Number Match - Numbers Game Reviews

I love this game, but there are two issues. I'm a user with limited/low vision, and both of these issues affect my ability to play the game. 1. Haptic vibration: In the past I relied on this game's haptic vibrations to tell me when I've run out of number matching options. In the past there was 1 buzz when a match was made, and then 3 buzzes when there are no more matches than can be made with the current number set. Since the update before the latest, the only time the haptic vibrations happen are when you make a number match. The 3 buzzes that tell you you're out of matches are gone, making this game more complicated & frustrating. It's one thing to know there are more matches and just not see them, but an entirely different thing entirely to flounder through the game trying to find matches when there aren't any left. Please bring the 3-buzz haptic vibrations back so I can play this game again. Legitimately, I can't play the game without those vibrations because of my vision. Dark mode: I understand other folks have requested a dark mode setting in the reviews. I'm also one of those folks who'd like a dark mode. There are times when the vibrant whiteness makes it harder for my eyes to focus, and having a dark mode would be really helpful/let me play the game longer without my eyes getting tired. Please read my review & consider fixing these issues. Thank you.

I RARELY pay for apps, and I’ve never written a review, but here I am now. I really loved this game when I first downloaded it, it’s right up my alley- I love numbers, I like a realistic challenge, and I hate ads, so I splurged I upgraded for the few dollars. I don’t regret it, but I definitely wish there were more challenge options. I finished the first puzzle challenge quickly, and assumed there would be another challenge lined up, but I had to wait almost a week to get another challenge which was disappointing, especially because I paid into it.

I also feel like there should be different level options, outside of the challenges. Once you get the hang of the game the easier boards are really easy to complete. There should be some other incentives to keep playing. I have no suggestions on how to improve it other than overall more avenues to play. Maybe challenge other players? Maybe do a timed challenge? I’m not that creative, but I’m sure others can suggest ideas.

I only gave this three stars because usually when you pay for a game it makes it worthwhile, and I feel this isn’t. I really enjoy the game, but once the challenges are complete it looses its pizzazz, and the wait time to receive the next challenge is way too long. I love the game though!

It’s an enjoyable game, but it feels like a first version. It would be SO much more fun if there were extras. I would feel like I could have more control over the strategy of the thing rather than depending on luck. Of course there’s some thinking and strategy involved, if you’re careful with the order you eliminate numbers then you might have more possibilities, but ultimately it comes down to whether or not the numbers you need are in the right place. I wish there was an undo button. I wish I could earn extras like a swap button. I wish new numbers would automatically populate once there were no more possible matches.
I wish extras would be rewarded for things like achieving a new high score, playing daily, and so on. I hate being handicap and only being able to get so far in a game because certain numbers are set in stone. I will basically never pay for getting rid of the ads because the only way to earn hints is to watch an ad anyway, and all I have to do to not be bothered with ads the rest of the time is turn off my wifi and data.

ok ive never written a review on an app before bc i wasnt born in 50BC but im writing this now bc NumberMatch has soooo much potential. its very fun and addictive and geting me thinking and i love it, there are just a few things that im beggging to be changed:
1. undo button, sometimes i match some numbers and realize right after that there was a way better move i could’ve made and its sooo frustrating. i know its not like part of the game or whatever but i really think it would make it more enjoyable to play and it could be like the hint button where you just watch another ad which means more money and more people playing NumberMatch . winwin.
2. consider not having a plus button and instead it just automatically does it when there are no more possible matches. i feel like for me this would make way more sense and would just make it less annoying.
3. dark modeeeee! this would just make it more fun to play.
ok anyway thankyouuuu! love NumberMatch !

Ok I downloaded this game a couple days ago and I’ve been playing everyday, it’s a great game and makes me think I love it lol. Two things I don’t love however is the ads, good lord it’s so many ads in this game. Every time I finish a game it’s an ad even if I click the “+” button I get an ad…..every….time. I get that NumberMatch is free and that’s the way of supporting NumberMatch but too many ads can make the game unbearable to play. It’s so many ads to the point where I just close out the game completely for the day. The next problem is sometimes the only way to progress is to press the hint button to clear a pair you tried and know should work. It will also randomly end even when you try to select valid pairs so please fix the adjacent detection. This even goes back to the ad problem because even though i know a pair should work and then it doesn’t I have to click the hint button resulting in watching multiple ads just to get a hint on a pair that I’ve already tried. If these problems are fixed this could possibly be a 5/5 game.

I really like the concept of this game BUT I agree with the other players…the game doesn’t allow matches until it suddenly does, even though the board stays the same. The tutorial is basic at best which isn’t a bad thing except that it doesn’t even explain the two buttons below the board. Also, I've been noticing that the exact same numbers left on the board are then added after I hit the + sign to add more numbers. As an example, the board left with mostly 7s and 8s is then filled with more 7s and 8s without a single 3 or 2. It wouldn’t be bad if I could match the 7s and 8s but they never line up in any direction. This happened to me through a few games…and I also noticed that some numbers were missing altogether each time that happened. That doesn’t seem random, it seems that it’s happening by design. I’m a new player…first day and I paid to remove ads!…but the problems and inconsistencies are so noticeable after one day that I felt the need to gripe about it. Please fix your game because this would be a game I would play daily.

I just read a few reviews and I saw some folk complaining about having to press the add more button and that they wanted it to automatically do it. While I was reading I learned that I play very differently then a lot of you. For example I lay out all the numbers right at the beginning then pair from there. Not having access to the add button would ruing the game for me and probably a few others I saw in the reviews who also played this way.

On another note, while not being able to undo has been frustrating countless amounts of times it’s made me better and more patient. If I want to beat my high score I know I can’t rush my move, I have to be strategic. There’s no 30sec video that’ll save me from one wrong move. That being said there could totally be an option to choose your level. It would accommodate everyone’s play style.

What I was looking for: engaging, easy pasttime game. Odd at 1st I occasionally achieved very high scores (4000's). After latest app update never a high score like that. This game got MUCH harder. Now it's rare to reach level 2 even. The ad time is fair at the free level apart from opting to reload available hints (so no hints, not worth it). Early on hints seemed to "recharge" eventually? No longer. Update: figuring I have little to lose, I've allowed updates to NumberMatch recently. My woes are worse. It seems even harder now ☹️, and ads seem to be slightly more frequent (but don't last very long. It's become just about not enjoyable, on the brink of uninstalling...update: still addictive & fun. I hadn't updated in quite a while, everything was fine. Recently updated; now frequently closes abruptly when completing a stage. I've recently reached level 10 IIRC.

I really like this game but I came to the reviews to see if anyone else was having trouble trying to figure out the directions.
The options for matches on the end of the rows seem like they should work, but only some of them will work, sometimes.
I reviewed both sections suggested, but it doesn’t seem like there is a lot of rhyme or reason why some work and some do not work.
Now that I see that a lot of people are having the same issue, it’s a bit frustrating, since it seems like the game wants you to watch more ads instead of allowing you to select the matches that should be available.
I really hope the directions are updated or the game is fixed because the game is enjoyable, aside from that.

***Update*** In response to developer, I totally get the need for ads. I don’t mind them per se, however, the significant increase as of late has decreased my enjoyment. The ads I see have almost tripled from just two or three weeks ago. Before, the ads would slow play down a bit but now it’s grinding play down to a crawl. It can be hard to stay engaged. I keep trying to come back to game to re-engage but literally every time I use the + feature (when no matches are left) I must watch a 30-60 second ad. When it was just the hints feature that generated an ad, it was much better. I am honestly now to the point of deleting game. **** Great game. I use it to unwind and settle my brain. Would have given 5 stars but in the last week the number of ads have jumped WAY up. Now I get an ad every time I use the + button. Previously it only had ads for using the hints. Won’t stop playing but the increase in ads is distracting.

This is a fun game that makes you think and strategize. I’m not sure if it’s my phone or NumberMatch . But when I play the game it eventually starts lagging. None of my other apps do this. I might delete and redownload it but I don’t want to lose my progress. I don’t see a way to save it through Game Center. Also I think there should be an undo button. At least three undo per stage. I don’t agree with another review saying the undo button should replace the + button. Sometimes I want to keep numbers for the next round. I see some people are confused on the rules. I like the rules, but I did have to go over the tutorial a few times to understand them. It should be more detailed and specifically show examples of ALL the possible ways to match number. I don’t know what you can do about the ads, but I think the + button shouldn’t trigger an ad. Maybe just between stages or entire new game.

I really enjoy this game, as it gives my brain a bit of a challenge, without requiring TOO much deep thought. However, it seems that recently, the iPad version has become really unstable. First, after almost every ad that plays, NumberMatch will crash, then try to restart, and ultimately hang, so I end up having to force close it and relaunch NumberMatch . I’ve also had it crash on me in the middle of game play, where again, I would have to force close the game and relaunch it.

The iPhone version doesn’t seem to have these problems. Just in case it was an issue with the new Stage Manager in iPadOS 16, I’ve tried turning that off, and that didn’t seem to make any difference.

Please fix whatever is different on the iPad version, so that it’s as stable as the iPhone version. I’ll come back and revise my rating when you do that.

I just downloaded this game the other day and enjoy it other than the fact that after playing it for a while it is still like in the tutorial mode where it is giving hints automatically. It’s hard to really challenge myself when every few seconds it highlights matches available to me (even when I’m not asking for a hint). My husband has the game but his doesn’t do this anymore so I’m not sure why it is still giving hints without asking for it. If there is a way to turn this off please let me know as I’ve searched the settings but can’t find anything.

Other than that one thing- I love everything else about the game and I’m addicted!!

I absolutely love this game. It worked fine at first on my iPad then suddenly when an ad would run after I hit +. It would go back to the last screen and then close out the game entirely. Then I would have to open it it again and it would open the last game with the last 2 matching numbers for me to click again. Then I would hit + and it would load new numbers again until it was time for the next ad and the same cycle would repeat. I have removed NumberMatch and reinstalled it several times and it keeps doing it. Very frustrating. My iPad is an older one so perhaps it’s a compatibility issue in which case is bummer since I really do love this game.

The game is amazing I’ve spent over an hour on it for every day the past week but the part that annoys me is that the more you play the more as you get like I could press new game and it will send me an ad then i will x out of it then I will press new game again and it will send me another ad like before when I first started playing and I press The + It wouldn’t send me an ad but now every time I press the + it sends me an ad. The more you play the more how to get it and that’s the only thing I don’t really like about this game. I also wish that there was a reverse but because I usually always realize a better match after I already did one ha ha. Great game nonetheless

I came to give a 5 star review… but I just updated and there’s something missing now… I got really used to my phone vibrating and animated plus button automatically when there are no pairs remaining - after the update it took me a few frustrated games to realize that I wasn’t just missing it, it wasn’t happening anymore. I thought maybe the devs decided to make it optional or something (I could see where some users may prefer to notice this on their own) but I checked the settings, and there is not a way to turn it back on.
I also agree with many other users that an undo feature would be nice. And dark mode would be appreciated and would not require much effort on the development side.

What happened to the game vibrating when you have no more matches to signify to add more numbers? This came about a week ago that I no longer have that tattletale prompting me that there are no more matches. I haven’t seen a deletion of this feature in any of NumberMatch update notes.

I agree with many of the other users that there should be an undo button. However, I also disagree with them at the same time. A little strategy and pre planning go along way from needing an undo button. I get frustrated with myself, not the game, when I notice too late a better strategy.

Bring back the vibration and I’ll boost my review to 5 stars 😂

Love this game! It definitely is addicting. I prefer to add all of the numbers at the beginning as it doubles whatever if any numbers are on the board. This way I end up with 48 rows (3x2x2x2x2) and more numbers for a higher score. I wish the tutorial explained how some pairings yield much higher scores, such as 28 points versus 2, 4 or 8. My final move at the end of my high game added 348 points but there is no explanation as to why. Also, what is the highest possible score? Not knowing that makes it impossible to gauge how well I’m doing versus my potential. My high game so far is 3,743 but I have no context except as compared to my own scores.
Thank you!

The idea of this game was great! I agree that it could use some of the improvements mentioned in other reviews such as an undo button and more consistency. These aren’t the reasons for the bad review, though.

This game OVERHEATS my phone like you would not believe! My phone has never overheated from any app before. A couple rounds played amidst the excessive ads (seriously, I’ve never seen so many ads in a game before!!) causes NumberMatch to slow, freeze, and crash. I liked the game to the point where I really wanted to ignore these issues but these aren’t the types of issues that one can ignore! Ultimately, I had to delete NumberMatch .

(I considered paying to remove the ads but the price was not worth the gameplay improvements that still need to be made and without full insurance that this would fix the crashing and overheating issues.)

The game itself is extremely fun but suffers from some clear setbacks

The tutorial is somewhat helpful but does not distinctly describe the rules about tile elimination in terms of positioning: Occasionally you can have a tile in the middle of the board match with something you wouldn’t expect, etc. maybe add some clear rules about what makes two tiles a match (in terms of positioning!!) I feel this would help newer players learn the game.

While the daily challenge should be a challenge, if there is someone who is a freak and needs to complete all of the daily challenges from the past, the point threshold can be slightly overkill on some of the levels. I know this defeats the purpose of it being a “challenge” but maybe for someone trying to complete the past daily challenges, lower the point threshold for completion.

Possibly add an undo feature with uses similar to the hint button in order to prevent users from wasting their time in an un winnable game.

Again this is a great game and has a lot of potential!

Well, it’s a fun, simple little game. Uncomplicated. I was hoping to pay for an ad-free version because ads these days are super annoying with multi-part timesd sections. The longer an ad is, the less likely I will ever buy the thing being advertised, or anything by that advertiser, and it’s not long before I delete NumberMatch that keeps showing me ads like that.
Tapping the “go ad-free” area, I was dismayed to see that the only option for ad-free is a MONTHLY FEE of $3.99. With tax that’d be over $50 per year. This is how things are now. You can’t just pay for a product and use it. They want you on the hook so you can pay and pay and pay. Hopefully you’ll forget to cancel it when you stop playing.
An app like this used to be $3.99, period. No way will I ever pay a subscription fee for such a thing. And now that I know it’s the only option, I will not play the “free” version either, because that also monetizes ME as the user by forcing me to watch ads. I’m sick and tired of simple games with multiple and frequent long ads.
Boo.

I like the concept of the game but it sure is hard to enjoy NumberMatch . I’ll not comment on the number of ads - that has been well by others. My problem is with the banners. After completing a level when you go the claim your “prize” there is a banner sitting on top of the executable “continue” button. Rotating (more on that later) doesn’t solve the problem the banner continues to cover the button. The only way to continue is to restart the ap - even clicking on the banner doesn’t make the banner go away (it just launches something else to close). Restarting after every completed level is, well a non-starter.

I play the game on an iPad mostly in landscape orientation. About 3/4 of the time after one of the frequent ads play (in landscape) the game flips to portrait even though the iPad remains in landscape. It shouldn’t do that.

Between all the ads and the other problems I question whether it is even worth continuing to play.

I generally play the free version of games except for two reasons. 1) I really like the game or 2) the ads are SUPER ANNOYING, like popping up in the middle of play. This game happens to be both, so I purchased the ad-free version of the game. I’d give it more stars if there was a benefit to purchasing the game other than getting rid of the ads. With the paid version, hints are unlimited and free, but you still earn “coins” after each game. What are the coins for? There’s absolutely nothing to spend them on in the paid version. They just keep piling up for no reason. Why not offer the option to use the coins to purchase “boosts” like a “shuffle” button, or “swap two numbers”? Finally, for the daily challenges why does the game just end once you’ve hit the target? Why not allow the option to keep playing after you hit the daily target? I’d spend some of my useless coins on that.

UPDATE: Reduced to one star! Now that I have had the game a bit longer, I have a clearer picture. The game itself remains simple fun, but as expected, the ads have indeed become an issue. They were non-existent at the beginning but then began to appear mid-stage if I added numbers. That could be 5 interruptions within a single stage if all 5 options are used….way too many ads, especially since ads are too long. I did contact support and the issue is better, still happens but not nearly as often. I can tolerate responsible use of ads, but when an ad pops up in the middle of clearing a stage, then I am done. The game gets one star for being relatively fun, but loses stars due to intrusiveness of the ads and for the silly emojis they added and refuse to remove. Please please DO NOT respond with “ads keep the game free and help with app development. Use ads if necessary but use them responsibly! And do not tell me you cannot remove the emojis….you added them so you can stop them.

There are no real people in the tournaments. Except for myself. All the others listed are bots. Sorry, you think that you have to make others think differently. No matter how hard I try to gain higher points, the bots always win. Just not fair. As soon as I make my way up the ladder it is not long before I am knocked back down. I am sure you won’t post this for others to see since all the other comments are fake.

If this is true than explain why when I gain over another player, someone comes along two seconds later and knocks me back down. Explain why it is I never have a 100,000 game. Yet so many others do. The game must be rigged. I keep trying and losing.

I loved this game for winding down - contained a level of brain challenge with no stress of time limits. Good to end the day. But now you’ve added all sorts of flashy stuff, which is extremely distracting to the point that I do not want to play it. Two stars is generous with this update! What is extra disappointing is that much of the flash pertains to score. Who plays this game for scores? Yes, it is interesting to get through to additional levels, but it is not a game of increasing skill - too much chance of the “draw” for that. The update’s color changes for numbers, likewise, did nothing to add to the game, just another distraction with no discernible purpose. Dump this and bring back the simplicity! Because I used to enjoy it so much, I may check back occasionally to see if you have reverted, but I will NOT be playing this numbers game in its current state.

I installed this game cause it seemed really interesting and fun to play, which it is. It gives my something to do while keeping my hands and mind busy. However it wasn’t until recently that I the sheer amount of ads as become down right annoying. Now I’m fine with the occasional ad like for example anytime you finish a level or every once in a while when adding more numbers. What I don’t like is that I get an ad whenever I leave NumberMatch and come back. Like I’ll level NumberMatch for like 5 seconds and when it asks if I would like to continue the level I’m on I get an ad, now this would be fine if it was every once in a while or if you’re out of NumberMatch for an extended amount of time but it’s every single time. Not to mention that when you finish a level you get an ad (which again I’m fine with) but when you get a reward after finishing a certain amount of level and then start a new level you get another ad which leaves instances where you are literally getting back to back ads without any actual gameplay. I’m not going to uninstall the game as it is fun to play but I ask please if there’s anyway to decrease the amount of ads id be really grateful because it’s starting to get ridiculous.

I’ve been playing NumberMatch for months. I really enjoy it and use it as a way to wind down and exercise my brain at the end of the day. I played it for a long time before I purchased the ad free version. As soon as I purchased the ad free version it got really weird. It was like all along I had been building my skill level and increasing my high scores and daily scores and feeling challenged constantly - then as soon as I paid for it things stopped matching up (like there were legitimately a significantly lower number of matches) and I was only getting scores in the 100 to 300 range where before I was getting the scores as high as 7000. it’s like it completely stopped being challenging at a level that it was previously. I don’t understand this but I’m not receiving satisfaction or exercise from playing the game anymore. that used to be that one round could go on and on with different combinations and different levels but as soon as I paid for the game that all stopped.

I keep up to date with iPad software updates. The game is brain stimulating but keeps closing itself for no apparent reason. Occasionally the ad will lock the game up and I’ll have to reboot my iPad 5 to restart the locked game. The lockup occurs on 2-3 other apps which seems to point the finger at Apple iOS. But the unexplained closure only occurs with this game. Sometimes I’ll have to tap the screen several times to highlight a number on this game. Non-game apps do not have any of these problems. Safari and Duck Duck Go browsers don’t have problems. I have a lot of memory on my iPad and only using about 1/3 of it. I don’t know what the problem is and reported it to Apple support.

I generally prefer to play this game when there’s a event so I was excited to see the Halloween event. Seems like they’ve made the game harder but in a stupid way. I don’t generally lose these event games, even the hard ones, but now I am and it’s because the game is purposely giving me garbage. I add a new numbers and there’s literally no match, I even hit the hint button to double check. Fine, get more numbers and it’s an exact copy of the previous numbers. Sure there’re some matches but no way to clear the board, and it just goes on an on like this. Junk numbers you can’t match to anything or exact copies of the line above. I like a challenge but I also don’t like games that cheat. This game is purposely giving numbers you can’t win with probably so they can get you to play the level over and over again and bombard you with ads. I see a point in many “free” games where they transition from a fun game that makes money by making you watch occasional ads to a greedy game that does whatever it can to make you buy things or make you watch a ton of ads to the point the game is no longer playable. This game is getting to that point for me.

As other are saying, the newest update (especially on the daily challenge) ruined the game. You used to start with 3 lines which you could double and make your matches very efficiently. Now with the 3.5 lines, that no longer works.

I know the developers have made it intentionally harder and more challenging, but as my daily fix I used to simply do the daily challenges to get my star. I have not missed since last October, but found the last two days of this October (when they made the update) the worst two days of playing. I didn’t mind the extra ads, but this update has made me delete the game.

To the developers, I have read your comments about how you have no intention of reversing the change. That’s fine, but realize you have lost a lot of customers who found it terrible and are just deleting the game as I am. You do not need to respond to this review, as I know you have your canned response and I will never read it anyways.

I have been playing this game for many years. I loved that it kept me thinking, and I loved the special events. That is, until recently. The special events used to be 9 segments to complete, then would gradually go up to 16 segments to complete that phase. Well, some Einstein at the game apparently decided that wasn’t enough. So, now in order to complete the special event, you have 3 phases with 25 segments each! Are you kidding?! That’s 75 segments to collect a little postcard? This used to be a fun, enjoyable game that I’ve played to keep my brain strong and be entertained. But now, it’s just a nuisance! Thanks for destroying something that was entertaining and beautiful, and turning it into something that is a punch in the gut. When the change started four events ago, I thought it was probably a fluke. But, it now seems that it is here to stay. Thanks, but no thanks! I will be deleting this game and finding something comparable to what this game USED TO BE!!

firstly, agreeing with some other reviews i've seen, we need a dark mode. desperately.

secondly, my good friend and i both play this game (she actually introduced me) same game, same updated version, same everything, EXCEPT the customization. i am able to use the gold star tokens from daily challenges to buy colors for the numbers, grid, selection, and cells, while my friend's game simply has no colors to buy. she is stuck with the default black numbers and there's no way to change it or get new colors or anything. we made certain that we have the same game, and we both have iphones (hers is actually newer) so this is both confusing and frustrating.

thirdly, about the gold tokens and colors. i need more options. the color selection is great, but once you get all of them, there's nothing left to buy so you keep collecting these coin token things after they basically become pointless and worthless to collect. because of this, i've stopped playing the daily challenges and play the game much less than when i was saving up for the colors.

hopefully the devs are already working on at least one of these things.

I really enjoy NumberMatch – until now. I recently purchased the iPhone 15 Pro Max. It has the 17.4.1 iOS update. Ever since this update I cannot open NumberMatch . It just sits there on the opening screen (the one that says Easybrain) and then it closes. However if I get to the opening screen where the little icon shows up, then no problem. Yes, I’ve forced NumberMatch to close; I’ve shut down the phone and restarted it; I deleted NumberMatch (you know getting rid of the high score) re-downloaded and still can’t open it. THAT IS until NumberMatch sends me the notification that it has new numbers for me. Then it opens like a charm. I’m still giving it a five star review because WHEN I can play it, I really really enjoy it.