First off, I absolutely love this game. I usually find myself gravitating towards it if I happen to be on my phone. With that being said though, there are a couple of issues that I keep experiencing.1. Everytime the developers have you update the app, the level patterns change. There will be times where a level is hard for me to complete and once I run out of lives, I’ll take a break. Then, I’ll come back to the game, the app will have me update it, and then the pattern is completely different. It gets frustrating because I’ll try to find the solution to the new pattern online, yet no one else seems to have the same pattern as I do. I’ve come across multiple videos that each have the same level number, but each video has a completely different pattern to one another. 2. I’ve already gotten used to this issue but it might be confusing to new downloaders. The 5 extra holes that they give you, aren’t actually 5 extra holes. It’s only 4, which in the beginning made no sense to me. Why would you give me 5 extra holes if I can’t even use the fifth one most of the time?

I’ve been playing this game for about a month or so and at first I really enjoyed it even though it’s nothing like the ads. I mainly play it in my spare time and I’ve gotten up to level 270. Unfortunately, once I reached like level 240 or so, the levels have become extremely difficult to beat! Some you cannot beat without the power ups. The power ups were 3 extra holes for 225, 3 hammers for I think it was 350 or so and 3 x2 colors so you can clear 2 colors at once for like 375 coins. Which isn’t terrible but when you can only get up to 30 coins per level you beat(you have to watch an ad to get it which I normally do because you have to watch an ad regardless after each level.), it’s difficult to beat some levels. And there are different levels with different difficulties but the amount of coins you recieve never changes even for the extremely hard levels. Then today I went to play it and when I went to get a power up because I finally had enough, or so I thought, the prices have changed! Now it’s 550 for the 3 extra holes, 1000 for 3 hammers, and 750 for 3 x2 but the amount of coins per level is still the same. You also get to spin the wheel but you have to watch ads to get 2 spins per day and the prizes that are for coins are low amounts. When I get a coin amount it’s usually only 20 coins. I’m debating whether or not to keep the app or just delete it and find a new/better game.

The game is great. It’s exactly like it’s ads. There are some ads but they don’t pop up every level like some other ones. And it also gives you unlimited lives from time to time. However, the game gives you five screw holders to hold the screw that’s blocking the spots, but the ones you can actually use is four. Whenever the screw holder gets full it immediately says I fail the level. And even if you add extra screw holder the number you can actually use without the game deciding you “fail” is always n-1. There are so many times it is clear that even the screw holder is full you can still make moves without it being considered as failing the level. Furthermore, sometimes when you have screw in the screw holder that’s the same color as the next one, once you’re able to finish the plate it will move on to the next without being consider as failing the level, which makes a lot more sense then the n-1 situation.

…but I’m seeing some major issues that will likely keep me from continuing to play it. One is the dreaded last screw hole that automatically makes you fail a level that you probably didn’t need to fail. It’s pointless to add that last screw hole if it’s not going to be usable. You should only fail a level if all of your screw holes are full and you try to add another. The other is the option to gain 10 coins and proceed after a level OR watch an ad to get more coins or bonus stuff. The first day I played the game, it worked as it was shown. Not once did I have to watch an ad to just collect the 10 coins. When I played it today, I got an ad after every single level even when I was selecting the 10 coin no-ad version. Annoying and unnecessary. I understand that developers have to make money somehow, but making everything so expensive and so ad-heavy that it’s unusable is not the way to gain long term customers. If I like a game, I’ll be loyal to it for YEARS. I will spend real money. But there has to be a good give and take, which this game doesn’t have. I also have no desire to do timed levels, so it’s probably good I’m bowing out now before I reach those.