Last updated on January 23rd, 2026 at 07:50 am
Pencil Puzzles – Puzzle Game Review
Pencil Puzzles is a Puzzle/Strategy game from Calvin Nutter, first launched in 7th August 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 263+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pencil Puzzles Stand Out
Pencil Puzzles is an extremely fun app designed for those who enjoy brain-teasers. The goal of the game is to trace each image without going over any lines twice and without lifting your finger from the screen. Think you got what it takes? Download now for wacky pencil fun!
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pencil Puzzles is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 27th April 2023
Recent improvements include:
This update brings minor tweaks including:
-Bug fix on level 34
-Updated broken link to more games
Download & Availability
Pencil Puzzles is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Pencil 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:
It was so much fun and so relaxing you should play.
Enables all of our idiosyncratic tendencies.
Love this game . Addictive! Challenging.
We wish there were a way to be guided tracing right on the line. We are often on the right track but our finger wavers and it makes us start over. Or it will tell us we over traced when we didnt, we assume because our finger wavered. Other programs guide your finger, but we like that yours doesnt require us to play other games before we can reach the screens with the trace games. For some reason, we dont like match 3 games and it seems we usually have to play those, in one form or another.
1st & Foremost – Addictive game which actually sharpens your MIND.
This game is exactly what it says it is. Not bait and switch.
Love doing these at night when we cant sleep.
Hard enough to be challenging when you get further into it.
Fun to play for minutes at a time.
Simple. Precise. Quick ads. Fast. Love it.
The game game is changing each levels but some of the levels are easy.
Our grandson and we enjoy playing these Pencil Puzzles we do not like so much the ads that interrupt the game as we accidentally touch on the ad and then theres more ads to be seen. Please remove ads with a one time reasonable charge. Thank you very much.
When stuck on a quiet area with minimal movement allowed, this helps to simply reduce anxiety and bring us to an simpler state of mind. Puts us at easy and redirects our focus. Used for deer hunting.
Really enjoyed, wish there were more puzzles.
Great game if you enjoy puzzles.
What a great way to pass time, especially when your picking someone up from work. The puzzles are pretty easy because we just started. Im sure the designs will become more and more challenging. If you are looking for something to keep you busy, download this game.
Very simple yet satisfying game.. We really wish there were more levels.
Cool game. Needs more levels tho.
Awesome stress reliever as well as entertaining too.
We really like the puzzles and would rate 5 stars but it seems a little too picky on tracing the lines. Not much room for errors.
It's a nice way to play with our our new apple Pencil, but we dont imagine it will have lasting appeal.
Enjoyed playing wish it had less ads.
We love this game because its challenging and fun it get really hard tho but its kinda annoying when you dont get of the lines and it says you did and when you get it and it says you didnt but eventually you get the proses we love this game we suggest it ether way we love it a bunch when you finish the whole game you will say aww we wish there was more levels.
This game is tough to keep your finger on the Drawing, but it is fun and challenging.
We wish the lines would snap to the puzzle instead of being free hand as it gets buggy about retracing. But we like the puzzles and the ads arent too terrible.
So cool ! Weirdly fun and keeps us entertained.
We keep getting a try staying closer to the lines message on level 89 on the same spot every time! We are doing it exactly as Im supposed to but cant get past this level because of this error message!! Other than that we love the game! Pencil Puzzle Update!! We made it through to the end we had to go a little faster on the one spot and wala. We need more puzzles now!! Please.
Need a stylus. Too touchy on line placement. Stops you if its too close to another line but has NOT retraced.
Why are there not more puzzles? We finished all of them so whats the point in keeping the all after finishing them all? They also did not get harder as the levels progressed so that was disappointing but the puzzles are fun, wish there was more.
Fun until you hit level 51 and have to pay.
This game is super fun and addicting but its SO annoying it will make you fail when you are to far away from the line when your on the line or sometimes it says your overlapping a line but your not so it makes you have to restart a lot. The biggest problem was the fact that you can only play up to level 50! We finished level 50 and it asked if we wanted to unlock the next levels and apparently you have to pay for them and we are not doing all of that #thisgamesucks #imupset #dontwasteyourtime.
This game is relaxing and mind entertaining at the same time. Fun.
This game is awesome. Its very challenging, and fun.
We love this game. Simple and easy to use (dont need to be perfect) and ads are not unbearable like other free game apps.
Enjoy this game and will do it all over again. Work our brain.
This game is laterally the best game evr we were so engaged in it so we bet you will longer it too kind sad that we finished all of the levels but Im happy we did hope this helped.
Great game but not enough puzzles.
We really like the puzzles and would rate 5 stars but it seems a little too picky on tracing the lines. Not much room for errors.
Just a little cumbersome getting your fingers on the lines sometimes. Ill have to restart often because it tells us stay closer to the lines.
This game never bores you, we can play it forever. You get eager to finish ! But, still exciting. Only thing is that at some points when your just trying to get it over with, they can start getting picky, which is annoying. When you slightly get out of the lines, they erase your work and leaves you empty minded! Overall its a really fun and exciting game that Im sure your gonna enjoy.
It's a nice way to play with our our new apple Pencil, but we dont imagine it will have lasting appeal.
The ads arent too annoying, rated 4 out of 5 stars because the lines are a little sensitive (that or we just need to practice rudimentary shapes again ).
We have been having a lot of fun playing this until level 89. It keeps saying to stay closer to the lines even when Im exactly on the line! We get so close to finishing the puzzle then at a certain spot it does this and Im not even outside of the line.
Fun game to play, the puzzles are creative and challenging. Glitchy meaning too often the app will say you didnt complete the puzzle or overlapped lines when you havent. Once they fix that it will be perfect.
Its a fun game, has a few issues with detecting mistakes that you didnt really make. The problem is as soon as you pass level 50 you cant continue without paying.
You are ready to get it right and then it tells you that you are not close enough to the line and now you have to start over and remember where you are. Otherwise its a good thinking game.
It wont even let us play. We wanted to play so bad, but its stuck on the Pencil Puzzle would like to use your app and website activity to deliver a better ad experience page. We clicked continue about 50+ times over the span of 3+ days of trying to play this game. We even downloaded it again, and its the same thing. We went to our settings and we already gave the app access to everything Edit: its working now but the game is horrible. We would purposely retrace the lines and it would still let us move on to the next level. We would even miss tracing a part of the picture… Good concept of a game though :).
Very easy to play and predictable patterns.
If youre tracing is a little off the mark, you lose. If you pause for a second, you lose. You have to connect your lines when you finish the puzzle or it will tell you that you didnt finish, but dont overlap your lines or youll lose. With all that said, it is an addicting game. We quickly made it to level 50 for free, then it was $0.99 to unlock the next 50. We seriously considered paying the 99 cents, but we have a feeling we would still see an add every other level.
Great puzzle! Makes you THINK! AWESOME game for any age.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.2.1
- Size: 28.42 MB
- iOS: 12.2 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Calvin Nutter]()
Last updated: 27th April 2023 | Genre: Puzzle, Strategy | Developer: Calvin Nutter