I’ve been playing this game for years, and I don’t really understand the complaints about the ads. Maybe I’ve just become immune to them, but my experience this year was the only time you saw ads was when you wanted something extra. You could continue by watching an ad, get an extra spin in the daily gift wheel, get an extra life, etc. I haven’t seen any ads that I didn’t specifically choose to watch. The game is really generous with free play time too. I noticed a couple of complaints that if you win 2 hours of free play time and you can’t use it all at once, you lose it. That’s true, but all games I play with free play time work the same way, so that doesn’t bother me. I think it’s pretty standard. And it’s pretty rare when I don’t get free play time the next time I play. Like I said, they are generous. The ONLY reason this is 4 star instead of 5 star is that it appears in the last update, they completely eliminated the opportunity to watch an ad to continue an ad. It went from being able to watch up to 3 ads for each continue that gave you 3 turns, then 2 turns, and then 2 turns with a booster) to switching it to 2 turns, 3 turns, and the 2 turns with booster to eliminating altogether. I haven’t seen it since the last update! Now the only option is to pay. This is really disappointing, especially since it was the only time I had to watch ads, and it was still my choice.