Picture Cross Color

I enjoyed playing Picture Cross and back when this one came out, I downloaded it as well. I have completed all the puzzles (and all of the available bonus puzzles) and they can all be solved by just logic. No guessing! If you like it, you can pay as little as $1.50 to get 200 tokens and then the unsolicited ads are removed. Think about it; you get more fun from this than a candy bar or a soft drink! The ads they play if you don’t pay only come when you exit a puzzle. They don’t show up in the middle of play. I have also downloaded this to my kids’ devices. It great for stretching their math brain!

I just finished playing a “super-hard” puzzle in “Paris Pack - Color!” in the original Picture Cross. It was a fully enjoyable experience. I have been playing Picture Cross for a number of years and can truly say it is one of my favorite games. When you added the color packs to the original game, I couldn’t wait for more. Needless to say, I was excited when you added Picture Cross Color. Alas! Although I do play it, I find it a less than satisfying experience. A couple of times I have almost deleted it. Two games with the same rules and same strategy; what is the problem? The problem is with the execution of the game. In the original game’s color packs the player picks the space and then fills it with a color or an x. One also has the use of the pin tool in order to fill multiple spaces or even rows. I have never accidentally erased previous work and the play runs smoothly. In Picture Cross Color, I frequently accidentally erase previously filled spaces. Also I am frustrated because the last move may have finished several adjacent rows but I can’t finish adding the x’s all at once. Please consider changing the play in Picture Cross Color to the same technique as the color packs in the original game. I can guarantee that it will become one of my favorite games.

Definitely a fun game. Waited a while to post a review so I could be accurate :). So, right off the bat, Make a purchase. Doesn’t mater how small, do it. ANY purchase removes the unsolicited ads (you can still watch them for extra or free tokens or coins). Other then that, it is definitely a game you don’t have to pay for to play at all. (But save the headache, definitely was worth the couple bucks.). Now, i wish the tokens and coins given as rewards were more even instead of way more coins then tokens…. But still being able to turn around and use the coins to replay levels for tokens is working just fine. The daily token rewards are great especially when you log in daily even if just to snag your daily rewards. I liked that they seem to have events pretty frequently giving you more levels to complete, which brings me to my second complaint…. I had to wait several weeks for new levels to unlock, (but when they came out with more, they opened two new stages of levels so that was cool), but i was able to rack up all those daily tokens during then. Definitely worth the download though for sure. It’s never really given me any issues or had any glitches.

The pixel art style of the game and interface is very nice. The puzzle interface is not feature rich, but decently functional. When you’ve filled all blocks in a row or column, you can tap on the list of that column or row to fill in Xs. It would be nice to be able to mark that only specific colors won’t go in that square. The game uses key gems to unlock puzzles, but while it is ad supported, if you are low on them it will give you more to unlock the next puzzle, rather than locking you out like other apps might. UPDATE: this only happened for me in the first chapter grouping. After that you can get 1 gem for waiting 3 minutes, or wait for the next daily reward. I have an iPhone 7. The app can take a long time to load. Maybe 30 seconds? I haven’t timed it. I have also had multi-second freezes while in a puzzle. It’s an older device, but games like Sky still work pretty well on low settings. There is plenty of optimization to do for a pixel art UI. Also, if it offers you key gems for completing a puzzle, or more if you watch an ad, but then it can’t find an ad to serve you, it will lock up and you will need to restart the app.

I actually really love the game and play it all the time. However there is a new bug that makes it almost unplayable. During game play I will touch nothing on the screen and then it will think I have tapped on the add and all of a sudden I’m in Safari. It almost seems like it pops into Safari whenever the add changes toma new add. I also hate how the tokens work. I have actuaally amassed hundreds of them by only playing one game a day, gathering the daily tokens, and watching the add for the daily bonus tokens. Now if I want to binge play a bunch of games I can. But it really annoys me to pay 40 tokens for a Super Easy level that takes 30 seconds to complete. They should just all cost the same number of tokens. And there is zero point to the Coins. I have over 50,000 of them and will never use any of them. I wish I could buy Tokens with them. I would also love it if you added levels bigger than 15x15 on the iPad version. There is plenty of space and there needs to be more of a challenge. I beat every level without blacking out any of the non-numbered spaces and try to do it in color order to add some extra challenge. More boxes would also allow better pictures since some of the pictures are pretty unresembling of what they are supposed to be.

About the only thing I don’t like are the “Punisment Ads” when completing a puzzle. These frequently pop up as soon as you finish a puzzle. Generally they take at least two clicks and a minimum of 10-15 seconds to get through, before you are sometimes offered the opportunity to watch an ad for a free play or tokens. Oh! Also hate that when first opening the game on a new day, there is normally the opportunity to watch an ad for additional tokens. Unfortunately these ads can take up to 2-3 minutes to become available. Highly suspicious when all other ads are instantly available (or unavoidable). New puzzle books are added frequently to keep your interest, making this a great, long term option for new Nonograms. Easy to use interface for problem free gameplay, and easily replinshed game coins for hints if needed. Over all, a great option for Nonogram play that is well worth the install.

The puzzles are fun. I really do like the game. I would gladly make an in game purchase to remove the intrusive ads, if it wasn’t for one big problem… The free token bank is capped at 10, which means you cannot have more than 10 tokens at once unless you buy more or get some by replaying old levels. The problem here is that most new levels cost more than 10 tokens to play. So, you must either pay or constantly replay old levels in order to progress. This is insane and saps all fun out of the game, at least to me. Update: I am reducing my rating from 2 to 1 because of the developer response. First, it took 2 months for them to reply. Second, the reply ignored my original review. I already mentioned how the game lets you earn tokens. I stand by my review that it’s insane. Who wants to replay old levels over and over and over (yes, many many replays are required) in order to unlock new ones? Not me. And the daily rewards only give you enough tokens for a single level, sometimes two if you watch an ad. One star.

I would beg the developers to not use different hues of the same color as the only color in the puzzle. If your eyesight isn’t perfect, it’s extremely difficult to distinguish between them. Please use different colors! My other major complaint is with the underlying pictures. The puzzles are great, although recent packets contain a few almost impossible to solve, but the pictures are terrible. “In a garden” makes you think of vegetables and flowers but what you get is green grass and a lawn mower. There’s no motivation to keep on solving when you reveal pipes, trucks, sky and dull mountains. Very different from the monochrome version where theres always something interesting underneath the puzzle. And the animation adds nothing to the puzzle. It may be fun for the developers but it’s just plain irritating to the solver.

The game is nice, one of the better color nonogram apps I’ve played, but the tokens are an issue. Autogenerate 10 tokens only to have the next puzzle cost 15, even with a discount? I’m not watching 5 ads, and I’m not spending money. You either wait for the daily reward to give you more tokens, or you suffer 5 ads. Then when you finish a puzzle, you usually get coins, not tokens. I, personally, don’t really use hints, I like to figure it out myself even if it takes forever. I’m never gonna use these coins if their only use is for hints. Why can’t I buy tokens with coins? Why don’t I autogenerate, say, 20 tokens? If I can only ever generate 10, why not keep the costs of the puzzles lower than 10? I just don’t get it. I want to do multiple puzzles a day, but I’m forced to do one, maybe two if they happen to be cheap.

It gets extremely easy, even the most difficult levels, after some time. I’ve gotten to the point where I can complete every level without using any “X” to mark off spaces. If they expanded to puzzles larger than 15x15 I’d give a 5star. I don’t see why, after 100’s of puzzles, why the max grid size is 15x15. Not trying to throw shade but if you did the puzzles yourself you’d understand that after doing 100’s of these, players are going to want more of a challenge now that they’ve graduated from the first couple 100 puzzles and understand algorithms. Moved onto a different game that has more challenge to it but once you add more challenge I’d love to play this again considering it’s one of the most polished of its genre.

Look, the gameplay is great, probably the best nonogram game I’ve played. The main problem (and boy is it a huge problem) comes from the fact that you need tokens to play levels. That in itself isn’t an issue, except that you can only auto generate tokens up to 10. After the first pack, almost every puzzle costs more than 10 tokens (even with the discount for the lock being flashy). This means to play more levels, you either have to watch ads for the tokens or wait until your daily reward, which gives you somewhere around 5 tokens, increasing by around 5 each day. There’s also spending real money on tokens, but I’m not doing that. The puzzles in pack two were already costing around 15 tokens each to play, so I can’t even imagine the costs of the higher packs. Wish the design wasn’t overall so money hungry, otherwise a fairly good game.

I’ve been playing picture cross for over 5 years now, and down loaded picture cross color probably a year ago. I absolutely love them EXCEPT, now there is a huge square that appears when you don’t have enough coins to play the square you selected. It is absolutely annoying!! You have to click on the squares to see if you can or want to play it. That square is completely unnecessary. I’ve found myself leaving the game after it pops up because I have limited time when I play, and it seems I spend most of it closing out that ridiculous square. Please remove it! Anyone smart enough to play this game, should be smart enough to figure out if they have enough coins.

I enjoy the game and some boards can be a bit of a challenge but you only get up to 10 gems by waiting for the timer but most boards take more than 10 to play. You can only watch a couple of ads a day for additional gems which means you have to pay, jump through a bunch of hoops for free gems, or wait for the next day when you get more gems. I found I can only play 2-3 boards a day and then I’m stuck at only 10 gems again with no way to get more without wasting a lot of time or spending money. Good game but I may be deleting soon just because I can’t play it when I want.

I love puzzle games. This Nonogram is very well designed, even if it’s a tad easy. I like the use of colors - that gives it a challenge. The grid varies between 8,10,15 so far. Solving the group of puzzles will reveal a jigsaw type picture. Each game holds to a theme, like the forest with acorns, bears, etc. it’s easier to play on a tablet. I’m playing on my phone which makes it harder to fill the correct columns, fat fingers and my readers don’t help with the focus. All in all, enjoyable, fun, pleasing, gets you using the old brain. Cost is free, some ads, but they’re short and amusing. I recommend this game for the casual player.

I love this game but you don’t get enough tokens to play when you want. I do t want to delete but I want to find a game I don’t have to pay to play. They also need to add a clear button so I can start over with a screen when I want to. It’s too bad they set it up like this. Discouraged Also, your constant response to everyone about the many ways to earn tokens is redundant and not what we want to hear. It’s a pain to wait and there are NOT many ways. Stop making us buy tokens. At least make the winnings pay for the next game. The truth is I love this game but your making it difficult for the dedicated players to keep playing. Try making your dedicated players happy and actually listen to what they are saying.

I have downloaded a LOT of Nonogram/Griddlers apps and this is by far my favorite. The ones that don’t allow you to make mistakes (three hearts) get deleted right away - or not downloaded at all. I love the mono-color Picture Cross, but the color one blew my mind! I’m done with all the puzzles, not so patiently waiting for more packs to be released. I even bout something through a tapjoy link so I could play non stop. Ummm, so I finished the Wizard and Bakery pack in two days. I would love an advanced pack, (Red and Orange puzzles only). I do Green and Blue ‘only when I have to’. Excited for more packs to be released! — Color Lover

Ive inly been playing for about 2 hours but so far i absolutely love it. Ads aren’t constantly popping up and being annoying thats wonderful. I like that i can pretty much play as much as i want in one setting and not have to wait hours for 5 minutes of playtime. The pixel art is adorable and i feel like im actually getting a good reward for completing puzzles. The puzzles themselves are the perfect amount of challenging. Overall i love this game and would 100% recommend it

Enjoying this game. Good variety of challenges. Maybe these are already features and I missed them. But I would like to have a way to erase the whole board and start again. Also a way to lock rows or columns that I know are correct. It is easy to touch squares in place and not mean to, especially on the 15x15 grids. When using coins to get a hint for rows or columns, it should either lock or be indicated as finished in a different color. I have accidentally erased a row that I spent coins on… If the game had these features, it would be a 5 star for me. I do like the pictures and themes, and so far have not duplicated any pictures. So nice job on the variety!

I have a problem my hands where I frequently touch my tablet when I’m not meaning to. In fact I’ve had to write this review over several times because I keep accidentally tapping out of it. When I am tapping on a row or column to fill the line with x’s, sometimes I will accidentally touch the one next to it which automatically gives me the answer to that line, also spending all my coins in the process. I wish there was a way I could turn that feature off so I don’t have to worry about accidentally touching the screen anywhere. Is there anything I can do???

So not that long ago an update was done where when you select a puzzle a separate screen pops up if you don’t have enough gems to play it. So when I am looking through a large board I have to hit the X to close the pop up multiple times while looking for one I am able to play. It’s very frustrating. I wish it went back to the original way and I could just tap them and see how much for each board. Otherwise I really enjoy this game and play it throughout the day but this new change has bothered me since it popped up.

I’ve played this game and their normal version of Picture Cross for a long time now and have always highly recommended both of them. This new update though has me bothered. Before I could click on the puzzles and see how many tokens it took to unlock. Now when you do that, if you don’t have enough, it gives you a pop up to buy more tokens. I’m not opposed to buy them at times, but it’s a huge annoyance when trying to find on to play. Constantly having to close out of the pop ups has made the game annoying enough that I only play the normal version now. If they go back to not having the pop up, I’d easily give it a five. Until then, I’ll keep it here.

The graphics on this app are way too busy. The background moves and there’s a hundred different buttons in bright colors with no explanation what they do. How am I supposed to focus on a puzzle with all these distractions? Compare this to the original picture cross, which has some graphics on the main page, but when you enter a puzzle, it’s a just simple gray background with a few easy to navigate menus. And yes, I’ve seen the “accessibility settings response” on some of these complaints. Listen, I don’t want to reduce motion on my entire device just so this one app becomes playable. That’s ridiculous. Add some settings on your own app to tone down the graphics.

I’ve been playing both of your Picture Cross games for years. I love them and they are the best out there by a long shot. New puzzles though don’t come out soon enough. I end up waiting 2+ months with nothing to play. I know a lot of work goes into each of them, but it would really help if players weren’t left high & dry so often. Otherwise, keep up the great work!

Pros: there are a lot of puzzles and the animations when you finish the theme is really great. Cons: 1) It’s not the easiest to control. You can’t zoom in or use arrows, basically anything to see past your fingers. I don’t have fat fingers but I do have long nails and it gets in the way. It’s very easy to undo work that you already did if you accidentally drag to far. An undo button is also desperately needed. 2) You can only play about 1 or 2 games every time you check in. Your keys to unlock levels come back pretty fast but they max out at 10. I’m only on the 3rd theme and at least 50% of the puzzles need more then 10 keys to play, up to 25. The only way you can get more than 10 is the daily login so only once a day or by watching ads… for one key. I think getting keys back slower but giving you more keys per ad is better. Also there’s no way to avoid ads because they play after most of the levels.

I have been hopelessly addicted to the non-color version of this game, to the point that I’ve completed over 5,000 games! I loved the color puzzle packs that came with it, so I was very excited to start on this version of the game. The problem is that I have to watch an ad for EVERY SINGLE GAME! This was not the case in regular picture cross. If I had to rate this game on a single color puzzle, I’d give it five stars. But it is intolerable to have to watch an ad between each game. I like to think I’m doing something wrong, because other people don’t seem to be seething like I am. I hope someone can enlighten me.

Their other nonogram product, Picture Cross, allows the player to either select tiles individually or control a pointer. When playing on a tablet, I’m sure individual selection is no issue. Playing on a smaller screen, on a phone, makes selection difficult. If you’ve already developed a tool to fix that problem, why wouldn’t you include it in all products going forward? This could be a great game but I’m not going to play it if it has an inconvenience. It’s a hurdle I just don’t think is worth the game play. Download Picture Cross. It’s great. When Picture Cross Color gets the selector tool, it’ll be great too.

Excellent, relaxing game. Only flaw is that once you start completing most of one page, it increases the amount of the cost to where you cannot afford them unless you watch videos or wait until your free daily keys. Then you’re basically stuck waiting a day unless you want to watch ad after ad for one key at a time. Terrible flaw. One way to combat this in my opinion is either short ad times for daily streaks or even increase the key amount more than it is.

Besides trying to tap small squares on tiny phone with big finger the Hint system is the most irritating thing about the game. It uses a tap on th label of the row/column and so does “fill in with X” auto if you solve it correctly. The issue being that there is no warning after the first pop-up thst you are using Hint instead of Auto-fill. Then, you also lose 250 gold to play puzzles. Lame. There are no way to turn off hints or change the gestures so the auto-fill and hint aren’t the same thing. The game auto saves and there is no way to reset the game from scratch. Now, I am out a lot of gold on the first puzzle and no way to fix it. Ready to delete and not look back.

I love the game. Different pictures and puzzles it’s a real time flyer 😂. However, I would like to have more coins generated into the game instead of having to wait about 5 mins in order to receive one coin. I think once you complete a hard puzzle there should be a coin reward so it can keep me playing the game longer. Also would love to actually complete a Simpson picture that’s always advertised. Other than that I totally recommend for those who love challenges and solving puzzles.

This is such a fun and relaxing game, however you can only “replenish” up to 10 tokens at a time. Almost all of the puzzles cost 11+ tokens to open, so other the daily bonus you get for logging in, you can only play 1-3 puzzles a day. Then you have to wait until the next daily bonus to do 1-2 puzzles again. Very frustrating. Other than that, 5 star game easily. Had to rate it down bc the token system is frustrating and I’m not going to pay for more tokens. Atleast let me watch ads for tokens or something. 🤷🏻‍♂️🧂

I thoroughly enjoy this type of puzzle. That said, I have bad eyesight and these are difficult to see. The grids are very small and the colors are often too similar for me to be able to tell the difference. And sometimes I can’t tell if I’ve actually put a color in a square or not - like when there are very light colors such as pale yellow and light gray. Otherwise, it’s an enjoyable game. If the grids were bigger and the colors bolder - which would make it more “user friendly” to the visually impaired - I’d give it 5 stars,

I love this game so so so very much and I think it’s much better than the original the color makes it much more lively and fun. I highly recommend this game if you like colored nonogram. I know if you download it you will love it! Honestly I can’t think of any bad parts of this game only good things but my favorite part is how calming it is. I love this game so I think you should download it. Bye!

I’m just going to start off by saying that I love this game. It’s so much fun and I would play it all day if I could. I have recently found an issue, though. Anytime I earn over 20 of those green tokens and I play one that costs 10 or more, the rest of the tokens disappear. Just today, I had 22 of them and played one that was only 10. Once I get in, I looked up at the amount of tokens and there was none. I hope this gets fixed soon. Thank you :D

I like the puzzle concept as it’s a neat spin on the standard picross puzzle type most of us are used to. Unfortunately it costs a lot of tokens to continue past the first stage of puzzles, and the ways the app offers you more is intrusive. I don’t want to enter my info on a sketchy site or watch 5 minutes worth of ads (at least) just to get enough tokens to unlock the next puzzle. I’ve seen the devs respond to reviews pointing out that there’s lots of ways to earn tokens in the app, but the truth is all of these methods are far more trouble than they’re worth. Unless they offer a way to pay a fee to unlock all puzzles, skip this app.

This game all comes down to the tokens. I open the app and collect my tokens every day. I’ve also paid for tokens to play. (What’s the point of the coins anyway? Totally useless). Anyway, I saved my progress on the cloud and updated my phone like normal people do, and poof- my tokens are gone. Come to find out they don’t transfer. Okay, so, I was supposed to play 60+ levels before changing phones? Come on. I want a good reason why my tokens don’t transfer. Otherwise it’s just rude. 👎 Updating again. Apparently now when you purchase tokens you don’t get to earn them anymore. I swear to god if this wasn’t the best nonogram app….

I’ve been enjoying the game. But I personally enjoy the original better. I downloaded this one when I had maxed out the puzzles on the original. Anyway, my Apple ID is linked to my 7 years old’s tablet as well as my phone. So she has access to the games I “Get”. This morning, I did a puzzle in your Stadium pack that was a “Streaker”. This isn’t something a parent should have to explain to their 7 year old. Your game is rated 4+, and this doesn’t seem to be appropriate content for that age.

I enjoy this game and waiting for coins is slightly annoying but it’s ok for playing a couple games a day. This new update where it tells you that you don’t have enough coins to play a puzzle is absolutely annoying. You have to click on each game to see how many coins you need and then have an ad pop up that you don’t have enough and how you can get more. Either get rid or that or display the amount right on each game. This is so annoying I almost don’t even want to waste time playing it, half my time is spent clicking and closing that pop up.

Love the added element of color to the typical picross/nonogram formula and lovely art seals the deal. This game has successfully retained my attention for 3+ months, which is more than I can say for basically all the games on my phone. Some ads between levels but not an unbearable amount like some other games on the App Store. Great fun! Definitely recommend as a fun wind-down game/time-killer!

Okay let me say I truly love the puzzles… here’s my problem and it’s sort of a big one. Most puzzles cost more than 10 tokens to complete. For reference I’m pretty sure it ranges close to 6-25. When a bunch of puzzles cost anymore than 10 at a time and the max amount of token you get recharged equal up to 10 clearly it’s not enough. If you’re going to make the puzzles cost so much why not give us the means to complete them without having to rely on making purchases or daily bonus to do one puzzle. That’s ridiculous.

I love this game but it punishes you for playing. Having to pay to unlock levels is a stupid money scheme when you don’t even earn anything to unlock the level. They continuously increase the cost of each level yet don’t give you more of the keys you need. It literally punishes you for playing it more. I love the idea and practically everything else about it. But it isn’t good enough to waste my money on it. If it was just paying to get rid of ads that would be one thing but blocking the game behind a paywall after putting time into it? That’s not okay.

I started out playing the original game with only black tiles, and upgraded to the color version. Having the strike marks through each individual number as you solve a row or column makes things too easy. Part of the challenge of the original game was figuring out WHICH of the blocks you had just filled in. The strike marks take away that extra level of deduction and it’s not as satisfying. I wish there was a setting to turn off the strike marks.

Fun at first but you green gems acrue over time but to a max of 10. So you get stuck and can’t play a single game till the next day when you login and get a bonus amount of gems. The only other way is to buy in or wait for the random adverts that will give you some but again they only build up to ten.

The game is fun and challenging, I would give it a much higher rating, but I think they’re too restrictive in tokens. If the max of tokens is 10, then I would expect that all puzzles would take no more than that. I can pay to speed it up, or wait the timer. The problem is that many puzzles eventually take more than 10, which then slows you down to basically 1 a day without paying, and I don’t like this.

Overall love this game. I can zone out while my kids watch a movie and just pass the time. What I hate is that there is no way to disable the clues. I can’t count the number of times I’ve accidentally filled a row. I want to actually solve the puzzles, not have them solved for me. Surely there is a way to add in the settings a button to turn it off so it never helps you.

Fun app. I don’t mind apps running ads. I do get frustrated when bonuses are tied to watching ads, the ads crashing, and you losing bonuses. This app ties up a lot of memory and I believe this causes the ads to hang or lock. Developers want user to debug ads by making us figure out who’s the ad agency. Usually the ad crashes before seeing the info button. But still, developers should troubleshoot ads before allowing. I have repeatedly reported problems but developers won’t look unless I can identify ad group. Not a good time.

I like the color puzzles, but I hate that when you get closer to completing a board, puzzles cost an increasing amount of tokens. Puzzles shouldn’t be 40 tokens, especially since the daily rewards aren’t anywhere near that. I will say that you do get more surprise token rewards after completing a puzzle than you get in the original game but it still isn’t enough

I love the game but it freezes up during game plan and I have to wait 15 seconds to switch colors or fill a square on the board. I have plenty of memory and storage place and can play other games without issue. Many times, after watching an ad, the screen goes black and I have to relaunch the game and it does not give me credit for the ad.

The design and game play is much better compared to picture cross but I hate the fact that with picture cross color I am forced to buy tokens or wait. When a puzzle is solved I only get what gets me to 10 tokens. I’m only on the second world and I have to buy or wait because most of the puzzles are over 10 tokens. I love nanograms but I would like it to be easier to gain tokens besides repaying the same puzzles or spending money.

Like the game. Love the challenge. Hated the freezes. Had to power off and on several times to get the game to progress but even then would glitch freeze misplay on a level. Was annoying but could deal with. Until today when I clicked on the right advert icon to get more keys and it totally froze AGAIN. Chose not to power off and on my device AGAIN to reset it. Deleted the app.

The gameplay itself is awesome. Great puzzles etc. issue comes up with token system. You need tokens to play levels, and you quickly start to run low. Then you can either buy them, watch ads that are way too long, or replay older levels to get tokens, which becomes super boring. The game will refill up to ten tokens over time, but most levels are over ten tokens. It’s really annoying.