Nut n Bolt Sort: Color Puzzle 9+

I have been playing Nut n Bolt Sort and really enjoy this game, probably spending too much time playing. I would rate this a 5, but there is a problem with some of the ads. Today I have started a hard game at level 179. I don’t mind the ads, generally, but there are times when it will not let me back to the game when the ad is done, requiring you to close and reopen the app. The app does not save your progress so if you have to do this, you have to start the game over again. I have started this hard puzzle three times because I keep getting the same ad that takes you in circles. And there is no way to contact ABI about this issue. 😣

I like this game and have been playing for awhile. It’s easy to pass the time and fun to see the picture form from the initial chaos as you match up colors. However, it takes the fun out of it when you realize there’s only so many original pictures and as you rise up in levels, it’s just repeating the same cycle of pictures. I’m in the middle of the cycle for the third time around. I would love to see new pictures to make it more enjoyable. It takes away from the fun when I already know what it looks like because I’ve completed it twice before. The “extreme” and “nightmare” levels that you can buy with coins, offer some new pictures, but they aren’t really difficult at all. I feel like level difficulty is more about the size of the picture and number of colors, but a lot of the “hard” levels have less colors than the easy levels and I can complete them in just a few minutes.

I just want more pictures and more difficulty please!

P.s. can we please stop the announcement of getting coins after every 50 moves. It just gets annoying and detracts from the fun when you have to keep pausing to wait for it to clear. Then by the time you get back into the swing of it, it comes again!

I love this game, but I am frustrated by a few things: 1. Getting interrupted every 50 moves on hard puzzles to show me that I get coins. It disrupts my flow. 2. I can’t find anything to spend coins on other than the “extreme” puzzles. Makes #1 doubly aggravating. 3. I’m *really* unhappy that if I go back to the home screen before finishing an Extreme puzzle, I can never go back to it. What is up with that?! Such a bummer. All that said, I *love* the game itself. I have played it waaaay too much this week because I’m having too much fun!
Second update: 4. I have bought all of the Extreme puzzles but the red exclamation mark won’t go away. 5. There is no way to ask questions or get help on the game. The only way I have to ask about this stuff is to write this review.

THIRD update: after playing this game for two weeks, writing a review, and adding to said review (including taking off a star), I would add two things: 1. There is no customer support. How do I spend coins? How do I make the annoying bouncing red exclamation marks go away? When are new patterns coming out?
And 2. It’s all the same patterns over and over. You can “buy” harder ones with in-game coins, but then if you keep,aging, you discover that those are in the regular rotation anyway.

I’m only giving it two stars now because I do love the game play.