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Dingbats: A Cool Puzzle Game

    Hey, everyone. I tried a puzzle game tonight, which is unusual for me. It is called Dingbats. I like it a lot. It is free, with ads. You get 100 free puzzles and can buy additional packs of 100 each for 99 cents. Here's the recipe.
     There are 3 lists of blank squares, as you can see above. They give you a hint for the hidden phrase. For instance, in the top one, the hint was : "Don Corleone was held here in The Godfather Part 2." As you can see, the answer is Ellis Island. For the three puzzles on this page, they gave me 10 guesses, for letters. Say, for instance,  I picked an 's'. All the blocks that held an 's' would show it. On the bottom row, that helped by revealing two blocks.
    At the bottom of the screen  are the vowels. If you think you are ready to solve a puzzle, you tap 'solve' and answer one square at a time. The vowels will appear at the bottom, to be used as needed. You receive extra points for solving the puzzles early, or solving them without using many of your letter guesses.
    I found the puzzles challenging, but thankfully you can guess letters to see parts of the phrase. I didn't need many letters revealed to see that "Possible reason for buying a Porsche" was 'mid-life crisis'. No offense to Porsche owners; it is their phrase, not mine.
I'm CE Wills, puzzler.
    
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