Jigsawscapes® - Jigsaw Puzzles

Dear Developer, Thank you for replying and providing a suggestion to retrieve the upswipe arrow to display Multiple Columns and Multiple Rows of pieces from which to simultaneously select. I Already had this feature selected and still the Upswipe Arrow had disappeared, however today the arrow MAGICALLY appeared and I can now view and select from (on my phone) 40 !!!!! Pieces At A Time!! So now, it is again, a much more enjoyable puzzle experience. However it happened, thank you.🧩🧩🧩 Updates usually fix something but the recent update that deleted the arrow to have full screen view and select Many pieces at a time is not a fix or improvement😠. It makes the game Much Less Enjoyable only being able to view a few pieces at a time and having to go swiping the bar back and forth to look for pieces. Until this 'fix' is 'unfixed' I am looking for a new puzzle app.

I really enjoy this app except for two things, one of them probably going to make me delete the app. First, the developers added a reward? Cheer? With a recent change several pieces you've put together suddenly slide into place with a fireworks display. I just want to be able to attach several pieces together before always having to put them in the puzzle separately, and to be able to attach those pieces to the rest of the puzzle myself without being rewarded for it by rather childish methods, and also to avoid being startled. As a person with PTSD this doesn't help no matter how small this seems and so I have to mention it in case others are supersensitive as well. I then can't fully relax doing the puzzles anyway for anticipation of it coming, and spend time trying to make sure none of those pieces get close enough to already attached pieces that suddenly sets off the splash of fireworks. The second issue for me has just appeared today where the line of pieces to choose from at the bottom has become two, one stacked on top of the other, and it basically wipes out any space there used to be at the outside of the bottom of the puzzle to work on fitting pieces together before adding them inside the puzzle. This one will probably have me delete the app because there's little enough room there as it is and now it's basically nonexistent. I don't know what the reasoning is for this change but it doesn't seem necessary so explanation would be nice. Also if there is a way to reset it back to one line of pieces instead of two please instruct how. Or to stop the fireworks display for that matter. I'm sad to say that won't be using this app much any longer except for checking in to see if any of this changes, because I otherwise enjoyed it.

Update (original review below): Today when I opened the puzzle, there were the normal annoying ads for other games that play every time I open the app, finish a puzzle, start a new puzzle, etc. But now there are these ads with sound that force pauses anything I’m listening to. They only take up a small part of the board, and they do allow me to mute them, but only after they play long enough to stop whatever I’m listening to before the mute option opens, so I have to leave the puzzle app to go to the other app to restart what I’m listening to. Then within only a minute or two, another loud ad pops up and this process repeats over and over. It’s now impossible to use this app to relax, even if I give up trying to listen to something in the background, I am jarred out of the peace that puzzling brings by yet another loud ad that I must listen to before I can mute it. I spend more time trying to mute the ads than doing the puzzle. I was willing to deal with the ads before, since it’s a free app, but the new in-puzzle ads have ruined any calm. I would rather pay, but there is no option for that, so I am deleting this app. So disappointing. The following original review was 5 stars: I love these puzzles. The ads can be annoying, but they aren’t very long, so no big deal. I would love for there to be a search function to find puzzles based on my mood or interest. I really don’t like having to scroll to find what I’m looking for. There are soooo many puzzles, that a search option is almost needed! Thanks again.