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Fun game but…

Update (Feb. 2025): I saw other reviewers saying this game cheats and didn’t really give it much thought until it happened to me quite a few times this week. I was getting all my boosters at the start of a level and the game kept adding items to spaces instead of instead of using the boosters. This last time I made sure my finger was directly on a rocket and even held my finger on the rocket for a few seconds and instead of the rocket being highlighted, an item below it was and then it was added to a space. Deleting this game after helping my team with the weekend challenge. Bad enough they’re making it impossible to win even their easy levels without spending money, but to cheat as well…disgusting. Downgrading my rating to one star just for the cheating. Forgot to mention items jittering around like someone with a nervous tick and how slowly they’re placed in a space when you tap on them. This game is fun but it can get so frustrating at times. The really difficult levels are such that you need to spend money to pass them, which I’ve done a few times. But the really frustrating part is when you fail a level, you are not given the option to view the board to see how many items you have left to collect so you can decide if you want to use your precious coins to for extra time.

Not like the ads

In this game, you do have to match three of the same thing in order to clear them off the board and it gives you a list of everything that it wants cleared. Often times there will be extra items mixed in with the required items and you can clear them away, but they don’t count towards anything. That is the only thing that looks similar to the ads. The thing that does not show up in any of the levels that I’ve played like you see in the ads and I’ve played somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 levels is a person in peril if you don’t clear away all the items and keep them from getting crushed, drowned, burned, or whatever other things they show in the ads. Now, with all of this being said it is still an enjoyable game, which is why I gave it 3 stars. I just don’t like that the ad is misleading. Another thing I don’t care for in the game is that you tend to have to use coins to give you a little extra time or to revive you and it’s not very easy to build up coins in the game through regular play and the cost of the coins if you wanna purchase them is rather pricey. I want to say it’s like eight dollars. just for 500 coins and if you’re having a bad run, you can burn through 500 coins in 5 or 10 minutes. Overall, it’s a good game but just try to avoid the in app purchases because they add up quick and they don’t charge it right away… They let a few add up over a few days and then hit your bank account for the total.

Rip off/ false advertisement

I’m in level 3652. I know is a very high level and the higher the better, and I got very invested in this game and I have spent a lot of money and time in it. I have reached out to them and asked them how is it, my husband and I both have iPhones and his almost in level 2000 and even though he has never spend money on this game, he gets everything before I do. Like months before. Like the super ball and for the sales? His is $. 99 cents and his prize was 1000 coins and other perks. Mines was $6.99 same sale but instead of 1000 coins, my prize was 500 coins? How is that fair? My regular levels are like a super hard level. And to get the super ball you need to win 10 games and I always get it on an ultimate difficult level and don’t even stand a chance to keep it. It’s so hard because the level is so full of things and I only get like 2 minutes even with power ups, adding extra time, but I lose and never get to play with the super ball, once I lose it the next try keeps getting less and less and I ask myself if it was this much from the beginning I would of been able to keep the super ball. It’s so addictive and no matter how bad I don’t want to play anymore, it’s hard. But I’m sure that spending any more money like I used to and it takes me sometimes couple days to pass one level. They wrote back to me and said everyone experience is different so I guess I got the worst version and my husband got the best one. So disappointing.

Great game! But..

I really have been enjoying this game a lot. It’s hard but fun and I have made it to level 2150, but as soon as had I hit level 2100 it feels like the game went from a fun kind of challenging to a ridiculous frustrating kind of hard. Even if I pass a level, the next level takes all of my lives and feels almost impossible to pass, like when I used to be able to play and pass between 50-75 levels a day now I’m lucky to pass 15 levels a day. I can’t even participate in any of the events anymore because there’s not a point in doing so if you’re just stuck on the same level for half the day. I dont want to delete it but I’m not even relaxed playing this anymore, I’m just frustrated. Being such a high level it’s expected to have a lot of difficulty, but this feels like too much. For example, I’m stuck on a level that requires you to collect 5 different types of bread. But it’s impossible to pass because a lot of the breads face down so it all looks identical and you can’t see the colored top. For things like that, there needs to be a way to tell it all apart even if it’s facing the wrong way.

Used to be a favorite

This game used to be a favorite before they started implementing all these changes. For instance, you used to work towards earning immediate rewards where now they do cards that have to build up to earn single rewards. I have been playing for weeks and haven’t built up enough cards to earn these rewards, but have double triple and even quadruple of the same cards. I hate the cards! In addition, their app, glitches and team rewards are not claimed successfully. When you try to reach out to their team, it takes several days to hear response with no resolution. Their levels that are not listed as “hard“, “super hard“ etc. are still extremely difficult and they’ve made it where you almost have to always spend money in order to win because now they no longer provide rewards so it’s all a money scheme at this point. Where it used to be fun to earn rewards and play as teams, multiple times I haven’t received the rewards successfully that our team have earned because of the glitch or I’m unable to complete levels without spending money. They need to make the levels seemingly fun and not so difficult especially when it’s not leveled as a difficult level. Their team should be more supportive in responses and so I’m giving it a two star review because of the inability for them to resolve issues and the changes they’ve made that have made it extremely challenging to earn rewards

Fun but requires money

This game is fun, but it requires you spend money to get beyond a certain point. If you play this game a couple times a day, you will enjoy it for about 2-3 days and then you will simply hate it. The puzzles become way too hard to beat unless you use boosts and there simply isn’t any way to acquire boosts other than spending money. You get one daily prize, but all of the other boosts require you beat several puzzles to get boosts. Even the side game that allows you to get boosts requires you beat so many levels so you can even play it. Plus the total score you need to get any boosts from that side game is so high, it takes dozens of tries to reach the goal. Basically, if you don’t want to spend money to win, avoid this game. The game can be very challenging since the pieces continue to move when you remove an item and a lot of times the piece you are trying to select has another piece fall in front of it just as you try to select the piece. It seems that the higher levels tend to have this happen more than the lower ones. The developers trick in in the beginning by giving you plenty of boosts for doing very little, but that changes as the levels get higher and more difficult. I am all for a developer making money on their game, but I have played other games like this that get you hooked and then make you have to spend money if you want to continue. I just deleted the game and will look for something else to play.

Glitchy

I really enjoy this game, but have had a lot of problems with glitching. When clicking on my third match to clear the object, it magically disappears or completely moves somewhere else on the board! I have reported the problem to them and they aren’t the least bit concerned! I have spent an insane boat load of money to get extra coins, time, and power ups because I thought it was me with the problem, just to realize it’s a glitch , or maybe just a way for them to make money!!! I’ve also noticed on the hard levels, usually when I have a full toolbox, I will click on the rockets and hour glasses to clear them, but it actually clicks on something completely different, filling up the bar at the bottom and resulting in me having to start all over again, and losing all the power ups in my toolbox!!! I’ve also experienced the screen/objects bouncing, making it impossible to play! And I also haven’t received all my power ups/ extra time I was supposed to be awarded! “Support” told me to reach out to Apple for a refund, which I did, but they say it’s not eligible for a refund, and won’t say why. To say I’m livid is an understatement! I want a refund, but they say they can’t issue me one, which I think is a load of rubbish!!! They’re greedy, and I will do my best to expose them to the best of my ability for their shady ways!!!

What happened?!

I used to love this game. Very fun and addictive. I am on level 6772, so yeah, I have played this game a lot. But recently there have been changes and I simply cannot play or recommend. You used to be able to get coins and power ups fairly easily with regular game play. Not a ton, but enough to boost you through very hard levels. Levels that were easy or hard even you could get past without power ups. Since they recently introduced the “super ball” (supposed to trigger intermittently during the game to remove objects) the game has become a lot harder. Even the simple, easy levels have become more cluttered and with very tiny items to find which means you will need more time, but you don’t accumulate power ups as quickly so now you have to spend actual money to get coins to continue the level or buy packages of in game power ups. This was not how the game was initially. Easy levels had normal sized objects. How can you call a level basic and put extremely small item and more larger items together!? I get it, they are out to make money, but to introduce a “supper ball” and then make the levels harder is a total lie and absolute greed. It is insulting that they thought some people would not catch on. Luckily I have found a similar game by a different developer that is everything this game used to be.

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