Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 02:34 am
Pull the Pin – Puzzle Game Review
Pull the Pin is a Puzzle/Board/Entertainment game from Popcore GmbH, first launched in 24th January 2020.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 250,356+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pull the Pin Stand Out
In this game full of satisfying graphics and innovative levels, you can challenge yourself, your brain, and your friends! It’s you against physics and the tricky levels — WHO WILL WIN?
All balls have to go into the pipe … can you remove the pins in the right order and make it happen?
It should be simple: gravity pulls the balls down towards the pipe. But then pins are in the way! Can you help out and flip away the pins and get the balls to where they are supposed to be?
But wait: there is another level of trickery! Sometimes some of the balls are colourless: before they go into the pipe, they need to touch a color ball, so the color spreads to them as well. So simple yet so tricky!
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pull the Pin is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 2nd January 2026
Recent improvements include:
We gave things a polish so you can play without pause. Update now for smoother gameplay!
Download & Availability
Pull the Pin is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
If we wait to play the daily challenge till 5:00 or so, its flagged as missed and we have to watch a video before we can play that level. If we start it earlier then no problem, straight to the daily without ads. Why is the trigger time so early in the day? And since we paid for no ads this gets annoying.
Our kiddo loves this game so much! When they mentioned it to our husband, he asked if it was a real game! It kills our battery, but our kiddo loves it. Her favorite part is the boss levels. Our only complaint is that the regular levels are a bit too easy. But overall, this is a true masterpiece.
We would like to know why you lie about your game. This is not the same game we wanted according to the ad we saw. The ad we wanted was to help the woman with the baby. Im on level 400+ and still not the game we wanted.
Update added – NOT a safe app!! We wrote this a couple years ago, as of 2023 or so. UPDATE #1 we recently put anti-virus protection on our phone & iPad and this game came up as an unsafe site to be on. Figures and Im not surprised. UPDATE #2 Mainly its describing how this game counts backwards to keep you playing the game. See the section noted with ** we used to like this game and have played it for a few years. We have over 7 million coins and Ive now noticed that since theyve added the gem levels (bronze, silver, gold, etc) they are cheating us out of our coins. Ive been watching lately, as we should be going faster up the ranks to diamond level. We watch every time we finish a round and noticed that Im not progressing but instead am going backwards. Number ranking actually goes backwards. For example: youll finish a round and your ranking number is 800. You do the next round and one would think your next rank is higher. Its shows that your previous rank was 785. THAT is how they are cheating!! Since it moves so quickly they expect that no one will notice. Well we have. We will report you for such wrongdoing, poor judgment, and scamming your players. So dumb on your part. Dont say its a glitch. You know what youre doing.
This is a great game until it starts stalling all of a sudden the game seizes up and you lose your progress and the incessant ads are mind-boggling.
The game is not opening at all, if you could take a look and fix it, that would be great Thanks.
Pull the pin completely stopped working with no help in sight.
We cant get the game to load keeps going back to the Home Screen on our phone.
Hey, we love the game, but for some reason when we open it. It kicks us out. We dont know if it is our phone or what. If you have any ideas let us know. Also we were just wondering how many levels there are.
The coin counter doesnt know how to math. It shaves off coins/points almost every time it adds a score. Weird, huh? Other than a cheating counter, its a decent game.
We love this game but it makes our phone overheat and that is why we give it a 4 star rating but it is a good time consuming game which in our opinion is an amazing quality so we just wld like it to NOT overheat our phone.
Ive enjoyed this game but today it wont open. It downloads but then closes.
We LOVE LOVE LOVE IT! BUT! What are idle coins.
We love the game because it is so amazingly good that we wanted the SpongeBob version. Can you make the SpongeBob version please.
In #81 the Blue & the Red balls and the 2 cups are Green. There is no way to determine where to put each group of balls. There are a few more like that before #81, Like 89 which is what we are.
Grandson loves to play but balled and cried when an ad came on called Hunting sniper that was killing animals not cool dudes.
No matter how many levels we pass, no matter how many challenges we win and coins we collect, we never advance to a higher level. We are in the diamond level every week but never get a better place than 23rd. Its fun but we dont understand why we go backward in placement. What is the deal here.
This game starts out to be a lot of fun so you might as we did buy the no ad upgrade but the makers trick you. There are still ads everywhere, even when you restore purchase. In fact there have been times the game itself is a giant ad! The best section is the Sketchman IQ test but they stopped making levels after 35. So much of the game is boring and repetitive. They so have challenging sections in occasion so spending time here is okay but dont get attached.
After reading all the low stat reviews, its obvious the game creator doesnt care about their customers. We keep asking for more challenging levels or questioning why we all still see ads after buying the game. Im at level 9765 and we feel like more than 90% of that has been repeat levels. Theres no challenge, theres nothing from the creator when will this change.
We are having trouble with the game crashing still, and it will not allow us to skip the level that it crashes on.
The game is fun, but we spend more time watching ads than playing the game.
Im trying to play this game again but after we updated our software to 17.7.10, its not working. Just stuck on loading screen Before the newest software update before the 17.7.10, we were able to play this game but not anymore. Please fix!!!!! Please!!!!! Please fix.
They say you can go ad free, but when you pay for this service you still get pop ups wanting you to go ad free, and for even more money!!! Sounds like a scam to us. But other than that we do like the game. If they could clear this up it would be great.
Im confused. We get daily task to find idle coins. Where are they.
Good concept. Poorly executed unless you like ads. Offensive number of ads. Not worth it.
It relives our daily stress and there is also soooo many different levels to play but we feel like there should be more ranks but great game over all.
Great game. Too many ads. Deleting it. Maybe we will load it again later to see if they fixed their ad problem. Ads take aware from the game and become a bigger frustration.
This game has potential but..commercials!! The makers of this game put commercials everywhere. As it is, this should be labeled Semi.Game Many Commercials.
So so fun l could play it forever l saw it on a ad was so getting it l love it was just like the ad except better total awesomeness but what do we do with coins? And what are idle buildings? Not totally flawless but still awesome awesome awesome.
Too many, potential money pit. Fake player list.
We start out rated near 1,000. Play and every time we get down rated below 100. The very next round Im rated near 1,000 again. And thats with playing this game for three straight hours. And seeing this happen over and over and over again. Its like the game is fixed with AI players.
We wrote this a couple years ago. We used to like this game and have played it for a few years. We have over 7 million coins added up and Ive now noticed that since theyve added the gem levels (bronze, silver, gold, etc) they are cheating us out of our coins. Ive been watching lately, as we should be going faster up the ranks to diamond level. We watch every time we win a round and noticed that Im not progressing but instead am going backwards. The number ranking actually goes backwards. Since it moves so quickly they expect that no one will notice. Well we have. We will report you for such wrongdoing, poor judgment, and scamming your players. So dumb on your part. Dont say its a glitch. You know what youre doing.
We have our phone on silent but the music is still on!! Also we win a a prize but we have to watch an add!!! Also our logo will not change! Here are some good things though, love it! We could play it for hours! Love the racing! Love love love! How you can customize your pins and balls! Bye.
When you get close to winning on the higher levels game cheats to make you loose. It freezes and youre not able to pull the pins. Also if you pay the 2.99 to NOT see adds- you still have to watch them.
The game was simple and fun but then ads took over and we couldnt start with game without looking at a hundred ads despite clearing the app and relaunching. Furthermore, we had to look at ads after a single game play. We got tired of having to do this and deleted it.
PLEASE off a no ads option PLEASE.
Apparently all these game apps lie. They are riddled with ads. First there are the ads for other game apps which each last a couple of minutes and are repeats. The same ads for the same games and all promising no ads Second there are ads for other apps (like plant doctor) that you get even if you download the app Third there are the actual ads for products that run on endless loops Finally there is occasional the option to stop the ads if you pay The game itself isnt bad but you have to learn by messing up. There are no instructions. And some of the prizes are just indecipherable.
Its fun to play but ads spam so much it is impossible to enjoy. Unless you want to pay the $2.99 for no ads, do not bother.
This game is fun but the ads are very annoying. We paid for no ads but it stopped no ads so dont waste your money. St least the ads are good ones.
We enjoy playing the game but there are too many, long commercials.
We like the game but could make a few levels a little more easy so we dont have to watch so many adds because Im on level 218 and its not possible to do so please fix the game so its easier so we dont stop playing the game.
Way too many ads between levels. Soon we couldnt even open the game without an ad. We finally deleted it after opening the game, seeing an ad, closing and reopening it to see an ad 17 times in a row.
The game is fun and moderately challenging, still kinda buggy, fails you when you win, ads at every level, challenge and prize. 55% play time to 45% ad time not worth it to us.
We were in 64th place then after the next round we were back in 1000th place!!!!!!!! But other wise it was fine.
The. Free version has too many ads.
We could play this game for hours. The only aggravating part is on the every so often game they let you play to win big money. Most times we get to the end of that game and you cannot pull the last pin to win the game. We even bought a stylus pen thinking our fingerprint wasnt working. It is always at the very last pin.
We keep Playing hoping to reach difficult level.
Liked the game but to many ads. Deleted the game. Give your players a break. If we wanted other games we would get them. Spend more time waiting on ads than playing the game. Bye.
While we really enjoy this game, its a disappointment that no new features can be won or bought with the thousands of coins we do win.
We absolutely love this skin. It is so much fun. And the graphics are amazing. We play this game when Im bored, and it is a lifesaver for when Im overwhelmed. The only disadvantage is that there is more ads than we would like. But other than that this game is incredible, amazing, and we just wish we could play it all the time.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 237.0.8
- Size: 395.37 MB
- iOS: 15.2 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
- Developer: Popcore GmbH
Last updated: 2nd January 2026 | Genre: Puzzle, Board | Developer: Popcore GmbH