Ball Sort Puzzle 12+

This game is so rewarding! I love the periodic mystery games, maybe one in four games. It’s harder to win those first time but it’s great for memory when you refresh to try again. If you can remember where the balls were you can eventually win.

I bought the no ads because I play fast and the ads were too frequent. Plus developers should get rewarded too. “No Ads” makes refresh and up to five backups free of ads. More than 5 back or adding another beaker requires watching an ad. I was irritated at first but now I use that as an incentive to keep trying to win even if I have to refresh.

I would pay more to keep some information private. Let’s face it, we’re all tracked. Our internet providers are probably the worst offenders. None-the-less I’d like to recommend this app to younger people and seniors who really don’t need more skeevy people trying to scam them.

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.