“Lots of ads — Marketing trap”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 523 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.9 ★316,308 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
240 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
2248 Puzzle Game: Minimalistic & Elegantly designed Game which lets you think out of the box and sharpen your mind.
The goal is to connect the same numbered blocks so they merge into higher numbers.
You get to enjoy this amazing new puzzle game while improving your memory, concentration levels and reflexes at the same time.
Once you start playing it, you will absolutely get addicted to this puzzle game.
HOW TO PLAY - Slide the same numbers in any of the eight directions (up, down, left, right or diagonally) to merge them. - Get higher numbers when you merge multiple same numbers together. - Keep merging numbers to get the highest number possible.
Game Features - Minimalistic & Elegantly designed Game. - Smooth & simple controls. - Easy to learn and play - Automatic save game - Global Leaderboards - No time limits.
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Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 4.5.4 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 4.5.4, updated 2026-09-29.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
90% or more five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 52 distinct reviewers — 9.9% of the 523 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 0.99 to USD 99.99 — a 101x spread across 10 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (5 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Too many ads — Love this game, but the amount of ads are annoying”
“Genuinely a good game — Ok, so I have been playing this game for a long time. Got to the end and restarted it all over again. I enjoy it. So much that I paid for the “No Ads” version. They had 4 stars and I would give 5 stars originally…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 4.5.4.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$0.99
Highest$99.99
Ad Free$9.99
Ad Free$3.99
Ad Free$1.99
Handful of Diamonds$0.99
Bucket of Diamonds$4.99
Show 5 more purchases
Vault of Diamonds$49.99
Pouch of Diamonds$2.99
Stash of Diamonds$9.99
Bank of Diamonds$24.99
Mountain of Diamonds$99.99