Jumba > iPad, iPhone, Android, Mac & PC Game

Overall rating

5 / 5

7 of 7 found this review helpful

If You Like Playing Hi-Q, You'll Enjoy This Game

PostedDecember 26, 2011

Bpup

fromUSA

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Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Family, Word, Brain Teaser, Adventure, Time Management, Hidden Object, Large File, Match 3, Card & Board, Puzzle, Mahjong, Strategy

Current Favorite:

The Tiny Bang Story

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Fun Factor

4 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

4 / 5

Level of Challenge

4 / 5

If you've ever sat in a Cracker Barrel restaurant playing that little time-killing peg-jumper game they have on the table while you've waited for your meal to arrive, then you already know how to play Jumba. It is a marble solitaire game that whose object is to eliminate all of the marbles on the playing field by using one marble to jump over another, either horizontally or vertically, with the ...Show more

Jumba spices up the game by providing a variety of marbles scattered throughout the games, that have their own quirks and actions. There are locked marbles, exploding marbles, marbles than can move more than one space, marbles that destroy others if they come in contact with them, etc. The shape of the playing field also changes as you progress through the game, as does the number of marbles in play at any one time, and the complexity of the game play.

Graphics are clear, game play is smooth. There are controls for the sounds and music. This is fun little game for those times when you want to play a game, but you're just not willing to commit the time or attention to hidden object or time management or similar game.

I initially had a problem playing this on my Vista computer, but found that if I made sure to install it as an administrator, it worked for me. Show less

I recommend this game!

+7points

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Overall rating

4 / 5

24 of 24 found this review helpful

Hard Brain Teaser meets time critical Action (without pre-installed Solutions but with Skip Feature)

PostedJune 29, 2015

TheRealFreak

fromMunich, Bavaria (Germany)

Skill Level:Expert

Favorite Genre(s):Match 3, Arcade & Action, Mahjong, Brain Teaser

Fun Factor

5 / 5

Visual/Sound Quality

3 / 5

Level of Challenge

5 / 5

Ever thought removing balls from a board by jumping with other balls over them is boring? NOT when you do it the (more and more) difficult JUMBA way! There are 6 different ball types with different abilities to jump including self-moving and timed self-destruct balls (for time critical action when they appear in a level). There is a overview shown every time you start a game session. READ it EVERY time AGAIN! You need to know these details in full and immediately to solve higher levels in the given decreasing time, which is often BUT NOT ALWAYS generous, so keep moving on! The board layout changes from level to level, this keeps the game play more interesting.

Every time you complete a level AND you press the NEXT button, it is recorded in your real time playing speed and available for playback later (for other players and unlimited retries) when pressing the SHOW SOLUTION button then. But after the first installation, the folder solutions is almost empty and this button won’t work (without any message!) first. You’re welcome to join the community in the game forum here to share solutions, especially when you should get stuck one day. This may really happen, because the levels are getting hard in my opinion at level 20+ of 95 (35 is my current yet). There is no step wise undo feature but you may restart and pause a level at any time before time run out. You may also skip a level after a few failed attempts.

Jumba doesn’t support multiple players per windows log in / account out of the box, but this feature may be added easily (also with shared solutions to help the other players of your team). Please visit here "Community > Game Forums Home > Jumba" for more information about the game and for more ideas in detail.

Jumba is great to wipe away the daily routine because it is hard enough to force you to concentrate on the level only by raising your creativity. The music and sound effects are relaxing and helpful. When you watch the SHOW SOLUTION after you did another level with your friends, they’ll definitely be surprised. This is - every time again - a real success experience!

This is one of my favorite brain teaser games. Show less

I recommend this game!

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