Sugar Witch

Great game to play you get to take your time and study your next moves

Love it so far. Very good game. Well done.

Sugar Witch is a match 3 game with relatively large sized icons and an attractive interface, with no annoying cutesy animation. There are many different challenges, but the one that appeals to my sense of humor is to hunt down Ghosts on Waffles. After about level 100, the game becomes increasingly difficult. I expect the reason for this is that the creators want you to buy extra powers to complete a level, and I have certainly done this. There is nothing more soul destroyingly boring than to play the same level over and over and not be able to move on. All the levels are completable, of course, but not always in the number of moves allowed. This is the secret of the game, to zoom through the early part of each level quickly enough that you have some breathing room later. Some levels can’t be won at all, unless the game allows it by giving you one of those universally matching multicolor icons. Some levels I have no idea how I completed the level. So no skill is required, just the boring repetition until you succeed. I recall being on level 250 for what seemed like a week, and I eventually got as high as level 437, before I just gave up in frustration. Now I just play the levels I’ve already played, and stick to the Ghosts on Waffles levels, as the most amusing and satisfying to play. The benefit of starting over from level 1 (or level 20 or whatever) is that if you reach a level that frustrates you, you can just skip it and go on to the next enjoyable one. I was surprised to learn how few Ghosts on Waffles levels there are, the first one is 29 and there are only 13 in the first 103 levels. Things I DISLIKE about match 3 games in general, and Sugar Witch specifically, are: 1. Once you achieve the set goal for each level, if there are any unused moves left, the game continues to play on its own, which is boring, time consuming and pointless. 2. When you fail a level, the “out of moves” banner blocks your view of the layout, so you are unable to make an intelligent decision about whether to pay to continue the game, because you can’t see how close you are. 3. When you replay levels you’ve already played, when you click on CONTINUE, you return to the map, and the next level does not automatically open up. 4. Like most computer games, the default is for background music to be on, which I always turn off, although Sugar Witch’s music is less annoying than most games. Things I LIKE about Sugar Witch are: 1. There is no bad sound effect if you fail a level, as there is, for example, in Zynga’s WIZARD OF OZ game. 2. You are not forever being urged to SHARE with Facebook friends 3. You are not forever being exhorted to rate the game. 4. No ads! 5. And, hooray, there is no alarm or music or clock which alerts you to the fact that you are in the last 10 moves on any level. I hate this and often turn the sound off on games which distract me with this countdown. 6. The sound effects are extremely enjoyable: pleasant xylophone tones as well as crackles, slurpies and exciting electric zaps