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After a week of NUMMI frustration I’ve decided to write a review. Loved the original game then came the update. Last week the update wiped out my command line but I managed to get around that by blindly touching the command line where I knew the buttons were. Today my command line is back but the playing board has been shrunk down to where I’m using reading glasses just to see numbers. Frustrating! Leave it the way it was when I downloaded the game. I liked it then and now it’s just major frustration seeing the playing board.

Not a fan of the update! The old version was almost perfect! Personally I’d appreciate a night mode because this version is brighter than the old one, and I much prefer the more defined tile edges of the old version... but the biggest issue with this version is the zoom levels of the table. For years they’d nailed it, but this version just makes playing this game annoying and much more work with constant scrolling no matter which way you hold your phone. It’s also harder to move tile sets around because now the view scroll takes priority I guess. After years of playing Nummi they actually made me look for an alternate version of rummikub! Unfortunately this is still the best rendition of the game on iPhone... 🙄

I love the game and enjoy playing against a few friends. But I’ve always had a problem with the board being too large for my iPhone screen. Either I have to move all the tiles to the area that fits in my display, or I have to scroll from side to side (portrait) or up and down (landscape) to see all the tiles.

With this latest update, the background moves along with the tiles, so essentially it’s nearly impossible to the tiles anywhere. I’m almost ready to give up playing.