Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells 4+

No free coins? And Maze Hedge a bore!

Why has the game been changed to giving no daily free coins? Don’t get me wrong, I love this game and I have been playing for more than 5 years, I have great team mates and admittedly I also have spent money along the way. But now I am REALLY angry with the latest update that offers NO free coins. This is a difficult and challenging game, graphics are great ( although I am sure using some AI could enhance gameplay further) but to get NOTHING for free- that’s a rip off- considering most players would be spending a fortune to gain spells. I hope the talented developers read this and give back the free coins treasure box- even 50 coins a day would be a good gesture! And as for Maze Hedge - making us do the puzzle over and over and over again if you don’t get through on the first go is just mind numbingly BORING. You can’t even get through if we had 50 team mates. It’s impossible to do more than a couple of puzzles before the event has packed up an gone. Can you make Maze Hedge easier so we can access lots of puzzles and actually get through some parts of the hedge - it’s like the Tree where you have to win 16 puzzles in a row or you start again- these challenges are impossible- why bother titillating us - when we can see all you want is our $. Can you tell I am pretty peeved?

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A Great Find!

To see a mobile game like this in 2020 is almost unheard of.

Most mobile games are swimming in Ads and practically begging you to pay them non-stop, or annoying you in some kind of way but this game does nothing like that.

It’s just so fun to play and relaxing when you just want to pass the time or are bored. There’s absolutely no Ads and even though most people have probably played a “Bejeweled-like game” at this point, the different levels that you experience in this game that frequently change up the gameplay and keep you thinking are a really welcome edition to the genre, as well as the different themed power-ups you get for matching bricks in various ways that end up giving you that exciting feeling of finishing a level when you thought you wouldn’t make it and ran out of moves but a ‘Winged Key’ you used got the last piece you needed.

There’s also an element of competition and sportsmanship when it comes to the ‘Club’ aspect where you can form clubs and compete to be Promoted or Demoted each week depending on how many trophies your club earns, this allows for you and friends to help each other compete on a leaderboard and send each other lives if you are struggling on certain puzzles.

All in all, I would highly recommend this game and I’m sure any Harry Potter fan will find something they like about it and enjoy moving up through the levels and through scenes of the story.

Fantastic, however more than a few hiccups...

The graphics and sound effects are brilliant. Smooth transitions, challenging and creative puzzles. Overall great game play. However, a few niggling things stop this game from being a solid five stars for me.

As other players have observed, the levels available to play per week are a relatively small quantity... Waiting four days for *any* play is way too much time to wait to be continually invested, no play means to also miss out on the abundance of events and rewards. Team tier promotions are fun and collaborative, but not being to help your team when you’ve exhausted your levels is very disappointing as a player. It all seems like punishment for doing well. Some other games I know have you repeat levels so a player would still be able to play and participate. This game seems to just stop you at a grinding halt for days.

Inconsistent clearing of gems/ices with bombs and bomb+lighting combo is irritating but tolerable. Couple of specific instances though, upon starting a new puzzle level, the board was up and suddenly the “Cannot load puzzle [number]” notification popped up, thus forcing me to return to the main screen and losing a life. Very, very frustrating.