Puzzle Page - Daily Games‪!‬ 4+

My everyday game app!

I have been a paid subscriber for several years now and continue to play every day. As a “senior” it keeps my mind challenged and clear. Not only do I complete all the daily puzzles and play my 5 daily “free” Special Issues puzzles, I have watched 20 ads each day to earn 100 extra tokens to play more, earning 5 tokens for each ad (I admit, I turn the volume down so I don’t hear the sound). However, since the latest App update, that ability to earn extra tokens seems to have been shut off. Not sure why. But I use the tokens during special events, which are always mysterious and fun, usually occurring over the weekends when I have extra time to play longer. Lately I have been going down the list of Special issues and completing one puzzle from each issue every day, using up these extra tokens. I have learned to enjoy the variety of games and puzzles to stimulate my brain each day. At first, I only played my favorites, but now I play them all. And for extra fun, I go back and play really old daily puzzles. I have so far gone backwards to June 2019 and those daily puzzles are all free to play. So if you are short of tokens, try that! This is well worth the price for me.

You don’t get what you pay for.

After using this app for several months, I decided to buy the subscription to avoid having to watch ads to earn tokens. On the plus side, there are lots of puzzles to choose from. Unfortunately though you don’t get unlimited access to your favorite puzzles in the special issues. For these puzzles you have to use “keys”, and you only get 5-10 keys per day. You can use earned tokens to pay for more puzzles, but you receive fewer tokens the more puzzles you play. For example, for some puzzles I now only earn tokens after I complete 100 of them. If you run out of tokens and want to continue with your favorites, you have to go back to watching ads or paying for tokens. Some of my favorite puzzles are only posted once per week on the daily pages, so this is very disappointing and also very upsetting since I paid for the subscription. On the plus side, I can go back to previous issues to play my favorites, so I am doing that now. I expect though that I will work my way through those pretty quickly. After that, I see no reason to continue with the subscription. I understand that developers are trying to make money, but when you try to squeeze more money out of customers who have already paid for the service, your customers are going to resent that and not come back. I feel cheated, and I will be one of the customers moving on to other apps when my yearly subscription ends.

Developer Response ,

We're sorry to hear you've had a problem with your Puzzle Page subscription. The full list of subscriber benefits is viewable in the game and on our support site. The Puzzle Page subscription gives you access to hundreds of new puzzles each month and a library of well many thousands of previously published puzzles. We're sorry to hear that your favorite puzzle types aren't appearing often enough - we welcome feedback regarding the daily page contents that can help us improve it in future updates.

If you have any other feedback or questions please feel free to contact us via the in-game Help system. Thanks for playing Puzzle Page.

Good

For the most part I love this app. I play it everyday, and I love that as long as I don’t mind watching ads I can keep up with the daily puzzles and even do a few of the special issues once in a while. I have a very tight budget so subscriptions to games are not something I can afford. However, a few programming changes they’ve made recently are a bit annoying, and one of them I think might actually be a bug.

1. After finishing a puzzle and getting the reward screen I don’t like how it sometimes kicks you out of the page you were on all the way back to the main daily page calendar. This seems to only happen when you complete a “quest” which is a new feature for getting additional rewards. Not really needed, but if it has to be in please have it send you back to whatever page you were on, not kick you out all the way back to the main calendar.

2. After getting kicked back to the calendar, if you were in a previous month BEFORE getting kicked out of the page, you will be placed into the current month but the previous month’s name will show at the top and any dates you tap on will take you to the same date for the previous month. This has to be a bug. You can fix it by sliding to the previous month and back to the current month again, but it’s annoying. Maybe just...have it not kick us back to the main menu after completing a quest. That seems like a really easy way to fix this.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your review. We've subsequently made a number of updates and improvements to the app. If you are still experiencing issues like this, please contact us via the in game help or at support@puzzling.com so that we can assist you.