Blockudoku - Block Puzzle Reviews

Hello there! I absolutely LOVE this game!!! I’ll sometimes be getting in trouble for playing it so much 😂! Not much ads like other games, it also challenges your mind! It’s really fun!!! And everyone else, I’m not a bot lol don’t think I’m giving this good reviews cuz I’m a bot 😂. I have a suggestion though! (I don’t know if you have this or not if you do I apologize) There should be a worldwide challenge “Ring” and see who can get the highest score in let’s say.. 3 minutes! And 5 people per round? I don’t know why this came in mind, but I thought it could put more challenge into the game..... There is only one very small issue I have. Sometimes when I go to place a block, and I’m not done finishing where I’m going to put it; it places on its own. It mainly gets me a little frustrated, but then I usually just put it behind me. But then it happens again. And I’m getting a little more frustrated.... that’s all I have for now! Thank you for taking your time to read this review! ^^

This had been my favorite game for a long while. Recently it was changed to higher goals and much harder games. In the past, it was a fun wake-up challenge for the day and exercised the brain to start the day off in a positive way. Recently it has become more difficult and is now an exercise of frustration. I understand there might be players that want an extra challenge but could you not have kept your game as is and developed challenging sidebars instead??? You are losing me as an avid player. As for your days-long tournaments, they are much too long to hold interest - perhaps a one day tournament would be more fun???? It is almost as though someone entirely different is running Blockudoku, or a new philosophy has arisen. Please, scale it back to old times. Your fun app has suddenly taken a dive and I no longer look forward to it with my first cup of coffee.
JUST CHECKED - I won a daily award trophy for 11 months in a row and just this week have had 2 days of puzzles that I cannot finish. That is not a coincidence - this is not a change in my mental aptitude - it is a way that the developers have changed the game, and I just reduced your review stars to one. I am not pleased with this change. Will someone at easy brain please give me an honest evaluation of what happened?

I downloaded this game because it looked like an interesting and challenging puzzle game. While those things did seem to be true at first, it seems as if the tiles you receive are not random as the developers state. When I first started playing, I was able to achieve multiple games with scores over 1000. Now, I can not even come close to achieving that. It would be blasphemous to assume that my strategy/skill at the game has decreased, so what exactly is the reason for this? While it could be purely coincidence, I would bet that the developers purposefully created the game in such a manner that makes it essentially impossible to top a player’s high score. I have come to this conclusion through not only my experience, but the experience of other reviewers. By intentionally making the game more, players will play the game increasingly more in order to beat their high score. The more people play, the more ad revenue the creators collect. While I cannot be certain in my assumption, I am confident that this is the case. It seems unethical and, quite frankly, pathetic. The concept of this game is awesome, and I commend the developers for that. However, I refuse to overlook this stain on what is an otherwise very-well created game. I would love to hear back from the developers about the perceived randomness of this game.

I hate this update! Why fix something that wasn’t broken?? Why did you all change the way the lines erase? It’s terrible! Makes the game slower, more cumbersome, more drain on battery. ******** ********************************************* I PAID for this app, so I don’t see the ads. I do see that is irking a lot of people. ********* *********************************************** My issue is different! You changed the actual game graphics! ************************************************* I’m very tempted to delete the game . Will there be an update to restore the game play as before? Or give it as an option in the settings? ************************************************* ISSUE: Each time a line eliminated…NOW with the update, its a wave?? the line slowly disappears. Having to watch that wave over and over is very annoying! I really liked the lines just disappearing. Straightforward, no frills. No fancy graphics. ***** ************************************************* I enjoyed that it felt sort of like Tetris, because lines just disappeared! *************************** *********************************************** Please remember, this game is for calming mindfulness, relaxation, I like that nothing is timed…I love this game for helping me during anxious times…please restore or give option to have lines disappear as before.

I’ve had this game on my phone for almost a year and I love it. I have the free version because I’m a graduate student scraping by on student loans. The ads for other games that pop up are so disturbing that it makes me want to delete the game. Just a few minutes ago, an ad popped up for a game where a mom and infant come home to find the husband in bed with another woman. She packs her bags and leaves. Her new home is in terrible shape so the game is you fixing up the place, but you have the option to let them freeze to death. In fact, that’s how the game is advertised: you get to watch the mom and infant shiver as the designer puts snow around them and leaves a gaping hole in place of a broken window.

This is just one of about 3 or so other games like this advertised on the free version of this app. It’s repulsive. Is the marketing strategy to upset players with these ads so much that they buy the game? I sincerely hope not.

3 star rating because the game itself is great but the ads bring the rating way down.

August 2020: Been playing consistently now for awhile and have decided to change my rating from a 5 to a 2. There have been no significant updates for a long time. Nothing that adds to the game play or makes things more enjoyable. The bug mentioned previously had been fixed back in April but I held out hope for a sort of endless version. Now that it is August and the version history has been mostly performance updates, I’ve given up hope for any additions for game play.
A real shame as I think there is potential to make this game better and more fun.

Old review: Been playing for a few months now. It’s my go to zen game. Feb 14 though I was surprised to be hit with a “bug” that has made my enjoyment of the game increase over 9000. Instead of the game ending at 500 points, it allowed me to keep going. And going. And going. I got up to 9000 points and felt really satisfied with that. My normal highest is only 2900 something. Which I know isn’t very high, so this made me feel great! Please make this a mode or something. I go back to this day just so I can keep playing this “mode”. I think I’ll cry if it’s fixed or something. Please, please, please keep it!!!

I thought this game was more like Tetris. I love the fact that i can place the objects wherever I want on the block, but wish I could rotate the pieces also to fit in. I had previously thought the ads were too long, but the developer very helpfully explained to me that the right arrows and the plus signs were a way to eliminate the ads after 5 secs. I am very appreciative for their help, and did thoroughly enjoy playing the game this morning.

Update: I am getting very frustrated with the amount of ads in this game. It wasn’t this bad before. I can understand that I have to go through an ad when I lose a game quickly, even though a just had to go through ads a couple of minutes before, but when I am close to the targeted score, and my game is being paused for ads, it is frustrating. ESPECIALLY when the ad freezes the game and when I come back in, it restarts the game! Which just happened again this morning, a week after the update that supposed to have stabilized the game. How can I enjoy the game when at any minute, it can be paused for an intrusive ad?!!!

While I love this game for the simplicity and challenges, I’ve also grown a deep hatred for it. For starters, 5 long tiles? C’mon now... I have had certain games where I’m on fire till my next set of moves require a 2x 5 long tile, 4 long diagonal tile and completely just slaps my ego to the ground and constantly stomps it to the ground with its size 24 boot. I wish we were given the option to rotate or maybe just re-roll a new set of tiles (Please don’t add this as an in game purchase-able refill type option). I love this game and think its awesome through & through, but it’s just so frustrating when i know my move sets are perfect but get hit with such obscurely difficult tiles. Anyways, hope to see some updates soon cause this game is great. Hate to see another phone shaped hole in my wall because of the inability to change the outcome of such a great round ruined by that obnoxious 5 long, 4 diagonal, C/U (Backward/upsidedown) shaped tiles.

The ad for this game that drew me in is misleading, as it shows block configurations dropping into grids with different outlines, as though there would be a variety of puzzles to solve, but as it turns out there’s just the same puzzle ad nauseum with the only variety being how long before your luck runs out, more or less, and it could be a source of frustration if you fixate on the score, as you can gather from reading other reviews. For me the challenge of beating my highest score is so much greater than the reward that it’s not a meaningful motivator, and I often don’t finish the game. It’s a great diversion when I have unproductive time to fill (waiting rooms, etc) but I play less and less frequently, because I get bored by it very quickly now that I feel I have reached an insurmountable plateau. I think it would be interesting if the game tracked my average score, so I could see if it improved, seems like an easy feature to include. The ads are pretty annoying as well, but the game isn’t interesting enough to pay to remove them, in my calculus.

Use to be a great game that I g free, that I rated at 5 Stars. But, the number of ads has gotten absolutely ridiculous. Now instead of a few add w between games, there are interruptions during a game with ads./ and they are so numerous that they are absolutely annoying…. And, I have decided to stop playing what was a wonderful, challenging, and fun game. I will also be deleting it from my iPhone…… Sorry, but the ads have become very annoying! Is this business of interruptions of the game play with ads, instead of having the ads between games . Strategy to get more people to buy your game? Not very honest ….. You initially sold the game as being free with ads between games …. Now annoying the players with ads in hope that they will but the game. It would have be much more honest to have simply offered the game at a much lower price with no ads at all. The buy numbers would likely have been much higher. I don’t appreciate the trickery …. So I’m deleting the game, and using the $4.99 (no ad price) you are now offering, to buy this or another game From someone else. Integrity counts in selling games !!!!

I’ve played this game for a while and many similar to it. I used to be able to score much higher, but over the year, they made updates that made it incredibly harder. I now can’t even average half of my former scores. From my experience, comparison to other apps of the same game, and many other similar user reviews, it really seems like the pieces are not truly random and increase in difficulty as you progress pursuant of creating ad revenue. The developers claim the pieces are random, but it seems very unlikely. For example, why can’t others and I score as high as we used to? Why do some of the same pieces in the daily challenges always appear first? Why do I receive less small pieces on average as the game progresses? Why can I score 5-10 times higher on other apps like this? Why do the pieces flip as they are presented and are so often the mirrored copy of what one would need? Also, an undo button would be appreciated. We can make placement mistakes and sometimes Blockudoku glitches to place a piece in an unwanted location. Why no back button? To me it’s clear they have made this game to make money from ads.

So, my fiancée and I have been playing this game since December 2019. In January her app updated to the new pieces and it turned a pretty cool game into something I’ll say is average. Now three months later my app updated to the new pieces (I bought Blockudoku to avoid the terrible commercials). Now I’m out the money, the relaxing game, and bragging to my fiancée about how the new game wasn’t a ploy by the developers to make more money... this is the first time I’ve had to eat my words to her. She had me write this to tell you all I was wrong, the game was better before. Today will be my last day with Blockudoku. Take care developer folks.

I reduced down to two stars after receiving a canned developer response about their feel they need more and more of your money - I paid once and got good - then it was changed to presumably to get more from me. I get that your goal is to maximize your reach in to the pockets of players, but can you look to just make it reasonable and not so greedy - no one likes a greedy game. Just strike a balance at the start and let’s all just get along and have fun!

Good game but the ad / commercial for the game is completely inaccurate. I’ve had this game for over a year, the ads show you trying to match shapes into a variety of different larger shapes. In the actual game it’s always a big square you are filling. Nothing is ever being fit into a triangle or other shape like the ads. It’s basically a simple game, you get shapes like Tetris and play and clear rows or columns or group of 9 squares. Some challenges start off with prefilled areas you have to clear. Some prefilled areas have numbers so you have to clear that many times before the blocks are cleared. Your game is over when you have no place to put one of the three blocks in your available tray.

But to reiterate…the ads are completely not what the game is about. I find many game ads are false advertisements. If you think people want to play the advertised game why not just make that game??? Silly marketing if you ask me.

This is literally my favorite game and I play it for hours on a daily basis because it's really relaxing and just kind of mindless enough that I can play and watch TV at the same time or just relax in bed. That being said, while I do enjoy the new updates I also hope that they decide to make separate modes because recently a ton of new puzzle pieces were added and while it's nice because it adds another challenge it's also a problem /because/ it adds challenge. I preferred it when the blocks were simpler and I didn't have to watch out for like a million combinations. Now there's so many shapes that my board fills up too quickly and the game ends too soon.

I'm not saying that the new pieces should be removed completely, but I think they should add modes based on difficulty so people like me can play more casually. Over all it's a great game though and I'm glad it updates frequently. :)

This would be 4-5 stars. I’ve been playing for just a few months now and really enjoyed the challenge. Went to open it the other day after playing already that day and it’s just a blank white screen. No options or way to get out of there except closing Blockudoku . It’s a real bummer! I updated Blockudoku after that - still a blank screen. Did an iOS update on my phone...still a blank screen. I haven’t deleted and reinstalled Blockudoku because I really don’t want to lose all of my progress. But I may have to try that next. What confuses me the most is that there has been no comment from the developers. I’ve seen many other users announcing this problem for days now. If Blockudoku developers simply said that they know there is a problem and they working on it, I’d feel better about keeping Blockudoku on my phone. But no word at all isn’t the coolest thing. So 5 stars because it WAS great...but for now since I can’t play it - 0 stars. Balancing that out to a 3.

I enjoy playing this game a lot and was surprised by the tournament. So, I joined it. I was completing well being the #2-4 player in the tournament up in till there was about 3 day 6 hours left. Then it all went to hell!! The game crashes so much my phone started to have issues. Like my battery that would last me playing the game almost alday would last maybe 2-3 hours.
Game crashed so much that it would take 10-15 minutes to make a move then the game would crash and reset the move, which might that 15-20 restarts of Blockudoku to replay the move again.
The for some reason my screen name was changed from Xwoive to Concerned Weasel, and my ranking was removed on my iPhone back to just entering the tournament from 2 place. When I had to switch to my iPad Pro which was working even worse than my iPhone, I saw that my ranking and name where still at 3rd place. I also found that in settings is a prank mode In the game.

I just want to play and not deal with crashes, pranks, this is app ticking me off!

I’m giving up on this game because it gets hung up too often. Also, it never turns off so it drains my battery if I get distracted while playing, from an email or maybe I fall asleep or something (if I’m playing it at night) I come back and the battery of my iPad is drained and that’s a real drag. Also, it gets hung up in the middle of a game, where it freezes and I can’t move the pieces, so I have to close it and reopen it and then it’s still hung up so that it places a piece where I didn’t intend it to go because of it freezing and unfreezing, and my game board is ruined! Maybe they should have the ads in between games instead of during games? Anyway I’m getting fed up so I’m gonna just gonna stop.

I’m adding to the review because I gave it another chance because the developers said they are always listening to comments but now the game is interrupting games to play ads. So much for improving a game, you give us a buggy game and then make your ads take over the game. I don’t think these developers care about people and they definitely don’t know how to work with ads.

So I’ve been playing this game for awhile now. Especially through high school and now I actually like it. It’s relaxing, keeps me entertained and I haven’t had any issues with it bug wise. After the new update with achievements it just added onto the game. You don’t have to do the achievements but it also gives you something to do at the same time while playing. I’ve played this game in my high school classes and it’s been good. Although I give five stars I would say ads are kinda annoying. But then again for my personal case just turn on airplane mode and ads are gone. I can still listen to my instrumental music and play with no problem. For an average game that makes you stack and put certain blocks in certain places this game is one I highly recommend to anyone who wants a free but good game.

....but hate all the ads. Would pay for it to get get it add free.
Okay, heard from the developer. You can remove the ads for a payment of $4.99. Well worth it to me. Can play forever with no ads! Life is good!
Looks like I got excited too fast. I paid for the cancellation of the ads on my iPad and expected them to come off my iPhone as well. After all, when you get Blockudoku , it shows up on both platforms regardless of which one you ordered it on. Imagine my surprise when I opened Blockudoku on my phone and the ads were back. Have written to the developer but if I have to play two times to play without ads, I will cancel the charge with the credit card company and remove Blockudoku from my iPad and iPhone. Buyer beware

Okay, I was contacted by someone who explained how to get it ad free on my iPhone and iPad. Very easy to do. So as I said originally, I just love this game!

I opened my app to notice my game name was not what it was supposed to be and there was no way to change it or get it back to what it was. So, I uninstalled my app and reinstalled hoping it would help my problem so that when i reopened Blockudoku again my name would be correct. Instead, I open it to find that everything I’ve done back to January is just gone, all the data, all my scores, all of the daily challenges I did, everything, like the game hasn’t existed until August. I can’t scroll back to January to redo it all, it won’t go any further than the 1st of August. I’m not sure what happened here, my phone saves my data every time I play, so I’m pretty disappointed that I’ve lost all my progress. I usually like this game, but I’m not sure I even want to play anymore after everything I did just to lose it all, I’ll have to start all over and from August vs. January. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Of everything, it saved my highest score, but that was all. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I love this game because it is not sudoku; where you need to fill up the board , or Tetris where you can turn the tiles to its sides, although rarely, I wish I can turn the block to fit it perfectly on the board and keep on playing-. Ido play to challenge myself to get beat my score. I do as fast as I can , to fill the board minding only the 3 tiles given me. I do not worry about the next sets of tiles. I do not worry about racing against time, which I truly hate. I know the developers get their earnings from ads you see as you play, but I just set my tablet on airplane mode and I can play repeatedly to get my better score ( which rarely happen because I play it mindlessly and at a pace I enjoy.) No ads on airplane mode, battery seems longer.
Thank you for this game. It is definitely one of my very few favorites.