Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This game's objective is to determine the correlation between each of the four different images presented. In the app's example images, you can see that one of the words is "seal". You find the randomly jumbled letters and type out the word as quickly as possible. Answer quickly enough and you are rewarded with coins. The game is well-considered, and it is obvious a lot of work went into finding four images that have a commonality. It's fun, sure, but that fun is marred by the aggressive practices of the developer. For instance, there are *THREE* different places on the front menu which contains IN-APP ADS for the developers other offerings. That's right, THREE of them. It's worse than you think, though, because they've introduced the IN-APP STORE. It is not IAP, but it's close enough. Indeed, because it bypasses the already bad securiy of the Amazon Appstore, if your child accidentally chose to 'purchase' a game, it can be done very easily. If that wasn't enough, it turns out that the developer is shilling for 5-star reviews. Guess what: if you don't give a five-star review you don't get the whole game. In order to get the additional 200 coins the game is offering, you have to write a 5-star review. You know what that means: you cannot trust a single 5-star review! Yes, the dev has artificially raised the review ranking of this app. (Ironically, the popup asking you to rate the game burns up your game time clock!) Not cool. To be honest, though, there shouldn't be any need to purchase coins since most of the game is too easy. Of course, in testing I burned all available coins to see what would happen. What do the coins do? You use them to get hints. 100 coins reveals a letter in the answer, or it removes some unused letters from the available pool. What happens when you run out? Simple, you either continue to solve puzzles to earn more coins, or you can PURCHASE them. No surprise, unfortunately. I fully expect In-App Purchasing to hit the next update cycle. There's also a button in the settings that purports to "reset all game data". In fact, all it does is restart the levels; that's just another deception by the developer. You still have the same score and the same amount of coins left. BUT, you are UNABLE to earn any more coins in levels you've completed! That may be fine if you could go to the level list and jump ahead, but there is no level list. There's no way to find out how many levels exist, and no way to move back or forth other than to complete the levels in the order dictated (which is not random). And the ending is an abysmal let-down... the game literally ended and quit, just like that. Even though there are 100 levels, give or take, it is *very* short and quite easy. I was challenged on a half dozen or so, but I was able to download, install, experiment, write this review, and play the entire game in about an hour. The game had no "ramp" of difficulty. In other words, it did not start easy and get progressively harder. No, in fact it was the other way around. The last several where unbelievably easy and boring. By the way, this app wants internet access, and includes AdMob and AdSense, as well as Facebook integration. Best thing to do with this game is to play withthe internet access turned *off*. After all, the developer has already shown that it cannot be trusted. No, I don't think this game was worth 99-cents.