The game is fun and well made, but there are simply too many ads to give it four or five stars.At first it was just an ad between each game, which was fine with me, but eventually these ads started popping up in the middle of my game. The would be an ad interrupting my game every time I played as well as ads between games. Normally I don’t have a problem with ads because it gives the developers profit the need and/or deserve, especially if the game is good. But this is just too many ads. I am not sure if anyone else is having this many ads, but I am not able to play a full game without one popping up. Another problem is that these ads consistently freeze and force me to close and reopen my game losing my progress. If you are willing to deal with these problems, or if you are able to buy the game with no ads, then go ahead and have fun. It just isn’t working out for me.

The game itself is pretty good. Sort the balls into tubes, and the difficulty of doing so gradually increases. Where I gave it one star lies in its ridiculous ad placement. I can’t do anything in the game without running into a 30 second ad that has a billion “skip” buttons I need to press. One or two of them per day, when I played it, was ok. But as I played it more I noticed the game put an ad whenever I wanted to restart a level, move onto a different level, or really do anything else. I stopped playing because I was so focused on solving a puzzle and then would get violently ripped out of that concentration by one, two or even three ads. And no, I will not pay the developer actual money to get rid of the ads. Because that would allow for this scam to continue. It doesn’t take a genius to make a ball sort game, and it also doesn’t take a genius to realize that people don’t like ads. But coupled with a sort game and lots of ads, and an option to PAY to get rid of them, the developer has two sources, not one, of income: the ad revenue which is quantifiably higher with the ridiculous amount of ads I come across within a few short minutes, and the poor fools who payed into the scam to get rid of them. I refuse to be a party to this. There are plenty of other “sorting” or “puzzle” games out there.

There is an ad after every level, as well as ads every time you refresh the puzzle you’re working on. The skip button and exit button on the ads are both fake, even though they show up on the screen touching them does not work and you need to sit there and wait until they just close or they will redirect you to the App Store anyways even if you are just trying to skip the ads. I hate apps with these predatory, fake skip ad buttons and absolutely do not support them.I’m all for giving the creators a way to make money on a free game, but $3 to get rid of the INSANE amount of ads, without any other kind of benefit (like maybe custom ball colors or something with your purchase) is just too much. Getting rid of ads either needs to be $1 by itself or needs to include other content to make it worth $3. I also hate how you really never get as many tubes as you see in the advertisements for this game or the water sort game. But I guess this game is just for making money and not really for fun.

When I first got this game I couldn’t put it down! I gig my husband and kids playing it too! Hubby and I would compete. This was my favorite game. Strategizing. Critical thinking. Plotting and planning each move. What an awesome way to exercise one’s mind. I would have given 5+ stars if I could. But now… yeah, no. This last update brought an end to EVERYTHING! The first time I opened the game after the update, I actually restarted my phone and deleted then reinstalled the app. I thought my phone was acting up. This seems to now be a “mystery” game. A game of chance. No more strategy. No more planning. Only the top balls are visible. The bottom 3 balls are all gray with a question mark. What the what?!?! What do y’all want me to do with this?! I’ve checked back a couple of times, just to check and see if all is back to normal. But that’s a big, “NEGATIVE”. So, I might be deleting this. Please consider going back to the format that we all loved. Please and thank you….