Wood Nuts & Bolts Puzzle 12+

As a puzzle lover, I was so excited when I saw this game. The concept is great and can be challenging, which I love. However the game is set up in a way that to win the harder levels, you have no choice but to watch an ad to get access to a hole. Every. Single. Time. And each ad is a least a minute long, and it’s the same four ads in rotation. Not mention, when I run out of moves, in order to try again it sends me back to the beginning of the level where I have to complete the first easy puzzle before retrying the difficult puzzle, where I have to watch the same ad AGAIN to get access to a hole that you need to win. Basically they are forcing their players to watch extremely long ads every single time we play. They are so annoying, I looked into paying for the ads to be removed, but they only give you the option to remove ads for an hour! If they didn’t include the forced ads during each game, I would be playing this game nonstop. The ads actually keep me from wanting to play the game because they’re so annoying. I am not an app reviewer typically, but this game has so much potential that is being ruined by their greed for ad money. Please consider getting rid of some of the ads!! Or give us the option to pay to have them removed for good if ya’ll need the money so badly. Please and thank you :)

Got intrigued by the playable ad and of course they start out too easy. Fine. Got a hard level that was super exciting and was happy to keep playing the easy levels until they got progressively harder. Then after level 4 is this ridiculous hard level that I don’t get on the first try. Fine. But I have to watch an ad to retry. Fine. After retrying this bonus hard level a few times, I get desperate and watched more ads to get some power ups. Cycled through that a few times and after retrying this level with power ups several times and watching tons of ads, I finally pass bonus hard level #2. Regular level 5 and. 6? A breeze. Then bonus hard level 3. And the darn thing looks just as annoying as the previous hard level. Now, don’t get me wrong. I love a good hard puzzle you can sit and stew on for 20 minutes. I’m just kinda bummed that to do that, you either have to watch 5 collective minutes of ads or fork out cash just to be able to undo a mistake or have a chance to try again or get more time. Thanks but no thanks. Deleting after posting this review. Adding bonus harder levels with the super easy ones is a great idea, but the scaffolding is horrible.

I would love this game so much more without the time factor. I don’t really care they have an easy level and then a hard one and then just rinse and repeat. I love sitting forever to figure it out. But forcing me to watch a single ad that’s 80 seconds long with no exiting it just to undo a single move… yeah, that’s annoying. Another undo, 30 second ad. That’s fine. And then another 80 seconds. Need another undo? 30 seconds. I think I’m on the fourth or fifth hard level and even now, they basically want you to spend money and they don’t hide it. And all of this is for a single hard level that’s maybe 3:30 minutes long. Why am I spending more time watching ads than I am playing the game? If this is all at level 5, why would I even bother continuing to play? If this was like level 60, I could hear you out on that. This is level 5. If you took away the timed part of levels, I’d be a lot less annoyed. That or installing a “zen mode” where you just play over and over and over while not trying to beat a clock or get a better score. I’m not keeping this because it’s incredibly depressing that even ads on streaming platforms are shorter than the ones in a single game where you undo a move three or four times. When you undo a single move, you don’t get that time back. Wanna restart the level? 50/50 chance you get an 80 second ad.