Lines the Game 4+

Just Plain Fun

Offense, defense, passive play. Still amazing and fun. Update March 2023: Still loving this game. Wow. Very few games hold my interest this long. 499 levels now! Every time you play, it is different. 2018: It's simple and complex at the same time. Pure enjoyment. Although I've mastered the puzzles long ago, I still visit the Lines app now and then... because every puzzle (there are 250) is different...every single time. The developers have a deep understanding of physics -- which I DON'T have, but I know enough about to recognize a masterpiece. Well-done. And it’s definitely a brain-builder. You learn how to gauge the probability of winning the race. There's offense involved (getting to the crossroad first), and defense (strategically blocking the opposing colors), and passive play, too (let the opposing colors block each other). This is a game that really has a lot of depth and skill involved, if you choose to look for it. I am completely loving this. Previous: Highly recommend this game. The more I play, the better I get at seeing where to add points, erase points, or cut lines. Love this gameplay.

Update is da bomb!

More well-considered figures (25 of each of the 5 types), and an excellent reworking of functionality. Easier to replay same figure, but easier as well to explore new figures. Should you happen to boot out of a game in progress, when you reboot you face the identical configuration, allowing you, finally, to be able to try different approaches to the same problem. And the daily puzzle, instead of repeating the same figure, bounces around to a new figure each iteration. New mode of play, Infinite, challenges you to play as many games as you can without losing.
As always, I have no clue of the business model of games: no extras to buy, no fancier version you can pay up for, and if there are ANY ads I haven’t seen them. But god bless ‘em. Perhaps we’re getting lured into briquid mini.
Bug: bronze, silver, gold medals awarded 90% too soon. Rope level 57 no longer endlessly reiterates same unwinnable setup.

Awesome!

Update: I paid to remove ads, but the ads are still showing up. I’m downgrading my rating until this gets fixed.

I love, love, love this game! I finally have gold trophies on all 250 levels, although it took me a few months of playing sporadically to get there. Will there ever be more levels? All I can do now is replay levels and try the daily challenges. Update: There are new levels!!! I love the new format! A trick to keep in mind is that mathematically, sometimes the puzzles are impossible to win. When this happens, back out of the puzzle, and press play again. Voila, the puzzle resets! This game is fast, challenging, and mathematical, but not in a 'classroom' way. There are angles in some of the geometric shapes that help you figure out where to place your points; in other puzzles, it's not obvious at all. The best piece of advice I got while playing this game was from my son: he said that "they (the opposing dots) are going to get some portion of the puzzle; you just have to try to get more of it." It seems simplistic, but I had a mindset (at first) that I didn't want to give away any more than I had to. Accepting that they will get 'some' of the space made it easier, somehow. Hope that makes sense. Great game and I highly recommend it!

Developer Response ,

Hi there, this is fixed! After installing the most recent update, you need to need to click on Restore Purchases in Settings once. After this, the Remove Ads unlock should be saved properly. Enjoy playing Lines!