I’ve been playing this intensely for a few days and am now up to level 274 so am in a good position to write a review.The good:- Nice logic puzzles- Lovely colours- Extra elements added periodically- Music inoffensive- At the very end of a puzzle, when the player knows what needs to go where, he or she doesn’t have to wait for the animation to stop before submitting the combination of remaining moves - keep tapping away at the bottles and the app/animations will catch upThe bad:- On “hard” and, especially “super hard” levels (which are thrown in every few levels, rather than being what one works up to), the app doesn’t really play fair. One is often faced with a 50:50 choice, where one option is just as legitimate as another but, nine times out of ten, the colour that is revealed from the choice one makes shafts one! The laws of probability go out of the window and not in the player’s favour.- One has to endure frequent and lengthy ads for Gossip Harbor and other puzzle apps, especially as a way of earning a life (essential to keep playing). Ironically, some of the ads keep urging the player to delete apps that relentlessly show ads!I’ve deducted a star for each of these downers.

The game was enjoyable at first, but as you go on, it just becomes a game of chance, as mystery colours are added. You also can’t use your accumulated “undos” or “add bottle” options before you suddenly lose. On top of that, you only have a few lives before they want you to buy (with money) more lives or watch a really long ad to play one more short game. If you don’t wish to buy lives, you then have to wait 30mins before you can play again… it’s infuriating! So, enjoy the early/easy levels, but after that it becomes a pointless game of chance with loads of ads (after about 70 levels). I got to over 200 levels, but still just random luck, so giving up now. Why can’t they be content with the short (30 second) ad that already plays every few games and let me play for as long as I like? Surely better than me just going off to play something else.

It’s functional and a decent puzzle game, but I think to be a really good one it would need more modes. I find myself frustrated with some of the mechanics, because they feel like they aren’t… honest? I wanted to play a purely skill-based game, but one of the mechanics is that the majority of your puzzle pieces are a complete mystery and you have no idea what you have, which leads to what feels like unfair failures. You move a single pink section into the empty bottle and oh no, you immediately lose, because the mystery piece underneath the pink turns out to be blue and you have no other blue. This is an extremely unfun aspect and changes gameplay from skill into just guesswork.Because I want to play something with pure skill, I ignore the little “cheats” the game lets you have like shuffling the pieces, adding another bottle (which is just an automatic win imo), etc, but it feels like some of the generated puzzles REQUIRE you to use these, especially the shuffle.Paying coins to pretend you didn’t lose a round feels like cheating too, so I take the actual loss every time. However I swear the puzzle generation is weighted in some way, because the “Super Hard” puzzles will suddenly be significantly easier after a loss. This is also frustrating to me; I want to figure it out for myself, but it feels a bit like there’s an invisible helper mechanic you can’t opt out of.I’d really like to see other modes added, particularly one that does not contain any of the additional gimmicks, including hiding 90% of the pieces. A pure sorting mode, no cheats/power-ups, no gimmicks, just pure problem-solving skill. As it is, with the absence of a mode like this, I think I’m going to uninstall and try and find a sorting puzzle game more to my liking.

This game started off very fun with the strategy and planning where to put each colour, but as the blacked-out question marks got introduced it became just a game of luck, especially because when you lose a level and retry the colour layout is completely different each time so you can’t even learn from your mistakes. Made even worse by the fact you can only lose 5 times maximum before you’ve run out of lived and have to wait for them to refill over time, genuinely don’t understand games that discourage you from playing more of them, I want to play your game why won’t you let me because I ran out of lives? Weird decision. This would be fixed if they simply kept the level the same between failures. Used to be fun but I’m probably going to delete the game now as it’s no longer a fun strategy game and is just all about luck now.