1001 Jigsaw: Ice Age > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game

Overall rating

3 / 5

12 of 12 found this review helpful

Good Gameplay, Poor Photos

PostedFebruary 11, 2021

Medbie

fromTennessee

Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Card & Board, Match 3, Puzzle, Time Management

Fun Factor

3 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

I generally love the 1001 Puzzle games, but this one was just okay because of the images. The photos of people were often just odd, if not creepy, and there were way too many of them. There weren't enough landscapes, which is a shame as winter is such a lovely theme. The gameplay is great as usual, though, with the ability to make the puzzles exactly for your skill level. It's just not very fun ...Show more

I generally love the 1001 Puzzle games, but this one was just okay because of the images. The photos of people were often just odd, if not creepy, and there were way too many of them. There weren't enough landscapes, which is a shame as winter is such a lovely theme. The gameplay is great as usual, though, with the ability to make the puzzles exactly for your skill level. It's just not very fun due to the pictures. Show less

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2 / 5

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Disappointed

PostedFebruary 6, 2021

queenp81

fromFoothills of California

Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Puzzle, Strategy

Fun Factor

1 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

3 / 5

Level of Challenge

1 / 5

Storyline

1 / 5

I really enjoy all of the jigsaw puzzles that I have bought and usually not too critical. This time, I am really disappointed and can't buy this puzzle. I am not interested in working almost all the puzzles either of people or animals. I want the landscapes and picture of various scenes. If I want pictures of people or faces, I will take pictures of my own children and grandchildren.

I don't recommend this game.

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Overall rating

2 / 5

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Disappointed

PostedFebruary 4, 2022

TerryinOhio

fromNorth Ridgeville, OH, USA

There are only 2 sections that have outstanding photos to choose. The rest are mostly pictures of people. Very Disappointed!

I don't recommend this game.

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1 / 5

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THESE PUZZLE IMAGES REACHED AN NEW ALL-TIME "LOW" WITH BOTTOM OF THE BARREL UNAPPEALING THEMES

PostedApril 5, 2020

pennmom36

fromReality check guys, nobody enjoys doing a jigsaw puzzle of some random staged image of fruit or someone else's kids

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Skill Level:Expert

Fun Factor

1 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

1 / 5

Level of Challenge

1 / 5

Storyline

1 / 5

I'm not really surprised by the lackluster images chosen for Ice Age because all of their "1001 Jigsaw Games" are always chock-full of ugly, uninteresting, staged pictures of people, places, and things, but these images have sunk to an all-time low! If any of the images offered in this computer version was a real, physical retail boxed puzzle, sitting on a shelf in the puzzle aisle, it would still ...Show more

I'm not really surprised by the lackluster images chosen for Ice Age because all of their "1001 Jigsaw Games" are always chock-full of ugly, uninteresting, staged pictures of people, places, and things, but these images have sunk to an all-time low! If any of the images offered in this computer version was a real, physical retail boxed puzzle, sitting on a shelf in the puzzle aisle, it would still be sitting there 20 years later, until some kind employee decided to show it some mercy and throw it in the recycle bin! Even if they put a huge sign on it that said "Free To A Good Home" it would be declined by even the most desperate puzzle geeks.

You know the drill, nothing ever changes (& never will). There are Achievement Trophies to earn and a Top Scores leaderboard. There are no options to access any of those features to find out what achievements you are striving to achieve. You can save your puzzle progress but you can't save the completed puzzle image nor can you download the image as a screensaver or wallpaper, but then again, who wants wallpapers of ugly pictures?

There is a box to store extra pieces, but there are no options to categorize, label or sort these stored pieces, nor is there an option to fetch or retrieve certain pieces because you can't sort and label these stored pieces. The current sort option simply scrambles the pieces to the correct area, such as the top, bottom, right, or left side which feels like you're cheating...that makes no sense? Wouldn't it be nice to have the ability to sort them by the correct rotation, color variations (zebra stripes, blue sky, green grass) or shape of the puzzle piece? At least it gives you the option to choose the Border pieces separately, but there is no available option to sort the border pieces by shape or color.

There is an option to post a Pictured Image of the puzzle you are working on which also allows you to choose three different sizes of x1, x2 or x3. You can also opt to Ghost the Image on the Background (the puzzle is assembled on top of the ghosted image) It doesn't, however, give you the option to choose the Opaqueness of the Ghosted Image to make the image more or less visible, depending on how difficult you want the puzzle assembly to be. The "ghosted image isn't "ghosted" it's simply a large, stationary picture.

There is an available Magnifying Glass to enlarge sections, as well as a Hint feature in case you get stumped. You can easily become "stumped" because the puzzle connection tabs connecting two pieces together, never appear as an actual match (the tab on puzzle piece A looks nothing like the opening in puzzle piece B) most of the time the colors don't even appear to match up because they are using cheap software. You can also choose the Resolution, opt for a single Custom Cursor (a tiny cursor at that!) or change the color of the background to a pastel shade of Pink, Green, Blue or Gray. Even though they are pastels, these basic color options tend to be too dark with most of the puzzles, so being able to adjust the intensity of the background colors at the very least, makes sense, doesn't it? Here's a fun fact: Even the oldest monitors can EASILYdisplay 16,777,216,256 different colors, yet we are only given an option of Four of those 16,777,216,256 colors to choose from as the background color!

Any Puzzle offered can be modified with Size options, the Shape of the puzzle pieces, and whether or not you want the pieces to Rotate, but even then, it's not optimized to allow you to assemble a puzzle much bigger than 300 pieces. A 300 Piece Puzzle purchased off the shelf would be labeled for ages +5 five years old and up! There's an old jigsaw meme that says "I just completed a puzzle in one week and the box says 2-5 years"...great motto for Jigsaws by this developer?

Once you complete a Jigsaw Puzzle, you're done, the party's over, you get about 2 seconds to admire your work before the image disappears and the stats pop-up...probably for the best! Just walk away :( Show less

I don't recommend this game.

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1 / 5

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Why don't they fix this?

PostedMarch 24, 2020

gg3000

fromSunnySC

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Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Puzzle, Time Management

Fun Factor

1 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

1 / 5

Level of Challenge

1 / 5

Storyline

1 / 5

This designer continues to put out jigsaw "games" with the absolute worst pictures. They use stock photos of places or objects that are bland and uninteresting. Or they use one poor woman in most of the "people" jigsaw puzzles who, I'm convinced, is working her way through college and has been suckered into modeling for these awful photos in this game. And this is unfortunate because the game has ...Show more

This designer continues to put out jigsaw "games" with the absolute worst pictures. They use stock photos of places or objects that are bland and uninteresting. Or they use one poor woman in most of the "people" jigsaw puzzles who, I'm convinced, is working her way through college and has been suckered into modeling for these awful photos in this game. And this is unfortunate because the game has a lot of nice features, modification of pieces, separation boxes, ghost imaging, to name a few.

BIG FISH ... people who love jigsaw puzzles need to have great pictures! Stop supporting this designer's laziness! Show less

I don't recommend this game.

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Overall rating

1 / 5

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David Versus Goliath

PostedFebruary 3, 2021

Cyril48

fromNew Zealand

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Skill Level:Intermediate

Favorite Genre(s):Adventure, Marble Popper, Match 3, Puzzle, Time Management

Fun Factor

2 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

2 / 5

Level of Challenge

2 / 5

In other words the big guys up against the small guys.

We are always asking for variety here so why put up 2 jigsaw puzzles on consecutive days?

And David won here by a long shot. There is just no comparison.

I agree with others that the images are just standard and no effort has gone in to this. You can't save. download , the only thing I like is you can sort out your borders.

Also it ...Show more

In other words the big guys up against the small guys.

We are always asking for variety here so why put up 2 jigsaw puzzles on consecutive days?

And David won here by a long shot. There is just no comparison.

I agree with others that the images are just standard and no effort has gone in to this. You can't save. download , the only thing I like is you can sort out your borders.

Also it is very samey to the other games in this series.
Very soon 1001 will make sense.
Time after time we ask for changes but they never listen.

Try the demo, see what you think but there are many of these out there. Show less

I don't recommend this game.

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Overall rating

1 / 5

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Don't Even Bother!

PostedFebruary 3, 2021

HeavenBound7729

fromOcala, Florida

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Fun Factor

1 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

1 / 5

Level of Challenge

1 / 5

Storyline

1 / 5

This one is a real stinker! No matter how far beyond desperate I may be for a jigsaw puzzle, I would not even consider this one. I found not one iota of beauty anywhere. The images were not creative, attractive or interesting. I'm wondering why this dev is in the business of designing puzzles in the first place!

I'm in total agreement with Pennmom regarding all the staged pictures of misc ...Show more

This one is a real stinker! No matter how far beyond desperate I may be for a jigsaw puzzle, I would not even consider this one. I found not one iota of beauty anywhere. The images were not creative, attractive or interesting. I'm wondering why this dev is in the business of designing puzzles in the first place!

I'm in total agreement with Pennmom regarding all the staged pictures of misc boring things and uninteresting people. Things and people are out of place in an Ice Age puzzle, as well. The options are basic and a few features are ok, they work fine but offer little to the fun of assembly. Sorting the pieces is a nightmare but there is the option of working the border separately. There are approximately 300 pieces max to each puzzle, so for me there isn't much challenge. There are four pastel background colors and they are pretty bland with no way to adjust the shades.

Your finished puzzle cannot be saved and dream on if you want to sit and admire your accomplishment. It disappears in a nano second, never to be seen again. I just hate that!!

The puzzles from this dev are more unappealing with each new release, nothing ever changes. Our suggestions, requests, opinions in our reviews generate absolutely no response. It's been like this for years. But I always check the demos hoping to find that everything is fixed, always turns out to be a waste of time.

In the beginning of 1001 Jigsaw, it was a lot different and there were actually gorgeous images that related to the theme of the puzzles with fantastic animals and birds, beautiful landscapes. people in their natural habitat and dress instead of the silly models we now see in the puzzles. There were oodles of great puzzles, now reduced to 500 and the title is misleading.

1001 Jigsaw: Ice Age is just another disappointment . It amazes me that this dev thinks that this is all okay and makes $$ from this inferior product. But try the demo for yourself. You may have a completely different opinion and you'll end up wondering what all the fuss is about. Show less

I don't recommend this game.

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Overall rating

1 / 5

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Bad game with no window mode

PostedFebruary 3, 2021

tjm1938

fromCocoa, FL

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Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Marble Popper, Match 3, Puzzle

Fun Factor

1 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

3 / 5

Storyline

1 / 5

Uninteresting game with no window mode option and no way to change the player name from "Player 1" which is the default name the game assigns.

I don't recommend this game.

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