Last updated on January 23rd, 2026 at 02:40 am
Genius Puzzles – Puzzle Game Review
Genius Puzzles is a Puzzle/Entertainment/Strategy game from Pirate Monkey Studios LLC, first launched in 4th October 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 450+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Genius Puzzles Stand Out
Train your brain! Over 30 puzzles to tickle your neurons for hours of fun. Share your scores between iPhone and iPad via iCloud.
Genius Puzzler features:
- 30+ puzzles with multiple levels.
- Dynamically generated levels for unlimited challenges.
- Auto-solve feature if you just can’t figure it out.
- Auto saving of all of your games, so you never lose your progress
- iCloud support: Start a game in your iPhone, finish it using your iPad.
- Game Center support
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Genius Puzzles is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 10th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes and performance improvements.
Download & Availability
Genius Puzzles is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Genius Puzzles 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:
We love these puzzles!!! Great for math people.
This app runs ads with sound, even when the device sound is muted!! Only system alarms should be able to do that. Please fix.
We love these games. They are not the typical variations of the same, common brain teasers.
Great game that Ive been playing for years. But the filling game is broken. You cant use the number 9 since all the numbers are offset rendering the game useless. Try it! :-(.
The update that includes dark mode is terrible. Maybe some people want it, but everybody we know who plays this game hates it. Could we simply add a toggle to turn it on and off instead of making it follow the iPhone settings.
Love the games. We use this app everyday because the games are so great. But the appearance and functionality are poor. The most recent update to dark mode is the worst by far. You literally cannot see the marks. Its making it impossible to play. Please change it back or fix the color combo.
This app is great! Tons of fun puzzles, Ive been playing for years. It seems that theres been an update that changed the color scheme of the app. If our iPhone is in Dark Mode, the app layout becomes hideous. Can we return to the standard color scheme/layout? Or make this an option in the app settings.
Trying to play the game and we can not click the 9 on the fillings game if we want 1(have to click 2), 2-3, 3-4 and so on. So we can not click 9.
We really like this app, and have been playing the games for quite a while, but the latest update (including dark mode) really screwed up some of the games so they dont work anymore. We hope youll release a corrected update soon.
The app is great. In dark mode we cant see the puzzles. Please make button to control dark/light mode separately from iPhone. Thanks.
Thank you for making this enjoyable and simple app! Some of the games are unplayable since the latest update. These include Filling and Unruly: the tap areas and locations of the buttons are misplaced. The change in color scheme to match the phones dark/light mode is distracting – there isnt enough contrast in dark mode.
We love this game. Unfortunately, some update over the last year or so made Filling unplayable. There appears to be a 9 as an option to type, but 9 actually types 8, clicking 8 types a 7, etc. So there is no way to fill in the 9s now. 1 erases instead of typing 1. The support page link takes you to a website that just says Hello. So posting a negative review in the hopes it reaches someone to fix the bug. Otherwise we love this game. Hours of simple logic filled entertainment.
Great game. Im a little OCD, so we solved the number square game over 1500 times. We loved it because it was always a quick fix and the random nature made every game new. Buuuttt. The update made the numbers larger font across the bottom so when you select them, they are one off and their is no #9.
They keep making it look worse. We play it often, but its hard to look at now. They only changed one of the games at first and it was one of our favorites but we couldnt play it after they cluttered up the board with the nodes at the end of the lines. Now they changed multiple games for the worse and we wish they would change it back. It is objectively worse now.
We love this app. We dont like some of the puzzles, but there are several more we do like. The variety makes sure there is something for everyone. Our biggest problem is with the leader board. Our Daily and Weekly scores have been disconnected from our All Time score. The All Time score never changes.
Ive had this app for years now, playing thousands of puzzles and spending idk how many hours. -The variety of games is great. -If you dont finish a puzzle, its automatically saved for you -All of the puzzles have adjustable difficulties -It tracks how many of each puzzle youve completed -No internet required -Most importantly (for us) there are BARELY ANY ADS.
Ive put more hours into this than Id like to admit. Love the games, love the app- but if we had one request, it would be to change the controls. If we want to pencil in 7 different possible numbers onto a square, we have to tap the square to highlight it before adding each number, for 14 taps total. It would be much easier to highlight it once, then tap whichever numbers we want to pencil in. Makes playing one-handed unreasonable, stretching our thumb from the bottom to the top of our screen over and over. Thats the most limiting issue, but a huge benefit would be to select a number to see all of places its penciled in. If the devs read this, the controls on the Sudoku game by PeopleFun are pretty seamless, may be worth checking out.
Ive had this app installed for a couple of years now and its provided countless hours of fun. There are currently 42 different games available (though itd be cool to see more added in the future), each with a variety of difficulty levels, which helps keep it fresh and interesting. Its got several recognizable classics including its own versions of minesweeper and sudoku, along with plenty of interesting less-familiar puzzles. Our favorite aspect is that the whole app has a sort of low-tech feel to it no unnecessary bells and whistles like the timers or three-mistakes-and-you-lose systems you find in other apps (looking at you, sudoku.com). Our only complaint would be that the interface feels a bit clunky, but im a graphic design geek so thats mostly us being picky; it doesnt interfere with the functionality or enjoyability at all.
We really enjoy this app. There are a few games that we play the most. There is an issue recently where after we complete a game and try to start a new one, but it opens up our previous game partially completed. It has happened with multiple games including Tents, Towers, and Signpost.
Great variety of puzzles! We personally would like to see more sounds to enhance the play experience. Also the winning screen should have sounds! Obviously this could be a preference that could be turned off in settings. With a little tweaking here and there, this would become one of the best puzzle apps in the App Store.
Many of the puzzle types will be familiar, and many likely will be new. Ive found ourselves drawn to some more than others but the variety of games and levels of difficulty is excellent. We also want to commend on the lack of in app ads that interrupt play which drive us away from many apps. Our husband got jealous and downloaded this for himself.
Ive used the app a lot, and while there are some annoying controls the only thing we really need is a reset feature. Checking answers while in progress would be very nice too, but resetting a puzzle is a huge thing we feel the app absolutely needs.
Please Fix: Pencil Feature in Undead Missing.
This app is great! Tons of fun puzzles. Bridges is probably our favorite. A few simple rules and a fun challenge, but its getting too easy. Is there any way you could add some much larger/tougher levels? Beyond 15×15 hard.
The games are fun, but the solutions for the Undead game do not follow the rules. Our husband also tried to play it and found the same errors. (we are a college professor and our husband is a project manager for a tech companywe have analytical minds and neither one of us could figure it out. Shame.).
An amazing collection of several dozen graphical puzzles with an intuitive and smooth interface. Puzzles range from easy to quite difficult. Our main frustration is that the winning splash graphic congratulations covers the puzzle at the exact nano-second that you solve it. This removes the satisfaction and learning of seeing the completed solution. When you clear the congratulatory splash, the winning solution is gone. Each puzzle has different level of difficulty. A minor improvement would be to put different color flags on the puzzles depending on your progress: not started, started but not currently working, currently working, and completed. A must-have for any spatial-math themed puzzle enthusiast.
The most annoying feature is that often when you solve a puzzle, you cant see your solution because it is immediately replaced by a puzzle solved! Message. Have a dismissible banner announcing that the puzzle is solved, please! And just now we solved a Mosaic puzzle but we didnt get the puzzle solved message so we had to give up. When we were shown the official solution it was the exact same solution as ours. What gives.
We love puzzles and these are a lot of fun. We hope the creator keeps updating them because we think this could be a top seller. There are a few glitches now but for a free game with moderate ads or a 1.99$ is great. Keen: 6 normal has errors in every puzzle we have seen so far. No other level has had any. We wish for any game that allows pencil marks you could add multiple numbers without clicking on the box in between each we wish there was a hint option. Get so many free then Watch ads or buy. Theres a few games that the instructions arent quite clear enough and having a hint would be a great stop gap. We wish on the main screeen you got a medal or check for ones you have accomplished. Currently you get a red flag of its started. Id like to see the ones Ive finished. Again we hope everyone gives it a try and we hope it keeps evolving.
Plenty of good puzzles to keep you occupied for hours. Would give 5 stars except for one thing: when you solve, a full-screen congrats image instantly pops up and theres no way to see the completed puzzle! Its immediately gone forever, so you cant review what you just accomplished.
We're enjoying these games, about 20 we think. A lot of variety, kind of brain puzzles. We have 3 favorites we play all the time. A criticism is that the map puzzle game we play a lot doesn't have a reset button. If you want to go back to the original board, you must hit the undo button however many times. Lots of games to try. We like the ones we play so far.
Not bloated with ads which is unfortunately super rare in these apps. Theres tons of variety in the types of puzzles and many different difficulty levels. One of the nicest parts is theres actually useful notation functions to keep track of narrowing down the options for most puzzles. Im used to needing a piece of paper with us for harder puzzles on other apps. We love this app so much which is why we wanted to report one small bug we found. As of 6/14/21 the app is generating unsolvable puzzles for Filling 9×7. It doesnt seem to happen for any other sizes for Filling puzzles, or any other type of puzzle. Im happy to give details if needed.
Ive previously written a glowing recommendation for this game, and we still think incredibly highly of it, even as Ive now completed hundreds of games. However, we just decided to check out the puzzle game Pattern, as Im a big fan of Picross games. We chose a 20×20 board, and then was met with an impossible board. After stumbling our way through three clues which contradicted each other, we finally had the puzzle provide the solution for us, and saw that the solution didnt match the clues for the rows (because they were impossible). The clues werent off by one or two numbersthey were entirely wrong. As if they were clues to a completely separate game. They matched neither the black or the white squares of the solution. As we cant find a way to report a bug other than with a review, Im writing a review about it. This saddens us a little, but it doesnt take away from our immense enjoyment of the rest of the game! This is absolutely still a worthwhile app to get if you like puzzle games based on logic.
This has all our favorite puzzles, and some Id never heard of before! Amazing little app. We wish there were a way to turn off the immediate feedback when Ive messed up. Fortunately, it only tells us when Ive violated a rule, and not when Ive made a wrong move. Theres also a bug when we go to read the rules, and then pop back into the game, some of the controls dont work. But if you pop out to the menu and back into the game, its fine again.
We were hoping this suite of games would be more of a challenge, longer. The choices are many. There is only one we play, as the others are not interesting. But we can play Maps for a long time.
Many good puzzles to play, but the interface is really awful. The art is really uglyit looks like it was drawn by a none-too-talented child. And basic controls are missing. Theres no reset level button, for example. It remains to be seen if the new games make it worthwhile to put up with these shortcomings. But if you have any other way to play some puzzle, youll want to use the other app.
We love these games. However, it no longer records our scores. About ten weeks ago it just froze our progress. Its probably a simple fix, but we dont know how to reach the company. Too bad, because it used to be fun competing.
This is the best app for logic style puzzles. There is something for everyone. There are games Ive never seen before, and some classics.
Ive been playing it for several months now, and Im not even 1/3 of the way done. Amazing game, with difficult puzzles each with various rules and objectives. There is one annoying bug, where if you play a puzzle for some time, and then decide to undo all the way to the beginning, the app will say that you won. Other than that, this app is the best puzzle app on the Store.
Fun, challenging puzzles with many levels of difficulty. As you can tell, we love the tent game. Towers also rocks.
Ads auto play with sound and force you into the App Store.
Unlimited puzzles of all different kinds and all different levels. Gameplay is simple, no fancy extras, but all features are perfectly suitable. We love how reasonable the ads are! Other similar apps will limit play with coins or tokens earned through ads and purchases; this app has nothing but great puzzles. Would definitely recommend.
Wish there were answers and some of the instructions are hard to understand and its difficult to figure out how to manipulate the controls (what to touch when/where to turn on or off what). We do a lot of tapping on the screen to try to figure out how to get it to respond the way we want it to.
This app used to work before update. We purchased the premium version and can't get it to run on any of our devices, have tried everything including full restore. Company had never responded to request for help.
The games look like they would be fun but they require instructions to know the rules, but they are impossible to understand.
We even play these games to help us fall asleep.
Love the games but the last update broke the game and now you can only play Blackbox.
We love this app for all the games it offers. However, when ads come up, they often are loud with sound, even when we have the sound off on our phone and do not disturb turned on. This should not be happening with the sound turned off. Is there a way to fix it.
This is a great app but the last update left the same game (black box) as the only game on our phone no matter which game we pick.
Its 30 (or so) games in one, which is great. And the different levels are a good mix for us – easy when Im playing a game for the first time, medium for normal playing, hard for when we really have an attention span and time to waste.
We have never found a more perfect app. Tons of fun and unique puzzles. Its a must buy for free pass time game that takes up no storage.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.60
- Size: 15.38 MB
- iOS: 16.6 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Pirate Monkey Studios LLC]()
Last updated: 10th December 2025 | Genre: Puzzle, Entertainment | Developer: Pirate Monkey Studios LLC