Creek Puzzles

 

From the App Store:
'How it's played:
The aim of the game is to fill in the correct squares to find the unique winning pattern. The numbers in circles tell you how many of the surrounding squares should be filled. Every circle must be surrounded by the correct number of filled in squares. At the same time all the unfilled squares must be remain connected to one another.
That's all there is to it! But beware, it's harder than it sounds.'


My observations:
1. There used to be a game called Atsumari which was almost identical, but played on a hexagonal grid. I hope it comes back.
2. There are hundreds of levels at the Starter, Easy, Medium, Hard and Killer levels. About 20 are free.
3. Even the Starter levels are difficult!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/creek-puzzles/id1001685594?mt=8
http://www.openplanetsoftware.com/creek/

Holes and Bears

 

Look at the 5 dice. Can you see the 3 holes? How about the 6 bears?  And what about those 12 seals!

In the last image, I count 2 holes, 8 bears and 4 seals.
Figure it out!
Holes and Bears is a free puzzle app game. It's not original. I saw something like it a few months ago, but I have no idea where. It's a cute little game.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/holes-and-bears/id1032247249

Domino Drop: point scoring puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

 

David Cole, Loyal Blog Follower, told me about Domino Drop, a point scoring puzzle game.

Since the early 80's I've never like Tetris and Domino Drop reminds me of it. However, it's very different. The objective is to match 2 or more tiles to score points. Of course, those tiles disappear.

Scoring System: if you get 2 tiles of any number, you'll score 100 points for each tile. But it gets more interesting.

Pay attention here: if you get  a chain reaction, the points will accumulate exponentially.

Look at the second to last image. That came from a game I was playing. I moved the 4/5 to the third column.
 

The 4's gave me 200 points (100 each). Ho hum.

The subsequent 5's gave me 1000 points (500 each). Hmmm.

When the 5's disappeared, it freed the 6.

The 6's gave me 2000 points (1000 each). Oh Yeah.

When the bottom 6 disappeared, it freed the 2.

The 2's gave me 4000 points (2000 each). Now we're talking.

That freed up the 4 in the 3rd column.

The 4's then yielded 8000 points (4000 each). Wow.

[Also, the 3's merged for another 4000 points (2000 each). This happened at the same time as the 2's merging, so the scoring stayed consistent.]

Total: 19,200 points for one move. Examine the last photo to see the final result of that one move.

My high score is 133,800 which places me at 709 out of 18,000 players.

As with most point scoring puzzle app games, there is an element of luck.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/domino-drop/id955290679?mt=8

http://dominodrop.com/ Watch the demo video.




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Pushopolous
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Nineout
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