Genius Puzzles

I’ve put more hours into this than I’d like to admit. Love the games, love the app- but if I had one request, it would be to change the controls. If I want to ‘pencil in’ 7 different possible numbers onto a square, I have to tap the square to highlight it before adding each number, for 14 taps total. It would be much easier to highlight it once, then tap whichever numbers I want to pencil in. Makes playing one-handed unreasonable, stretching my thumb from the bottom to the top of my screen over and over. That’s the most limiting issue, but a huge benefit would be to select a number to see all of places it’s penciled in. If the devs read this, the controls on the Sudoku game by PeopleFun are pretty seamless, may be worth checking out.

I’ve previously written a glowing recommendation for this game, and I still think incredibly highly of it, even as I’ve now completed hundreds of games. However, I just decided to check out the puzzle game Pattern, as I’m a big fan of Picross games. I chose a 20x20 board, and then was met with an impossible board. After stumbling my way through three clues which contradicted each other, I finally had the puzzle provide the solution for me, and saw that the solution didn’t match the clues for the rows (because they were impossible). The clues weren’t off by one or two numbers—they were entirely wrong. As if they were clues to a completely separate game. They matched neither the black or the white squares of the solution. As I can’t find a way to report a bug other than with a review, I’m writing a review about it. This saddens me a little, but it doesn’t take away from my immense enjoyment of the rest of the game! This is absolutely still a worthwhile app to get if you like puzzle games based on logic.

I’ve been playing it for several months now, and I’m not even 1/3 of the way done. Amazing game, with difficult puzzles each with various rules and objectives. There is one annoying bug, where if you play a puzzle for some time, and then decide to undo all the way to the beginning, the app will say that you won. Other than that, this app is the best puzzle app on the Store