Bonza Planet Reviews

Like the game but but but...adds are so long I’m out of time available to use it before finishing. Spoils my enthusiasm! Adds become irritating instead of interesting, defeating the purpose!
Same review, adds twice too long!!! I’m giving up on this game!!
Trying one more time ... really like this game except for adds construction ruining use of it ... saddens me. Wind up frustrated and out of time before finishing. Better just delete it
Hate to delete this game so tried again but quitting before finish as completely frustrated with long adds!‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

When this was National Geographic, I had given it 5 stars, but didn’t complete the review. Now, I don’t enjoy it any more. One reason is that I was extremely disappointed there was no puzzle for America’s Independence Day. Today there was one for Mexico’s and not long ago I remember one for some celebration in Vietnam, as well as other countries. You may well have lost a devoted fan for this as well as the fact that so many of the puzzles now require a great deal of scientific knowledge. Science never interested me and I am getting tired of these puzzles.

I’ve been playing Bonza Planet almost daily since it first launched. I usually don’t mind watching a short ad if I need a hint to help solve a puzzle. However, I’m getting tired of having to watch 30 second ads that require multiple clicks to return to the game. Recently, I’ve started to be shown ads that hijack BonzaPlanet and cannot be dismissed forcing me to quit and restart BonzaPlanet . The ad experience significantly detracts from BonzaPlanet making Bonza Planet a chore rather than a pleasure. As a result, if an ad is longer that 10-15 seconds, I will quit Bonza Planet and play a different puzzle app that provides a more enjoyable user experience.

I’ve said this before but it needs to be said again. I haven’t deleted BonzaPlanet (yet), but I don’t play as regularly as I used to because of this issue.

I love this game, but the ads need to respect the phone’s silent setting. I can’t play this game if the ads are going to make noise when I’m expecting my phone to be silent. Please let your advertisers know that I won’t be seeing their ads at all if I delete BonzaPlanet . Please keep the ads silent when the sound on our phones is off. Thanks.

I would happily give you 5 stars if this issue was fixed.

Periodically a player is asked whether they’d like to watch an ad for bonus coins. However, in current version, after the ad is played (and sufferingly patiently watched) the screen will ‘freeze’ on a blank white screen and the bonus credits do NOT therefore get credited to your account. Sad that the developer probably gets credit on their own for each ad ‘sold’/watched but they do not fulfill their promise to the player. Scam. I turned this feature off in my settings.

The points don’t get added after each game and sometimes you get a prompt to watch a video for points but the video plays and no points or the video just disappears and again no points-not even for finishing the puzzle. Frustrating. It’s especially annoying because the original Bonza game works great. Too bad nobody could be bothered to get this one to work as well. I like playing this one more because I really like the mix of word and jigsaw puzzles.

The puzzles are ok, annoying that you cant turn off the sound or music - keeps turning itself back on.... so you can’t have anything playing in the background.. and they are always trying to get you to buy puzzle packs. I anyone ever really that bored? The little tidbits of trivia are a win though. I think for Adults- 2 to 3 stars but for younger ones - middle to high school - acceptable free time reward

Spoke about rewarding those that make puzzles- they said no- want money

Have found too many with errors. JFK with moon landing. JFK died in 1963. Moon landing was in 1969 - hardly

When the latest update came out I was hoping the developers would see that it was a wrong direction to take. I don’t want to see a screen every time I use BonzaPlanet to pay money to remove the ads. Until this, I was fine to watch an ad or two to play additional games. Now, as a form of protest, I won’t watch one single ad. As soon as the initial game is over, I close BonzaPlanet . As I said, I used to get them some money by watching one or two ads per day. Now they get nothing from me. In fact, I discovered that after I do the daily puzzle and I see there’s a jigsaw available to do, if I close BonzaPlanet and then reopen it, I don’t have to watch an ad in order to do the jigsaw. And to make matters worse, they have now instituted the same greedy update in the original Bonza! This whole thing saddens me.

Been playing for several months, daily puzzles are good, if you get stuck there is a video ad that will give you a clue for free. Only problem is that this past update made it hard for me to close BonzaPlanet or switch apps by swiping (using the iPhone X). They made it very hard to swipe, which I dislike. Not sure why they made it so hard but it is annoying if you like to swipe left or right to quickly switch apps. But the gameplay is decent.

I love word games! So I was super excited to have downloaded this game. And super excited to have played it everyday with absolutely no issues. That is.. until recently. When I open the it gets me to the page where I can choose which to play. I choose the free daily shuffle. Once I get into the actual game, it freezes and I can no longer play the game. It refreshes by the next day or so. I’ve tried deleted it from my iPad, then downloading it again. It still freezes tho. So disappointed, as this was by far my most favorite word game.

I play this nearly everyday. Came across the Dogs puzzle. Can’t get it to accept Chihuahua. I finally gave up and wasted 35
Points to see how it fits. It gave the clue but will not really offer the correct answer. It has that dull sound that it makes when it tells you right letters but not right one. Can you please fix this so I can move on? Thanks.

I love these puzzles and the unexpected workout they offer the brain. I don’t understand why they created a second game that is virtually the same game as the original Bonza. Bonza Planet is barely different. It just throws in a few picture puzzles here and there – a photo instead of a crossword puzzle has been cut into pieces and needs reassembling – or gives a crossword clue in the form of a photo. It’s the same game. I think the Bonzo word puzzles are the best. Once assembled, you think they really shouldn’t have been difficult (none of the words used are difficult) but somehow they turn out to be a real challenge for the brain. And they are a lot of fun!

If you like both crossword and jigsaw puzzles, you'll love Bonza. Puzzle difficulties range from easy to difficult depending on the offering of the day and the puzzle pack you are doing. The jigsaw puzzles are my favorites, and my only complaint is that puzzle packs don't contain more. But the reward for completing daily puzzles is the ability to accrue and use credits to purchase jigsaw packs... the best!

I love the game. It is, however, very frustrating to get stuck in an ad with no way out. Every time I hit the "x" to exit the ad, I get taken to BonzaPlanet Store. I go back to the game, hit the "x" again...back to BonzaPlanet Store. The only way to return to the game is to close completely out of it by double tapping the home key and swiping it off.

This is one of my favorite word games. The premise is simple, and there are other games that are similar, but, for some reason, this one is more fun. Perhaps it's partly because the word puzzles are occasionally interspersed with jigsaws, the kind composed of rectangular figures. I am deducting a star because you run out of free puzzles fairly quickly, and are limited to two free daily ones.

Lately this game freezes and locks my iPhone Xr. It happens when the videos play. There are a few games that are advertised that will freeze the program. The website allows a person to email a programmer for this game but the person must have previously submitted an email in order to receive a password.

This game is my new favorite for three reasons. First, the word puzzles are just hard enough to occasionally need a clue. Second, the variety in both topic and complexity make the game keep me playing. Lastly, adding the visual component adds a new facet that isn’t as easy as you might think! Good luck!

The format is simple, easy to understand, yet not so much so you get bored. Some of the puzzles are quite challenging as your eyes won’t see the full words. Good one to play when you are waiting somewhere as you can close it without losing anything. Well worth $5

This is a really good brain workout! Some puzzles are fairly easy, and others, well, not so easy. I can go through a pack easily if I use hints, but it’s so much more satisfying to solve these on my own with no help.
I like the jigsaws that are mixed in as well.

This is not the first time I have seen and reported the highly offensive ad of a young black boy stretched and pinned on a spinning target and the game is to throw darts at him.

If you cannot monitor these hideous and offensive ads then you shouldn’t be allowed to offer your Bonza planet game.