Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells in IOS

★★★★★

★★★★★ Game Review

Just here to update my review. Great improvements have been made since the last time I rated this game. More chances to win powerups and coins have become available and I love it!! Some levels are still challenging but the chances of winning them are greater now. Much respect to the developers of this game. Previous review: This game has changed significantly since I’ve started playing. It used to be fun but the Legends puzzles are ridiculously frustrating. It’s like you can’t breathe. Commercial ads that are meant to give you additional moves only show up when you don’t even have a chance of winning. The game recommends ages 4+. How is a 4 yr old supposed to achieve a level like the ones designed for Legends?!?! Really? I miss the old version of the game. I used to win coins and XP. I loved the boosters that emerge at the beginning of each puzzle and the boosters from the creatures. I also miss the daily unlimited lives you get when you first open the game. But a lot has changed. The regular puzzles are awesome but the Legends puzzles are too complicated for no reason. The puzzles for the Professors used to offer 4 chances; now it cut down to 3. How generous… I LOVE playing regular puzzles but until more of those come around, I just won’t play bc Legends is really annoying. I love Harry Potter, and sadly this game isn’t doing it justice anymore.

★★★★★ Wizarding World of Fun!

I love this game. I’ve been playing it for years and it’s by far my favorite. I’m a huge Harry Potter fan, and this game has plenty of fun elements from the movies, along with Fantastic Beasts. Good graphics too. The developers have taken comments into consideration and made so many improvements over time, all making the game even more enjoyable. I love the random option to watch adds for 3 more moves. I love the daily puzzles and events that give opportunities to win gifts. I do think the maze is nearly impossible to win chests. I wish each dot on the course didn’t have to be repeated multiple times. I’d prefer more stops before reaching creatures than playing the same puzzle over and over. However, the map is cool and I like playing it. I also like that the earned pts remain available and continue to accumulate each time it comes back around. I also agree with others that it would be nice to boot team members over time if they haven’t played in over a month or so. I’m the only member of my team who plays. I know I can change teams. It’s not a huge deal but would be nice to make space for newcomers. Regardless, I love this game. Thank you to developers for listening to feedback and making improvements. It is noticed and appreciated!

★★★★★ Love the game but going broke playing it

First I have to say I absolutely love this game! It’s challenging and creative and the graphics are phenomenal. But here comes the sad reality of this game and why I finally had to review it and only give 3 stars…lately all I do is shell out A LOT of money to play with nothing in return. There are no more magical creatures yet I still earn stars for them. Give me coin instead. Stop being so greedy! You can barley play multiple games without having to shell out money to finish every single time. Maybe I finish one in every 20 without having to pay to finish. And it gets frustrating because at my level I shouldn’t have to be doing that. It’s also shady when you have spent a lot of coin to try and finish a game yet that one lightning bolt or color gem you need to win is suddenly moved out of place. Its becoming less and less “fun” and more like a bad habit I need an intervention for. But the pranks are the absolute worst! I can’t stand them. Please please please don’t bring them back. Ever! I’d love to give you more stars and I feel 3 is being generous and that’s is because it is a great game. And I understand the monetary aspect of these, I don’t have my head in the sand about that. At all! But when you have to spend over $50 to finish a game or 2 EVERY DAY that’s taking it to far. As with most of Zynga’s games I’ve played I’m finding greed is eventually outweighing the fun and I have to stop playing them all together.

★★★★★ Biggest issue in my opinion

So I love this game but my only issue is the fact that for the Clubs/Clans in the game if players aren’t active they just sit there. For example my club leader hasn’t been active for over a year and neither has the Officer, I feel like if players haven’t been online after a certain amount of time they should be booted from the club or at least have the leadership removed and passed on to someone else so that person can kick them out and make room for people who actually want to play the game and progress as a team Update so I play this game with my mom I have for the past 2-3 years we love the game but our biggest issue is still the clubs 29/30 people in our club and half of the including the leader and officer of our club have been inactive for such a long time we stand zero chance of progressing because of this. I have a hard time believing we are the only clan to have this problem. Sure the easiest path would be to ditch the club and move on but again I have a hard time believing we are the only people. My clan has at most 6 active players if that 6!!!! 29 people in my clan and only 6 of us are playing we can’t boot anyone to make space for more players we can’t do anything and honestly it’s kind of crappy. Highly doubt I’ll get any sort of reply to this though I didn’t last time 🤷‍♀️

★★★★★ Ad Failures and frustration

Let me start by saying this review is not the typical railing against ad-based games in general. I understand the need for monetization and respect a developers preference to release a game as “free” but ad-supported. Having said that, the way this game treats ads is clunky, frustrating and prone to utter failure. The gameplay is enjoyable, visuals are impressive but the game is created in a way to push the user to click on an ad to extend a board (i.e. watch this ad for 3 more moves). The amount of times that this process has failed on me cannot be coincidence. I will be conveniently one move away from completing a particularly hard level so will click the ad to extend. The game will fail or lock up immediately after the ad plays or the ad will play through but will fail to provide the reward once the ad completes. It is also ridiculous that although I touch nothing on screen while the ad is playing the game will still try to kick me to the App Store for the ad that just ran. If I exit out via the Done button THEN the game will fail and force me to restart thus losing the reward and my progress on the ridiculously hard level that prompted me to suffer through the ad to begin with. I shouldn’t be surprised since this tends to be typical of Zinga games in general but this one is frustrating enough to force me to write this review. Hope this helps someone avoid this frustration in their lives and I will be deleting this one from here.

★★★★★ Cheaters

I would love to give this game five stars but due to coming across so many cheaters and zynga not doing crap about them is so upsetting when someone has almost 20,000 trophies in less then 3 days then obviously they are cheating I spend over $100 a week usually more and play many many hours and have not come anywhere near this I can get around 2,000 trophies and I have a 95 win streak and when I see people with a thousand win streak or more and outrageous amount of trophies I report but this person who is making more then any other person and is making the amount of trophies an entire club of 30 makes in a week in just a couple days all by himself and has been making first place every week then somethings up and zynga ain’t doing their job this persons all time record is almost 40,000 trophies it’s so obvious that this person is cheating and zynga does nothing just says they take it seriously and cannot say what actions were or weren’t taken it’s to the point that I won’t be spending my money on this game until zynga bans benny he gets more trophies then others I have reported and were banned and I will keep reporting cheaters I hope everyone else does too mayb then zynga will stop being lazy and actually take us seriously we want a FAIR game zynga and until zynga starts getting actively involved in looking for and banning cheaters then this game will be just that a place where cheaters get away with cheating

★★★★★ How Much $$ Do You Have?

The game has turned into a desperate money grab. This new elite pass is the epitome of greed. For the last 5 years since this game was created, you could buy the Premium Season Pass with gold coins you collect in the game. I wouldn’t even mind buying the new Elite Pass but as soon as you buy anything with real money-the game punishes you by taking away other beneficial options. The game has become incredibly “tight”. The rewards are cheap. You get very little gold, yet you need 900 gold to get 5 extra moves in the puzzle. You have the option to watch videos for these extra moves but then that option goes away once you spend real cash. It’s a vicious circle. You can’t get away with just spending $5 a week. Nope! The events that give the most rewards-power ups, trophies and gold-they require you win puzzles consecutively so if you lose one puzzle-you lose the rewards. So-in a sense, it requires you to spend money. You simply can’t play this game for free. And I’m FINE with spending money on something I like but feeling forced is something else. I’m quitting the game after 5 years of play. Do NOT even start to play this game if you aren’t willing to spends hundreds per year. I’m not joking. You’ll get all the freebies at the start and then they will take and take. This Elite Pass is a SHAM and a true SHAME. Shame on you once again, Zynga.