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Kento Jigsaw Picture Puzzles – Puzzle Game Review
Kento Jigsaw Picture Puzzles is a Puzzle/Family/Photo & Video game from Five Lakes Studio, LLC, first launched in 4th May 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 11+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Kento Jigsaw Picture Puzzles Stand Out
If you like Jigsaw puzzles, try it your like it.
"The game splits a picture into various sizes of rectangle and shuffles the contents. Because a piece of the picture is distorted to fit the rectangle it's in, it can be quite challenging to work out which bits go where. A nice take on the old jigsaw concept, one that takes advantage of technology rather than implementing an old idea on a new technology." – PhilipMach from Australia
Kento is a unique jigsaw like picture puzzle game with a twist that is fun and easy to learn for player's of all ages. Kento breaks a picture into pieces of different sizes and then jumbles up the pieces. Your job is to put the pieces back in place.
It's as easy as 123:
- Start with a scrambled, distorted photograph.
- Swap the position of any two pieces with a simple drag and lift gesture.
- The puzzle is solved when each piece is in the correct position.
Easy to play but challenging to solve. With easy, medium, and hard difficulty settings, you choose the challenge that fits your mood.
Kento also provides you with plenty of replay value. Randomly generated, intelligent scrambling makes it highly unlikely that you'll ever see the same puzzle twice. Plus you get tokens for display on a leader board for solving puzzles.
We hope you enjoy this edition of Kento. Be sure to check out the new England, Winter, and Christmas puzzles in More Puzzles.
Feedback:
"I am now totally addicted to this app. The extra downloadable puzzles are well worth the money, are varied and interesting. Making puzzles from your own photos works very well and adds even more interest." – MoMoGamer (UK)
"Makes you think. I finished all the free puzzles and am ready to buy a set." – Book Walker (US)
Was #1 in Puzzle Games in the UK.
Was in the top 72 overall in the UK. cheers.
Highlights:
● Comes with over 50 picture puzzles
● You can rate each puzzle from 1 to 5 stars
● Tokens are awarded for solving puzzles. The first time you solve a puzzle you will get 8 tokens. Subsequent times you will get:
- 4 tokens for hard puzzles
- 3 tokens for medium (or normal) puzzles
- 2 tokens for easy puzzles
- 1 tokens for simple puzzles (iPad only)
● Game center leader board for tokens
● A “Simple” mode for iPad players which is great for young kids and those learning how to play
Expandable:
● Over 500 puzzles available for in-app purchases.
● Turn an "unlimited" number of your photos into Kento puzzles for in-app purchase.
Try Kento, we hope you'll enjoy it.
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Kento Jigsaw Picture Puzzles is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th February 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
● Now Ad Free
● Minor Fixes
Download & Availability
Kento Jigsaw Picture Puzzles is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Kento Jigsaw Picture 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 enjoy playing Kento to help us wind down at the end of the day. The game is simple but engaging.
If you love jigsaw. This app is for you.
Once we got the concept of the different difficulties, we were hooked! Great mental challenge. Our friend told us about this app..glad he did.
Pretty challenging and suitable for iPad or iPhone.
We love: the pictures, being able to choose our difficulty, the distortion. This one is always calling to us.
Fairly simple puzzles provide quick fun and sense of accomplishment. Keep the puzzle packs coming.
We enjoy this game, it can be challenging, but fun.
We downloaded this app for our preschooler, but we ended up enjoying it ourselves. As a puzzle enthusiast who is skeptical about the level of challenge offered by most puzzle-based games, we found this app elegant and challenging. Each jigsaw piece is stretched to its current position's frame, so it is not as easy as you'd expect.
Wonderful puzzles. You choose the difficulty. Terrific buy for the money. Hubby and we are working on all the various levels and options. Highly recommend. Hours of enjoyment.
We played it and its way fun on hard.
Fun new way to work challenging puzzles.
This is a cool game. We wouldn't mind a title of the picture upon solving. We still can't tell what one picture is. Baked apples or Au gratin potatoes? Need more FREE puzzles to solve please.
We've had this a couple of days and played with it once. Very fun once you figure out what is going on. We like the "counter" in the top left corner. Looks like a good selection of pics and endless variety of options with each one. Notes say there is a sale going on. But we cannot figure out what that is or if it is still valid. Would like to take advantage of that if it is still available.
Love, love LOVE these puzzles! Can't get enough.
For puzzle lovers everywhere. We wish there were more pictures that you don't have to buy.
The game is fun, but "in-app purchases" are too expensive. There are, we think, 100 puzzles. Once you get the hang of it, you'll be finishing one in 3-4 minutes. To us that's not a great cost to time ratio. That's why we docked a point.
Amazing app. It is worth your time.
At first after 3 tries we wanted to delete the app but we tried it 1 more time. After we got the hang of it we really do in joy it. We like puzzles and your is of a different breed thank you.
Good combination of challenge & gorgeous photography! Game is easy to understand & play. Recommend this for kids & adults (good range of difficulty).
Its amazing other than the sound please make it so it doent make noise. If you already did that make it easier to find out how to turn off the volume. :(.
Although it says it is a free, it really is not. The basic game is free but only comes wit a few pictures. The picture in iTunes shows that the two add on packs are free but really they are not. They are really $1.99 each. Went looking for information on the add ins and found no information either the add nor at web sight. Put in trouble ticket requesting information on them buy company refuses to answer us. Their FAQ also do not address the two add in packs. What else are they trying to hide when they don't provide basic info on a product they are trying to sell,.
We enjoyed finding this one… We guess it's been around for a while? The puzzles are interesting pictures, and certainly different than a regular jigsaw, so we're having fun with it.
Lots of fun and a nice variety of puzzles. We recommend it to anyone who likes puzzles. You won't be disappointed.
These puzzles are very good and challenging but… We're so tired of all our work disappearing and going back to unsolved puzzles every time there is an iPhone major update. We've done more than 100 puzzles and want them to stay solved. Hey, developers, it is an accomplished thing – we like seeing what we have accomplished. Plus, we already know what the solved puzzle looks like. Part of the fun is in uncovering what the picture is. Don't the developers realize that they lose money by not keeping the puzzles in the solved position. It just makes one redo them again and thus discourages purchasing more puzzles. Also, puzzles that we had gotten for free go back to the have-to-purchase stage when there is an iPhone major update. We're not even sure this app is being supported any longer by the developers. Too bad, it is really quite good.
Played this game with cardboard tiles 25 years ago. Simple and intuitive UI makes the digital version a fun diversion. The use your own photo add on is worth it.
We love this game. Very creative and 3 levels also. Just wonderful.
The concept is fun and the puzzles are nice. There's a good mix of different types of pictures. The app you buy originally is basically a light version, though- has ads with sound you can't shut off and only a limited number of puzzles. Additional puzzles can be purchased in-game, $3 for each pack.
Great puzzle game. Very relaxing and addictive. Lots of puzzles for an extra $0.99. Well worth your money for hours of relaxing fun.
Great so far. With more pictures and function it will be awesome.
Love it…can we have some more.
This is a fun and diverting puzzle. We'd suggest adding an "expert" level above the hard level, and making it possible for people to import their own images into the app.
We love it. But needs more puzzles and ability to use the player's own photos. More soon please.
A very unique and original concept. It's as simple as a photo jigsaw puzzle but the piece of the picture distorts to fit the square or rectangle that it is in. You move the pieces of the picture into the various squares and rectangles. It's a unique twist as the distortions when they are not in the correct piece make it more difficult to see how they fit together! Only thing needed for 5 stars is many, many more puzzles.
There weren't many puzzles and the hard difficulty wasn't very different than medium. But all and all it's a cool concept. We'll be waiting for more puzzles :) Idea: track how many moves it takes and display on the home screen so that we can improve on our "score." (iPhone user).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.5
- Size: 191.57 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Five Lakes Studio, LLC
Last updated: 17th February 2016 | Genre: Puzzle, Family | Developer: Five Lakes Studio, LLC