Jewel Sliding - Block Puzzle

where to start… ever since i started sliding it has consumed my life. I have lost my wife, kids and subsequently my house. But gosh I can’t help myself from sliding every time I wake up in the morning. The joy of clearing rows and slowly improving my skills have really made me appeased with the fact I have lost my job over this game. The way the frozen blocks have a perfect ratio to the fire stones makes yearn to slide even more. The emptiness I feel when I see the blocks turn grey is immediately nullified when I remember that there is a new path waiting for me at the next game. New blocks remind me of new opportunities and how it unshackles my burdens from the stigma of living alone and spending my days sliding.

This was fun at first, I liked the concept. But now every time I play I just get mad. First of all, I hate hate hate the pop up for the Firestone block. It completely takes me out of the game. It’s very very annoying. What would be nice is if you watched an ad 1 time to get the Firestone and then you have it for the rest of that particular session. Secondly, this game probably has the single worst RNG I have ever seen in a game. There are times where I literally can’t do anything because my ENTIRE screen is filled up with the blocks that take up 3/4 spaces. I’ve noticed that that happens more often than not lately. It’s frustrating because no matter how well I’m playing, I get screwed by RNG and lose. I haven’t been able to beat my high score in weeks. You hear that folks? WEEKS. And I play this game every day. I saw another person mention that they’ll drop a block into place to complete a row and wouldn’t you know, it falls into the next row without completing the initial row it was dropped in. Completed rows should ALWAYS take priority. Thirdly, I think the freezing blocks is just too much. It feels like I’m being punished for playing well. There are times when the game recommends a move that takes care of that particular row, but because there was a frozen block there, I lose the game. All in all, I think I’m going to stop playing. It gets pretty boring and repetitive to see the same problems over and over again.

In concept, I really like this game and, despite serious flaws, I play it a lot. But there are a few annoyances that if fixed would make this game a lot better. First, the hints come too soon and too often. What fun is it trying to figure out moves when they are given to you before having the chance to think it through? Please add an option to turn off hints. Second, the blocks that cause popups - this was added at some point and it detracts substantially from the game. Third, there are times when big blocks are added repeatedly such that there are no good moves at all. And, guess what? No hints come either because there are no moves at all… Losing can’t be helped then and when you’re up to 50,000 or more and that happens, it’s maddening! Fourth, it would be better to add just 1 new row at a time. Again, with 3 or 4 rows added all at once, losing often is the only possible outcome. Fifth, and most annoying, I have lost games when only one row from the top is left and I complete a row, but the new row is added before my completed row is removed! Completed rows should always be removed first!!! Finally, even making the stack 1 or 2 rows taller would help the playability. EDIT: Today I got an ad in the MIDDLE of playing the game! I couldn’t continue until it finished. Today is the day I stopped playing and will be deleting this app. That’s the last straw. The developers ruined this game.