Happy to stumble upon this app the other day. I’ve been playing scavenger hunt, happy find and other similar apps for a long time now, so it was refreshing to find this one with already so many levels created! The similarities are dead on to the others, but this app over the others seems to be the most invested in generating user experience, so thank you for that! As for the ads, turn your cellular and Wi-Fi data off for the app and only turn them on as needed for purchase, daily challenges, etc…. Then turn it back off, close the app and re-open with no data connection and all the ads go away until you turn them on again…… it’s a way around paying for no ads………. So far very happy with what I’ve experienced…… I did pay for the nomads on my cell phone just because I know I’ll be on this app a lot, so long as they keep up with creating new levels and content!

I was excited when I saw an ad for this and immediately downloaded. It’s actually quite fun and I like that even though some are easy finds, others can be challenging. The problem comes with the ads. I know a lot of other reviews said the ads were crazy. As most do, I needed to check for myself and look at the numbers. I downloaded and it allowed me to play a few minutes with no ads. After that initial part though, I played for 30 minutes. Within that 30 minutes, I had 16 ads, all of which I timed. All of the ads ranged in lengths with the average ad being a little over a minute long with the shortest being a little over 40 seconds and the longest being about a minute and a half. But back to the numbers. After timing the ads, within the 30 minutes I played, there were 16 ads for a total of 18 minutes. That means over half of my play time involved sitting and either watching or having to interact with ads. I only was able to actually play for 12 of the 30 minutes. Which is absolutely wild. The game has a lot of potential and I genuinely enjoyed what little I was allowed to play but sitting through that many ads WITHOUT having to buy the ads free version is a little too much. I understand needing ads, but when you’re hindered and unable for play your game for about 20 out of 30 minutes, that’s excessive.

UPDATE—I was able to overcome the insane ads to play this occasionally. Since this last update, the ads have doubled in frequency and amounts. I am not sure why these developers take a very good concept and ruin it with so many ads. I understand the need for some ads. But an example of too many ads….i opened the game one morning to pass some time, the game opened to the game board I was playing, I moved the screen to start searching and an ad comes up. I was very frustrated but let it go. I searched for about 30 seconds and the little timer starts clicking, another ad shows up. That process was possibly a minute and a half at the most, more accurately it was probably less than a minute…trying to give the game the benefit of the doubt. Thats just a little extreme in my opinion for ads. I’m positive your game doesn’t need 2 ads in one minute let alone 2 seconds after I open the game for the first time one day. I would’ve given this 5 stars but because you play an ad literally every 30 seconds, I just couldn’t. The game itself is wonderful. While I understand the need for ads, every 30 seconds is a little extreme. I finally just stopped playing simply because I couldn’t do the ads. I came to the conclusion when I’m seeing more ads than I’m playing your game, it’s just time to stop. Thank you for the wonderful game but I’m done playing because of the ridiculous amount of ads.

I absolutely love this game. I love the cute graphics and animations, and I love the huge amount of levels that there are to play. I love the game so much that I’ve paid for it twice now. So why the 3 star rating? The only thing that holds this game back from perfection is the fact that the levels are locked, which means they have to be played in the predetermined order of the game. I would REALLY prefer to be able to choose which level I play, from the entire list of available levels. I’m not interested in the themes of some levels, and I end up stepping away from the game for days or even weeks at a time when I’m forced to play one of the levels that I’m not really into. If there was an option to pay a one-time fee, similar to the fee you can pay to remove ads, that would unlock all of the levels, this would be a perfect game and I’d be able to play daily like I’d like to. Plus, it would be an additional source of revenue from people like me. I doubt I’m the only person who plays the game less frequently for this reason. This is such a lovely game and it’s clear that a lot of care is regularly put into it, and this seems like a missed opportunity here.