Screw Pin Puzzle

It’s been quite a while, but I came back and tried this game again. I’m pleasantly surprised, because I’m Enjoying it. None of the problems I experienced “way back when.“ Original: I saw this game in an ad and thought it looked like fun. Downloaded it and I’m already deleting it because of the ads. Don’t bother telling me how you “have to have ads.“ I understand that but yours are so bad I’d rather delete the app than have to watch them. The first two ads showed (1) a shivering, crying, whimpering puppy, freezing in the cold, and (2) a mother, baby, and young child also shivering, crying, and getting rained on through an open window that they don’t have the sense to move away from. Why anyone thinks adults would find this appealing is beyond me. Also, I barely had 10 seconds of play between ads, and the ads are the kind that you can’t shut off. Sorry, but I don’t need this. Update: it’s been a few months. I came back to see if it was any better. I could not even get through the “demo puzzles” without getting stuck in an ad that would not return me to the game.

Levels that are unbeatable without special items are sprinkled throughout. It really takes the joy out of trying to be clever when you feel like the game is rigged against you, and you're never really sure which levels you're working too long on. Lv 314 for example has only one strategy through the first 3 screw-boxes, and you can't solve it without at least one hammer. It's pretty blatant with that one. Maybe they'll fix it and the others. As it stands, these levels seem to exist to wear down your booster supply, and make you spend money or watch more ads to generate money for the app that way. I already paid you guys for ad-free. The game's not worth more than that, but you can sure bleed a whale if that whale has an addictive personality. It's okay. I know, they have no conscience. Secondly, this app engages in the common but still gross mechanic of not actually prompting you to submit your rating to the app store unless you promise to rate it 5 stars. They really tell you who they are when they do that. I left a star on because the gameplay itself has excellent mechanics, awarding ingenuity and fast fingers if you can sneak a screw for the next box in the last hole quickly enough. A lot of screw jam games don't have that feature. In conclusion: it would be a great game if you couldn't feel the sliminess all over it.