Backpacker™

I really enjoyed the game when I first found it. I like the idea of trivia and traveling. I’ve honestly learned a lot about various countries. I also like that you have an option to play against others. What I don’t like is the jobs. In order to move from city to city you have to buy airline tickets and that takes lots of coins. The jobs are how you accumulate coins. 80% of the time you are turned down for a job. You have the option sometimes to try again if you pay 1 ticket. I have tried that and still been refused. Also you can pay 5 tickets and see more jobs but then you get turned down again. Also a lot of the job offers are the same over and over. I end up sitting in a city after I have accomplished all tasks on my passport for days trying to accumulate enough coins to move on. It honestly gets boring. I mean the point of playing the games is the trivia and you keep getting turned down so you can’t play. I have found a few that never turn you down like maps of cities where you have no idea what it is or a memory game where it messes up half way through. It is really frustrating. Definitely need more variety and a higher approval rate for accepting the jobs plus if you pay a ticket to try again, you should be approved. As much as I like the idea of the game if I have to keep sitting days in the same area because of lack of jobs to earn money, I find myself playing less and less. Plus the jobs are pretty much the same over and over even though there’s plenty others out there. We should have a larger choice. Anyhow other than the job thing, for the most part I like it. They could maybe come up with a variety of tasks for the cities. It’s pretty much the same over and over but I could tolerate that if I could get more jobs!

Love the game and it is addicting. I gave this low rating because first there is no instruction you have to muddle your way through the game. I just found out that there is a place to fill out your passport to register your email address. Did not know this until I tried to contact the company to ask a question. Received an error message that there was no record of email. I went to passbook but could not fine page to fill out to register email. Guess I am screwed since I cannot find how to fill out the passbook. I can not ask a question because email not registered. Addition to review since you cannot send a second review as I said before fun game, very addicting. My complaint is once you finished a city ready to move to next city the transportation to the next destination does not appear. Even though you have enough tickets or money. So your choices are hanging around answering repeated questions. Or go to the closest city and hang around answering question hope the city you want to go comes up. Wasting time and money. Once you have finished current city the transportation to new city should appear. I agree with the jobs not being able to perform the job and being denied all jobs. Plus the questions on sports I don’t care who hit the most home runs. Also the memory expert is terrible need to replace. I know someone who loves this game but because of a disability they cannot do the memory game.

I really like this trivia game and have been playing for a while. I enjoy the different city questions that are specific to country or the city your in but my biggest complaint comes from the jobs and diplomas section. First off it's so frustrating to call and apply to 5 available jobs and get turned down to all of them which has happened to me more times than I can count especially since that's where you earn the most money. On top of that the games alogrithims turn you down 70% of the time if you're trying to do an 'Expert' level one but you can guarantee that it will let you into do the ‘Astronaut- Junior’ job every time! No ones wants to do the same job over and over again, especially the ‘game’ jobs. The astronaut junior one comes up 80% of my days and the game automatically loses its appeal. Second major disappointment in the jobs and diplomas is that it’s so heavy handed with sports trivia. Not everyone likes sports and when only 5 are available each day and 4/5 are sports related it's also no longer fun to spend energy on questions you can't answer correctly because you don't know names of every sports legend. I know this game allows you to submit other jobs and diplomas but I'm not necessarily good at coming up with trivia questions so it would be nice if the game would provide something more than baseball, football, tennis, sportscasters, and soccer jobs the majority of game.