Genius Puzzles

I’ve had this app for years now, playing thousands of puzzles and spending idk how many hours. -The variety of games is great. -If you don’t finish a puzzle, it’s automatically saved for you -All of the puzzles have adjustable difficulties -It tracks how many of each puzzle you’ve completed -No internet required -Most importantly (for me) there are BARELY ANY ADS.

I’ve put more hours into this than I’d like to admit. Love the games, love the app- but if I had one request, it would be to change the controls. If I want to ‘pencil in’ 7 different possible numbers onto a square, I have to tap the square to highlight it before adding each number, for 14 taps total. It would be much easier to highlight it once, then tap whichever numbers I want to pencil in. Makes playing one-handed unreasonable, stretching my thumb from the bottom to the top of my screen over and over. That’s the most limiting issue, but a huge benefit would be to select a number to see all of places it’s penciled in. If the devs read this, the controls on the Sudoku game by PeopleFun are pretty seamless, may be worth checking out.

i’ve had this app installed for a couple of years now and it’s provided countless hours of fun. there are currently 42 different games available (though it’d be cool to see more added in the future), each with a variety of difficulty levels, which helps keep it fresh and interesting. it’s got several recognizable classics including its own versions of minesweeper and sudoku, along with plenty of interesting less-familiar puzzles. my favorite aspect is that the whole app has a sort of low-tech feel to it — no unnecessary bells and whistles like the timers or three-mistakes-and-you-lose systems you find in other apps (looking at you, sudoku.com). my only complaint would be that the interface feels a bit clunky, but i’m a graphic design geek so that’s mostly me being picky; it doesn’t interfere with the functionality or enjoyability at all.

I really enjoy this app. There are a few games that I play the most. There is an issue recently where after I complete a game and try to start a new one, but it opens up my previous game partially completed. It has happened with multiple games including Tents, Towers, and Signpost.

Great variety of puzzles! I personally would like to see more sounds to enhance the play experience. Also the winning screen should have sounds! Obviously this could be a preference that could be turned off in settings. With a little tweaking here and there, this would become one of the best puzzle apps in the App Store!

Many of the puzzle types will be familiar, and many likely will be new. I’ve found myself drawn to some more than others but the variety of games and levels of difficulty is excellent. I also want to commend on the lack of in app ads that interrupt play which drive me away from many apps. My husband got jealous and downloaded this for himself!

I’ve used the app a lot, and while there are some annoying controls the only thing I really need is a “reset” feature. Checking answers while in progress would be very nice too, but resetting a puzzle is a huge thing I feel the app absolutely needs.

Please Fix: Pencil Feature in Undead Missing

The games are fun, but the solutions for the Undead game do not follow the rules. My husband also tried to play it and found the same errors. (I am a college professor and my husband is a project manager for a tech company—we have analytical minds and neither one of us could figure it out. Shame.)

The most annoying feature is that often when you solve a puzzle, you can’t see your solution because it is immediately replaced by a “puzzle solved!” message. Have a dismissible banner announcing that the puzzle is solved, please! And just now I solved a Mosaic puzzle but I didn’t get the puzzle solved message so I had to give up. When I was shown the official solution it was the exact same solution as mine. What gives?