Favorite game

I don’t just like Skip-Bo, I absolutely love this game. Several , several years ago when my children were in middle school my neighbor and good friend introduced me to this game and I fell in love with it. We would set for hours playing this card game till our bottoms were so numb. Lol, we would get up and walk outside for a bit and walk our dogs till the feeling returned in our bottoms. We played this game almost every day. Her and I would play till it was my girl’s bedtime. We even taught them how to play. My girls are 27 and 30 now and I am still playing this game. I like playing it with the actual cards better because you are with your friends and you sit and have coffee and chat as you play. When whomever won it was very exciting and we were all very competitive when we played to. Now when I play it on my phone I think back about those memories and I smile. I love games that make great memories so u can think about your friends and the great times we had. She still plays but we are in different states now and when I go back home I’m going to get her to download the game so we can play together again. Thanks for making such great games and helping ppl to make wonderful memories. Thanks again, Christine D.

Taking way more coins than supposed to

I absolutely adore this game. I started playing the physical version about 12 years ago and when I found the online version a few weeks ago, it brought back fond memories. I’ve noticed for weeks now that my coins were going way too fast, even though I was winning and should have been making up more than I was loosing. Specifically in the adventure map section. A few days ago I started paying attention to my coin count as I started a match, after I won, and then when I played another round. I have screenshots upon screenshots as well as screen recordings to prove what is happening. I have submitted multiple reports through the app itself with no word back from the technical support team. Not even the bot. I just submitted yet another one and noticed the other reports are now nowhere to be found. So I made sure to screenshot this one. I’m pretty upset that the money I’ve spent on the game has been wasted now that I know that this has been happening… every single time. And it’s never the same amount. One time it was supposed to charge 900 coins and it charged 1009. The next time (both tonight) it was again supposed to charge 900 and charged 1906. So the money that I work hard for and then spend on this game to unwind after work is literally just a waste of money. I loveeee this game but if something doesn’t change it’s going to force me to believe that it’s ran by crooks.

Please read before downloading

Ok so I have been playing this game for a full week and when I play offline it seems like the AI’s have an unfair advantage. Like does this sound normal to you?: You’re playing Skip-Bo and the AI’s get the PERFECT set up and you end up losing. Personally that’s not normal thing for me. Also I don’t like the idea of making you waste your coins to play online. Maybe make it cost less because it’s kind of a waste of coins. Like a full thousand coins!? In my opinion that’s WAYY more than it should be. If any of the creators are reading this think about those things please. Another thing is the earning coins. So, if you run out of coins you have to wait a full hour to get more to be able to play and you only get more if you win. Now, I think that winning offline against the A.Is should give you a few coins. Like maybe 50 to 100, because waiting a full hour to be able to play is kind of ridiculous. Also another idea is just making you have to wait like five minutes to be able to get more coins. Five to thirty minutes would be more acceptable and just make the game lots better. It’s just a shame that you have to wait so long to play. Another thing that is about the coins is that the places that you win in maybe you could earn coins depending on if you got first, second, or third place. Like maybe if you got third place you could get 100, second place 200, and first place however much you’re supposed to get. - Emerson. F

Love/Hate relationship

Let me start by saying.. I love this game! It truly is so much fun and very addicting. I started without signing into Facebook/apple at first. It drove me crazy that I couldn’t change my player name, so I eventually logged in. I hate ads so I had no problem with paying a fee to remove them. I played through the maze of challenges and didn’t see where I “won” coins/points etc but my overall tally seemed up so I was pleased. After awhile, I urged my husband to download the game too so we could try the “play with friends”. We have the physical Skip Bo game at home but it’s a fun twist of the game when we only have a short time to play and don’t feel like physically shuffling cards. After awhile of “creating a room” my husband realized he didn’t have enough coins to play. I was extremely confused by this but again.. hadn’t really paid any attention to the prizes won during my time of playing. I had over 10,000 coins so I started creating the rooms for us. That quickly fizzled out as my coins started running low within an hour and I realized neither of us gained anything by playing each other. No coins are awarded, yet you must “pay” to play. This is so frustrating that we must pay 800 coins to play a 2 player, 10 stack game but don’t earn any coins in return if we win. Doesn’t really add up🤔. Wish this option was free or had better winnings for games played with friends so we can continue.

Lives instead of coins

Skip-Bo is one of my very favorite card games. So of course when I found out it was an app I was all over it! I really enjoy the online aspect of earning more coins. It’s really fun to be able to play with others but why does it cost so much? Seriously I don’t understand. Why can’t we create a room for like 100 coins? It just seems so silly. We don’t win anything. It’s just for fun but can’t do it for very long. You could do a timer option for every room you create if you don’t want people just only player their friends all day. It’s just way over priced when it’s so difficult to win coins. Which brings me to adventure mode. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I don’t get creators, why are you making us pay sooooo much for each level?!?!? It takes one loss and that’s it. You can’t play again until your free coins. But this also means you can do anything else in the game either except play offline. So what is the point? You earn 1,000 coins and then decide where to play, 1 loss and your out. Are you all really that money hungry? What about all the other games that give you 5 lives with a timer to earn more. I mean it’s perfect. Other stuff cost coins sure but lives are a much better option especially for the adventure mode. This game is barley fun if you can only play for a short time. I hated to give it 3 stars because of my love for the game, but I feel let down with the ridiculous prices to play.

Fun but sometimes not easy

So this one is fun to me but is not without flaw. The online costs 2000 coins but so does a level. You get coins for every one level an hour which I think should be more frequent. The levels sometimes don’t ever give you the cards you need if you save them in the correct order to use them. It’s unpredictable of course but the coin set up can make levels take days sometimes. I do feel though because of the kind of the type of game this is, it is to be expected the way the win/lose is set up. I feel it’s consistent for the most part in how it’s set up but you will get stuck on levels for days sometimes. The coin thing is meant to be a money grab, no doubt about that one, but if you can collect the coins almost every hour and save them you can do a few rounds at once. The little mini games it does when you play the levels is fun too. You don’t have to beat the levels to play them. Like the food truck one, you didn’t have to beat the levels to get ingredients. Just had to collect a certain number of bags if I remember correctly. You can be stuck on one level for 5 days and still advance in the mini game. It gets frustrating at times but, unless you spend money, you are forced to take long breaks so you don’t really get too frustrated.

Good Classic Game … with flaws

I love SkipBo. My fiancée and I play it nearly every day and we make up extra rules for fun. So I love having the chance to play it in app form. I have some issues with how coins are distributed/earned. In the map levels, the only way you can earn back the coins you spent is if you get three stars and earning one star gets you a fraction of the coins spent. It makes it difficult to progress and I’m going to quickly lose interest in this app if I’m only able to play one level at a time due to coin shortage. In the home page, I’ve noticed that you only “earn” coins if you are the “winner” when you compete against other players. I find this a little frustrating because, for example, you stake 1,000 coins in a three person game and the winner gets 2,000 coins. Where do the other 1,000 coins that were staked go? Same for the four player. In all, 8,000 coins are staked and only the “winner” receives a payout of 5,000 coins. I think there should be a system in place where 2nd/3rd/4th split the remaining coins based on their placement. Again, love the game… but the coin system needs to be significantly tweaked in my opinion. I think that individual levels on the map page should maybe cost an amount to “unlock” them and then be either free/significantly reduced coin price to “retry” them.

Has Potential

After giving Skip-Bo another try, here are my favorite and not so favorite things about the game. I love that the game has many different modes in game play. From adventure, online and offline play and play with friends. My complaint about adventure mode is that most of the time it cost more to play a game than the coins you win back when getting 3 stars. Sometimes when you get 3 stars you get back the same amount of coins that you spent to play. When playing online mode, again it costs more to play and only the 1st place winner gets coins as while 2nd and 3rd place don't. You pay 1,000 coins each to play easy online mode and yet only first place gets coins. It would make sense if 2nd place got coins as well. Offline mode is fun but no coins. I love the 1,000 coins each hour but the other ways of earning coins have potential as well. We are missing avatars and frames for our profiles. I love playing games from mattel, and I play Uno all the time to the point I am a VIP 5 and spend actual money on the game. This game has so much potential but it is missing so much. If this game had what they have done for UNO, I would definitely not lose interest. I am excited that we currently have an event ongoing and is the only reason I am giving this Skip-bo another try.

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