Dot Knot - Line & Color Puzzle

I’m on my second go-round with this game and it’s fun to see my progress and compare my last score with my current after learning from more and more complicated knots. It’s amazingly compelling to solve these, it becomes more so when you’ve got a prior time score to beat! What would be really great is if you didn’t have to start at the end of the game on a daily basis (trying to remember where you left off the day before) to pick up again. First time through you’ll just land on the next puzzle. It needs a feature to select the puzzle number so you don’t have to scroll through pages. The only current alternative is to delete all your prior data to start from the very beginning, but then your scores go away (and the beginning puzzles are tediously simple to do again. I LOVE that there aren’t any ads, but it’s the simple complexity of the puzzles that is totally engaging, challenging and compelling! Great app!

The point of each puzzle is to connect colored dots and fill in all the spaces with connecting lines. That’s it. No time limit, no character in peril, no competition (unless you really want to be on the leaderboard and practice each puzzle over and over). You can pause the timer on a puzzle and come back to it, so it’s great for entertainment when you’re waiting somewhere. You can “buy” a clue with in-game coins, and you get free coins when you check in each day and more if you watch an ad. For a very low price you can get an ad-free version. Remembering that you have to fill in all spaces as well as connect the dots can also be a clue, because sometimes a line connecting two dots can wind around other dots. One question for the developers, though: the game awards “diamonds” for sharing it. What are they for?

For someone like me that tries a hundred times in a level, to get the best possible time, every second counts. I’ll re-do a single level for hours to reduce a second. So the bug/glitch I’m talking about is if you beat a level in under a second, your score will show up as 0. However, if you open that level again, it will reset as a new game, so whatever time you get upon re-opening the level with 0 seconds, will be your actual score. So I had to spend hours and hours trying to beat the levels again, to get my leaderboard back up. I was able to get 2/3 levels back to 0 seconds. If you beat a level with 1 second or more, your time is permanent, and doesn’t get deleted. Why do the developers punish the people who devote their lives to getting the best time on their game? I want my score to be put back to 0 seconds. That’s only fair, and you should fix the bug for the people who love the game enough to try and get the best time.