST CHECKED - I won a daily award trophy for 11 months in a row and just this week have had 2 days of puzzles that I cannot finish. That is not a coincidence - this is not a change in my mental aptitude - it is a way that the developers have changed the game, and I just reduced your review stars to one. I am not pleased with this change. Will someone at easy brain please give me an honest evaluation of what happened?

Love this game! Can I make a request?. I love playing this game when I need to just unwind my brain for a bit. One of my favorite things to do is play while I’m watching a show (on Netflix or other streaming service). My only small complaint, is that I have to make the show as small as possible in the corner of my phone, because the game screen is too spread out and the show blocks the top part of the game board. If the game could be scooted down a little on the screen, I could increase the picture-in-picture size of my show and still play without the game being blocked! Any chance the game could be formatted just a little towards the bottom of the screen instead of perfectly centered? Or, at least have an option for it in the settings? I would love to see my show better while I play! (And I know, this is such a dumb problem in my life. 🤪 But I think of it every time I’m playing, how nice it would be to get the best of both)

NOT ABOUT THE ADS!. I hate this update! Why fix something that wasn’t broken?? Why did you all change the way the lines erase? It’s terrible! Makes the game slower, more cumbersome, more drain on battery. ******** ********************************************* I PAID for Blockudoku, so I don’t see the ads. I do see that is irking a lot of people. ********* *********************************************** My issue is different! You changed the actual game graphics! ************************************************* I’m very tempted to delete the game . Will there be an update to restore the game play as before? Or give it as an option in the settings? ************************************************* ISSUE: Each time a line eliminated…NOW with the update, its a wave?? the line slowly disappears. Having to watch that wave over and over is very annoying! I really liked the lines just disappearing. Straightforward, no frills. No fancy graphics. ***** ************************************************* I enjoyed that it felt sort of like Tetris, because lines just disappeared! *************************** *********************************************** Please remember, this game is for calming mindfulness, relaxation, I like that nothing is timed…I love this game for helping me during anxious times…please restore or give option to have lines disappear as before.

New App Design :(. I want to preface this review with that I really enjoy this game, I find it quite relaxing and appreciate the little ads during gameplay. This game is unplayable for me right now. Prior to a couple of weeks ago the app was fairly basic design-wise. There was an option between the classic blue and white or a more wood color tone and that was perfectly fine. I’m aware that apps change and things look different but the previous 2D design added to calming nature in its simplicity. Now the app has this truly putrid 3D design, every block has a highlight on it now and they got rid of the clear lines separating the sections and opting for just different shades of grey. This makes me feel claustrophobic and really tense throughout gameplay. I wish there was simply an option to switch between the 2D and 3D designs because I’m sure this is exactly the look some people are wishing for. It just isn’t what I’m looking for and for the foreseeable future will not be playing.

It’s a game that’s relaxing but wait.... So I’ve been playing this game for awhile now. Especially through high school and now I actually like it. It’s relaxing, keeps me entertained and I haven’t had any issues with it bug wise. After the new update with achievements it just added onto the game. You don’t have to do the achievements but it also gives you something to do at the same time while playing. I’ve played this game in my high school classes and it’s been good. Although I give five stars I would say ads are kinda annoying. But then again for my personal case just turn on airplane mode and ads are gone. I can still listen to my instrumental music and play with no problem. For an average game that makes you stack and put certain blocks in certain places this game is one I highly recommend to anyone who wants a free but good game.

Great Game, but too too many ad interruptions during the game.. Use to be a great game that I g free, that I rated at 5 Stars. But, the number of ads has gotten absolutely ridiculous. Now instead of a few add w between games, there are interruptions during a game with ads./ and they are so numerous that they are absolutely annoying…. And, I have decided to stop playing what was a wonderful, challenging, and fun game. I will also be deleting it from my iPhone…… Sorry, but the ads have become very annoying! Is this business of interruptions of the game play with ads, instead of having the ads between games . Strategy to get more people to buy your game? Not very honest ….. You initially sold the game as being free with ads between games …. Now annoying the players with ads in hope that they will but the game. It would have be much more honest to have simply offered the game at a much lower price with no ads at all. The buy numbers would likely have been much higher. I don’t appreciate the trickery …. So I’m deleting the game, and using the $4.99 (no ad price) you are now offering, to buy this or another game From someone else. Integrity counts in selling games !!!!

Played this game for years. I used to love this game, it was always a favorite to be playing and mindlessly do the puzzles. I paid for this app a while ago to be ad free and never regretted it. But recently they added in these gem and bubble levels that I am not a fan of. Thats mostly personal and I get trying to keep the game fresh (although I do miss the normal game play). I had battery issues on my phone lately and most of my screen time used to to be mindlessly playing this game, but since the gem and bubble update the app takes up twice the amount of battery that it did in the past. I can’t play the game anymore because it’s draining my battery more than heavier games I played in the past or even watching videos. Very sad cause it was my most used app (I have every trophy from every day available even) but now I can’t keep that going with how much battery this seemingly simple game now takes

Long time Player - Heavy on the ads for the free version. I agree with the veteran about the % who pass, this is luck of the draw game for the most part. I have been playing this game for a few years, never saw a reason to upgrade to the paid version as the ads were short, however now the ads come before starting the daily challenge, during the game and after the completion, not to mention the ad ribbon at the bottom of the play field, and I have noticed that the every day challenge has had an increase in the completion score by 200 points, seems like the developer has thought of a new way to inject more ads. Due to the game mechanics becoming more complex and difficult to solve. I really enjoy the gameplay and the game. Over the last few months I have been playing, more and more ads, making me think “time to delete the game” sadly because I really enjoy playing. My time has a value, and it’s getting to expensive for my tastes.

Not like the ads. I’m a 11 year old girl who wants your company to make a difference but before that please read my passage I got this game because a friend suggested it but I was playing another game and an ad popped up for this app, saying that there was a feature that could test ur IQ but there’s not. I know other game companies do the same thing but I thought you guys were better than that. People buy a game for two main reasons 1. They see it on the App Store page or social media and 2. They see a ad. But when the company is lying about what the game is about people like me will just want to delete it. So please just be honest with you ads people might even want to get it more if you just tell the truth about what it is. Be the app that changes the whole ball game about telling the truth on ADS. Thx for reading this and please change your ads and be the different app. ❤️

HUGE increase in ads making this unplayable. I don’t know what happened in the last week or so, but you’ve made what was my favorite app nearly unplayable. I play games like this both for fun AND as therapy for recovering from a brain injury and related side effects. I’ve been so thankful for this game, and honestly I was glad there were some ads so the developers could make some money but I wouldn’t have to pay. Then the other day I opened the app and I was fed an ad NOT only before a round and after the round, but the game was interrupted to feed me one in the middle of playing! I never write reviews, but I was just playing the event and it happened again, before it opened the round, ONE move before I finished it, and then again after I hit the desired point total. It’s so completely jarring to the thought process to stop you in the middle. I should say that in addition to more than three times the number of ads I’m suddenly seeing, the ads are almost all three times as long! They used to be :05 second ads but now are :15 or more. I’m getting so distracted by them all that the benefits I used to get by playing are now essentially all lost. I don’t know why you’d do this, but please be aware that it’s absolutely being noticed and if you’re not already, you’ll be losing people if you don’t do something about it soon.

Love the game.... ....but hate all the ads. Would pay for it to get get it add free. Okay, heard from the developer. You can remove the ads for a payment of $4.99. Well worth it to me. Can play forever with no ads! Life is good! Looks like I got excited too fast. I paid for the cancellation of the ads on my iPad and expected them to come off my iPhone as well. After all, when you get the app, it shows up on both platforms regardless of which one you ordered it on. Imagine my surprise when I opened the app on my phone and the ads were back. Have written to the developer but if I have to play two times to play without ads, I will cancel the charge with the credit card company and remove the app from my iPad and iPhone. Buyer beware Okay, I was contacted by someone who explained how to get it ad free on my iPhone and iPad. Very easy to do. So as I said originally, I just love this game!

Developer lost the plot. This used to be my daily go to game because it was structured and helped my ADHD brain relax. This and Number Match from the same developer. Now after years of playing these games, one has already been deleted from my phone and now this one is going down the same path. I understand tweaking and updating the apps. But you have to be completely bananas to think abandoning the gameplay that made the game what it was, is an improvement. It’s stupid and insulting. If you want to add a new way to play the game, go for it. But don’t remove the part that made the game successful in the first place. You’ve now ruined two of your products and you’ve alienated users like me - users who pay to remove ads. Whoever is making decisions for this company needs to be fired and replaced with someone who doesn’t have contempt for their customers. As of now, I have contempt for you and will go out of my way NOT to get any of your products because you are not trustworthy, and that’s 100% because of your actions and your complete disregard for the complaints and concerns of your clients. Edit: the developer response is yet another copypasta that’s virtually identical to all the other responses. With no care for the users. Don’t insult my intelligence by giving a non-apology apology where you admit no wrongdoing and give a “sorry you’re dissatisfied” response - which is a common and sociopathic way to deflect criticism. I honestly and truly hope you go out of business.

Developers ruined the game. This used to be my favorite game and I loved playing the daily challenge every morning. Unfortunately, the recent changes have made the game no longer fun to play and here is why. First, there are too many ads now. I used to be able complete the daily challenge with ads at the beginning and end of the challenge which was fine. But now the game interrupts midway through a challenge to show you a long senseless add. I understand that the developers have to make money and I should just purchase the paid version which I have considered but ultimately decided not too because of the other issue. That brings me to my second and biggest complaint. The daily challenges are no longer challenging. It used to take me sometimes 2-3 attempts to complete the daily challenge, but now I literally complete it in 30 seconds by popping bubbles or removing bushes with no sense of accomplishment. Is this really the best idea that you all could come up with to improve or advance the game? Maybe instead of adding childish bubbles and/or flower bushes, how about you improve the game play by making new daily challenges that actually challenge people. I hate to say it but after 5 plus years of playing I am sadly going to delete the game and spend my time playing something else that is more fun and rewarding. Hope you all see this review and strongly consider making some changes to improve instead of ruin the game. Good luck.

Not as advertised. The ad for this game that drew me in is misleading, as it shows block configurations dropping into grids with different outlines, as though there would be a variety of puzzles to solve, but as it turns out there’s just the same puzzle ad nauseum with the only variety being how long before your luck runs out, more or less, and it could be a source of frustration if you fixate on the score, as you can gather from reading other reviews. For me the challenge of beating my highest score is so much greater than the reward that it’s not a meaningful motivator, and I often don’t finish the game. It’s a great diversion when I have unproductive time to fill (waiting rooms, etc) but I play less and less frequently, because I get bored by it very quickly now that I feel I have reached an insurmountable plateau. I think it would be interesting if the game tracked my average score, so I could see if it improved, seems like an easy feature to include. The ads are pretty annoying as well, but the game isn’t interesting enough to pay to remove them, in my calculus.

Great but one issue. Look I highly enjoy this game. As a disabled combat veteran it helps me to focus on something other than the pain and the PTSD from combat. I even paid to remove the ads it was so good. However, recently they added this one feature that has started to make me not want to come back as often, and I’m assuming it’s a bandwagon thing but it’s one of those “let me show you a percentage of people who only made it passed this puzzle cause they are better than you are” sort of thing at the beginning of each puzzle, even when you have to restart the puzzle. This function…. And this function alone…. drives my anger scale up and over the boiling point beyond reason and I hate being compared to others. Especially when it comes to my intelligence. So as a paid customer and a long time fan of the game, I’m not asking you get rid of the feature, I’m sure there is some Masochist out there who enjoys the challenge but could you add in a setting under the cog wheel for the rest of us who don’t want to see that garbage? Even if it’s just for paid customers like myself? It’s just a small feature. A small on/off switch. Nothing more. Please and thank you!

Algorithm changed 👎. I used to love this game and enjoyed trying to play to beat my all time high score of 11k. But then I noticed it is near impossible to score over 4k. Starting around 3.5k, the algorithm is biased against the player and starts giving you tiles that make it impossible to get much over 4k. At first, I thought this was just me… I probably played over 100 games, and the highest score was 4.1k. This is very different from how it used to be, where I could maybe get 6 or 7k before losing. So, I searched online to see if other players were also having this problem and read that other players are having this EXACT same issue. Honestly, the app creators need to fix this issue for me to enjoy this game again. I hate leaving negative reviews on stuff, but in this case, I’m hoping the creators will listen to my request to change the algorithm back to how it used to be, because I used to really love this game. As it stands, this game is not entertaining for me anymore since it is impossible to succeed.

Meh. August 2020: Been playing consistently now for awhile and have decided to change my rating from a 5 to a 2. There have been no significant updates for a long time. Nothing that adds to the game play or makes things more enjoyable. The bug mentioned previously had been fixed back in April but I held out hope for a sort of endless version. Now that it is August and the version history has been mostly performance updates, I’ve given up hope for any additions for game play. A real shame as I think there is potential to make this game better and more fun. Old review: Been playing for a few months now. It’s my go to zen game. Feb 14 though I was surprised to be hit with a “bug” that has made my enjoyment of the game increase over 9000. Instead of the game ending at 500 points, it allowed me to keep going. And going. And going. I got up to 9000 points and felt really satisfied with that. My normal highest is only 2900 something. Which I know isn’t very high, so this made me feel great! Please make this a mode or something. I go back to this day just so I can keep playing this “mode”. I think I’ll cry if it’s fixed or something. Please, please, please keep it!!!

Different scoring???. A few of my friends and I play this awesome game. My high score is 2600 after a few weeks of playing. Most my friends scores are similar. I told coworkers to get it too and one of them got 3100 under 5 minutes on the first game. We thought he was a genius….but then I watched him play the second game and right away noticed the scoring is not the same as mine. He placed 3 first blocks and had a core of over 150 without getting a combo. Then he hit a combo and had 380 - all in a span of under 1 minute. I played a game and got a few points for placing blocks and a few dozen for getting a combo- the scoring is off. Another person downloaded it and was also getting those high scores. Another downloaded it and got my scoring system. What’s happening? It seems like it’s adding a zero to their totals! We played a came next to each other and it was evident the scoring system is off.

Amazing Strategy Game!. This is a great, challenging strategy game with randomization, a difficult combination. I’ve seen a lot of reviews that the game is too random or involves no strategy. I heavily disagree! The strategy of the game is that you can’t rotate the blocks or see the next shapes. Even though this is randomization, you need to prepare space for anything. If you could rotate the blocks, the challenging part of the game would be lessened. I think not being able to rotate the blocks adds an interesting, challenging twist on games like Tetris. Another counterpart to Tetris this game offers is the slower paced strategy, unlike Tetris with a constant pressure being applied. You can’t rotate blocks because you have time to think about what position the blocks could be placed that would allow non-rotatable pieces to fit. The one thing I will suggest is that a, “Watch ad for another life,” or, “Pay *in-game, purchasable currency* to continue,” system is NEVER added! I feel like the challenge could be negated if this type of system were added, although the choice is up to you developers. In conclusion, the fact that you cannot rotate blocks and/or see what pieces you will get in the next set adds a challenging twist to this game! I just hope an ‘Do this’ for a new life system isn’t added.

It was fun, average game now. So, my fiancée and I have been playing this game since December 2019. In January her app updated to the new pieces and it turned a pretty cool game into something I’ll say is average. Now three months later my app updated to the new pieces (I bought the app to avoid the terrible commercials). Now I’m out the money, the relaxing game, and bragging to my fiancée about how the new game wasn’t a ploy by the developers to make more money... this is the first time I’ve had to eat my words to her. She had me write this to tell you all I was wrong, the game was better before. Today will be my last day with this app. Take care developer folks. I reduced down to two stars after receiving a canned developer response about their feel they need more and more of your money - I paid once and got good - then it was changed to presumably to get more from me. I get that your goal is to maximize your reach in to the pockets of players, but can you look to just make it reasonable and not so greedy - no one likes a greedy game. Just strike a balance at the start and let’s all just get along and have fun!

I used to love this game. I have played this game for years. I loved the daily challenge, I enjoyed working on the self determined game, but then something changed. It started on my phone. I opened the app one day and all of the sudden I was forced to play a new version with flowers and bushes. I wasn’t given an option, and I really don’t like the experience. I can’t even tell you exactly why, but I detest the flower version. So, I deleted it off my phone. I still had the game on my iPad and it was the same old version, so I at least had that. Yesterday, I opened my app, ready for my relaxing daily challenge, and what has corrupted my iPad you ask? The new non-negotiable flower version. I finally reached out to help, saying I detest the flower version and how do I go back to the plain version? “Oh, there’s no way to do that, we understand change is hard, but this is what you have now…” Really? My husband is still playing the old version on both his phone and iPad. And I’m sort of curious who thought the flower version was better and why game players couldn’t have an option, given both games still exist. I don’t mind change, but the new version isn’t better to me. Visually it’s annoying to my eyes. I can’t say if the annoyance is due to the stupid flowers, or to the complete lack of choice. What I can say is that I’ve now deleted it off my iPad and will go find a new game. One that doesn’t make me angry to play.

Random or pre-determined?. I downloaded this game because it looked like an interesting and challenging puzzle game. While those things did seem to be true at first, it seems as if the tiles you receive are not random as the developers state. When I first started playing, I was able to achieve multiple games with scores over 1000. Now, I can not even come close to achieving that. It would be blasphemous to assume that my strategy/skill at the game has decreased, so what exactly is the reason for this? While it could be purely coincidence, I would bet that the developers purposefully created the game in such a manner that makes it essentially impossible to top a player’s high score. I have come to this conclusion through not only my experience, but the experience of other reviewers. By intentionally making the game more, players will play the game increasingly more in order to beat their high score. The more people play, the more ad revenue the creators collect. While I cannot be certain in my assumption, I am confident that this is the case. It seems unethical and, quite frankly, pathetic. The concept of this game is awesome, and I commend the developers for that. However, I refuse to overlook this stain on what is an otherwise very-well created game. I would love to hear back from the developers about the perceived randomness of this game.

Love it!. Hello there! I absolutely LOVE this game!!! I’ll sometimes be getting in trouble for playing it so much 😂! Not much ads like other games, it also challenges your mind! It’s really fun!!! And everyone else, I’m not a bot lol don’t think I’m giving this good reviews cuz I’m a bot 😂. I have a suggestion though! (I don’t know if you have this or not if you do I apologize) There should be a worldwide challenge “Ring” and see who can get the highest score in let’s say.. 3 minutes! And 5 people per round? I don’t know why this came in mind, but I thought it could put more challenge into the game..... There is only one very small issue I have. Sometimes when I go to place a block, and I’m not done finishing where I’m going to put it; it places on its own. It mainly gets me a little frustrated, but then I usually just put it behind me. But then it happens again. And I’m getting a little more frustrated.... that’s all I have for now! Thank you for taking your time to read this review! ^^

Highly addictive , Highly frustrating. While I love this game for the simplicity and challenges, I’ve also grown a deep hatred for it. For starters, 5 long tiles? C’mon now... I have had certain games where I’m on fire till my next set of moves require a 2x 5 long tile, 4 long diagonal tile and completely just slaps my ego to the ground and constantly stomps it to the ground with its size 24 boot. I wish we were given the option to rotate or maybe just re-roll a new set of tiles (Please don’t add this as an in game purchase-able refill type option). I love this game and think its awesome through & through, but it’s just so frustrating when i know my move sets are perfect but get hit with such obscurely difficult tiles. Anyways, hope to see some updates soon cause this game is great. Hate to see another phone shaped hole in my wall because of the inability to change the outcome of such a great round ruined by that obnoxious 5 long, 4 diagonal, C/U (Backward/upsidedown) shaped tiles.

Not a fan of recent design changes. Have been using this app for several years, I’ve loved playing the daily challenges and seeing my progress (checking off each day, earning a trophy), but – I HATE the new cheesy graphics that have recently been added. The reason I liked using the app was because the game board was very simplistic and visually unstimulating, making it a great way to relax during the day or wind down before bed. It now looks and plays more like a child’s game and the random cheesy graphics ruin the meditative aspect of the game. It also seems like the goals are becoming much more simplified and less challenging, which is also a big disappointment, as they feel less intellectually stimulating and there’s no payoff/feeling of accomplishment like when you finally beat a game after a few tries. I really hope the developers figure out a way to maintain the original minimalist design aesthetic, and keep an option with more challenging gameplay, or else I will be uninstalling the game after I catch up on my remaining daily challenges with the original design/challenging gameplay. :/

No longer accessible. I used to love the daily challenges. It was visually accessible. Then they changed over to bushes and gems. There’s is no way to keep track of progress, so you have no idea if you are going to be playing for 5 minutes or 50 minutes trying to beat this thing. When you clear a bush, suddenly more bushes appear because it’s never made clear to you how many there were. The best part about the old version was that it was accessible to neurodivergent people and the way we think. It laid things out so logically. Now, there is no logic. I have no idea what score I am trying to beat. I have no idea what my progress is. The images are dizzying on such a small screen. It’s sensory overload. They took a perfectly good ACCESSIBLE app and made it less accessible to Disabled people. And there only response to other people who have apparently left reviews, is change is hard. I am appalled such a callous and frankly ableist response. You’re right. It is hard being Disabled when the tiny things in life that do work for you, now no longer work for you. The world isn’t built for us. But this app was originally built with unknowingly with a neurodivergent mind, in mind. And for whatever reason, y’all decided… Gems and Bushes! Who needs accessibility, right? It’s like playing Minesweeper ala big box screen MS Dos starting mid-90s computer. Way to regress I stress of progress. It’s looks like 90% of the puzzle apps out there. Nothing about it is any different now. Good job.

Ads in free version are disturbing. I’ve had this game on my phone for almost a year and I love it. I have the free version because I’m a graduate student scraping by on student loans. The ads for other games that pop up are so disturbing that it makes me want to delete the game. Just a few minutes ago, an ad popped up for a game where a mom and infant come home to find the husband in bed with another woman. She packs her bags and leaves. Her new home is in terrible shape so the game is you fixing up the place, but you have the option to let them freeze to death. In fact, that’s how the game is advertised: you get to watch the mom and infant shiver as the designer puts snow around them and leaves a gaping hole in place of a broken window. This is just one of about 3 or so other games like this advertised on the free version of Blockudoku. It’s repulsive. Is the marketing strategy to upset players with these ads so much that they buy the game? I sincerely hope not. 3 star rating because the game itself is great but the ads bring the rating way down.

Great but a few suggestions. I’ve played awhile and have completed the daily challenges for a year straight. I also play many of the events, but not the tournaments. Suggestions 1) add a difficultly slider. Lately the daily challenges have been way too easy and it bums me out that I beat it on my first try. Harder difficulty could mean that all of the block shapes are included— like in free play where there are U shape blocks and diagonal single blocks that aren’t included in daily or event challenge. 2) add an indicator to the daily challenge calendar for which type of challenge it is. Either numbers, bubbles, bushes, or gems. Then it’s easy to find the type of game you want to try if you go back to play old challenges. Also, please bring back the number challenge! Those were really difficult sometimes and haven’t been back since the new game types released. 3) allow replay of old challenge postcards. 4) allow playing the various challenge types in free play. (Bushes, bubbles, gems) 5) one of the screenshots in this app description has a triangle shaped board. I’ve been playing over a year and never had anything but the 9x9 square. Would love to see more unique and challenging maps! Thanks for considering this feedback. This is the only game I’ve kept on my phone for this long and that I enjoy playing daily.

Too buggy. I’m giving up on this game because it gets hung up too often. Also, it never turns off so it drains my battery if I get distracted while playing, from an email or maybe I fall asleep or something (if I’m playing it at night) I come back and the battery of my iPad is drained and that’s a real drag. Also, it gets hung up in the middle of a game, where it freezes and I can’t move the pieces, so I have to close it and reopen it and then it’s still hung up so that it places a piece where I didn’t intend it to go because of it freezing and unfreezing, and my game board is ruined! Maybe they should have the ads in between games instead of during games? Anyway I’m getting fed up so I’m gonna just gonna stop. I’m adding to the review because I gave it another chance because the developers said they are always listening to comments but now the game is interrupting games to play ads. So much for improving a game, you give us a buggy game and then make your ads take over the game. I don’t think these developers care about people and they definitely don’t know how to work with ads.

Good game, some events not so much. I still think this game is good enough that I continue to feel justified for purchasing no ads option. Just one issue... the near impossible levels in some of the events are making it so that I will no longer play them. Do what you want, but endless retries and endless bad piece offerings are not hard but an insult. Seems like a ploy to make ads run more when played with ad included version... I get it, you need to make money, but not like that... screwing with paying customers is like cutting your own throats. Hope you think better of it going forward, but doubt I will ever know as I am done with playing events. Still well done game, smooth game play, well designed and seems performant. Must be well programmed. I wouldn't mind paying for this again, so long as the price is affordable for me.

Ads are false, but real game is good. Good game but the ad / commercial for the game is completely inaccurate. I’ve had this game for over a year, the ads show you trying to match shapes into a variety of different larger shapes. In the actual game it’s always a big square you are filling. Nothing is ever being fit into a triangle or other shape like the ads. It’s basically a simple game, you get shapes like Tetris and play and clear rows or columns or group of 9 squares. Some challenges start off with prefilled areas you have to clear. Some prefilled areas have numbers so you have to clear that many times before the blocks are cleared. Your game is over when you have no place to put one of the three blocks in your available tray. But to reiterate…the ads are completely not what the game is about. I find many game ads are false advertisements. If you think people want to play the advertised game why not just make that game??? Silly marketing if you ask me.

The new update has issues. I love this game. I’ve beaten every daily challenge since April of 2021, and in small doses I’ll likely never get tired of it. The new update was pretty cool to see, since the gameplay can become pretty 1 note after a bit of playing. However, it’s clear that the mechanics were not tuned or given enough attention before being released. As it stands, some levels are basically impossible to beat because of how the new systems work. I’m currently stuck on a level that requires you to collect 4 different type of gems, the only issue is that the level does not provide you enough gems to actually beat it. Once you clear the screen of all pre-existing gems the game is incredibly stingy with providing more gems in order to actually complete the levels. I strongly urge the developers to make some tweaks to this new gameplay so that it can be fully enjoyed and not bogged down by these striking issues These changes are a welcome addition to the game all things considered, but ideally they should be regulated to a seperate game mode and keep the existing challenges relatively unchanged.

There’s a need for ad revenue, and then there’s…. Quite frankly, beating a dead horse isn’t putting it right. An ad before every first game (of daily puzzles, of story puzzles, and of general blockudoku) AND after most levels unless you break the all time high score I’ve found. The game is just a front for ad revenue, and if you go into airplane mode, you can’t do the daily puzzles or the story mode because oops! You need to download those for whatever reason. I’m not spending money on a phone app either so I don’t want a shallow developer response that says “Hi! Apologies for interrupting your game with ads. We'll work towards making your experience more enjoyable. Also, we cannot remove all ads as we need to support the app, and ads give us a chance to make the game available to everyone for free. If you wish to stop all ads, you can do that for a small one-time fee in Settings.” Because you definitely can decrease the frequency and also make the game airplane mode compatible, unless you plan on adding a multiplayer online mode. While I’m at it, why DO I need to download the daily and story puzzles? Aren’t they pretty pre-determined?? I feel like it’s a cash grab that’s hiding behind the ruse of a game.

I'm done. Goodbye, see ya, adios!. What happened to this game? The Daily Challenge used to be fun and a bit challenging, but the difficulty has been changed so much that now it's a chore. I find myself spending far too long each day (more than I used to) just to try to complete it. As many, MANY reviewers have said, the "features" added recently are intrusive. The percentage pop-up every time just gets in the way, and the fact that it can't be disabled (which the developers have noted in response to many negative reviews) just makes it worse. A good developer would take players' suggestions into account and do something to improve their app or game, but that doesn't seem to be a priority here. Why has an Undo option not been included? As I noted in a previous review, having to be connected in order to start the Daily Challenges on the first of every month is ridiculous. After all the changes and so-called "improvements", I am deleting this game from my device and not looking back. I'll have more time each day to do better things, and the developers won't be getting any money from me from the incessant ads.

Ad update. I have been playing this game for years. I absolutely loved it. This game was the only game that i could find to start each morning and get my brain feeling stretched and ready for the day. I have ADHD and this game was really helping me zone in and reset myself from all the overwhelming cluttered thoughts during the day. My favorite thing is the daily challenge and getting my gold stars to get another trophy for another month. The recent update that now has added Advertisements in the middle of the game has ruined this for me. The ads at the end of each game were fine, even when i couldn’t skip them. I had completed a level and felt accomplished. I actually watched the ads because i had a spike of dopamine after completing each level. The ads that cut in the middle of the game completely derails my focus and disrupts my decompression. This honestly causes major anxiety spike and even though you can skip them after a few seconds, i find myself angrily tapping the button too early. Its upsetting for me that i don’t think i can play it anymore. I will have to find some other game.

Was fun until the tournament.. I enjoy playing this game a lot and was surprised by the tournament. So, I joined it. I was completing well being the #2-4 player in the tournament up in till there was about 3 day 6 hours left. Then it all went to hell!! The game crashes so much my phone started to have issues. Like my battery that would last me playing the game almost alday would last maybe 2-3 hours. Game crashed so much that it would take 10-15 minutes to make a move then the game would crash and reset the move, which might that 15-20 restarts of the app to replay the move again. The for some reason my screen name was changed from Xwoive to Concerned Weasel, and my ranking was removed on my iPhone back to just entering the tournament from 2 place. When I had to switch to my iPad Pro which was working even worse than my iPhone, I saw that my ranking and name where still at 3rd place. I also found that in settings is a prank mode In the game. I just want to play and not deal with crashes, pranks, this is app ticking me off!

Data Backup Issue. I opened my app to notice my game name was not what it was supposed to be and there was no way to change it or get it back to what it was. So, I uninstalled my app and reinstalled hoping it would help my problem so that when i reopened the app again my name would be correct. Instead, I open it to find that everything I’ve done back to January is just gone, all the data, all my scores, all of the daily challenges I did, everything, like the game hasn’t existed until August. I can’t scroll back to January to redo it all, it won’t go any further than the 1st of August. I’m not sure what happened here, my phone saves my data every time I play, so I’m pretty disappointed that I’ve lost all my progress. I usually like this game, but I’m not sure I even want to play anymore after everything I did just to lose it all, I’ll have to start all over and from August vs. January. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Of everything, it saved my highest score, but that was all. 🤷🏻‍♀️

More Tournaments!. I have the paid version of this game and those complaining about ads have a free version and should just upgrade instead of leaving a bad review because they are cheap… I’ve played this game almost daily for at least a year, if not two and the only thing I’ve noticed is the tournaments appear to be less frequent. Also the events last way too long. After 5 days of the Spring event finally coming to a close I was looking forward to an tournament to pop, but instead an Easter event for the next 9 days… Ugh! While events are great practice for tournaments, I don’t really care about earning all this digital artwork that only stays in the game. I also think there needs to be a countdown banner on the main page to notify you of upcoming tournaments. The last few times I have been hours behind on a tourney and it’s difficult to make the leaderboard when you have sucky players seemingly clocking 4 hours straight (or boting) of 500 point games already at #1 with 50k points who can’t even make the Top 10 Best Score board. It might also help to set a threshold for best game score in order for someone to rank for medals on the tournaments. Otherwise, I love this game! It really helps with challenging your mind and part of my daily brain health.

Enjoying it. I thought this game was more like Tetris. I love the fact that i can place the objects wherever I want on the block, but wish I could rotate the pieces also to fit in. I had previously thought the ads were too long, but the developer very helpfully explained to me that the right arrows and the plus signs were a way to eliminate the ads after 5 secs. I am very appreciative for their help, and did thoroughly enjoy playing the game this morning. Update: I am getting very frustrated with the amount of ads in this game. It wasn’t this bad before. I can understand that I have to go through an ad when I lose a game quickly, even though a just had to go through ads a couple of minutes before, but when I am close to the targeted score, and my game is being paused for ads, it is frustrating. ESPECIALLY when the ad freezes the game and when I come back in, it restarts the game! Which just happened again this morning, a week after the update that supposed to have stabilized the game. How can I enjoy the game when at any minute, it can be paused for an intrusive ad?!!!

Favorite game. This is literally my favorite game and I play it for hours on a daily basis because it's really relaxing and just kind of mindless enough that I can play and watch TV at the same time or just relax in bed. That being said, while I do enjoy the new updates I also hope that they decide to make separate modes because recently a ton of new puzzle pieces were added and while it's nice because it adds another challenge it's also a problem /because/ it adds challenge. I preferred it when the blocks were simpler and I didn't have to watch out for like a million combinations. Now there's so many shapes that my board fills up too quickly and the game ends too soon. I'm not saying that the new pieces should be removed completely, but I think they should add modes based on difficulty so people like me can play more casually. Over all it's a great game though and I'm glad it updates frequently. :)

Please change back the graphics. I play this game everyday and have been playing it for 4 years. I took an exam this morning and to calm myself down after, I decided to play my daily challenge. Words cannot describe the horrid I felt when I opened the app to see my beloved graphics changed to some corny looking (excuse my language) bull****. This app is something I have used to destress for years and now I can’t even look at it. Please change it back. 6/5 stars before this update now it’s a 2/5. You should be glad I’m giving it a 2/5 because it deserves a 0/5 but I love the game so much that you get 2 extra stars. Change it back or every week it goes by without getting changed, I will decrease a star. I am so upset that I have lost control of myself and do not know what to do. Does this mean I need to find a new game? Do I need to change my career path? Do I need to fix my car windshield? Am I even a person or are we living in a simulation? I am spiraling and need help, help that can be given with a change back to the old graphics. Please, help me become a good person again. Thanks for the great 4 years.

Rare review. The last time a reviewed an app was over ten years ago. But this game is so frustrating that I had to write a review in the hopes that the developers are listening. Let me start off by saying that the game is good. I even spent the money to remove the ads. But after playing it far too many times, I have concluded that it is not a great game because of one large problem. It’s fun for the first half of a game: you build your strategy, getting blocks to fit “just right” and then after about ten minutes, it becomes impossible. It’s as if the algorithm knows which blocks you need and instead gives you blocks you cannot use, thereby causing a rapid end to an otherwise enjoyable experience. It seems as if the 4,000 point mark (which takes about 10 minutes to achieve on average) is when the “evil algorithm” kicks in and does you in. Lest the developers think I am just complaining, I am offering up a suggestion: make the game more like Tetris in two ways. First, allow the player to rotate blocks. Second, show the player a preview of the next three blocks. Without these changes, this remains one of the most frustrating games I have ever played.

Feels like cheating. (The programming). Let me start by saying that I have loved this game for years. I have gotten every since daily challenge since 2019. But these past few months if has felt like the programming has changed. It feels like there is a set amount of times you need to try and beat a level before it will let you beat it. (I’m guessing to try and make people stay in the app longer) Doing this has changed the rewarding feeling of solving a puzzle. To now, which feels like I am fighting the game programming in hopes that the system doesn’t cheat me again. Example: Depending on the puzzle (even high score challenges) when you start everything feels regular, like it has always been. You get pieces and you figure out how to place them. But now it seems that once you get to a point, the games can see you are getting close to the goal and it will send you only bad, large pieces until you die. Which normally takes about 2 or 3 turns. I’ve been playing it enough that I can almost predict when it will happen. Please just go back to giving random pieces so it actually feels like a puzzle game again, instead of playing Russian roulette, hoping that this time the game will not make it impossible to win. I love the game. But these past couple of months it feels like a battle, instead of relaxing.

Fun puzzle game. I really enjoy this game, especially the daily puzzle. I don’t often have time for much more. It is simple and straightforward. I am not sure how long I have been playing it, but I think it has been a few years at least. I paid the small amount (less than a cup of coffee) for the ad free version. I think it is very reasonable to support the developers for something I enjoy on a daily basis. Some people find the random pieces frustrating, but you can keep trying as there doesn’t seem to be a limit on the number of tries you get to solve the puzzle. I actually just installed it on my phone as well. I used free google credits to remove the ads on my phone. I normally don’t leave reviews, but the ones for this game were too whiny to believe and motivated me to comment.

Good except for two things.. This game is fun, and I like to play it in the mean time. But, I’ve been paying more attention to my scores more and I’ve realized that the “Days best score” notifications are random. For example, last month I was playing and my score was around 300. then, I lost. When I started a new game, I had gotten to around 250 before I saw a notification that said “Month’s best score”. I’m not sure if I’m just going blind or these best score things are random. If so, it is not a big deal, but it strange and slightly irritating. The only other problem I have is the ads. Some of them are extremely inappropriate. There was one where an “unattractive” girl was giving her boyfriend a massage, and then looked at her boyfriend to see he was drooling over some other girl that was obviously: blonde with a tiny waist and a big chest. I’m not sure how it works with this type of stuff, but if you can do anything to get rid of these weird ads it’d be great, cause kids play these games sometimes, and they don’t need to be seeing that. Other than those two things this game is fun to play and I recommend it to people who like a challenge.

So much potential. I really enjoy this game for the most part. The main complaint is for games that come with some blocks already filled in. While I agree it should be challenging, some seem impossible to complete. Using the seasonal ones as an example: I’m through two tiles / complete pictures, and I’ve been stuck on one square of the 3rd tile / picture for 3 days now. I would love to be able to finish it. Buy this one is ridiculous. I’ve probably played this one square at least 150 times and cannot beat it. To those working behind the scenes…here’s a tip: It’s satisfying to be able to complete these. Maybe have 10 people test them out and make sure they are solvable by all of them with a good amount of attempts. Right now I feel like I won’t try future ones if there are roadblocks like this. It’s a lesson in futility. (I frequently get ones where one of the three shapes is grayed out from the VERY BEGINNING! And there are no moves to open it back up. That’s messed up.)

new update to gameplay and too many ads. There's been a new update to the gameplay that includes things like popping bubbles, destroying bushes, etc., which I can understand how some people might like, but I really hate. It has made it into an entirely new kind of game, I played blockudoku for the simplicity of the game because my brain really liked how it worked. Now I find it completely unplayable. It's clear not enough thought went in to how this new game mode would work, and there's absolutely no way to play the older version of the game. I would be okay if gems/bubbles/bushes were a part of a different game mode that still allowed you to play the old game but right now I find it unplayable. Not to mention there's been a HUGE uptick in ads over the past few months, I understand needing ads to keep an app free, but at the same time, ads that used to be 5 seconds when you opened the game/after finishing a level, but now are 15+ seconds long and will interrupt you mid-level and on every screen you click to, it's ridiculous. I put up with the uptick in ads because it was my favorite game, but they've practically erased the game I've loved and have been playing for over three years, I see no reason to stick around.

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Great game ruined. Have enjoyed this game for a long time but have to say with the most recent updates and changes to bushes and bubbles it has become ridiculously hard on some days, and the harder the puzzle the more adds you get, might be time to delete and find something else that is challenging but not near impossible at times.

Good game but SO MANY ADS. I don’t mind occasional ads in game especially when there is an option to purchase the ad free version. But there are SO MANY in this game! Multiple times in the same round that you play, you’re gameplay will be interrupted with ads. Sometimes you open the app fresh and it will open WITH AN AD before you even see anything! It honestly ruins it for me a lot because otherwise it’s such a good, zen game. What a shame.

Very good game. I first downloaded this game a few weeks ago, and I really like the concept and how you have to match blocks to get points. It’s a very simple game and it’s not too hard or too easy. One of the main reasons I like it a lot is because there isn’t too much ads in this game, and it lets you actually play the game other than give you all these stupid ads. My highest score is only 1563 but I really enjoy playing this game and it’s kind of addictive but I normally play it when I’m bored or something.

It is less enjoyable now.. Since the changes to include flowers and shapes, the number of ads have increased significantly. I used to enjoy spending about 15 minutes a day on a puzzle, but now it is closer to an hour. I don’t have that many hours in the day to waste. Especially when all the ads, when a failed game resets, go for longer than the playing time of the game. Instead of gaining revenue from ads, I will be one less statistic for you to count.

Hmmm (revised). Review 3. Not sure what a big score is. 3700 seemed ok. It gets easier after 800. And easier still after 2200. A suggestion... ...9 tiles in the diagonal does not trigger a clearing. I think it should. Review 2 I got the hang of it. Finally got past 1800 to 2500. That was enough. The game is easy up to about 400, then from 400 to 800 it takes some luck, after 800 the pieces offered fit more easily. I found the best way is to make lines of 9 or boxes of 9 at every opportunity. Just keep clearing the board. An undo option is something the developer should consider. ——————————— Review 1 It’s ok. Needs some options. 1. Be able to rotate/flip one piece at least to keep the game alive. 2. Need a visual (phantom view) of the piece that will replace the one to be set prior to setting. Then player can plan some strategy. 3. The randomness of the new set is a bit dodgy. It might be “random”, but it seems less so as the score gets higher. ( after 800 it gets easier) 4. I can’t find a strategy pattern to build on. I feel I should be able to learn and at least have a good guess at what “holes” to leave.

Used to be great, but has gone down hill. I play this game every night and I used to love it. Over the past month it has developed some sort of glitch where it will no longer allow me to score over 4000. Every game is easy to get to the mid-high 3000s and then it provides only non-winning blocks. I can see on discussion forums that this is a problem that multiple people are experiencing. This has really taken the fun out of the game.

It’s become MUCH TOO challenging. Take advice from another person. It seems rigged now and finding I cannot progress and constantly restarting the daily challenge game. The 3’s and 2’s are strategically placed that it is near impossible to fit the following 3, 6, 9 or 12 shapes anywhere in the puzzle before you crash and burn. I will see what this latest update brings before I decide on its future on my device. It was great to start but not feeling the love anymore.

The ads let it down. The ads are so frequent, often partway through a game, they go for longer than 5 seconds without a way to cancel out, and sometimes when you do click the cross it takes you to the advertiser website or crashes. Really enjoyable game but the ads make it too fragmented.

New update ruined it. As an older person with eyesight challenges, i have enjoyed my daily game for over 3 years. Sadly, i can no longer play as i just cant focus properly on all the colours and the busy screen is too much. Reading other reviews, i see your response that you are unable to revert to the previous version. So, i will sadly delete one of my favourite games. Thanks for the memories.

Revert ASAP please. Have loved this game for years. Now I have bushes and bubbles and flowers and I HATE it! There is no way to turn off this new version - which is not satisfying, fun or pleasant to play. Please, EasyBrain - at least give us an option to select which version we want to play - stupid new version or the wonderful plain old one. Have received the same canned response from EasyBrain, zero personalisation. Toeing the company line. Clearly don’t really care what their customers want…. Sad

Used to be my favourite game app. Blockudoku USED to be my favourite game app, it was simple, and put me at ease. However now with the update and the changes to both the appearance and game play it’s brought, I can’t stand it. I loved that Blockudoku was a simple game without the flashy graphics and mini events used by many gaming apps to incentivise play through triggering the brain’s reward centres. Now it replicates the strategies used by other popular game apps, that I absolutely hate. I wish I hadn’t updated the app so I could’ve continued enjoying the app I had for years.

Used to be addicted. This was once a complete addiction for me. The daily challenges were sufficiently difficult and elegantly designed. The latest update has completely sucked any joy out of the game for me. It’s a real tragedy. I no longer advertise this to friends. It’s changed the inherent nature of the game. You had a simple, beautifully executed idea and you ruined it frankly.

Fun. It’s a really good game with no time pressure, which I like. I like the daily challenges the best as they have a score limit rather than being potentially endless like the main game. But I do miss the event games though. Are they coming back? I play a lot less often than I used to because they’re gone. Update: there’s new events now with the puzzle blocks, but I miss the leaderboard high score events. Also, could we have the feature to save daily challenge games as favourites? I really like playing that difficult game that another reviewer mentioned from late October and would be so much easier to find each time if we could save them

Big fat bug. So frustrating. When the ad for clockmaker comes on, you wait for it to finish and click on the cross but as often as not, if you are not accurate enough, the game loads then you click on done and the game goes away and you have a white screen, even if you go and do something else and come back to it, the screen is still white. You may see the logo for a second or the welcome back when you come back but then no game. Otherwise a good addictive game, that is, when you can play it. MW

Love the game. Totally unimpressed and frustrated with todays challenge! The board is mostly covered and the blocks coming in are almost all random large pieces that are impossible to fit to make any squares or rows. Getting knocked out at 6% constantly should tell you that it is probably unachievable. I have played it a hundred time got to 60% a couple of time but that it! 4 days later review update: Ok so have tried since and have been able to crack this one a couple of times! Had to persevere through quite a few games to succeed! I enjoy a challenge but unwinable games take away the enjoyment.

Why make it so difficult?. I have played this game for years and have always looked forward to the daily challenge, it was a fabulous game! However, after a recent update, I’ve attempted the same daily challenge over 20 times even getting to 98% and the very next lot of blocks, non of them would fit. It has become a very frustrating game to play. If only 6% of players can complete it, why have it as a daily challenge that seems impossible to complete?

Fun!!! But easy. Hi I’m writing this to tell you how AMAZING this app is, all though this game is pretty easy it’s actually really fun! So far there has not been too many ads for me and I really enjoy playing it... this app is recommended by me and many others so if you download it make sure you give it a 4 or 5 star rating!!! Have fun! Stay safe! And be kind! Bye!!!! 👍🏼😁😊

Infuriating. This game is 90% luck and 10% skill, I’m usually great at these kind of games but for some reason only ever had 1 score over 4000 and most the time I can never get anywhere near that score. So many other reviews say the game is rigged but I think it’s just made in a way where it’s intentionally difficult all of the time. It would probably be a much better game if they changed the mechanics to gradually increase its difficulty over time and not be just master level difficulty from the moment you start a new game. I hope the developers do something because like the games got great reviews but everyone seems to think it’s rigged and yeah if a tonne of people are paying $8aud to get the ads removed then I’m sure the developers can definitely afford to fix the game or make it better.

Great game. I’ve played this game for many years and find it very relaxing. Unfortunately, this year, ads have completely taken over the game requiring me to close the game down and restart it to get back to the game.

I’m being punished!. Played this for many years. In the beginning rarely scored over 500. It was tough. Nowadays I can’t get passed around 3700, no matter what. It’s become childishly simple, but when I get around this number, the game bombs me out. Spoon fed solution moves, followed by no chance moves. Wish the game was more based on skill level than Mensa brain moves. Surely all the great feedback given by players could tempt developers to think their way to a better player experience based on skill displayed.

Great game needing one minor correction. Thanks for the game that keeping me attracted daily. I couldn’t find any other communication channel to inform you but I’ve found this inconsistency: - Complete daily challenges xx consecutive days - Log in at least one within xx days For this tracking, the number I have completed daily challenges is higher for “one” game than the number of daily logins. Technically, if I didn’t login I couldn’t have completed the game, hence your count needs to be corrected. It will be great if you can fix it please. Thanks again for a good game :)

My favorite game. This game is truly addictive. I love it. But an old issue has re-emerged recently (it has been fixed previously). When the ap is activated, any music, podcasts etc that are playing turn off and you need to then go and turn them back on once the ap is fully open. It would be great if the app didn’t interfere with anything already playing on the phone.

Addictive but VERY BAD adds. I enjoy the game but the adds are not only far too repetitive but often offensive or overtly violent. The feedback option allows reporting sexually explicit content but there is no option to report the excessively repetitive and excessive severe violence only an option to report that they are repetitive. Other adds do not close but only restart.

Frustrating ads. Writing to say how much I love playing this game and often have challenges with my partner however the ads are really starting to get super frustrating!! I get halfway through a game and next thing I’ve got an ad that comes up and when I click out of it to go back to my game I end up with a blank screen and lose my game ?? The only way to get back to playing is completely exit out of the app and then start again grrr

I win, you fail.... Firstly, it frequently crashes. Secondly, the developers have no understanding of human psychology and make it too hard to bother commiting to playing this for very long. It seems clearly designed to cause you to fail every time. Why waste your time commiting to them when they clearly have no commitment to you. Save yourself the bother and keep looking. This will waste your time up until the point when you delete it or it crashes and you surrender to the inevitable and decide not to load it again.

The best game ever created, but.... I am obsessed with this game. I play it every day to kill the time. I was happy to pay the extremely ridiculous $8.00AUD to remove the ads, as it gives me hours of entertainment. HOWEVER; this game is completely rigged and is created for you to lose. I’ve been playing tetris-y games my whole life and consider myself a very strategic block placer. I gained one very high score of 5,000+, but have never been able to get anything over 2,500 since. Whenever the game is going well, blocks are given to make it difficult. Great, I love a challenge, however.. the blocks flick around when deciding and you can see them go from decent blocks, to intentionally choosing blocks that deliberately won’t fit and fail you. After dozens of hours of playing this game, I am positive this is the case. This is making it so much less enticing to want to continue to play, as most games now I can’t get over 400?! Though when I first started playing I was getting much higher scores consistently. Please fix this. Thank you, A very frustrated puzzler

Ads. Having been playing this game for ages. Used to only get ads at the end of game, which I completely understand. But now before, during and end of game. It is becoming frustrating because you are half way through a daily challenge and it goes to an ad. What the? Totally understand ads. When playing daily challenge though you get ads before, during and twice when finished. You press restart game and get more ads.

Daily Challenge history doesn’t get saved to the cloud. The last app update just bricked the game on my phone. When you launched the game just stayed on a solid while screen. Killing the app, restarting the phone didn’t fix it. Deleting the app and re-installing has made the app work again but I have now lost all my completed daily challenge history. The same thing happened when moving to my new phone. Why doesn’t the daily challenge history sync with iCloud or in Game Center like the awards?

Was fun until the last update. I was enjoying playing this until the last update. Now you are shown the % of players that can complete each puzzle and usually it’s very low like 20 - 30%, the games have gotten much harder and it’s taken the fun away. I don’t like the frustration of redoing the same puzzle over and over again, it’s deflating. Before the update I played daily but since the update I’m only playing once a week. I go on to see if there is a tournament running and just play those. I don’t mind a challenge occasionally and I certainly don’t like games that are too easy but this has just gone overboard. To start with you are told that you will fail and that is then reinforced the longer you play. I will keep playing the tournaments though because I enjoy those still.

Game is good, the ads are off the chain. I know they need ads, clearly as it’s a free game, but they have ads that you have to exit multiple times out of and always with a time close button, that when you miss (almost every time) it takes you to the ad download page. Some ads just go round with no exit, so you have to close app.

Good game, bad ads. Overall a fun game with a nice clean minimal design. Needs an undo button, it’s frustrating when you make the wrong move and can’t fix it. Video ads are awful, they completely kill the relaxing aesthetic and they can be slow to load. Any time I play this game on holidays in a low reception area the ads basically freeze the app and I can only play in flight mode.

Crashes when new features are added. Love this game when it works but I find it frequently crashes when new features are added. A Christmas feature has been added and the ap no longer works - I can’t even get the main screen. I can’t even access the help feature in the ap. Frustrating but it seems I’m not the only person it’s affecting. But when it works, I love it! Please fix the bugs soon!

Change too far. Why change a game that used to work so well? Recent changes show that The game developers are missing the point of why we play the game. It’s fun, quick and a good challenge. Now they are Setting daily challenges with a 6% chance of resolution which is annoying. I don’t want to spend multiple attempts at trying to resolve a challenge. A once quick fun game is now taking too long and no fun. Will delete if it doesn’t improve.

Play for a Year only. Played this game since launch and have done every daily challenge. Even the ones they retroactively added to the months before the game launched. Game works on Flight Mode with no ads. Recently noticed that the daily challenge actually just repeats itself every year. So its good, play it for a year worth of dailys. Then delete it.

Not as advertised. Not a bad game. However I downloaded it hoping to play the puzzle games filling the shapes, only to find that the only puzzle to fill was the triangle other than the block sudoku. I wish the game would have different modes that allowed this feature, rather than advertising something that didn’t exist and wasting my time. If you like block sudoku you will enjoy this game

Best game. I play this game everyday. It’s like yoga for the mind. It’s elegant and understated and yet every time so deeply rewarding. I’ve played it like this for a long time. Thank you for such a well-crafted game. It’s rare to come across one so elemental and seemingly minimal in its conception but then also challenging and complex. I would love to say the rest in a support-comm but I can’t get that far. Recently it crashes every time I open it. Even before I move. I suspect it’s those little video ads at the bottom with my not-so-old-not-so-new iPad. It’s possibly outside your control but i hope there’s something you can do. I’m totally up to date with apple updates so it’s not that. Anyway this moment in time aside I want to emphasise how exceptional your game development is, especially as the skill and commitment it takes to make something so quietly beautiful isn’t always visible 🙂

Good but frustrating. It’s a fun game and a great concept. However it kills your battery and more annoyingly the mechanics for new blocks does seemed rigged to cause you to fail and have to start again. The developers have claimed the blocks are random but it doesn’t feel that way. It would be good as you progress that you received tools eg. 1) choose a shape you want 2) remove a shape you don’t want to use 3) only once you fail does it show tool options to continue Eg. After every 500 points a popup occurs and you can choose your desired tool. Reward players for progressing. Could also make bigger milestones. So once you hit 5000 points you can choose to wipe the board but it removes 1000 points etc. You could actually do that with all of the tools. If you use a tool to allow you to keep going it will impact your score and so you choose the reward and weigh up against the cost. All of the suggested ideas shouldn’t change fundamental game play too much compared to explosions on the board etc.

Freezing and lag. I liked the game but had to turn wifi off to play as the game lagged Pieces were like jumping off my move into another area I think the game either has a bot problem or like has been said in other accounts of game you have a system people can’t beat my highest score was 3800 approximately that was a fluke for sure and I had turned my wifi off . I give 3 stars for fun and 5 star 🌟 for frustration

Ads are excessive. Too many ads. I get that you need to have ads to make it free but the ads are literally outweighing the play time. I just clicked through two different ads at the end of a game, hit start for a new game and another ad pops. Start or game, mid game, end of game, start of a new game. If you’re stuck on a level or it’s hard so you keep failing you’re literally pummelled with ads. It’s painful. Surely you can say “if they’ve watched an ad in the last 5 minutes we won’t make 3 more pop”. Surely one add in every 5 mins of play would be ample?? I love the game but have started to look for an alternative in the ap store because the excessive ads just ruin it.

More colour options. Love the game, fully addicted even so much to have paid for the full ad free version. Although now it would be cool to have different board styles/colours and maybe some different games instead of the postcards.

Used to love this game but……. Now there are so many ads I really can’t be bothered playing it. There is an ad when a game finishes and another before the next game starts and if you pause too long, there are ads in the middle of the game. Seriously I understand they are free but the ads have forced me to think about deleting this game and get a version not made by Easybrain. 😡

Daily Challenges increased in difficulty. I’ve been playing this game for about 5 years and love the daily challenges. Which has usually been a target of 500 points. However in the last few weeks daily challenges have increased to 2500 points as the target to win. It’s insanely difficult. Such a shame I loved this game. Please Change it back

Great idea, however. I really liked the thought of this game setup, but after the initial game there is no way you will reach anywhere near your original score as the impossible combinations you are given each time are frustrating, I’m still trying to work out if the game gets harder each time you play (I’m suspecting this is correct) but each line/square you set up will go unfinished as the chances of those pieces coming thru are pretty much zero. I won’t be playing it again, oh I did notice that when my iPad was freezing during game play, the pieces that were coming thru would flash in so fast and then change to the impossible to fit pieces. Deleting the game now..... So no fixing the impossible to fit pieces then I take it?.... Oh also I think the game would be much more improved by enabling piece rotation Thank you

New ad Nuisance. The recent ad thing makes playing virtually impossible. I counted 6 times a minute the ad interrupted my game. Look I know ads are necessary, and the ones before and after games are fine, but this one just pops up over and over and I accidentally tap it, causing the whole thing to crash over and over. I’ll check back in a month to see if it’s been fixed, but right now, I don’t have a choice. Im gonna stop playing.

Great but keeps dropping out!. Had this game for over a year and it is fantastic. However, recently it constantly freezes mid game and then drops out. The blocks can then be accidentally placed and this ruins the game as it means you use up spaces inefficiently. Get the fix please Blockudoku. One more criticism. The Daily Blockudoku for 22nd October is ridiculously difficult. In the three years I’ve been solving them this one is the only one I have been unable to resolve because the shapes offered simply don’t fit. It is so impossible I am close to quitting the whole app as it implies to me the organisers aren’t aware of what they’ve set. And I’m not a fool, my highest score is close to 8,000.

Best game. This is the best game and the best app developer because it got too hard for me with an update a while ago and I couldn’t play it anymore but they fixed it and now it’s perfect again and I play it everyday again now 😁

-_-. The game is good and all but there is a thing that pops up and it says that you have won a free apple product and they have a Facebook page and everything but when you go to the website it says “this website is not private and is trying to copy another website to steal your private information”. See the games good but that isn’t.

Awesome Game👍🏽. However, when I play other games on my phone it never freezes or slow down my whole phone system. But when I play Blockudoku it keep freezing around score 1000 and whole phone system gets really slow. I am sure if their is anything you can do. Other than that really good game. Cheers

Issac Newton would like it a bit. If Jesus had discovered this game in Bethlehem when he was ten, he probably would not have discovered the theory of relativity, more famously now associated with Einstein. Such is the power generated by merely observing the game from afar that a swan silhouetted on an ancient lake falls into a metaphysical manifestation of intellectual resonance

Fantastic!!. Its just fantastic that this game is so absolutely pointless with mindless people wasting their time when they could be contributing to society. You know, helping to address climate change, helping people that need a hand of simply doing something useful with their lives!

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Advertising over load. While I realize advertising is part of free games, the amount of advertising on this app is over the top. It even happens right in the middle of games. Often several advertisements happen that lead you lead rabbit holes as you try to get back to the game.

Good game, can add extra features.. Hi, it’s an addictive game, but can you add an option to play on a larger grid. So that you can choose the standard grid as well as a larger one. Thank you. Also maybe make some sort of online part of the game perhaps. Otherwise very solid game 👍

It could be better. Less for kids more for grown adults

Awful childish design update. The challenges got an update with stars and pictures. It makes the design looks awful and eliminates resting effect of this game for me completely. Very sadly had to delete the app as there’s no “off” button for these new features 👎🏻

Ruined it with the newest update. I have been playing this game for years and loved it, this new update completely changed the base principles of the game.

Traffic Escapes brought me to this game. Great strategic game. Quite enjoyable and lends me the ability to keep my cognitive thinking and focus as I fight through the beginning stages of Parkinson’s Plus disease which Dr’s have told me will be the major symptoms that will show first. So I continue on with games like this one. Thank you!

New update is bad. They ruined the look of the game and I will be deleting the app. Sad because I have had the app for years now. Don’t update things that aren’t broken. Not everything needs to be ‘modern’. Horrible devs.

please bring back old animation. this is one of my all time favourite games. i've had it for year, i play it all the time its the only game that i don't get bored playing. im obsessed. but then, they changed the graphics/ animations of the game and now the animations are all weird and cartoon-ie. i've honestly almost stopped playing altogether because i hate the way it looks. plz bring back the old look i need blockduko in my life. i dunno why but smth abt the new animations makes me uneasy

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Love it but.... Hi. Really love this game however it keeps freezing and wrecking my strategy by placing them in the wrong spot. So instead of relaxing me it now has me frustrated. Please fix so I can love it again:) Thx!

update stinks. This use to be a great game before adding an ugly outdated colour gradient to the blocks and a weird unintuitive bush removing feature. Devs should probably include incessant ads and micro transactions to this amazing garbage fire.

Please go back to the older version. The latest update makes this feel like a knock off of candy crush. The older version was much more enjoyable. If nothing else, provide that as an option

Blockudoku. Great game, however way too many ads. Takes the pleasure away from playing the game. The ads will even pop up when you're in the middle of playing. Ridiculous!

Update has spoiled the game. What is wrong with these developers? Why fix something that isn’t broken? I used to enjoy the Daily Challenge. After the recent update, I hate it and have stopped playing. It’s frustrating to not know the objective or strategy because after you clear the stated objects, more keep appearing. It’s random and very annoying. Put it back the way it was!

Yawn. Way too many ads The point system doesn’t really make sense The game is all based on luck.

Home fun ad invader. Since more than a week homefun ad is invading the game like a virus. It won’t go away. Can’t play anymore. Désinstalles app twice but the ad always come back. Losing patience for a game that I liked so much. We are now one week later and problems starts all over again. Freefunjoy.com invades the game and never goes away.

New update ruined the game. Absolutely ruined the game with the new updates. Not only did you make it more clunky visually and slow (on an iPhone 13 Pro) but you seem to have changed the algorithm used to make the game progressively harder. Right now, it’s easy for quite some time and becomes impossible out of nowhere. A lot less fun to play because of the latest update.

They have a great time and learning to use problem solving skills!. This is the first time I actually engaged in geometry and general practice of problems solving skills with fun! I’m hoping that you give them a chance and help exercising with your brain! This game makes you think outside of the box. I’m hoping that you can get a higher score!

fix your game. most people are stuck getting 3000-4000 scores, i have played around 100 games and 99% of my games are in that range, this all happened right after the block redesign update, pls fix this

Interesting. Liked the simplicity of the game. Good fun.

Hate the new update!. I enjoyed the game and have played it for a couple of years. The new update has changed the daily challenge and events and I no longer enjoy this app. I will probably delete it.

Too many ads. I deleted this app 3 mins after downloading because you can’t click on anything without an ad popping up.

Change it back. I’m not a big fan of the new update. Usually when you update an app it progresses. But apparently these guys don’t know how to do that. Worst update ever. The daily challenges are horrible now tbh the game didn’t need any updates from it before, why change a good thing. I shudder what you guys did for events. The graphics you had before the new update were better then the ones you had now. I played almost every day but i dunno now.

BRING BACK THE OLD USER INTERFACE. BRING BACK THE OLD USERINTERFACE please Thanks you

Ruined. Thank you for ruining a great game with your last update. The screens are too busy with colored shapes and the bubble screens give me a headache trying to look at them. Guess I won’t be playing this game anymore…… sad after almost 3 years of enjoying it.

Not enough fun.. - There are far too many interrupting advertisements. - there is not a cl at explanation of how the scoring works. - very disappointing.

Visuals. Update looks so bad visually

A little frustrating. It almost seems like the game sets you up to fail, with large shapes that don’t fit well no matter how good your spatial awareness is. I agree with others that having a mode in which you can rotate the shapes would be nice. I don’t like games that are based on luck rather than skill

Ads won’t close and ruin the game. Pop up ads that won’t close and you have to restart your device to continue playing. Super annoying.

Bushes. I have been playing Blockudoku a very long time. Today I open it to play and a button came up to try a new strategy with bushes. I tried it and do not like it but I can’t turn this off. I want to get back to the original game. Please help me!

Too many ads. Way to many ads and they are long. It takes away from the actual game. Ads come in the middle of the game. Until that gets fixed, no thank you for me.

I love this game so much fun. It’s fun to play and has good gameplay

Best game ever. Best game ever no adds no health just you trying to make a square or a line but like somebody else said you should be able to rotate the blocks but other than that best game

Game. It’s fun

Great game, ads ruin it.. I’ve been playing this game for a while; the ads never used to be so bad. It’s like I spend more time watching ads then playing the actual game. Yes, I know there is a “remove ads” feature, but for $6.99? No thanks.

What have you done?!?!. These new changes are so stupid! I clear all the bushes and more randomly show up? No countdown to know when I’m done?!?! I’ve tried the same challenge thirty times and it won’t let me win. Dumbest changes I’ve ever seen!!!

Continual ads throughout each game. Fun game with more ads than I’ve ever seen in my life. The ads are hard to navigate and close, with some having 3 or 4 screens of closing before they are done. Ads before, after and throughout game

Meh. Way too many ads.

Undo this update. New update makes the game feel cheaper, and leas quality. Please bring back the old textures!!

horrible. not like the ads at all

Crappy update. I am like many of your other users. I HATE the bushes!!!!! I deleted the app thinking I’d get back to the regular blocks but no. If you don’t bring the old game back at least as an option soon, I’ll be deleting and not reloading!!!

Should Definitely Download. Hi, I’m going to take my time writing this review for you to understand how incredible this game is. Even though it’s a “Geometry” game, it’s so fun! I actually didn’t even know it was a geometry game until I read the description. This game’s graphics are incredible and satisfying. I hope I’m able to convince you to play. :) have a nice day

Nothing like the ads. Waste of time

SheShootsSheScored. I challenge anyone to beat my record setting score🤓

Done with this game. It’s fun to play, but when it starts randomly and directly opening my App Store to get me to download promoted apps without warning, I have to cut this thing off and remove it.

Horrible. I saw a ad on TikTok and I was like this might be be fun so I downloaded it and now I can’t delete it 👎

Broken. This game used to be so fun but ever since the major update a couple months ago it’s completely broken. I’ve played 30+ games in the tournament and EVERY SINGLE GAME is 2500-3500 points. Every. single. time. There’s absolutely no way that this isn’t by design. For whatever reason they don’t want you to have a score higher than 4000 anymore. I’ll be at 3500~ points and I’ll get three straight drops of impossible combos of blocks and the game will be over. Waste of time.

Advertising for other games. TOO much

New update sucks. The new update makes the game look cheap. The game slowed way down and is terrible now, super low quality compared to what it used to be. Went from a fun game to some cheap piece of junk

Dislike the update!. Loved the game. The new update looks worse and is less fun to play. I am not against updates but I why delete the original version?! I can no longer play the version I enjoy. I don’t find the bushes or bubbles fun, they are frustrating at best and boring at worst and I wish you would change it back. If not give us the option to choose the original game too please!

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Game ads. Love this game and would play it a lot but I can’t. Just now tried to play and first thing that came up was an ad. Being unable to get out of ad I have to get off the app and not play. This happens multiple times every day. It is too frustrating. Why is this happening? Is an ad worth more than playing the game. Thank you for your response. Yes there is an X on the ads but it will NOT close the ad. Nothing will close the ad. If you click on the x it takes you to the game where it wants you to download it and if you cancel the game it takes you back to the original ad. A vicious circle with no stoping. So the only option is to get out of your game. Sometimes you lose your game and sometimes you can hit continue. Very very frustrating. Is there an end to this? If not I will delete the game.

Best morning game. I play the daily challenge every morning. Great way to start the day. There are some ads but u can skip through them after like 3 seconds. The feeling of completing a diary level is great and if you want to challenge yourself don’t play the game for a while, then come back to it and do all the daily challenges you missed. That is one thing I love about the game. The fact you can go back and play levels if you missed them. I downloaded the game but didn’t start playing it every day until about 3 months after I got it. I just finished doing all the daily levels I missed and now I’m addicted to the game, in a good way. I love playing the game every morning.

There is one thing I want to see. I’ve played this game for years, and this is one of the few apps I visit on a regular basis to keep my mind engaged during downtime. I really enjoy the gameplay and all the daily challenges. I also like how much the developers read these reviews and actually improve the game from peoples feedback. There is one thing I really want to see and that’s a dark mode version or several options to change the tint/color scheme. This would make the app so much easier on the eyes if I’m playing this game for a long time or in the dark.

Great Game But App Locks Up. I really like this game and I play it every day (daily challenge) but it locks up, typically when I look at the awards (either the daily challenges or the achievements). The screen goes white and then I have to force quit and start the app up again, which sometimes it is still locked up. But other than the somewhat frequent freezes it’s still a great game! Really recommend it as the developers are continually improving it! Update: this was before I saw an update. Installed the update and it appears the issue of the app freezing / locking up has been resolved. Changed rating to 5 stars!

Way Too Many Ads. The game is fun, although would be better if you saw the next puzzle piece instead of only seeing three at a time. More often than not the game provides you with 2-3 pieces that don’t fit, not even giving you a chance. Otherwise way too many ads. A user shouldn’t have to watch a 30 second video after each game while also seeing banner ads during the game. Instead the 15 and 30 second video ads should be user opt in where someone can click to watch the video for a reward (incentive can be a free do over move or something to that extent). If you don’t want to shift to an incentive structure then consider adjusting the frequency for each player so it’s an ad every 20 games instead of after each one.

Easy going game. This is a fairly straightforward game, sort of like Tetris but without the need to move quickly because you can take your time with each piece. I agree with other reviewers that it would be nice if we had the ability to rotate the pieces but it’s fine even as is. I saw that some people raised concerns about having to sit through all the ads, which I was also frustrated with. Someone else may have already shared this, but I discovered that if I play while my phone is in airplane mode then there are no ads and you just move into a new game when a game ends. It seemed obvious after I realized it, but I thought I’d share.

Game is addictive. Update: thank you for letting me know about paying to remove ads! I definitely did that and it made my experience so much better! I hope you’ll be able to do more events since they’re fun to beat each level to reveal a photo. Or maybe put in an option for levels that are done in a similar way! Original: This game is so much fun, especially during events. The events are my favorite part. I just really wish this game had a paid version without ads! The ads do get annoying and have been more and more frequent lately. Please make a paid version that’s ad free!

fun BUT. the Candy Crush ads are ruining this game. It’s bad enough that they autoplay audio that stops all other audio you’re listening to but these ads also can’t be muted despite there being a mute button and can’t be closed despite there being an X button. Half the time pressing the close button opens the app store, the other half of the time the Blockdoku app just shuts down totally. And ALL the time these ads make your phone drag and freeze to the point of being unusable for several minutes. I do really like the tournaments and events, and I don’t mind some ads as long as they aren’t full of gun shooting or audio autoplay disasters that act like desktop spyware such as the candy crush ones are.

Relaxing but there’s issues. I enjoy playing this game. It help me to calm my fast paced thoughts. The issues I have is that it freezes during the ads & I can play a puzzle piece for the whole event time. At most I’m able to complete 1 board & half the second during the event time. Currently, I’m stuck on this 1 puzzle that won’t get solves after playing it for 7 days. It’s has the spaces that’s impossible to clear with the given pieces. I usually encounter this issue in the 2nd board never getting to board 3. And the percentage of people completed this gets on my nerves. Cause there’s no way anyone have completed the one I’m struggling a week to solve.

Love it!. I love this game! I am a very picky gamer and I could this game for hours! I might get a little👶🏻 bit bored, but other wise, perfect! Not that many adds, education, and fun! Every time you get them in a straight line, or a cube, you get five or ten points! You try to get a new record every time! I only play like, one time a week and I have a record of 366! Get this game for you, and your kids! I don’t really have any bad things, there is just so many good things! Like, save your spot if you have to stop your game! Just awesome! Buy it and have fun!

Help!. I’ve played the daily challenge every day for over 13 months on December 25 the app would not open. it kept coming up to the blank opening screen with just the wood paneling look. Thinking that maybe I need to reinstall it after trying to dozen different things, the entire year is now gone and making me start all over again. I have always had it logged into my game center but that didn’t seem to save anything. How do I get my entire 13 months back so I can finish off the year? I love this game I played every morning with my coffee watching watching the news. I am very upset did I cannot finish the entire year off. Can anything be done?

Good game. Annoying ads in the middle of game. I’ve had this app for a long time. Still enjoy the game but app “upgrades” are just more ads. Edit. Really quick response from developers made me double check something. Thought I had paid for app ages ago, but upon checking , realized I had not. The amount of ads is equal or less than any free game, and there are no long timed ads or ads with buried “x”outs. My earlier review mistakenly assumed it was paid-for game. This is a go-to game that can be played anytime . Easy to pick up and easy to pause. Nice.

Love the game but keeps freezing. If I play for awhile then the game freezes up or starts stalling and I have to close it and open again. It’s annoying because I can’t play for long periods of time without it freezing. And sometimes I’ll get a white screen. Otherwise, it’s a great game and I love it. Please make it so that I can change my name in the tourney. It uses my real FB name and I’d hate getting angry people looking me up if I get a top score. I’ve seen people in other games target someone with the top score. Let us protect our privacy. I won’t play tourney again until this feature is available.

Needs modification. Love the game, just one minor complaint is you need to work on the algorithm that selects the following 3 pieces to allow for a continued round. Sometimes I’ll place the third price down then I magically lose the round because the next 3 pieces given to me are impossible for fit that kinda defeats the purpose. Additionally pieces should be given to allow the user to be able to put all of the down. The challenge in the puzzle should be figuring out how to continue instead of going into an inevitable loss. Would appreciate if this issue was optimized and resolved. Great game to be competitive with friends and family. Could be much better. Thank you

Fun but also frustrating. This game is so much fun… until you get to a puzzle that you have to do over & over multiple times. The current earth day event, I have not gotten past the first picture. I’ve done the orange & red levels at least 20-25 times. What could be relaxing is anything but with this event. I know they can be completed but it’s frustrating not being able to complete those. Personally I think other pictures should be open to do. At least that way you have options and can skip around a bit. It would make it easier to not get bored with having to do the same few over and over again. Because to be honest, getting stuck on the first picture without being able to move forward in any way, does make the game boring.

Inter-game ads??. This has been my favorite game for several years. I typically start my day with the daily challenge and have dozens of awards on my virtual shelf. It is a great way to wake up my brain. Some days would have me hooked all day. I’ve even been in the top 5 on many challenges. Sadly I have to find a new favorite game. I know ads are necessary for the company’s bottom line, however for some reason they’ve decided to have them WITHIN a game instead of BETWEEN games. This breaks the flow of the game and seems totally unnecessary. I’ve tried to live with it (no, I’m not paying to have them removed) and this new format makes it no longer fun to play. It’s been a great, off to other adventures.

Need More Challenge Levels. I like having an end goal and different setups to clear. But once you’ve done the daily challenges, all you’re left with is free play, and that gets boring after a while, especially due to the (supposed) randomness of the three blocks you’re given. I appreciate the ability to purchase an ad-free version (I wish all games offered this), but I regret having spent that money on what I eventually discovered is such a limited game. Adding more challenge levels other than the daily puzzle would make this game a lot better. Oh, and ditto what everyone is saying about the randomness of the three generated blocks. So frustrating to get a bunch of huge pieces that can’t fit anywhere.

I really like this game, but…. I would’ve easily given this five stars, but there’s just one..well, actually, two problems. The first one, being that it’s loaded with too many ads and no option to get a paid version of the game so you’re not subjected to all those ads playing on repeat. Second, If I play longer than 10 mins on my iPad, the center of my iPad screen starts to overheat and the battery life starts draining at an accelerated rate. I’m not sure if this is a bug or something else, but please fix.

Fun but frustrating.. Game is super fun, but there are many cons. First, the ads. Way too many and they cut my sound EVERY time; there’s an ad after every round. It would also be helpful to add an undo button. The game does seem unnecessarily challenging at times; I haven’t been able to get close to my highest score since I first started playing. This seems weird. The game does seem to drain the battery fast, which is a bummer too. My sentiments echo the same as so many others. Are the developers listening? I’d be willing to pay a couple of dollars for the game to eliminate these issues, but I’ll have to delete if they can’t get it together. UPDATE: I deleted it shortly after writing this review. A silly game is not worth the annoyance. Have fun if you can stand the ads.

It’s good, but........... The game itself is fun and addictive, the concept is simple and challenging all at the same time which makes you think and that’s great compared to what most games are. However, in my personal opinion the ad frequency is absolutely absurd and I refuse to pay $5 to get rid of them. I have a hard time believing the developers are also gamers themselves cause with a price like that it makes you feel like you’re only after the money and not customer satisfaction which is highly unfortunate cause if that’s the case you’re gonna fall and hit hard in an industry like this. Lower the price tag some and I’d gladly pay it cause I enjoy the game when I’m not having to watch ads. I know there’s a way to make them less frequent cause I know the backend programming and how to do this kind of stuff. But until then I think I’m moving on.

Play it everyday. Love the app and game. I make sure to play every daily challenge. I just wish there was a place you could play extra puzzles besides the empty board and daily challenges. I have gone back as far as it would allow me to and completed all those, so now it’s a bummer when I complete the daily puzzle and nothing else to play around in. Also , another cool feature to have when completing the daily puzzles is once you use a piece it should load in the next piece. So, instead of giving you 3 pieces before loading 3 more it should just keep adding a piece as you use them until you win or can’t place pieces.

More choices. I really wish this game had more options. It’s a lot of fun but I wish you could take back a move, a redo option. So many times I’ve moved a piece around the board to see where I can get the most use out of it to accidentally let it go and it stays in that spot. Ugh, it’s so frustrating. I also wish you could switch up the choices. It always seems when my points are really high they give choices that never allow me to move on. Maybe have a way to switch pieces. Even limit the times you can do it. Maybe 3 times per game or only 1 of your pieces can be switched out for a new one. It’s a fun game but I think I’ll move on to something else for awhile. It’s to frustrating and it has lost it’s fun.

More games like a brat like it better because I like it like it like that. I like it more than any other game is so terrific I can’t even rhyme I am all the time so how am I the night because it’s so amazing it makes me not even know what to say oh my oh my oh my I love this game too much any YouTuber should get a sponsor friend I wish I got a sponsor but I can’t but I am so sad that is so amazing I play it like three times a day 83 times a day you hurt me at night time in the afternoon and in the morning it’s so fun to play and even when I don’t have some stuff I’ll play even 6×1000 times if every time a day yeah.

Bring back achievements. I’ve spent weeks trying to reach some of the achievements and they are suddenly gone. I loved this game, but have no desire to continue playing a game that the creators want to change so drastically. I’m not even an excellent player, but the lower and mid level achievements were attainable. At this point, I’m sure there’s no record being kept of the continuous days of activity that I and others were working on. Why mess with a product that was working? If you’re considering this game. Move on to one that doesn’t change the whole awards system on players. I wasn’t competing against anyone but myself. I simply wanted the encouragement of continuing to improve. Now there’s nothing worth earning. There are too many other apps to pick from to waste time on this one

Frustrating. While this game is fun bc it’s simple and a lot like Tetris, it’s impossible to actually get the points. You always get the piece you need but at the wrong angle and you barely get any points on anything. I’ve been playing since quarantine started last year and I’ve grown to resent it. I’ve gotten close to 2000 several times but can never actually hit the mark bc it give you impossible pieces. You should be able to flip the pieces around like Tetris or at least swap pieces out. Also, instead of having to wait to get new pieces after using all 3, it should just give you replacements every time you use a tile. It feels more rigged than random. Great concept, not great follow through.

Good game but could be great. I have enjoyed playing for a couple weeks now and did purchase ad free version. It would be better to see which trio of blocks were coming up next so I can make current 3 moves while considering the next 3. It seems this game purposely doesn’t give shapes that would help you and actually give shapes that hurt your current board. It is frustrating knowing this and will likely lead to me quit playing. If that feature was added and I could choose skill level and have an undo function (say 3 per game) it would make this app great. Thank you.

Love it and I’d like dark mode please!. I’ve enjoyed this game for years, it’s just challenging enough! The ad free version was completely worth it. I would like to ask for a dark mode option in the next update! I’m sure I’m not the only one playing before bed, and the bright all white screen blasting my eyeballs isn’t my favorite aspect. I have most other apps in dark mode so the screen is mostly black or grey with white text/outlines. Could y’all do something similar? That would be so appreciated. This game is a classic that I keep coming back to. Thank you.

Love it!!!!. This game is really addictive and challenging. Very easy to understand and play. The only faults of the game are that once u place a tile u cannot move it even if u put it there by accident. Also you cannot see what tiles are coming up next nor can u flop the tile that you are wanting to place. Seems like once you place the set of 3 tiles the next tiles purposely come up against you to block you from making any realistic move. In any event this game is very challenging and maybe if you were able to do all things I just described it would be too easy. Thank you developer for this game!!!!👍

Challenging, but not fair. I was intrigued by this game since I like Sudoku, but sometimes find numbers problematic due to dyslexia. The concept of this game is good, but the application is a little off. As others have said, the inability to see pieces coming up creates short games since you can’t strategize beyond the 3 pieces visible. As others have also said, rotating pieces would help, as would the ability to undo at least one placement. With regular Soduku uou can usually use ‘pencil’ to try out a layout, but this game only gives the option of ‘pen’ or permanent placement. Additionally, it seems as though the pieces available for placement are deliberately pieces that cannot fit or be placed. PS I apologize for typos & misspellings...as I’m typing this I cannot see the letters on my screen for some reason...

Major logical flaw. This is a good game, a great game even. I don’t play phone games but I keep playing this. However, the one major and possibly fatal flaw with this game is in its logical design. The game will give you new blocks that don’t fit anywhere and you automatically lose. You basically lose without any way of reasonably knowing how to get out. If you give me three blocks, I should be able to make them fit somehow. If I fail to then I lose. However, this game will give you three blocks that don’t fit and put you in a position to lose without warning. It’s like going to checkmate without ever being in check. The outcome relies too much on chance. I hope to see this fixed. This might be the first app I’ve ever reviewed lol.

6% winning chance? That’s today’s daily challenge.. I’ve been using the app for years. Love it. But when you put puzzles out that only have 6% chances of winning, it makes me want to play something else. I was playing the latest challenge Forrest World, and attempt after attempt failed. I can’t count how many attempts didn’t work. If you want to make it a close to impossible challenge, it removes the fun. You know we come for the challenge & wins & success. Stop making it so difficult Oh, and please include an “undo” feature. It would make the game so much better.

Used to be great.. This app used to be fun. It was my go to time killer app. If I was ever waiting someplace or bored. I was playing this game. I didn’t mind all the ads. You only saw them when you started a new game. So in a way the ads were motivation to do better, so you didn’t have to watch them again. Then they added the new blocks. This completely destroy the balance of the game. Before it was a fun skill game that had some luck, but you could plan ahead to make it to higher scores. Now, with the new blocks. It’s not fun or challenging. You can tell they were only added to make you lose faster in order run ads more often. I deleted this app. I would recommend that nobody downloads this garbage. Just add it to the list of terrible apps and games designed only to run as many ads in your face until you delete it.

Almost perfect. I love this game soo much, it’s challenging and addicting. But I do feel frustrated because whenever I open the app, my music stops even if the sound is off in the game. But I really enjoy everything else! I am really so addicted to this app that I had to delete it to make myself take a break, and then I redownloaded it and a new thing “daily challenges” appeared and I loved it SOOO much. I again kept playing it so much that I made myself temporarily delete the app again. Then I redownloaded it and the daily challenges were gone! I want them back!! Also I think the ads are overbearing. But yes still 10/10

Battery killer and …. Don’t know what it is doing, but drains the battery big time. Like the game but it does seem to often set you up to lose. Maybe it’s just my paranoia, but once it a while, it all fits. The pieces are never random, and often they seem to auto present ones that deliberately don’t conform to what is needed, more like all are Contrary. For example if you have several horizontal openings - all pieces presented are vertical. Anyway it does keep you engaged, till the battery dies - wonder what else it is doing to my phone ? And a new issue, commercials between games, annoying but ok … now commercials in the middle of a game? I now deleted the app and will no longer play … you need to concentrate, part of the fun … now gone.

Blockudoku. The problem below was addressed. Games have not been disappearing. But I do have to say the games have gotten much harder, many times I can’t get through the first page. I am starting to loose interest, when you try to many times to count & can’t finish a puzzle. If it’s just me, oh well. But I get the feeling it isn’t. Most people I know just move on to other games. This was a great game. UNTIL. When the New Year’s tournament arrived I played 2 games, then it just disappeared. The developers..several in fact have contacted me. They obviously do not communicate,they keep asking the same questions. Either they have no idea what is wrong or they haven’t spent any time trying to fix. It’s very frustrating to have paid for a game that doesn’t perform correctly.

Enjoyable, But Inconsistant. I am a puzzle gal. I stumbled upon this puzzle game and instantly enjoyed it. However, why is the value of the same puzzle on the daily challenge different depending on the device I open it on? Today’s puzzle is 500 on my phone, but 550 on my iPad. I noticed the goal increased yesterday after completing all but one day of the month; a puzzle that was previously 500 is now 550. It appears the more you play, the goals are raised making it harder to actually complete the puzzle, and in such play more, play longer. Developers, all this did is annoy me and make me want to play less. I would attach photos for proof of the differences in goals depending on device, but pics are not accepted in reviews.

Missing something.... Others have mentioned the ads which I actually don’t have a problem with. It’s easy enough to skip them after a few seconds (you just have to know where to tap). Where this game gives me pause is that any strategy is completely removed by the randomness of not knowing what set is coming next. You’re simply placing blocks and hoping that you’ll get blocks you can use. And, although I haven’t actually counted, there are many runs where it seems like I’m deliberately getting blocks which are the exact opposite of what I’ll need. I agree with others that being able to rotate blocks would increase the level of strategy that seems to be missing from the game.

Ridiculous Achievement Awards. Have been playing this for over a year. Stopped for some months as it got boring. Only logged in once a day for the daily game. Then they added the tournaments and achievement awards. Yay! Made it interesting and I started spending way too many hours on it again (despite the ads). But...the 25 squares streak and the 60 lines streak are impossible to get. Especially as if you get the square in combination with a line (or vice versa), it doesn't count towards the streak and you have to start again from scratch. Also, I have no idea what a 'x4 combo' or a 'x5 streak' is. There's no explanation of what you're supposed to do to get these. I only got the 'x3 combo', 'x3 streak' and 'x4 streak' by accident. And I have no idea what I did as I only knew I'd achieved the award after the games were over and I had no idea what I did to earn the award :-(. Will be stopping this game except for tournaments. And even those are if I haven't found another game to play in the meantime. Well, it was fun while it lasted.

The game I go to first. My favorite “go to” game. However, I’m thinking I missed the way you end up “out of moves.” It seems as if I’m on a roll & have enough spaces left for more moves & then all of a sudden I get the no more moves notification. It seems so random. I see double & triple moves earn certain rewards but must have missed an entire detail about the out of moves concept at the beginning of the game. Also, I know the blocks are random, but they always seem to be the same ones. Usually not the ones I need. It’s so frustrating to keep consistently getting ones that I can’t use. Other than that, I gave this game 5 stars because it does keep me coming back!

Fun, Original and Tranquil Gameplay. This game is different from all the puzzle games, I like the prank mode but I’m not sure if the IQ calculator is very accurate ‘cause if it is.. then I’m dumb af according to the scores I get 🤣 usually after a few frustrating rounds of closing and reopening the app after you lose, you’ll last longer the more you play. The piece you want is never going to be the piece that you get.... until it’s too late but other than that, this game is perfect! I mean the average IQ for a person is 89 so when you start at 140 without doing anything, you’re already smarter than most just by playing prank mode 😁 great app tho, definitely would recommend! 👍

Stop complaining. I just read so many comments complaining about missing features and such. Blah blah blah. I’ve played other versions and seen many advertised, and this simple one is much harder. I don’t want to be able to refresh my choices or spin them or lessen the difficulty of the shapes. This game is fine just like it is. Well one guy was right that the highlighting of filled rows and blocks does occasionally make me aware of something I missed, but whatever. My current high score is 11,988. Most games barely break a 1,000. I rarely score as high as 5,000 or 6,000. This game is hard, frustrating, and I like it.

Addictive Game. I really like this game! It’s addictive. However, there are some issues that should be addressed. When I complained about some commercials still playing sound, the response was to turn off the volume on my phone. Ridiculous! The developer has a responsibility to make sure the advertisers get respect the users’ settings. A month later, this is still happening. I have never experienced this with any other game. I also complained about it being difficult to find the button to close ads. I suggested that all add be required to have that button in the same place. Of course, the developer punted again, saying that the ads are managed by third parties. The logical flaw with that argument is that I have no agreement with those third parties. The developer, who gets paid by them, does. Please stand up for the people who are making you money. Lots of users are complaining about the same issues. Instead of valuing this as helpful feedback, the developer has decided to use this platform to defend their decisions. When users write constructive reviews, they should be valued, not dismissed.

Daily Challenge. I love this program enough to have the ads removed for $4.99. Today when I updated it my ‘Daily Challenge’ that was a new feature that was added in November was missing. This is a terrible loss for the game. It made me play it every day just to beat the ‘Daily Challenge’. I’m very disappointed and I hope they bring back the ‘Daily Challenges’ asap. This game is definitely addictive and hopefully I can give it the 5 stars it deserves once the ‘Daily Challenges’ are restored. Update: I tried what developer said about closing app twice to get ‘Daily Challenges’ back and this did NOT work.

Great game would recommend. I saw this advertised on Instagram, and I downloaded it and really started playing it. This game is amazing! There are only two things are could really think of fixing. The first being how, before you even place the piece down, there is a highlight of what will go away. I don’t like that because I feel it takes away a lot of skill. Secondly, I think you should add another game mode to the game itself, rather than playing the same game over and over. Maybe try a game mode we’re you have to fill up the board and nothing disappears, just so there is a variety of things. Either way amazing game and I would recommend

You change it!!. My husband and I have been playing this for a long time. We play the daily challenges. It’s fun to see which one of us can complete the challenge first . However, you have changed the challenge and have made it much harder. It is not as much fun especially when you get kicked out with almost every other time you get new blocks. Change it back!!!!!!! I agree wholeheartedly! We have been working on October 22 now for 2 days straight. You get kick out almost immediately. It’s not fun anymore. All you have todo is up the percentage in the computer!!! Please do it!,,

Bruce. I enjoy this game very much. It’s an excellent mind stimulation. My problem is that the game will often lock up when I’m opening it up. Then while playing it won’t react to my touch to move the pieces. Then it will suddenly move them but not where I want them. The only thing I can do is shut my phone off and see if it will reset it self. It usually happens every couple of days, more often if I play it more. I have downloaded and deleted the app twice and the problem just seems to be getting worse. I have deleted it for now and maybe will try it again in a couple of weeks.

Good game, but. The game is challenging yet frustrating. As others have mentioned in their reviews, there is no undo option or the ability to turn larger pieces to fit in the puzzle. The block board only includes 3 blocks and adds no others until those three are placed making it hard to plan for future moves. It would also be nice to add a timed option as well as the infinity option. But the reason I’m writing this review today is the new Daily Challenge game. I do not understand how to play and there are no rules anywhere within the app for how to “win” these challenges. I have “won” a few times but have no idea how... the game just stops even with blocks left to be played and the board not cleared of blocks with numbers.

Addictive. I downloaded this game, and played for 3 straight hours the first time out. Realized that I shouldn’t be doing that on a daily basis, deleted the app. One day later, like a true junkie looking for a fix, I googled “how to find deleted app” (since I couldn’t remember the name of the game!) I’m enjoying the game immensely, and agree with many of the other reviews about the “randomness” of the tiles. My biggest complaint is with the ads. Yes, you can get out of them if you know where to look, its incredibly frustrating to have to do that after almost every game. Also, this game is a MAJOR battery drain. Don’t start playing if you don’t have access to a charger!

Make tournaments more fair. I enjoy the tournaments but don’t think they are scored fairly. I would like to see the score be the mean of all score after a minimum number of attempts. I actually play often during tournaments, and now have 11,000 points. I’m in tenth place. In first place is a player who has 60,000+ points. The only way I can see someone getting that many points is by playing constantly day and night. If they are really that good without non-stop playing the average would show that in a better way. I don’t know much about online gaming, but I suspect that this high score could also be the result of some sort of cheat. But, I still like the game quite a bit.

Needs A Little More Work. While an interesting and addictive game, it gets frustrating because you can often lose through no fault of your game play. The app too often ends your game by giving you pieces you can’t possibly use. You play 3 pieces at a time and once played you get 3 new pieces. But they’re often useless and the game is over. Perhaps consider replacing one piece at a time immediately after one is played? Also, it happens often that pieces you may need do appear but they’re rotated in a way that they’re not useable. It happens often enough that it doesn’t feel random and that the game is actually working against you. Just thought I’d offer these observations for you.