Logic Puzzles - Clue Game
reviews and complaints

This is not a logic puzzle game, it is a block-laying/sudoku game. The screenshots of the game in the App Store are fake and I have reported this app for false advertising. You think you’re getting a logic puzzle game but they make you play an unrelated block game for a very long time before you’re allowed to play just 5 more logic puzzles. I feel so stupid for paying to get rid of ads. I got this app because it’s the same developer as Nonogram.com, my favorite nonogram game, but this game is a scam. It’s nothing like that other game because that other game LETS YOU PLAY. I’m very disappointed in this developer for this scammy app.

This “game” is completely ridiculous and nonsensical. Definitely won’t be around long. It’s clear that it’s all about the ads and the “developers” are not interested in gameplay whatsoever. There is legit more time spent watching ads than checking the mind-numbing boxes from the idiotic attempt at so called clues. It’s awful! Definitely do not do it. Or go ahead and try it and after experiencing it’s nonsense first-hand you’ll delete it too. I was hopeful that it would be a kind of riddle/mind teaser/ who done it type of game but come to find out… well I’m sure you understand my opinion at this point. Just save yourself some wasted time and don’t even.

I love the logic puzzles, they keep my brain busy and are fun to solve. My main issue (just like everyone else) is the stupid block game required for keys. I hate it. It’s boring and doesn’t give you enough keys. I downloaded this game for the LOGIC PUZZLE, not the block game. If you the developers want their game to succeed, get rid of the block game, or at least add a different type of way to earn keys. I’m now at the point where it takes me 100 keys to unlock one logic puzzle, and I’m definitely NOT doing that. Im only keeping the game for the daily puzzles, but even that might not be worth keeping the game for. Probably going to delete soon, do better developers.

If you want to download a logic puzzle app, this is not it, because it forces you to play an entirely different game for WAAYY longer in order to play the game you are actually interested in. Don’t waste your time. ALSO, why is the rating 4.4 if there a SO MANY bad reviews with the same complaint?

They just want the downloads and the first few plays, they’ll get their money that way. Very frustrating. The world needs more honesty.

If it sounds too serious of a compliant for a free game, it’s because this behavior only shows the true nature of the money-seeking big companies. Kinda sad when life is hard enough on its own and all you’re trying to do is have fun exercising your brain.

I never write reviews, but this app is such utter garbage I just had to. First off, the ads are insane, literally every single time you go to play a game its another ad. Second off, the “logic puzzles” could be better described as “basic instructions”, as 90% are ridiculously easy. Thirdly, you cant even unlock more levels without grinding your butt off in their crappy minigame. It legitimatelly took me several hours of grinding to unlock the second set of levels, all the while getting assaulted with ads.

Overall, if you’re looking for an ad watching simulator, you’ve found the app. I have to believe that the positive reviews are bots or paid for, because I genuinely feel like I’m owed a refund for this free app.

Okay, we’ll start with the pluses:
-ads are skippable after about 5 seconds and nearly always muted (BIG plus!)
-I never encountered a puzzle with typos, or not enough clues

Downsides:
-in absolutely none of the ads for the game or the screenshots do they tell you that you have to play the sudoku-style block game to earn keys to unlock the logic puzzles

Personally, I don’t mind a game that has two different modes, or an earn-to-play setup…. IF the game you have to play is interesting enough. But the block sudoku game gets really old, really fast. Also didn’t appreciate the way it got sneaked on me. Deleted it after only a few days. Sorry, guys. Maybe if you had multiple little mini games to earn keys, I’d stick around.

So far I haven’t come across a single logic puzzle that was at all challenging, there are some basic features that are missing, in other logic apps, once you have all the answers in the main blocks they don’t necessarily make you fill in the entire grid because it’s duplicate information…. This one does, but I can live with that… it also doesn’t let you cross of hints when you are done with them.

I don’t normally complain about ads, the developers need to be pie I get that; but this game takes it too far…. The puzzles are super quick and easy and then I get 2 ads in between each one…. I spend more time trying to click out of ads than playing the game.

I’m giving it 2 stars because it doesn’t look super trashy and gross.

I personally love this game, i love having a game to really set your mind and get it going. However, i feel the amount of adds are unnecessary and the ratio between keys to puzzles, i love the idea to get keys to advance but the fact that you have to get 30 keys to open the puzzle and you only get one key each 100 points on the additional game. i believe reducing the amount of keys needed to advance would cause this business to go up and have many more players playing the mind teasers and not just deleting the game because if the game to get to what they would actually like to play. I rate this game a 3. bearly i would say a solid 2 not a solid 3 again love the teasers but i’m not loving the way to get to them. thank you! ;)

As everyone is saying, this game is blockduku where you get only a bit of the game you actually downloaded, as a “treat”. I got to play 3 logic puzzles before getting locked behind a blockduku wall, a game I already uninstalled weeks ago because I find it boring. If I wanted to play blockduku, I would still have a blockduku game. And on the reviews the team keeps lying about having it to “add a challenge”, I don’t for a minute believe they’re actually this dumb, blockduku is not harder than a logic puzzle, just more tedious. We’ve seen them respond to this complaint dozens of times so you can’t blame lack of understanding of the issue anymore. If you just want to have a blockduku game that’s fine, but you’re lying about it and that makes you a group of terrible people.

Do not get this game. You may believe you are installing a logic puzzle game, but you’re not.

I absolutely love the main game and the user interface is perfect. I didn’t hesitate to pay the $5 to remove the ads. But, after you get through the first couple starter puzzles you are immediately LOCKED out of the next level until you play a completely unrelated and mind numbing “block game” which you must play, cannot get around, and must win 30+ times to earn enough “keys” to unlock the next level of game play. No way around it.

Devs: I didn’t download, install, and pay for the block game. I wanted the logic puzzles. Instead, I get to play the block game for 30-45 minutes to collect enough “keys” to unlock the next level of the game I paid for.

I requested a refund from Apple, but frankly, regardless of whether I get a refund or not, I’ve uninstalled this and will not re-install it.

Just like the other reviews, I didn’t download this app to play blockudoku. I wish they would create more challenging levels that weren’t locked behind a completely different game? I understand they want to add challenge to the game and make it so we don’t beat the game too quickly, but forcing us to play a ridiculous amount of a game that we don’t want to play is not going to make us want to keep this app. The key ratio is very imbalanced. Maybe we could earn keys from doing daily challenges, events, or from logging in every day in a row. I think we should only need about 10 keys to unlock the next level and they should get increasingly more difficult. My opinion is to get rid of the blockudoku all together, we’re here for the logic puzzles. The rest of the game is good. The actual puzzles are fun and I like the daily puzzle & events. I enjoy the other apps from EasyBrain so I’m willing to stick around in hopes that the creators listen to our reviews and make this necessary change soon.

The game is advertised as a logic clue puzzle game, they don’t tell you that you have to earn the actual game by playing a blockudoku game that is much too demanding of the player (100 points=1 key, each block placed = 1 point, 1-5 points earned per place with a 9 point bonus per each 9 blocks cleared in a line or box, which a multiplier for streaks or combos).

My hope is that the devs listen to the player base and either do what’s right and remove the blockudoku that nobody likes or reduce the points required to get keys (100 is too much, maybe 50 or 25). If you’re going to make me earn the game I actually want to play, either advertise it as a blockudoku game too, or acknowledge your intent to bait and switch the audience. It’s a pity because the game could be good without the blockudoku that you need to remove, thanks and I don’t care that the devs don’t intend on removing it, nobody wanted a blockudoku game with the same 8 block forms, we wanted the ACTUAL LOGIC GAME. Do what’s right, remove the blockudoku.

I love the logic puzzles. The block game takes so much time to do though.. and after doing it 100 times it gets so boring. I like the concept though! So maybe add different mini games other than just the blocks. Like a sudoku mini game, every game you complete you get keys. Or anything to add some spice you know. If not, maybe the quantity of keys earned should increase as you go further. Like once you get to levels you need 100 keys, it takes less points to get keys. The block game just gets mind numbing, I want logic puzzles to make my mind work or engage a little aha. So much potential with what could be added- I feel it could really keep your audience on the app, rather than them eventually getting bored or tired of block game and using the app less or not at all.
I’ve been playing this game for quite a while and the logic puzzles still haven’t gotten harder. They are just consistently on easy mode, maybe they get harder as a I progress but it take so long to progress when you spend a whole hour trying to get keys to do 5 levels :(

I like the logic puzzles & I don’t mind the ads. The blockdoku is the issue. I’ve played it before & deleted the app in 5 minutes, it’s just not for me. So to my surprise all of the levels(except for events & daily challenges) are locked behind a “mini game”, of which I don’t really like. That’s not the biggest issue, the problem is the amount of keys required to earn an unlock. There are hundreds of levels each with an independent key requirement(the lowest I seen was 30, but it quickly ramps up to an average of 100). You have to earn 100 points in blockdoku to get 1 key. Maybe it’s because I’m uninterested, or I’m just terrible at the game because my high score is 388 & that took a lot of time.

Not a fan, & it’s one of those apps where the ad shows a cool feature you’d love & presents it as the main game. I figure they do this because it takes more time & effort to create logic puzzles, but the community can assist that on easybrain’s site with a section allowing community created levels & just going through to select really good ones.

Genuinely this game would be fine if the key requirements weren’t so ridiculously skewed. You have to reach 100 points in the block game for a SINGLE key. Later levels can require up to 140 keys! You have to achieve 14,000 points to unlock ONE set of five puzzles. FOURTEEN THOUSAND POINTS. That means if I have an average of 500 points a game, I would have to play 28 games of blockdoku. For FIVE levels I very well may blast through in a few minutes. Others cost far less keys but that does NOT make up for the ridiculous amount of keys needed for each subsequent level. I downloaded this game to play logic puzzles, not blockdoku. At this point I’m spending 90% of my time on blockdoku just to get the ridiculous number of keys so I can move on. Either lower the number of keys required or increase the frequency of keys earned. I do not care that you think the blockdoku adds to the game, because at this point it does nothing but subtract from the experience. Fix the key balancing. This is ridiculous. You clearly haven’t taken other reviews into account.

okay this game is fun in all but there’s a lot of things wrong with it.

like every time i click a button there’s an add. and i’m not gonna pay to go add free or anything. i’m already done with one add, and then i click another button there’s another add. stop with the adds or else things are gonna get worse.

next is about the levels. why do we need to play another game to earn keys? the whole time i’ve been playing this game i have only been playing a block game. and every 100 points is a key. and you need 30 keys for a new level?! that’s 3000 points. i’m sick of wasting my time on that. the point of the game as shown in your add is to solve puzzles. not put blocks together.

lastly is the levels. back on my second point about keys. we shouldn’t have to use 30 keys and play a different game for a new level. we shouldn’t even have keys. we should we able to play. since that’s the point of the game, right? the point of the game is to solve puzzles! not blocks. it’s tiring to play another game and only after that when it’s done i have to play a game for the entire time that’s not even the name of the game.

please improve the game.

I play the “spot the differences game” from the same company and just recently found this one. I like logic puzzles and I enjoy the previous game from the same developer, so I purchased the ad removal package, only to then find out you have to play this weird Tetris/sudoku hybrid game in-between logic puzzles in order to earn keys to play the main game.

I do not enjoy the mini game at all. I’m sure there are some who do, but I would be willing to play it if I only had to play a couple of quick rounds in order to continue playing the logic puzzles (though I’m still not sure why the logic puzzles need to be gated behind anything?). In its current iteration, I get roughly 3-5 keys per round. To unlock episode 2, you need 30 keys, and the cost to unlock just continues to increase after a few episodes.

There’s no way I’ll continue playing if I’m forced to continue playing the mini game this much - the mini game requires more time and effort than the main game. Based on the other reviews I’m seeing, I’m not alone in these thoughts and I hope the devs take this into consideration.

I’ll happily revise my review if something changes, but for now I can only give 1 star as I barely get to enjoy the main game at all.

I play easybrain’s sudoku game and absolutely love it and need to go give it a great review.

My issue with this game isn’t with the logic puzzles or the fact that you have to earn keys to advance to the next set of puzzles. My issue is the ratio of logic puzzles to obtaining keys. It takes at least 30 keys and at 1 key per 100 points that takes also by playing a game they already have. At the end of the day you are playing their other game Blockdoku more than the logic puzzles themselves. This is my issue. I have to play an entirely different game more than the actual game itself. It’s due to a lack of skill but number of keys. If it were say 5 keys that wouldn’t as bad. But 30 keys means you need 3000 points just to unlock the next level. That’s a lot of game play of an entirely different game in order to play the actual game. Especially when I can just download the actually Blockdoku game from them. The least they could do was to make mini logic puzzles to earn keys to play the bigger ones. Or have a way to earn keys based how quickly you finish the logic puzzles or or how many mistakes you did or didn’t make. Getting the keys was tied into playing logic puzzles it would good.

Until that’s fixed I’ll stick to Easybrain’s excellent Sodoku game. I do highly recommend that game

These are much more enjoyable now! Lol keeps my brain working! Once I get used to making sure the X and the ✔️are actually on the setting I need I should have many fewer errors! I appreciate, for now, that there are 3 chances to get it right! Much different than at Uni! Lol Some of the wording really needs to be considered as you go. The compound sentences almost need diagraming there is so much hidden in them! Lol

Only suggestion I would offer is that you have an ‘expert’ setting or some such that doesn’t allow extra chances. Would make it more interesting.

If the game actually controlled the ads it would have gotten a MUCH lower rating!

The ads are pretty badly done. I don’t like noise, but I like to be able to hear my phone. The ads blare on very loudly and take over the speaker. Doesn’t matter how many times you choose mute (if it can even be found!) or if sound is off in your game! Migraines are NOT my preference when relaxing!

Plus there is NO way to give feedback and let the app or ad server know that you find specific ads totally objectionable.

There are 2 games that I have been getting ads about that disgust me.

One is for the makeover game that has the cruelest premise and dialogue. Just an awful way of thinking of people. Makes me angry every time.

The second is some kind of ‘dragon’ thing? Even though it’s animated the pimple popping and gross stuff being pulled out of ears makes me nauseous every time. Unfortunately, I seem to get it most when I’m playing and trying to eat! No warm or frozen food for me! Kills my appetite the hard way for quite a while.

Good game! Crappy ad partner and poorly designed product. Annoying people or making them ill doesn’t encourage watching or use.

Do not buy unless you’re more interested in playing a blockdoku game as opposed to the logic puzzles that is what the actual game should be. Total trash avoid at all costs.

It seems my complaint is very common. Seems you could just separate the games into two products and solve the poor reviews. If people want one or the other the can get what they want. If they want both get both.

The actual puzzles look and feel polished but I have very low tolerance for the number of ads the developers have chosen to force on players. Imagine you sit down to watch a favorite TV show and there is a commercial break every 30 seconds or so; maybe every time the scene changed. It’s just not fun.

There are apps that manage to get the monetization right but this isn’t one of them.

The clues are so small that even with my glasses on I can barely read them. And I understand that ads are your revenue model but putting an ad after every single solved puzzle is completely unacceptable. You'll get more players playing for more time if you let them get past at least two or three puzzles before you throw another ad in their face. Deleted the app after 3 levels {and three ads}

What they don’t show or tell you is that to unlock the next chapters you have to have keys. To get keys, you have to play a Tetris type game and earn keys based on your score. The number of keys required for each chapter is too high. You end up playing the Tetris type game more than you do the actual logic puzzles. A little upset that that wasn’t mentioned or shown. Probably will be deleting.

Although I love logic puzzles and would consider paying to eliminate ads, not for $5 and not for a game that is not unique or special or different. Especially since in order to play logic puzzle you must gather “keys” by playing a blockduko game. If I wanted to play blockduko, I would install blockduko. So, 2 stars, and I am uninstalling. Lots of other free (and ad-free!) logic puzzle games out there.

look im just gonna be simple with y’all, this is just their blockdoku game but if you play it enough it lets you do a little puzzle. if you wanted to do the puzzle game their advertising this game as just look a little further and you’ll find way better ones (for example the one by egghead studios (i think) works super well and the developers actually listen to complaints instead of copy pasting the same response over and over.

If you have to keep the Blockudoku game you need to seriously rethink the amount of keys needed.
I want to play a word logic game. Not everyone is into game type puzzles and you will lose players if you don’t listen to your reviewers.
That is why we take the time to write them for you.
I don’t mind playing a mini game to unlock further levels, but don’t make it where it becomes too time consuming to get back to our main download, the WORD LOGIC game.

These ‘puzzles’ contain many logical fallacies: modus ponens and tollens, synecdoche, false dichotomies, casual, etc. The presence, frequency, and method by which these fallacies occur and are relied upon severely detract from an otherwise well designed (including both UI and UX) and potentially interesting/ immersive experience. I would appreciate if the developers would be more cognizant of such avoidable limitations and re-edit some of their material.

When I downloaded, I thought that this was purely a logic games with a couple of ads and possibly a few other challenges like in their other apps, but when is ads for games ever really telling the truth?

The problem with this game: it’s glitchy, not the game promoted, and the puzzles themselves were dull and didn’t increase in difficulty no matter how far I got.

Respectfully, these three reasons combined made this game excruciatingly boring. Overall, this app was not for me.

Puzzles are easy. Adds pop up on the bottom obscuring the toggle switch. If you’re finger slips, you’re automatically marked as wrong instead of waiting until the end to submit. Adds before and after game play. You need to play a ridiculous Tetris wannabe game to earn keys to continue with one set of stories. There are way better versions of this game out there. Ones with fewer adds, no adds that OBSCURE game play, and don’t divert to other types of games so that you can continue the gameplay.

This is crazy there are so many ads: the games are easy and by the time you solve ONE piece of the puzzle you are forced to watch 15 second ad. More ad time than playtime . Deleted right away.

Edit in regards to developers response: make the full game paid in the shop instead of falsely advertising it as free if you are going to suggest the only way to make it playable is purchasing the full version. Terrible customer service in regards to every single complaint . The base game should be AT THE LEAST enjoyable without making a purchase .

I liked Soduko and Killer Soduko, so I decided to try this one. It’s disappointing to see that it’s designed to cheat. You earn keys to unlock levels by playing a game similar to Tetris. You get pieces that come in different shapes and positions, making about 40 configurations. It would be cool if these were random, but they are not! Out of 40 or so possibilities, you will get the only ones that won’t fit! You get three at a time, and if you can use anything except the 5-segment-horizontal-line, you will get two of those! STOP DESIGNING GAMES TO CHEAT!

I have a lot of EasyBrain games, I love their Nonogram, sudoku, word search. I’ve spent hours on and have purchased ads free versions of many of their games. I was excited to see they had a logic puzzle. I already play one type of logic puzzle from a different developer. I was really frustrated to see this game is locked behind another game. Their blockado game, which is a game I do not like at all. It’s really frustrating to realize you need to play a game you don’t like to get to a game you do like. I’ll be requesting a refund and deleting the app. It’s a shame.

No one wants this “blockudoku” garbage. I understand you don’t have enough puzzles to fill a whole game so you just pad the game time with useless unrelated “logic puzzles.” Either make a cross logic puzzle game or don’t.

Other apps do it better anyway. I do not like these “puzzles,” and if I DID, I would download an app full of them. No one asked for this and you’re being incredibly scummy by advertising a completely different app. 75% (or more) of the game time is not even the advertised puzzle.

I will not be downloading anything from your company again. I don’t intend on making the same mistake twice.

I downloaded this game for the logic riddles not for the sudoku-tetris game to obtain keys to unlock more logic level.

In my first 20 min playing this game, I have played the logic game for 5 minutes and have spent 15 in the sudoku par to gain a few keys to unlock the next logic leven and I not even close to obtain all the keys.

I will not continue playing this game for the hope of obtaining another 5 min of the logic part (my intention of downloading this app) and then going back to find several keys that will take like 2 hours and infinite adds. It’s not worth it

I hope no one else download this game.

Seriously, if I wanted to play the block sudoku game I would have installed it. Spatial games like that are not my forte, at least if there was a choice between block sudoku and regular sudoku that would be less painful. Also the rate of keys just is frustrating. And I’m still on the first story! Daily puzzle and events are nice though, so points for that. There are other logic puzzle games doing a lot better without these crazy other-game requirements. :/

Edit: Big improvement would be the events and daily logic puzzles granting keys. One key per puzzle. I promise it’d make me about a million times happier.

The first two sentences of the story are confusing even if not needed for the puzzle. 'A lady came to visit Miss Grapes the detective. She ... ' She who? She the lady or she the detective. It could be written better.

SECOND COMMENT
After playing a few games, I found the ads were interrupting my ability to maintain interest in your games. I would rather have a book of logic puzzles where I can turn the page and start a new puzzle without a break of my focus. Too many ads too frequently.

I also did not enjoy the "key" thing. It was just another distraction from working a logic puzzle. I have since deleted the app.

I thought the logic game sounded interesting because I love puzzles AND mysteries. However, I agree with another review about having to earn so many keys by playing a completely different type of game that I have no interest in at all simply to advance to the next level. Like another reviewer mentioned, I had to play the game I didn’t like even longer than I had the logic one and still only got 6 keys. Then when I realized I needed another 24 keys I thought well this is a waste of my time. If you ever decide to offer a logic game that is truly that, I’ll gladly give it another go. Too bad, because the logic game was fun.