Puzzle Page - Daily Games! Reviews

by Elahote

I have had PuzzlePage for years now, since its earliest iterations. I have loved the puzzles, the enhancements, and the achievements. Over time I had accrued enough tokens through daily logins, purchases, and completing challenges to virtually never have to worry about tokens and be able to play whatever puzzles in PuzzlePage that I wanted. Two weeks ago I experienced an error in PuzzlePage that removed some of my progress and more importantly ALL of my tokens needed to play the puzzles. I immediately messaged their support and received the auto reply that if it was outside of their normal business hours they may not get to it until the next day, and since I sent in the issue on a Sunday I expected to hear back on Monday or I would have even given by later that week since it was close to the holidays. Two weeks later, and with consistent updating on my end, I still have not heard back from their support and have seen no changes made to my account. I now lack enough tokens to even complete their current event, even with continuing to log in daily. I am very disappointed as I did so enjoy the variety of puzzles and the constant updates, but this has completely disheartened me from continuing to support this developer.

by Tjones2222

I was looking forward to trying out the variety of puzzles/games. And there are a lot of them. And each puzzle you complete you get a few coins. But if you want to keep playing, you pay with tokens. 10-20 tokens for each puzzle. Doesn’t matter that you can complete a puzzle in seconds. You have to pay for the next one. It would be more encouraging to continue, if you could take the coins you win for completion of games and have the opportunity to trade them in for tokens, so you can keep playing. I paid $ for 20 ‘on sale’ games, and they were spent in 8 minutes. Now what? I can’t keep playing unless I fork over more money, and there’s too many apps out there that you don’t have to pay for. If paying wasn’t an issue, it’s a great app. It’s very busy, though. Too much to read when I just wanna play. But the variety is very good, and no ads/commercials is nice. And I know you need to get paid by some means to provide PuzzlePage. Just allow the coins to be traded in for tokens. Simple little request. Now your app sits unopened since I have no more tokens. I’d use it everyday if I didn’t have to pay for how much I use it. And I get that you offer unlimited games for like $40-$70 but that’s pretty steep. Again, there are plenty of free ones to keep me occupied. Thanks for the chance to try out a few games I have never played before, cause now I know what apps to look for. Sorry. The honeymoon is over.

by StaSteph

The puzzles are really fun, but it’s frustrating trying to get enough tokens to play them! There are ads you can watch to get tokens, but the ads continually crash or freeze PuzzlePage . It usually takes me a good 5+ minutes just to get enough tokens (10-20) to play one puzzle. The puzzles themselves rarely take me more than 5 minutes to play. So I spend most of my time watching ads. Also, when you first start playing, you’re gifted tokens much more frequently from completing so many puzzles, but now I never get more tokens, just deals on hints for the puzzles. These gifts are quite useless as hints use coins which you get built up extremely fast. With the ad problem, and only getting coins or hint rewards, it’s hardly worth playing any more. I’m sure it’s set up this way to frustrate you into paying for the subscription, but that’s infuriating by itself. I don’t want to pay the monthly subscription fees just so the game doesn’t (maybe?) constantly crash! It’s not even a reasonable monthly subscription price. I think I’m going to have to delete PuzzlePage , unfortunately. I really wish I didn’t have to, but I’m afraid it’s making my whole phone buggy.

by Paddler19

So first the positive - there is a very good variety of games, which is great. But some pretty simple fixes could make it so much better - fixes that would actually allow you to play the variety of games, and get some kind of credit toward the various goals. My main issue is that EVERY SINGLE day the first puzzle challenge they have you do is the Puzzle Cross puzzle. Then after you finish that, it’s the crossword. What about the other puzzles??!!!! Why can’t it be random? Same with the special issues - they want you to finish an entire special issue, which is like 100 puzzles of the same kind, before moving on to the next one. There are like two quests a day that you can complete which are different puzzles, but then that’s it. You need to use to tokens to play other puzzles, but you get barely any reward for completing them other than coins, of which I have like 1,200,000 of, which you don’t even use for anything!
So that is the other major problem with PuzzlePage - the reward system is completely messed up. More tokens, less coins PLEASE!! Or at least be able to use the coins for purchasing more tokens!!!

by MzMizzou

Plenty of fun and challenging puzzles, until some changes and, perhaps, glitches took place. The developers tried to help people by making it possible to choose between Standard, Quick, and Super Quick versions of each game, in which portions of the puzzles are completed for you. I prefer the games the way they were before, for example, you could choose the difficulty level of the sudoku puzzles. I prefer control over difficulty, not quickness of game. But the biggest problem is a change or glitch to the coins. I had about 5,000 coins saved up and could play with no problems, then all of a sudden, most of my coins disappeared and/or are now being used at a higher rate. I “paid” 10 tokens for a sudoku game last night and when I started I now had about 350 tokens. While I was playing the game a message popped up saying I didn’t have enough tokens! I hadn’t used any helpers or other tools that cost coins. Now I’m wondering if EVERY MOVE costs tokens? Also, ads encouraging me to buy more coins keep popping up. I don’t mind paying for an app, but if coins are going to be used at such a high rate, I’m not going pay to keep getting them in order to play the games. It was fun while it lasted...

by Athena Darkwood

I would love to leave a higher rating here, but the amount of times I have had to relaunch PuzzlePage because it crashed in the middle of a puzzle or even whilst loading leads me to this decision. I downloaded PuzzlePage two or three days ago and upon opening it for the first time I noticed how long it took to load the home screen. I was having a great time gradually working my way through the introductory issue but I was soon faced with PuzzlePage crashing while I was trying to watch an ad for more tokens, or while I was trying to navigate to a puzzle. The problem lessened after I disconnected from the internet and started playing offline, but after a day or so the crashes were taking place regularly and it doesn’t seem like there’s anything I can do to solve it on my side. I read through some of the most recent reviews of PuzzlePage and it seems like many others are facing this same difficulty. I tried to contact support through PuzzlePage , but it was crashing so frequently, I couldn’t even type the message I intended to send before the crash. Overall, I would love to use PuzzlePage more, but the amount of crashes and the length of time it takes to launch/load are discouraging me from continued use.

by Dollbones

For the most part I love PuzzlePage. I play it everyday, and I love that as long as I don’t mind watching ads I can keep up with the daily puzzles and even do a few of the special issues once in a while. I have a very tight budget so subscriptions to games are not something I can afford. However, a few programming changes they’ve made recently are a bit annoying, and one of them I think might actually be a bug.

1. After finishing a puzzle and getting the reward screen I don’t like how it sometimes kicks you out of the page you were on all the way back to the main daily page calendar. This seems to only happen when you complete a “quest” which is a new feature for getting additional rewards. Not really needed, but if it has to be in please have it send you back to whatever page you were on, not kick you out all the way back to the main calendar.

2. After getting kicked back to the calendar, if you were in a previous month BEFORE getting kicked out of the page, you will be placed into the current month but the previous month’s name will show at the top and any dates you tap on will take you to the same date for the previous month. This has to be a bug. You can fix it by sliding to the previous month and back to the current month again, but it’s annoying. Maybe just...have it not kick us back to the main menu after completing a quest. That seems like a really easy way to fix this.

by Brandonmiller6383

First I want to express how much I loved PuzzlePage. I have completed every daily back to February of 2020 and have amassed over 441,000 coins.

The problem comes with a small change in a recent update. In the past once you waited a certain amount of time you could accumulate 5 tokens. You could then use 5 tokens and watch an ad to play a puzzle. You could do this as much as you wanted each day. This was good because there are days I didn’t have time to complete all the dailies and would have several to do at one time. One of the recent updates now only allows you to do this a certain amount of times each day. This becomes a real problem if you are trying to do an event that is only good for a certain amount of time. Since you are limited on the number of puzzles you can play you barely have enough time to complete the events.

If any developer reads this, could you please change it back to allow unlimited times to watch an additional with 5 tokens or allow the tokens that can be accumulated over time go to 10.

by Forreals&

This game is pretty good. I really enjoy the assortment of puzzles on a daily basis. Also, I really enjoy the challenges and achievements.
That being said, I’ve been playing this game for over a year now and have had the same problem occur multiple times. At first I thought it was a one time glitch and shrugged it off. Now, I’m pretty sure it’s a bug on the game’s end. Every so often I will reach an achievement such as complete 100 puzzles of a certain kind. Usually when you get an achievement you get a reward of tokens. As you get higher levels of that achievement you get more tokens. I have been gypped out of tokens at least 3 times on higher level achievements. Most recently I was supposed to receive 45 tokens, but didn’t. 45 tokens is a great reward and would let me play many more puzzles. This time when I reached the achievement, I looked at the box and it told me 0 more puzzles to complete, so I knew I got it. I restarted PuzzlePage and suddenly I was on the next level with no reward. Again, if this had happened only once it would be no big deal, but it has happened many times.

by Review1234567

I love everything about this game.. ok maybe except the amount of ads. There used to just be a few no there is one after every puzzle. I can deal with that. That’s a pay for app or you get ads just like every other app. Not your fault you have to make money too. The problem I have is that these games are meant to stimulate and educate. Well cross sum does against everything that is taught about math. The order of operations is not followed and thus is teaching math incorrectly. Multiplication and division come before addition and subtract. For example the cross sum for today on the bottom line was 4+3x6=42. This is incorrect. If the order of operations was followed the correct answer is 22. The steps here to solve 4+3x6 is to first multiply the 3x6 giving 18 then add the 4 making it 22. In the current process that cross sum is using, it is teaching take the first number against the second number based on the sign. Then take the answer to that equation and take it against the last number based on sign. This is resulting in an incorrect response to any equation that has the multiplication and division signs after the addition or subtraction signs.

by Puzzlefanatic32

I love puzzle page because of the variety of puzzles that are offered; both daily and through the special issues. I don’t have a subscription, but every day I go to the puzzle page and spend tokens to “buy” all the puzzles for the day at the discounted rate so I can go back and play whenever I have time. I just downloaded the iOS 15 software and when I went to the puzzle page ALL of the puzzles I’ve “purchased” (with tokens) are showing up white instead of blue (white HASN’T been purchase, blue HAS been purchased, and gold means the puzzle was completed). I had well over a year’s worth of puzzles “purchased”; some were completed, and a lot were waiting for me to find time to come back to them. Is there any way to fix this to get my puzzles back without having to “purchase” them all over again?? I was hesitant to use the cloud information to overwrite what’s on my phone because all of my achievements are showing up properly, and I’m not sure what will happen to those as I’m not sure the last time I was connected to the internet while playing in order for it to update and save to the cloud. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

by Meg12sports

Decided to re download PuzzlePage since I’ve never had a developer actually respond to a review I had left. My initial complain was that there is a limit of ads you can watch to play the game before it just says n/a and you need to buy tokens. I’m thinking this is some glitch in the system. There doesn’t seem to be any real pattern as to when the videos are unable to play. Hopefully that will be worked out soon. The other free options for tokens don’t really work. I follow all of the steps and only get the reward maybe 30% of the time.

Just a suggestion, I feel not all games should be worth the same amount of tokens. I can spend 30 seconds on an x+o, 4 minutes on a word search, 20 minutes on a soduko, ect ect and each one of those is 10 tokens. It would be nice to pay per difficulty

As stated previously, the game is a tom of fun and offers a great variety of games with easy to follow instructions and helpful hints. I play the easier games during meetings and work the harder ones at night. I would be totally fine if this was the only game on my phone :)

by FozzyBear15

Update: my first review issue was resolved. If it didn’t take so long to get new editions of my favorite puzzles and it wasn’t so addicting (lol) I’d give it five stars. There are many puzzles I don’t care for and some I’ve never been able to figure out how to solve them, kinda wish I could replace them with my favorites.

I really like this game as it has so many different puzzles to solve. I only give it 3 stars because it closes on its own frequently causing me to lose coins and tokens. If I’ve used coins to show errors or give a letter when it suddenly closes those are gone so I have to use more coins to get those clues again. I have also lost tokens when I choose a puzzle and don’t even get started and when I go back into PuzzlePage I have to use tokens for that puzzle again. I have purchased coins and tokens, that’s how much I like this game app; something I have never done on a different game app. Purchasing coins and tokens is not something I can afford when living on SSDI so it means something when I’ve made a purchase. I’d give it 5 stars if it didn’t close and I wouldn’t lose my coins and tokens, I rarely give full stars to anything.

by New IPhoner 123

This is one of my favorite apps. Tons of puzzles with lots of variety. I bought the subscription and use it daily. However, it crashes on me regularly. It seems to happen more frequently when I go too fast on certain puzzles, particularly bridges, armada, and picture cross - it can't keep up and the whole app crashes. I am using an older iPad so perhaps that doesn't help. Also, PuzzlePage takes at least a full minute to load, so crashing becomes really annoying, especially when I'm in the middle of a quest puzzle because when I get back in, the puzzle I was working on (and sometimes paid tokens to play) is no longer part of the quest - all the quest puzzles have shuffled around. And one final comment - X's and O's is one of the dumbest puzzles ever, nothing compelling about it, and I've run into least a couple instances where my correct solution is marked incorrect. It's no fun when a puzzle had multiple correct solutions but only one is accepted. I don't play that puzzle at all anymore. But all that aside, I still love PuzzlePage and will continue using it in spite of the glitches. I'm sure they'll get worked out eventually.

by Mickeymick2001

I love this and it’s new look is much more eye pleasing and fun. Only thing I am not super fond of is you only get 10-20 tokens for logging in everyday and you only get 5 tokens for watching a video which you have to watch in between puzzles. The only other way to get tokens is by doing the most annoying surveys ever. You never get to the end of the survey and if you back out you don’t get the tokens or you have to purchase something. Spent 30 mins doing one before I was irritated and still didn’t get the tokens anyways. If I wanted tokens bad enough to by something I would simply buy them from the shop without having to jump through loop holes. If the purpose of doing that to your customers is to trick them into buying tokens because it’s to hard to earn them then I don’t want to buy tokens. If I’m simply tired of doing things to try and get the tokens then great but if I can’t even work legitimately for the tickets I feel like that’s a bad play. Other then the tokens the games are always fun and challenging and the switching them daily is a good balance too. You really only get coins from the achievements so you can’t keep playing without buying more tokens or paying for the membership. But if your good with buying the membership it’s great for you

by Mandypanda82

I love this game, but customer service is horrible. They made an error on May 3 where it was possible to get unlimited tokens and coins...I understand, take away what was gathered from this error....but they should have taken them away from everyone, not just some. Also, they should have allowed the ones who they took coins and tokens from to be able to keep the coins and tokens the individual won. I tried contacting customer service about the unfairness of taking the tokens and coins from some but not all, but they have yet to contact me back. They need to do something about their error.
Also, it is hard to play a full days page with just the 20 tokens you are given if you play the max amount of days. Their are achievements that are earned (which also from their error, it is harder to achieve those, so you don’t get the tokens as easily) for a certain number of pages or puzzles of some kind done. I don’t have a lot of money, so subscribing so I can play unlimited would be a struggle for me.

by Eli4414

PuzzlePage is lots of fun, I had it downloaded on my old iPhone and recently re downloaded it to this one. I love that it gives you a variety of puzzle types and they’re always updating and adding new ones. I have just a couple of suggestions:
First, it would be great to have some sort of dark mode. I often play at night and even with my brightness down the white backgrounds are super bright. Maybe the option could be added near the option to change the ink color?
Second, it would be great if with the crossword and challenger games there was an option to move sequentially through unfinished clues instead of having to tap on them within the puzzle. If I’m playing with one hand, it’s hard to reach all the way up to the top of the screen. Adding little arrow keys to move to the next clue would be super helpful.
Even without these changes, it’s still a great app, and they’re always prompt with bug fixes, which is a huge plus in my opinion.

by Kara's Mom 13

Update: April 14, 2021
The Earth day puzzle DIDN’T pay the rewards after I finished the puzzle which required me to play about 30 puzzles in order to collect all the pieces.

Aside from that^

This game is fantastic! Everything about it is the best. I had to cancel my subscription back a year ago bc there were too many bugs with some of the puzzles. They fix everything quickly now so I may subscribe again.

However... the Tap Research option to get extra coins never works! It either works for 15 minutes then puts a little dog cartoon on the screen & says “oops this survey is not available right now” or it takes you to a page with different flags of different countries saying “sorry this survey isn’t available due to maintenance”, etc. I contacted them through their page & reported the last survey I did (which promised to be 15 minutes & pay 178 coins) it took 1hr & 30 minutes and at the end it rewarded me 1coin!!! One! They contacted me through email & paid me only 50 coins but it says I have redeemed 178! It’s a waste. You get to do your part to help them with answers to their surveys & you get screwed by being lied to & not rewarded. Out of the 12 surveys I tried to do only 3 paid what they said. Do not waste your time with the surveys. They’re clearly not tested & not screened for authenticity & you will be the one disappointed.

by RedLightning - Valued Customer

I love this game to death. It reminds me of the games/trivia page found in daily newspapers and I adore that. It always keeps me busy and thinking. I’ve been subscribed to it for about over a year now. Very much deserving of 5 stars. Currently I only see one things that I hope could be fixed/tinkered with. After playing the game for like 30 minutes or so certain images from the puzzles like the X in the top left corner of every game gets slightly burned into the screen for a bit and I notice it when in other apps. It goes away after a bit but gets worse and more noticeable for longer durations of play. Personally I’d suggest finding a way to and a light and dark mode which can be accessed through the settings. I think this would fix that screen burning and also make the game a lot more physically appealing and attract a bigger audience to get the game. I do so greatly hope that the creators of this amazing game find and read this as I’d also very much like to see this game get eternally better and more popular. :)

by 2boredsoimadethisreview

I downloaded PuzzlePage last year and spent a few months with no subscription. I was able to accumulate tons of coins (which are used to give hints in puzzles) and a decent amount of tokens (which are used to play a puzzle).
About a month or two ago, I decided to pay for the annual subscription to get rid of the ads, and it did, which is GREAT! Also, all of the daily puzzles are free with subscription and you get to play five special issues for free per day (any more than that and it costs you tokens).
I really appreciate the range of puzzles PuzzlePage offers, unlike a lot of other apps. I’ve gotten better at puzzles I didn’t enjoy or know how to play earlier, like killer sudoku (which is still tough), but the instructions for each puzzle are very clear. I also like that the player can choose which difficulty they want to play a puzzle if they are still learning or haven’t mastered that puzzle type yet.
The special issues are GREAT since they’re great practice...I don’t know if I’ll ever complete all of them! I also love that the developers are always adding new puzzles and new issues, which keeps PuzzlePage fresh and never boring. I use PuzzlePage every day to keep my mind sharp and I absolutely love it!

by Bjs8311

I loved PuzzlePage until the last update. I really only play a few of the games - sudoku, killer sudoku, kakuro, and futoshiki. With all of these, there is the choice to put numbers in pencil or pen. Since the update, there’s a pretty major glitch when changing numbers from pencil to pen. Sometimes, when you hit the pen number, it cancels everything out of the box without actually placing the pen numbers right away. Other times, it randomly edits out completely unrelated pencil numbers in other boxes. In killer sudoku, it has also stopped updating the pencil numbers when something changes within the outline designating the goal total but not within the same quadrant (my description isn’t great on that one, I know...). Add on top of all of this that the number of ads you have to watch has increased substantially. This morning, I watched a video to access a free puzzle, then was forced to watch another ad after solving the puzzle. Also, I frequently have to watch a 30-second ad after finishing a puzzle that I spent tokens on - tokens I earned by watching ads. These glitches are very frustrating and have me considering deleting PuzzlePage and finding a different app for these types of puzzles.

by Qbcuoe B H Idh Idwn

I love the variety of puzzles available. My main complaint is the addressing of issues that you may incur while playing the game. I have written several times to address failure to capture tokens earned from completing tasks. I receive a standard form letter back immediately, however there is no further follow up. I always get the feeling of being cheated! And now with the new format of receiving less tokens to cover the daily puzzles, your token supply decreases 5 tokens daily on the weekday puzzles and 15 tokens on the weekend puzzles. Do the math! Eventually, you will run out of tokens and be forced to buy, if you want to continue playing. I’m sure that is the objective. That would not be an issue if you were rewarded the tokens you earned. This is crazy. I tried to enter this review(which requires a nickname) and every name I entered (and I created many nonsensical ones) stated it was already used so I couldn’t submit the review! So I’m going to rate this a 5 star, to see if it will be accepted it then! In reality, I’m giving the this a 1 star due to another noted glitch. I had originally given it a 3 star, which it wouldn’t accept!