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Riddle Stones – Cross Numbers – Entertainment Game Review
Riddle Stones – Cross Numbers is a Entertainment/Family/Puzzle game from SMACH S.A.S., first launched in 20th January 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,231+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Riddle Stones – Cross Numbers Stand Out
Like crosswords but with squares and numbers. This game is based on the asian riddles known as picross, griddler and nonogram. It’s a real mind challenge wrapped in a fun experience where you need to think and use your brains to succeed.
To decipher our puzzle grids, you will use numbers indicating which squares to activate in each grid based on simple rules. Each number tells you where to add squares in a row or a column. You can compare it to sudoku or crosswords with more fun brain training. You will learn easily, progress rapidly and quickly get addicted! It will blow you mind!
Riddle Stones offers a fascinating cross-over between crosswords, sudoku, minesweeper and other puzzles based on numbers where you cross the hints to find which squares to activate. But be careful and think right, if you tap the wrong square, you will trigger a trap!
Fans of picross, nonogram, griddler, paint by numbers rejoice and enjoy Riddle Stones…
Solve grid cross-puzzles by logic & deduction! PLAY NOW!
Also available on Facebook.
Riddle Stones is completely free to play, but some in-game items such as extra lives require payment.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Riddle Stones – Cross Numbers is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th January 2021
Recent improvements include:
Various bug fixes and improvements.
Download & Availability
Riddle Stones – Cross Numbers is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Riddle Stones – Cross Numbers 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:
Great game ! We play it quite often.
This is a fun game with plenty concentration, appears simple but very focus, can be addictive.
This game has kept us entertained and challenged for months. We have it on our iPhone and iPad and love trying to figure the boards out. The ONLY thing we do not like is you do not get rewarded the helpful items to help get out of a jam so you have to buy if you are that intent on figuring it out. Please figure out a way to award instead of charging.
Game is challenging, but they need to upgrade new levels.
Ive been playing for years and Ive passed level 1600. Today there was an ad for a coloring app and when we clicked on it to buy, it popped up to enter our Apple password like normal for purchases, but nothing downloaded. No record of the app in our history. We had to resent our Apple password since who knows who we ended up giving it to. There was no way to report it in the app. DO NOT CLICK ON ADS IN THIS GAME.
Ive played this game nearly every day for several years. Its been great when we were on deployments. After playing for so long, we have figured some things that arent quite ideal. 1. We understand there are limitations, but after getting through over 4,000 levels, there are hundreds of pattern repeats. So many, in fact, that we have them memorized. We play them anyway, but its not quite as fun. 2. Any time you hit a trap, 99% of the time it completely drains your health. One single trap. Which is incredibly annoying because now youre out a life. We know it could be a way for us to want to buy more coins for lives, but its becomes frustrating when a single mistake ends the entire attempt. 3. It would be cool to win a medal/award/achievement after you get so many stars. For example, if you get all 48 for an overall level. Something just to make you want to redo levels other than just getting the stars to says 48/48. Overall though, we do like how simple and fun the game is. We appreciate that there arent requirements for internet connection and you cant keep playing until you run out of lives! Another thing that could be cool to have it a way to replay levels with time limits. Some puzzles we finish incredibly fast, and other times they take us forever. Would be interesting to have a timer option to either track your time (and maybe have an average time for that set of levels?) or race against the timer.
We do enjoy this game and find it a good way to pass the time. But seriously, make just one mistake, sometimes 2 and it just drops your life to nothing and ends the turn. The food to boost your life does teeny little boosts. Mistakes should be more equal to the affect of the food. Its frustrating to burn through lives and have to wait 30min for another life. We know we can buy more with coins, but we dont choose to spend money like that on games.
As you progress you will find that it gets to be a bit aggravating to play. Too many ads, (every minute or two), it almost never gives you the amount of time that it tells you you will have to complete the levelit will tell you perhaps 1 min 18 seconds and you might get only a few secondsI have timed it. It repeats a lot of the same challenges in the levels.
We were 1000s of levels into this game and we had paid for no ads. We didnt play for awhile, and when we opened the app, we were back at level 1 and now Im getting ads and given the opportunity to pay to remove themagain. Seems sketchy.
We play at least twice daily and have been playing for at least 5 years. The game is great, mind wise, but there are no incentives. There are no bonuses unless you pay. We have stars but absolutely never have earned a coin or a life. Youve got a great game..but your stingy ..put more rewards ..more people will play.. More people play …more will pay.
We have been playing this game for a while and recently we have had commercials pop up in the middle of playing our board and on top of that they dont let you exit out, so you not only lose a life you have to start from the beginning! Until this is fixed we refuse to play this game very disappointed.
Great thinking game … Love it.
This game is like Sudoku meets Candy Crush. Its a fun spin on Nonograms. What we dont like, though, is there is only supposed to be one way to solve a Nonogram, just like Sudoku, but we have played several levels where we were certain there were two solutions. It would be nice if you could place boulders or something in the squares that you deduce are not a possibility. Overall, cute and puzzling, which is what we were looking for.
As others have said, why is it one mistake can sometimes end the whole game and eating the fruit barely replenishes your health at all? We swear when we first started this game, the fruit gave you way more energy. Also, why does it take an hour to earn one new life? Maybe add a way to EARN new lives or occasionally offer 30 minutes (1 hour, 12 hours, etc.) of unlimited lives the way games like Cookie Jam do. Others have mentioned ads .. We dont notice them on ours. We would watch a brief ad for an extra life! And also, those timed games…really?? We have 40 SECONDS to solve the darn thing and we have to pass all THREE timed ones or we have to start over?? Please change that!! Easy way to blow through your 5 lives! Ridiculous. If these things were changed, we would give 5 stars…we really like it but these things really bug us and push us back to playing Cookie Jam and other games with less hassle.
This game is a lot of fun, but lately we touch one square and it cracks, even though its a correct square. Getting to be too much aggravation.
This is a great fun game but we have trouble connecting to Facebook and we would like it to have more levels and mayBe more ways to get power ups & coins.
We played this game all the time. Now when we try to play it just shuts down. We cant even open it. Ive deleted the app and reinstalled. Turned our phone off and back on. Put it on airplane mode and off. We tried them all in different orders. Ultimately, we cant play a game if we cant open it.
This is a great thinking game to keep your mind active. Its very entertaining. We play at least once a day.
Nice game, it makes us almost rage-quit… But great game.
We are still trying to learn how it works but it is definitely keeping our interest. We hope to get through a grid with out any mistakes but so far that hasnt happened. Very challenging.
You have to identify pattern and draw conclusions based on what you see.
Would be nice to invite friends and see where they are on the board.
We love this game it reminds us of the minesweeper game we used to play as a kid just like back then our nerves are on the edge playing this game two lol.
We like that this is relaxing and a little thought provoking.
This is our morning brain wake up game to play as we drink our coffee. The silly child-like cartoons disguises the complex use of deduction skills which vitalize your capacity for reasoning and wake up your brain. The music is not worth turning on and Its a huge waste of time if played as a replacement for productive daily work. Never play this to avoid relationships or reality. There is zero social interaction in it. Suggest for use on airplanes, while commuting to work or as a morning brain energizer as we do. Nothing more than a game that allows your gray matter to engage. Enjoy.
A game that you actually use your brain! We love this game. Cant put our phone down.
Very entertaining and challenging, specially as you get to higher levels.
Finally a game that exercises your thinking.
There is always a logical way to figure out the moves. We disagree with those who say you have to guess. One of the best logic games out there.
We love this game. It challenges your memory as well as your problem solving skills. Highly recommend.
This is a good game to pass time. But when we played on a desktop we had the option to put little Xs in squares so we knew they werent open anymore. We cant seem to figure out how to do that on the app.
We love this game and have played it off and on for years. We have deliberately not logged in to FB so that we can start over on our iPad. We have found that it locks up consistently with no warning and we lose a life when it does this. We still like it but sure wish it did not do this.
They dont know who their market is and who to direct the ads toward. Some of the ads are for simple kids games, some are for sleazy, childish adult games that you wouldnt want your children exposed to.
Ive been playing for months and love it! Yes, you do hit some puzzles youve had before, but it doesnt really make a difference. Ive never bought anything and on occasion have had to wait for lives … But all the puzzles ARE doable without guessing. Youve just got to take your time and figure out the necessary moves. Makes you think! Really enjoy this game.
Error screen keeps popping up. Can't connect to Facebook. We don't have any friends playing so we can't get keys…love this game but please fix errors.
Most of the screens can be solved with logic, but not a few, you just have to guess. Just as well, or Id probably play it for hours every day. The long ads every few screens, though, is what will make us quit playing. Five seconds is one thing, but half a minute or more out of every five, is getting old.
Good game! They use comparisons to ours sweeper which we enjoy. The only thing that bothers us is that there isnt a way to X the blocks that you know are not the correct answer like in ours sweep. Also maybe we havent gotten too far but we wish there were more blocks/ larger levels.
We're a big fan of cross number games and we enjoy passing the time with this one as well. One thing we would like that we personally think would improve the game is the addition of an "x" button so you can mark the squares that you know to have nothing in them with an x. It helps to deduce where the actual squares go. Just our two cents, but we don't think we would be the only one to appreciate this addition.
So far, there has always been a logical solution. Would be nice if you could put a marker to show where a stone can not be. Overall, pretty fun.
We really like this game. We wish, however, that there was a mark we could put on the squares that were NOT relevant.
We were having a great time playing,just bought our first package and the game froze had to restart and lost all our points and levels plus prizes.
While this game is very fun and addictive there is a point you reach where the levels just dont get any harder and you start repeating old puzzles. There is no rhyme or reason to the point system either.
We love these puzzles. Theyre way more fun than sudoku. But the game is dumb and aggravating. So are the ads. Just create a package of puzzles with no cute stuff and Ill pay for it.
We love this game but we wish the phone version had the option to cross out squares that we know Are wrong.
We love it it just is annoying you only get 5 lives.
Ok we love the game, however the app is having some major issues. About 1-2 times per level the games freezes and the only way to get out of it is to close the game down. Which then takes lives away from the player, then you are asked to pay to keep going. Now we are assuming this is glitch because it never happened on our phone, but our iPad app is horrible. And we would like to think glitch instead of the worst being that the producers of the game are thinking of that being an easy way to get money out of us. However, we give this maybe another week to get fixed if not then will be deleting the game completely because it is SUPER ANNOYING.
We love this game! Always make sure to have this app in our phone whenever we reset or get new phone. BUT lately it either KICK us out or Freezing up as soon as we clear the puzzle now we have to stop the app before go back and play. Its annoying. Fix it please or Ill have to delete it because its hassle.
We loe the game but it keeps freezing and making us lose lives.
Our biggest complaint and the reason we stopped playing are because of the ads. They are 20-30 seconds long without an option to skip after a few seconds! Too bad because this is a fun game but we will find another one that the ads aren't so annoying.
Great game but without a way to earn gems, nope. We dont pay to play.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.8.4
- Size: 109.85 MB
- iOS: 10.3 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: SMACH S.A.S.
Last updated: 20th January 2021 | Genre: Entertainment, Family | Developer: SMACH S.A.S.