Binary Dots - Logic Puzzles

This game is fun and the game itself runs well, but the app has no way of tracking your progress. You can’t see which puzzles you’ve already completed or even how many puzzles you’ve completed. It’s a very simple interface which is nice given how cluttered phone games have become, but it’s probably a bit too simple. Also, you can’t replay the tutorial or re-read the rules. For those reading I’d like to shut down some of the concerns other reviewers have. I’ve been playing this game way too much and I’ve gotten to a point where I can consistently solve hard mode puzzles without losing any lives. Of the last 20 or so puzzles I’ve done, each has only had one solution and I was able to find that solution without guessing wrong and losing a life. Although the three strikes rule limits you in the sense that you can’t mess up in the same way you would be able to doing binary sudoku on paper, it doesn’t limit you to finding “one of many possible solutions.” I promise each puzzle only has one.

This is a really neat concept for a game, I’m not sure if the developer invented or came up with this concept, but it’s enjoyable and cool. However this isn’t really a puzzle game you “figure out” it’s more trial and error than anything else and that’s never very much fun, but hey, I might be the one that’s too dumb to realize it can be done without guessing, that’s why I’m giving it 4 stars instead of 3.

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Hello all, This game looked quite interesting, I was excited to start playing it. I ended up being quite disappointed for the following reasons. The instructions aren’t quite clear. It took me about 2 levels to understand that each row has the same number of filled and unfilled dots. This was not explicitly stated in the tutorial. I suppose this might be my fault, I may have misread something. This is not what made me choose 2 stars on the review. The thing that frustrated me quite a bit was the fact they claim there is only 1 correct solution for any given level. This is not true. I played until level 5. While playing level 5, I got to a point in the level where it wasn’t obviously clear which space was either a filled or unfilled circle. So I thought about it, and determined it could be either, it would work either way. So on the space I was studying I clicked it to fill it with a filled circle. It was marked wrong, and put an unfilled circle in that space. Trusting my own intelligence more than the app, I drew the puzzle out on a piece of paper, and completed it with a filled circle in the space I was studying. The puzzle is correct, there are two correct solutions to the level 5 puzzle. I am not going to waste my time playing a game that doesn’t even know all the correct solutions to its own puzzles, and I recommend you don’t either.

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I really liked this game at first. Simple concept, well designed. But you get to a certain point in hard mode puzzles and there are clearly multiple answers. But the app tells you you’re wrong unless you answer one way. Not really a logic puzzle anymore, so it’s not really fun anymore. Would love if they did away with the 3 strikes, let you solve the puzzle how you wish, and then only tell you when you made a logically inconsistent choice, based only on how the puzzle has been filled in this far, not some “finished” version of the puzzle. Add in the ability to undo step by step so you have to figure out where you went wrong. Would make the game way more engaging.

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This is a good concept. But I think the beauty of a three strike system is that there is one correct answer that you can figure out. Not the case in this game. I’m positive that the solution that the game is looking for is one of at least a few possible solutions. That’s frustrating for anyone who wants to finish the puzzle perfectly but is forced to guess what specific solution the game has in mind instead of being able to submit any solution that holds true to the rules.. love the concept tho