I appreciate the recent work, especially adding levels over 60! I love that you can play PvP with zero upgrades/coins, for a true to life match up! Each round adding the same bonuses is fun and fair. Also the graphics are adorable and the game overall is high quality. Improvements needed: 1. Rotating the board is available in all other similar games and would be a huge improvement. It’s the one reason I still play Wordament and others vs only Ruzzle. 2. The “team play” is either AI opponent or maybe using previous game data but is not truly PvP and the “stats” for opponent cards are wildly off. I’m not sure the reason why it isn’t just real PvP but we’ve literally sat next to real humans that didn’t play the game when it says they did. 3. The “weekly event” has the same issue of being all over the place for accuracy of the “very easy” “easy” “hard” etc. Again I think it is trying to use AI match your own skill but it’s too fake and inconsistent. It absolutely feels like a set up, with random wins vs losses no matter how well you actually play that round.

The game is pretty good and the random matchup system works well to find similarly skilled players. But the ads after every single game are too much, and take too long. It takes less time to close and reopen the app than it does to get through an ad. Crazy. Team play is underwhelming, and both team games and events are designed to make you use coins for power ups. I don’t think a puzzle game like this should have power ups, but it’s a minor issue and not available in the regular matches, thankfully. Overall, solid game, best of the boggle-like games I’ve played, but the ads are the biggest problem. I know the devs need to make some money, but these ads just take way too long, some require multiple clicks, each with their own timers, to get past them. ADDED NOTE: Dev’s response to this review says that ads can be passed after 6 seconds, which would be reasonable, but is unfortunately not the truth. Most ads require you to wait roughly six seconds before the double arrows come up to pass it, but then an App Store page for the app being advertised comes up (which you must click “done” on), and then ANOTHER 6 second timer comes up to pass a third page, all for the same ad. Three separate clicks with their own timers for one ad is just ridiculous. Alternatively, I’ve been getting ads where there is a ten-second timer, which doesn’t start right away. I would be thrilled to have ads with a 6 second timer, and would not have complained.

I have loved this game for a long time. But I’m frustrated that there are SO MANY ads in the game now, they are now inserted constantly while playing. It is testing the patience of people like me who enjoy this game! It used to be but they would just be in between games. Now they are in between every round of the game, they pop up every time you go to the next thing. Perhaps just a way to get people to spend the money to go ad-free. Hard to come to any other conclusion..... I just read a bunch of other reviews. There has been similar feedback. If anything, the ad issue has become worse! They are not only inserted in more places while playing the game, but they’re also harder to get out of, and often times you have to wait through two different timers to get out of the ad….. the main body of the ad, and then, when you exit out of that, there’s another timer that counts down another 10 seconds or more. I play a lot of games, and I’ve never come across a game that has so many ads. It takes all the fun out of playing a game, and I suppose that is the point… So that we will buy the ad free version. I suppose unless enough people complain, nothing will be done about it. It’s frustrating to read the developers response to peoples complaints they offer no solution, because they don’t want a solution or have a solution for you. Other than to buy the ad free version!