Rummikub®

I have enjoyed this game and am happy that it is no available for mobile devices so I can play anywhere. The only issues I have with it is that the ‘undo’ option basically resets your turn by undoing every single move you have made. Most ‘undo’ options on a game simply undo a single move at a time. This becomes very frustrating when I’m playing against the AI and have maneuvered around several tiles in an effort to try and play as many of mine as possible during a turn and try to go back just a couple of steps only to have everything tile I have moved on the board and from my rack go back to the state it was in at the very beginning of my turn. They need to change the ‘undo’ option so that it only goes back one single move at a time or have two different ‘undo’ options where they keep the existing option that resets everything back and another one that goes back one step at a time. I have a version of this game I play on my PC that has the single undo that makes it so much easier. My only other complaint is that the speed in which it takes the AI to play their turn is very slow and should be much faster than this. I realize that some people may want the option to see each turn play out slowly but others like myself just want to get back to my turn so perhaps create an option in the settings that allows you to adjust the speed of AI turns so a user can set it to their preference. If these tweaks could be made to the game I feel it would make it so much better and would garner a 5 star rating from me.

Every day or so it will crash on launch. I can re-launch a few days and eventually I will see the progress bar and it will launch, so there is a workaround. This is based on testing on 3 different devices. A more serious issue is that in my custom games (the only way I play) it will very rarely lose one of our turns - that player will play and finish their turn, but on the other device it will not recognize that turn ended; you wait until the timer finishes, and then it throws away that turn and syncs up both players and you can continue the game. Despite these issues, our family puts a lot of time into this app, as an alternative to playing with the real game.

My family LOVES Rummikub! We own several physical versions of the game and play it at home, on trips and for our get togethers. Due to COVID19, we bought this version so we could play online together. In order to start a private game with your family or friends, you must first log into Facebook. After connecting to FB, you should be able to invite your friends from FB to play. Unfortunately, none of us can get past the swirling circle on the screen area that should show a list of your FB friends. Even after 20+ minutes, multiple attempts and trying both a phone and tablet, the app never populates the friend list so you can start a private game. What do a waste of $7 & the developers should be ashamed to not provide basic functionality for that price! More than ever we need games and apps that are reliable and fun to help us cool next with family and friends! We are big fans of the physical game, but crushed by the poor performance of the app version.