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Take The Cake: Match 3 Puzzle – Puzzle Game Review
Take The Cake: Match 3 Puzzle is a Puzzle/Casual game from XI-ART Sp.z o.o., first launched in 19th December 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 24+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Take The Cake: Match 3 Puzzle Stand Out
Once upon a time there was a girl Julia. And she had a kitten Kitty. But one day Kitty disappeared.
And then Julia started on her journey to the Magic Forest to find her lovely kitten.
It was very scary at first, but very soon she met her good friends who helped her.
The Magic Forest was full of sweets and adventures.
Please, help Julia pass all the tests and find her beloved Kitty.
Features:
- more than 120 magical levels + new ones every week over the air;
- sweet cakes and sweet graphics for your pleasure;
- you can ask your friends for help while you are playing;
- sweet boosters to make a magic while you are playing;
- magic sync to Facebook app to let you play anywhere you wish;
- grow up the Magic Strawberry to find the hidden magic place;
- the deeper you are in the Forest, the more magical items you can find and the more sweet challenge you can get;
- don't worry about the rules, you will be helped while you are playing.
Stop reading! Let's make this sweet magic with us!
FACEBOOK PERMISSIONS EXPLANATION
We will never post on your feed without your explicit intention to share your best results with your friends.
(in this case you have to press special "Share" button in the game)
We asking you about two simplest permissions on Facebook:
"Basic info" – to get your Facebook ID and friends list.
"Publish actions" – to add some game achievements to your timeline
(and you can hide them from your Facebook account at any time).
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Take The Cake: Match 3 Puzzle is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th January 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- bugs fixed
- facebook connection improved
- a few levels rebalanced
Download & Availability
Take The Cake: Match 3 Puzzle is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Take The Cake: Match 3 Puzzle on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Love this game but needs to be updated with new levels after many years that it has not been. Would not want another game thrown in the trash.
Us encantaba este juego, por favor queremos mas niveles.
We like this better than most match 3 games. And we like that this game gets progressively more challenging as you go. And is it just us…. We just love the sounds,feel, and "texture" of this game – strangely compelling! Can't believe how many reviewers say they had to spend money! It def gets tough but we completed it without spending a penny. This game is our all time fav! Just the right degree of challange.
Fun game but no power ups to earn whole game advance in how much you pay to play.
When we got our new iPad mini 4 we transferred everything from our old iPad. We were on level 78 on old we'd but you only put us to 44 on our new one. That's losing 34 levels! We don't know how or why but it's very irritating. We've tried everything suggested and nothing works. Maybe we'll just delete the game totally.
A lot like candy crush but less annoying. Addictive and challenging.
Please more 3 match games. Thanks.
Fun game, nice and easy to just pick up and play whenever you have a few minutes. But it is addicting.
So…..we like the game,but since the last update was 9, yup, 9 months ago. We guess we'll delete it.
When you need so many of a certain item, and you have lots of moves to get them, but you don't put enough on the board to get. Unbelievable.
We understand that games need to be challenging in order to last longer but this is ridiculous! Way too few moves are allowed in the time allotted and you can't pass without boosts and power ups. We've had enough of the greed – deleted.
You(Admin) have us blocked for some reason, we can't purchase anything, so we're giving this app one star. We only played the game, which we enjoy, so PLEASE UNBLOCK ME!!!! We DID NOTHING WRONG.
Almost at top level. Please make more.
We have really enjoyed playing this game, not so easy it's boring, just challenging enough to enjoy.
We've only been playing For a little for a few day's And love it.
We rated this 5 stars because of the strategic moves that you have to do on the levels as you advance further.
Very Interesting some levels are hard but some are Easy. In all we love to play It.
A really tough game, but a lot of fun. Really challenging.
Love this game! Starts off easy and gets challenging fast with each level.
So far it's a okay game. That move pretty fast and easy.
It's always challenging from one level to another some are hard to pass but if you keep at it you can finally pass it , it might take a while but love trying.
We love this way better than Candy Crush! Somehow, it feels more gratifying. Only wish that we could see friends who are already playing on FB rather than having to invite the world.
Fun and challenging. Like it a lot. Pat.
We really like this game! But…. It stopped at level 92! And tells us more coming soon!! Well what is your definition of soon? We've been waiting a while!!! And we think when spinning the wheel you should get something when you match 3 like items!! All you get right now is gold bars, if any show up.
So much fun it's hard to step away from. We love being challenged by the higher levels.
Why is that when im playing the cake machine and we match 3 cakes in a row we dont when any thing? Only winning because gold bars pop up is lame since we had to wait so long to play it again any way.
This game gets challenging right away. When we first saw graphics we thought they could be improved…but do like this game.
Lots of fun. We got stuck on level 40, there are no instructions on how to get by it. But we just figured it out, now our goal is to beat this level. We wish more of our Facebook friends were playing. It's much better than Farm Heroes which we loved, but because of the last update it just freezes. Take the Cake is now our game choice. Bring on more levels.
We're giving this game three stars because we were able to beat every level without an in-app purchase. BUT we've been waiting for a new level for three months now. We're at level 92 and haven't been able to play because we have three stars on every level.
We're giving three stars for a couple different reasons… 1) Though we love a challenge the game seems to be designed to force you to spend money. We have no problem spending cash now and then but we do get peeved when it feels forced. May sound crazy to some but that's the best way we can describe it. 2) The slot machine. You only win if you happen to get a gold bar and then if you do, it's only one. Again, with MY money we have no problem spending if the creators of the game have also been generous to their customers. This game is definitely not that!! You should take advice from whoever created Monster Busters. It's a match three game that's very generous. It allows the player to earn coins as they play. Those types of games we're happy to spend money on! 3) Lastly there needs to be a way to see who's playing on FB and if your friends are to share lives and such. We don't want to invite everyone on our list since we know most don't play any games at all. All in all we do like the game. It's fun, challenging and has potential to be very addicting!! Here's to hoping the admin take our hints and use them to benefit their customers and ultimately themselves.
We like this game, but we gave it three stars for one problem. When we play games, we like to listen to podcasts or music on our phone. This game will not allow this. It always mutes the music and the podcasts. We have turned off all game sounds, reinstalled, and tried other option. This is the only game we've had this issue with.
Fun game, but became challenging to fast. Didn't get a change to enjoy it long before it became difficult. We will still play it but we will put it down or delete it before we allow the strategy to drain all of our money. We almost complete a level and we run out of moves. There is opportunities to beat the level, but costs money. We will only invest only a few dollars and then when we reach our limit, it will be deleted.
It's a REALLY fun game BUT we lost all our gold bars we had acquired to use to purchase power up helpers for ABSOLUTELY no reason at all. We wrote the developers about it several months ago and have yet to get a reply. Makes us nervous to buy anything for this game now. UPDATE. Because we've not heard back from developers about the issues we stopped playing this game at all. Poor customer service.
Needs more levels….. Says it updates levels every week but it doesn't so until they add levels we give a 2 star rating.
Then by all means download this app. Levels get hard fairly quickly and if you don't spend money buying bars you can't proceed. Very addicting yes but it will land you in the poor house fast. Can't get past level 40. Spent enough $$$ on this crappy game. Keep far.
We haven't been able to play our game for over a month now. Every time we try to connect, it say connection error.
This is yet another RNG Fest, we've been on level 13 for a week now because it's impossible to beat it without dishing out money, and we refuse to spend real money, on a virtual item that last a mere second or two. The slot machine is a complete joke. Every one of these match 3 games are the same, first few levels are easy to beat, then become impossible without spending money. For once we'd like a match 3 game that doesn't have an energy bar, no "boosters", and for the love of god remove the idiotic RNG system.
We gave a 5 star we really love this this game. It's just a lot of levels are so hard to pass, we refuse to pay to pass levels.ease up on the really hard levels, not fun if you can't pass, know you need to make money but COME ON.
Fun to play even though it's like the others; try to get you addicted until you spend money. But overall lots of fun.
You absolutely cannot get past level 113 unless you are willing to spend a few bucks. We've already spent money to buy extra lives when we've got extra time to play, but we just won't spend any more to just get past this level. A life costs only 2 bars, but extra moves are costly…9 bars for five extra moves. Way to ruin a really good game.
We are on level103 and it has no option to add moves. It is also very difficult to win on this level. We will give it a few more tries but have been on it for 3 weeks. Time to move on to something else. Sad because we really like this game.
We beat level 122 twice. The first time we thought it was a glitch, but the second time we beat it, it still won't let us move on.
STOP IT with the video ads!!!!! We turned off sound FOR A REASON, and NO, we don't need to be spammed by video where we can't shut it up. Cut it out.
30 second videos in between every turn?! When did that start? We stopped playing when we ran out of levels…they finally add more…but now there are a RIDICULOUS amount of adds. We have never seen anything like it. It is so bad we are actually writing a review – for the first time ever. Unreal. We are done – again.
Love the game. The only thing we don't like is they take away your gold. Yesterday we had 3 gold bars, went on to play today and they were gone. It's happened before. We lost 8 bars one time. We really don't know why they do that.
Like candy crush it's a fun and addictive game.
Well designed app that is fun to play. Highly recommended.
Very cute graphics in a multilevel game. Easy and addictive.
Game is cute and colorful with a friendly GUI. Need to make the puzzle larger however, it only uses a portion if the available screen making it difficult to select items.
This would be a really good offering to the app store – it's got an adorable heroine who reminds us of Pippi Longstocking (a huge plus!), clever gameplay and great graphics. The downside, however, is gigantic: you cannot get the power-ups or the gold that's necessary to complete any of the more challenging levels without paying for them. These money-grubbers think this is facebook, right down to running out of lives to boot. Not worth spending money on, deleted.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.02
- Size: 53.06 MB
- iOS: 7.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [XI-ART Sp.z o.o.]()
Last updated: 5th January 2017 | Genre: Puzzle, Casual | Developer: XI-ART Sp.z o.o.