John Allen’s Timesaver Puzzle
Step into the gaming world with John Allen’s Timesaver Puzzle, one of the top $4.99 games in the App Store! Crafted with creativity and innovation by Scott Lagaly, this captivating Puzzle game is bound to grab your attention. With its content rating of 4+, it caters to a wide audience. Ever since its release on 26th November 2016, it has been constantly updated, with the latest version rolled out on 2nd February 2018.
Whether you have a liking for Puzzle, Strategy, games, John Allen’s Timesaver Puzzle is sure to keep you hooked!
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Dive into John Allen’s Timesaver Puzzle
Train game meets puzzle game in this challenging world of the RG&H Railroad. Enjoy the nostalgia of a model train as you test your puzzle solving skills. This classic strategy puzzle, a favorite in the model railroading world for decades, has been re-imagined for iOS.
Just a few examples of what other players are saying about John Allen’s Timesaver Puzzle:
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“An excellent puzzle game.”
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“Challenges your thinking and logic skills.”
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“Great game!”
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“I love the game!”
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“Totally different from any puzzle game I have ever tried.”
In John Allen’s Timesaver Puzzle you will move trains in tight quarters to complete switching orders as you go from town to town.
Of course, no job is without its complications and the RG&H Railroad is no exception. Your difficulties grow and the workload increases as you navigate worker strikes, new safety regulations and more. But never fear, our engineer, Slim, will be there to keep you on track and remind you that the clock is ticking.
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Pay once and play forever. No in-app purchases!
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100 challenging puzzles, each playable at 4 difficulty levels.
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Sync game scores and progress across devices with iCloud.
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Enjoy our lively soundtrack or listen to your own music as you play.
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Climb leader boards and challenge friends through Game Center.
Download John Allen’s Timesaver Puzzle now and see if you have what it takes to be a ‘hostler’!
What’s Fresh in the Latest Update?
Discover what’s new in the recent update of John Allen’s Timesaver Puzzle on 2nd February 2018:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Fixed an issue that was causing the app to crash in Potter Valley for a few users
- Improved the transition from Timesaver Lite to the full version
- Serviced the engine and checked the tracks while we were in there
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Hear from the Players – John Allen’s Timesaver Puzzle Reviews
Find out what gamers are saying about John Allen’s Timesaver Puzzle:
Just like the classic Timesaver. We think John Allen would have been proud. Look forward to more switching puzzles – maybe Inglenook?
After playing John Allens Timesaver in the app, we are more than ever determined to build one. We sat down and designed the very same configuration on our the layout software we use. Youll be hooked, enjoy switching and shunting.
We had one years ago, forgot how much fun it is. Now we have to build one again! Nice work.
Very enjoyable and well written faithful rendition of the classic timesaver puzzle. All controls and movements are smooth, intuitive and responsive and the train and engine inertia feels just right. Penalties insure careful technique. Although the industries and loads are the same at all levels, a great many separate puzzles are created for each of several towns. Challenges increase at higher levels. The last towns are quite challenging. Well done. Thank you. Update: finished the last puzzle tonight. Wish there were more. Wish list: Inglenook option. Lighter colors. We need to crank up the backlight to distinguish some of the loads and industries which draws down the battery. Especially the night towns. More prototypical throttle. A means to record and play back a solution. Option at higher levels for normal uncoupling instead of modelers magnetic style. Add headlights on the loco in the night towns. One time we accidentally went back into training mode and found no way to avoid doing it all over again. Maybe we just didnt see the way out.
We enjoyed this great game while it lasted but we got stuck on level 75 way too far long after trying a million different ways, Ill leave this game to people who can figure this out better then us, Enjoy.
This game is realistic and fun. Id love to see the designers make it in 3D and provide many more track arrangements maybe from certain famous locations.
If your looking for an addicting time waisted this is it, love it.
Really would like to see how the pros are do this in usually half the time it takes us!
A better Diesel locomotive sound would be nice.
The classic revived in a well crafted app.
If you are looking for an action game, or one with a great deal of variety, this game is not for you. As described, it is a puzzle game set in a railroad environment. With minor variations, all of the 100 included puzzles are set in the same scene. It is about solving the puzzles, not about a story or beautiful, changing backgrounds. Having said that, this is an excellent rendition of the classic switching game. The train movement is perfect! Very impressive! We would highly recommend this game for those who enjoy such puzzles.
We have been into model railroads for most of our life and am familiar with this particularly notorious switching puzzle. This game is faithful to the original and just as challenging. Very entertaining.
This nicely crafted classic switching puzzle is a great little game on iPhone. We’ve spent hours enjoying the endless combinations of puzzles. Realistic momentum, sounds, cargoes, and actions show that the developers really understand model railroading. Highly recommended!
We want to see if you all could possibly add more engines yes yes the game is fun but maybe you could choose the engine before the mission.
Its almost like the real thing! We like everything about it. Wish there was more simulation games out there similar.
If you like logic problems, this game is lots of fun. The only prob we’ve had is that we bought the full version years ago and Im still not able to play it. Mega disappointed.
After completing the training for managing points, the certification is not saved if the app is closed.
Having fun with this game. Would like to see different track configuration in each town. Sound not working, but maybe something not set right on our iPad.
Im still in the rookie stage, but enjoying the game. We would like to be able to turn our own switches but maybe it is available in a more advanced level. The font on the instructions is really small and hard to read but after you recognize the cars and destinations you dont need to read them. It would also be nice to be able to pick different locomotives, but maybe in advanced levels. There should also be a rating on the number of moves and time as you dont know how efficient you were. Overall we love the game.
This is a great puzzle and we throughly enjoyed playing it up to #72. When we went to start #72 it crashed. It wiped out all our scores and put us back to novice. Although we could access all puzzles it still kept us as a novice and we had no controls for the engine or turnouts. Its not our device thats at fault because we have the same issue on both our iPad and iPhone. The biggest issue is we’ve emailed the developer a few times through the help and support section of the application and have not had any response for over two months. We really enjoyed playing Timesaver but Im very frustrated that Im ignored by the developer. We hate having to write a negative review but all we want is a response about the issue.
We downloaded the free app first and gave it whirl. Liked it very much and downloaded the purchase app. We had an issue with not being able to see the other towns but contacted the creator and he gave us a work around until he could fix the bug. It works great and we are enjoying it very much. The challenge is not in the variety of moves, ( and there are a lot of puzzles to solve) but in increasing your skill so your completion times are as short as possible. We recommend this game.
Particularly fun for model Railroaders who are familiar with the "Wizard of Monterey", John Allen!
Great game. Does just what it is designed to do. Increases problem solving in a switch yard. If you understand John Allen’s original Timesaver this is Great!
The entire game playing field is exactly the same for all twenty or so "Freight Yards." all that is different is now the freight platform s where the tank car stop was… Like moving the houses on a monopoly board. So, no track variety, extremely limited rolling stock… And god forbid you have two train cars connected together… They wont fit… This is more a repetitive puzzler than a train game… Though again, what graphics are there look decent, the game plays smooth, the model train model engine runs pretty true to life. Just disappointed how fast we went from excited and purchasing to… Wait… Its the same all the way thru with the slightest variations? Just move ths car here and that there this time, next ti e do the opposite… This game got boring fast.