Block Puzzle - Brain Games Reviews

by BLONDIE91868

In-game App Purchases BEWARE!!! Attention Apple:

This is a China based game company. They designed the game to be deceptive to users to have you easily subscribe through BlockPuzzle without knowing. The dangerous part is the cancelling process. There is ZERO way of cancelling through BlockPuzzle even though the terms and conditions say so. They created the subscriptions to start with a weekly subscription and you don’t realize until months later when your bank is negative. Whether you think this is user negligence or not. Just beware of apps designed this way and apple should be ashamed not to have a stricter review process. You’d think apples first priority would be to safeguard users from have apps like this, but instead have apps siphon off money and collect the check. Rant is over. New users, Good luck.

by PepaPPPP

The game is mildly challenging and fun. and basic operations are easy to discern, but explanations for the bells and whistles are missing or buried where I can’t find them. But my biggest criticism is the ads—too many, too frequent and frustratingly designed. In fact, I spend at least equal amounts of time playing the game and wrestling with the frustrating ads. Icons like mute and cancel are often very small, placed in extreme corners so that you can’t actually use them, or must press the icon multiple times, often without success. In addition, most ads require player to loop between several screens with various gimmicks designed to get the player to download an app they don’t want. Often the different screens take you in a repetitive loop to the point of extreme frustration. I can’t find an “ad free” version for which I would be happy to pay a reasonable price. The frustrating ads turn a great game (and satisfaction from playing it) into an exercise in stress creation and endurance. For this reason I am going to uninstall what should have been an absorbing, stress-relieving, and fun game app. So sad.

by Shutterfx

Been playing this game awhile now. Way too many Ads! Ads after every game, Ads to get bonus points! Clear out the Ad when started and go back to the game app and start again. Still an interruption but less of game time taken. Never ceases to make me want to quit playing as it forces choices with the blocks not needed and it has to be placed somewhere and eventually the game ends due to no more space. As the game progresses, pieces are given that is not needed: lots and lots of angle pieces that eventually cannot fit, then the long pieces arrive and then the large square. This is not a game of random pieces given to play with. Its programmed for you to lose. Its like a game of Chess playing against a computer - try as you can, you will lose eventually. The best way to get points is to play the game without using points to rotate and try to clear three or four rows to get bonus points. Takes awhile to get points. There are other ways available to get points. Now they have provided another game set that you can play but no points are given. If you need to rotate then it comes off your supply - nothing is given in return so its fun trying to clear the board without using your points. It is on a time schedule for only a few days. Use it as a break for something different but don’t use your points to rotate! Have fun trying to go as long as you can.

by DaCroatian

If I was given a $1 for every time I’ve seen this ad, I would be a very wealthy person. Their 40 second ad is ridiculous. After 30 seconds they add an additional 10 seconds until you can X it off. I’ve already figured out how to play this game within 5 seconds. Because of this AD being shown so frequently and wasting my time I will not download this game. I want to give you 0, yes if I could 0 star, but it won’t let me. But I’ll give you 2 stars, because your ad shows the correct way to solve the puzzle. Other ADs show how they always fail a simple puzzle.

by LetsBeHonest!

I downloaded BlockPuzzle after seeing an ad on FB. I’m not generally a person that plays games on my phone. But for some reason this game caught my attention. As soon as it was downloaded I started playing, not really knowing what I was doing. I quickly figured it out but was kinda confused with the bonus rounds and treasure chests. I tried to go back and find the guide and/or rules in settings but they don’t have any information anywhere. I even googled it with no results. Even after that I continued to play but quickly realized it was super repetitive and less challenging the more I played. I already upgraded to the paid subscription but will be canceling ASAP. How can you have a game with no rules and fake bonus rounds? The developers of this game must have just thrown it together to make a quick buck. Not impressed!

by Annie6381

I love this game but it is ruined with all the ads.
1st-ad pops up for Candy Crush Saga, it lasted 20 seconds and then when you click the ✖️,2nd- the next ad starts for candy crush saga again and this time it is 30 seconds long. 3rd- Then when you click the ✖️again after that, you get another 20 seconds ad for candy crush saga! UNBELIEVABLE! I even have Candy Crush Saga. This over indulgence of commercialization makes me play your game less and less. It’s very frustrating and makes me do the opposite of what your ads want me to do. I will purposely not buy or look at the ads when you assault my time. Is greed what is motivating you to allow all of these massive ads to borage your customers? You definitely are not customer friendly and just full of greed. Shame!

by BeverlyMc

Loved this game, at one time I would have rated it a five, however the adds are way to many and last way to long. I usually don’t complain about having to tolerate the same add over and over because I could delete it quickly, but that doesn’t happen any more. I have no intention to ever pay for a game especially when I can get the same game with less,and shorter adds. I have read one of the negative reviews and your respond was that you need to have an income to constantly improve the game, but in my option, it didn’t need improvement nothing is perfect. Your graphics are one of the best, and that’s why I will stay until I go completely mad with so many adds. If I don’t want the new game offered after 100 times I’m not going to want it after 101. No is no.

by Find Pandora

I’m writing this for the other woodoku game but they don’t have a place to write a review. I’m not happy with the glitches surrounding the ads, sometimes I have to wait a long time for the game to resume after the ads. It gets stuck and won’t respond. Sometimes I have to shut my phone off just to get past the ad. Then there is the issue of dragging the pieces on to the board and on occasion it puts the piece where I didn’t want it to go. It seems to give me pieces I really can’t use as the game progresses making me loose the game. There are a lot of glitches in this game like freezing up or the piece doesn’t want to move and the trouble with the ads.

by Need A New MessagingApp

I really like the game and usually okay while I’m watching TV. I don’t mind the ads because it allow me to keep up with the plot of the show I’m watching.
This week I started getting an ad for some kind of adult game. It shows a woman’s hand rubbing over a woman’s almost bare chest making the clothes come off and then inviting me as the player to do the same. What on earth is this? I don’t want to see this and I would never download such a game. I turn the tablet over because I don’t want to see this.
This is no way to get me to buy the ad-free version. It is the way to drive me off to another game entirely. Make it stop or I’ll just delete the whole thing.
I would otherwise give this game 5 stars.

by Elphba

I’ve never made in game purchases and have played for close to four years. Beyond first playing the game when you advance often, I seldom if ever advance at all any more and I think it’s because I don’t make in game purchases. I get perhaps within a couple hundred points of advancing and then suddenly get the option only impossible blocks. It never fails.

What’s the deal? You only get to advance if you make in game purchases? If that’s the way you run the game, you need to disclose that and allow people to choose between wasting their money on a game, or wasting their time on a game some of us use for relaxation.

by Blocked Blockhead5791

I would have given more stars but for two things
1 -freezes constantly, action often ‘sticky’, so blocks often drop in unintended spaces
2 -biggest problem-NO INSTRUCTIONS!! Pretty easy to figure main goal of clearing blocks, but there is NO KEY for the icons, or notes how to use them. For instance, how do you get more magnets?? It seems that when the video symbol is present, you can opt to watch an ad and be rewarded with a magnet. But (a)this only works sometimes, (b) the ads are up to 30+ seconds long and (c) often freeze. Same for rotators.
What is the 2x symbol up by the crown? Sometimes I seem to set double rotators; often nothing seems to happen after I watch (another) ad. So how do I work this. I like the game, but I am spending more time trying to ‘unfreeze’ it than I am playing. And I don’t know how to collect rewards.

by Beantown K

I’ve purchased it twice and each time it had reached a point where it does not load. Just spinning white circles! I lost my high score once son I guess I’ll have to lose it again if I’m forced to re-purchase. Any way to avoid that?I Once again Block Puzzle, my favorite game will not load. I just get a black screen. I had a high score over 12,000 and now will I lose it? I’ve tried going to BlockPuzzle Store, then “Purchased”, then Open, but nothing works! Please fix!
And now I can’t open Block Puzzle because an ad for another game will not disappear. I’ve tried for a couple of hours and several times to get rid of a Zynga game in which I have NO interest!

by Tonya Mai

Like the game itself. Even when it’s hard to get very high on the score. Always seems to give you the worst possible pieces when you get very far.
I don’t mind the ads to bad as there’s not a reasonable option to purchase the game outright. The frustration usually comes in with the sound tracks accompanying the ads. I’m usually listening to audio books if I’m playing the game which I’ve also turned off the sounds to. Looks like if you have the sounds off for the game itself that would carry over to the ads as well. Also when on the phone the sounds from the ads play as well. Extremely annoying!

by Weezie95

While I like the game, i have looked and looked and asked for an explanation, but nothing! I keep earning keys, but all I can determine is that I can store ONE shape in the box and ONLY one, even tho I have over seven hundred keys! Also when I try to get the 3 “free” rotations, i have to watch sometimes 3 ads! I will probably soon delete this game.
Came back again to see if there had been added any explanation for use of the keys. Nope! Nothing! One review says he gets rotation coins when his meter run across the line at the top. I still get these useless keys! Going to have to downgrade to one star until they explain or fix!
Received a response finally. They say the key will be usable with next update. I hope so! If it is, I’ll have to raise my evaluation.
Ok! Keys now can be turned into rotate coins! Yay! It cost 100 keys to receive 8~12 coins, which seems high to me, but I’ll take it. Now I’m enjoying the game much more and my score is getting higher! Thanks, developers!

by Russvw

The game is good and challenging. However, after completing a challenge to earn free rotations, it won’t let me open all 3 chests sometimes. I don’t mind the ads, we all should be used to them by now. But having it show me that I lost connection, or just won’t open 1, sometimes 2 chests to collect my rotations is frustrating.
One more for the developer. The blocks used in the challenges should be allowed in the game itself. They add a whole new level to the play and would keep me more interested in it overall.

by Hello_i_love_this!!

So I don’t know why people keep getting annoyed with the adds ‘cause I barely get them. Anyway, I love this game so much it’s so fun and I love how they challenge you to try to beat your high score!! I guess it just like a little hard like at least it should give you a little chance to try to have a higher score or something but I guess that’s why this review I wrote was 4 stars cause I just wish you could have a second chance to have a higher score, so that’s why there is that 1 star missing. Maybe you could try to have it for like keys or something I don’t know but yeah.

by Pystew

I love this game. I subscribed for a year because I didn’t want to deal with ads. I then realized that I could get “bonus” points to rotate the pieces around by watching ads at certain times…not too often to affect the game. I accepted it, and in looked forward to earning the bonus points. But, today one of the ads froze on my iPad screen. When this has happened on other games, I just delete the game, go back to BlockPuzzle Store and upload the game. My data is uploaded with it. That did not happen on Cube Block. I got a new game without my data. Hopefully I’ll figure out a way to fix it.

by Jerre_9000

This version is head and shoulders about the other block game we used to play simply due to the rotate feature and holding area. Impossible to count the number of times a really good (and relaxing) game ended because a random pattern of blocks came in that “just could not be done” (note the finger quotes).

Nobody in the software world likes documentation, but please start a FAQ. What is feature X called? More importantly, how do you start hard mode?!?!

My wife only started playing a week or so ago and it is not available to her, so we have spent the last few days scouring the internet to no avail. Needless to say, discord in the house when one of us has hard mode and the other does not.

by Youalreadyknow134568

My wife got a magnet that she can watch a video and the magnet brings down all of the blocks to the bottom. I would like to get this myself but there is no explanation on how she got it. She don’t even know how she got it. Anyone know how this is done? I’ve emailed the game developers with no answer been a week since I sent an email to them. Any help on this situation will be appreciated. Love the game other then this one issue. Thanks to anyone who can help….including y’all developers.. :)

by Jonah Rock

Blocks relieve stress I have so much comfort when are you just lay on my bed and put the blocks together this game is such an awesome game even give you chances in a box where you could put away the ones you’re not using and then later on in the game is so exciting you get to use it blood game is one of the best game that you can have a play it is mind body and soul keeps away the evil it helps you think mostly on God and get to know yourself and know your powers powers

by Banana17658

Love the game. It is a good time waster. However, I will note that the L shaped blocks are extremely difficult to maneuver, and I’ve been getting an increasing amount of them. My last game got five in a row, which took the perfectly aligned blocks I had an made me lose within two more “rounds.” I ask that there be more variety in the shape of blocks so that this kind of thing doesn’t happen. I loved this game when I first installed it, and now I can’t get myself to play more that three rounds because I always lose due to an excess amount of the L blocks.

by 6R1FF5O7

The game was just recently updated. Initially I did not like the update, as it made the game more difficult. Before the update my highest score was 3500*, now U have barely reached 1700 points. What I love about the update is that now when you reach gifts on the meter up top, it gives rotation coins, which Inthibk are the most needed. Before, the game would give a large amount of keys in order to store an extra shape, to where you never ran out. All this to say, the update has improved my experience.

by Barb716

This is one of those games that can keep you occupied and use strategies to place your boards in the best order to get high points. It’s not like a lot of games that has ads every time you move. There are ads but not so many to be frustrating. I like that you don’t need to earn coins or energy to continue playing. I definitely recommend this to you if you like puzzle type games.