Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33978305-20180413174714/@comment-35315474-20180415161937

I have a rather cynical idea of why they added the flashing lights. It momentarily blinds the player from searching or seeing the new item added at the bottom. So even if it doesn't slow down the game itself (mine still plays just as fast as before on my iPad), but the blinding affect will slow down all players from finding items. Therefore, I don't think it was added by kid programmers who thought it would look cool. I think it was added strategically to slow down players – which leads to needing more finding tools – which leads to some people spending money to get the rubies to buy more finding tools.

I agree with those who are concerned the flashing lights could trigger migrains in some people, but even worse. I worry that it could trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy. The Epilepsy Foundation (epilepsy.com) says it affects 3% of people with epilepsy. So those flashes of light can be outright dangerous to some players.