Blockin’ Art - Block Puzzle

I want to give this app 5 stars but it’s programmed to screw you over and force you to watch ads to continue plays after the game screws up. Too many times it’ll give you a piece that can fit in multiple places, but instead of telling you to try elsewhere it just takes away a life. After three mistakes you have to watch a video; you can’t elect to start over, but a continuation, or anything else. You are forced to watch an ad. I have screen shot proof of the game screwing me developers when you read this. I’m one more forced ad from reporting this game. Oh, and I already paid to have the other forced ads removed. Which, if you don’t pay, they’ll play an ad right in the middle of setting a piece, and if it’s in the wrong place, it will charge you for a mistake. Also, the parts move too easily from their spot when you take your finger off. Of course this also benefits them because the more mistakes you make, the more forced ads you have to watch, and the more money they make. I requested a refund from Apple. This is just stupid.

The game itself is a ton of fun…when it works. I’m actually leaving this review because the internal contact form is broken-it only works if you use the default mail app. The game will occasionally glitch and mark a mistake for trying to place a piece back in the bin, or for placing a piece in a spot where it could fit, but isn’t right (there’s a little message that normally pops up in this situation, without marking a mistake, but it doesn’t always work.) And speaking of mistakes, once you make (or “make”) three, the game will not progress until you watch an ad. If no ad is available or able to load, the game is locked. There is no option to restart the puzzle and skip the ad. You can either watch the ad for one additional mistake or delete the app.

The game functions like a jigsaw puzzle, but with the added bonus of using colors and numbers to line up pieces. If that was all, this game would be great, but also unlike a traditional jigsaw puzzle, you can lose. You have three lives, and every time you let go before a piece is put in its correct spot you lose one of those lives. It doesn’t matter where you place it, because there is a glitch that occurs from time to time where: if you attempt to out a piece back, the game will think that you’re trying to place it in a piece of the puzzle hidden beneath the tab. Furthermore, if you place a piece that appears to go into a spot, you would typically get a “try another spot” message. Now this would be fine and dandy, but there are moments that occur when you don’t get that message. Instead you LOSE. A. LIFE. This game can be infuriating at times and exceptionally more so if you are playing it while connected to Wi-Fi. In the end it is a standard time waster and shouldn’t be used as anything more.