Thursday, March 31, 2011

The Big Square: puzzle app for ipad, iphone, ipod touch Review

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Do you remember solving the famous Knight's Tour puzzle? Fill a 5x5 grid with the numbers 1-25 following the path of a knight. The Bi...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Amtalee: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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Mikolaj Sikorski has created Amtalee. It's a rolling block maze. Very very similar to Bloxorz which you can play online here . Dow...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Rogo: math puzzle app for iphone, ipad, ipod touch Review

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The Traveling Salesman is a classic math problem: if a person has to travel to, say, 15 cities, what would the shortest route be? Rogo is...
Monday, March 28, 2011

Dicoron: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle Review

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Roll and move a dice to the goal. You can roll the dice only if the landing spot will match the face of the die. There is only 1 puzzle in...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Unlucky Twist: an Oskar van Deventer puzzle

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Click here to order the puzzle. Oskar van Deventer - I've written much about him. My first article for Games Magazine was a 6 page s...
Thursday, March 24, 2011

SmartBalls: iphone ipad ipod puzzle app Review

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SmartBalls comes from Sergey Lesnichenko. Slide the rows and columns to match the diagram in the upper right corner. This is similar to ot...
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Ballentines: action puzzle app for iphone, ipad, ipod Review

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Ballentines is an action puzzle. Move balls around to line up sets of 3 in order to score points. As soon as you score, more balls start...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Strimko Gold: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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The Grabarchuk family has a long history of creating innovative, interesting and fun puzzles. Strimko is essentially a twisted version of...
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Photography Apps

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Suzanne Davies is something of an expert in photography. So, if you're looking for some good iphone photography apps, click here .
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Beam Puzzle: puzzle app for ipad, iphone, ipod Review

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15 years ago the Rubik Empire released a CD-ROM of puzzles. One of them was called Cover Up. Great, fantastic, fun puzzle concept. Ferh...
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Friday, March 18, 2011

Blind Knights Chess: app store game review

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Blind Knights Chess comes from Aaron Coleman. I believe his sons Jonathan & David made the graphics and sounds! So this is a family en...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Untangle: puzzle app for iphone, ipad, ipod Review

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Untangle comes from Wang Yujin of Bluesky Studio. We've seen puzzle apps very similar to this. Visit http://www.planarity.net/# to ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Twistrix: puzzle app for ipad, ipod, iphone Review

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Twistrix is very similar to the mechanical puzzles Babylon Tower and Whip-It. Easy puzzle. As you advance through the levels, the tower ...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Free puzzle apps for Japan?

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Dennis Mengelt produced Boxed In, which I reviewed about 3 weeks ago. This week he is offering all of his puzzle apps for free in the hopes...
Monday, March 14, 2011

iRectangle: puzzle app for ipad, iphone, ipod touch Review

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We've seen puzzles like this: slide the rows & columns so that all the red is in the upper left corner, green in the upper right. Y...
Friday, March 11, 2011

New Robot can solve Rubik's Cube

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There are many robots that can solve Rubik's Cube. You can even buy a Lego set & assemble it to do this. Zachary Grady and Joe Ridg...
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Geared: ipad, iphone, ipod puzzle app review

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Geared is an interesting puzzle. The yellow gear is fixed and is always rotating. The blue gears are also fixed and needs to rotate. Objec...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Kakooma (it's not sudoku!): iphone/ipad puzzle app review

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Kakooma looks like sudoku, but it's not! The images above describes the game perfectly. It's fun and it's free. Give it a tr...
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Kusoge: puzzle app for ipad, iphone & ipod Review

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Kusoge comes with no instructions! You would think that the folks at the Apple App Store would not release it for that reason alone! Kus...
Monday, March 7, 2011

NeoStacker: ipad/iphone puzzle app review

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The bricks below the red line are fixed. The bricks above can slide side to side, not up and down. The object: the number of bricks above...
Friday, March 4, 2011

Muzzle: puzzle app for ipad/iphone/ipod review

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Muzzle is a combination of the 15 puzzle and more traditional edge-matching puzzles. The image above shows a 3x3 grid. The medium level pu...
Thursday, March 3, 2011

Fit Shape: puzzle app review

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Fit Shape is simple to grasp. Place the pieces into the grid so they fit! Duh! Not terribly hard. This is for young puzzlers and people ...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Puzzle Auction for Australian Relief

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Some fabulous puzzles are being offered by generous craftsmen & collectors in order to raise money for the relief efforts caused by the...
Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Ipuzzle: Junk's Hanoi puzzle app review

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If you're a fan of Tower of Hanoi and its many variants, check out this free puzzle. Object: slide all the bars from the top left ar...
Monday, February 28, 2011

Bentled: iphone ipad ipod puzzle app review

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Are you a fan of Bejeweled? If so, Bentled is a good variation. The object is to score points! Drag rows & columns to get groups of 4 o...
Saturday, February 26, 2011

Ancient Frog: iphone ipad puzzle game app review

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In the last month, about 25 people have emailed me to check out Ancient Frog. The object is to move the frog to get the fly, which is stati...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Rotate It! - Doodle Pro: iphone puzzle app review

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This is not the 15 puzzle. But the objective is the same: get the numbers in order. Click on any arrow and watch those numbers rotate clock...
Thursday, February 24, 2011

Reverse Maze: iphone ipad dexterity puzzle app: review

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The puzzle reminds me of The World's Hardest Game . The object is to move the bright object from point A to point B without touching a...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Boxed In iphone ipad puzzle app review: Update

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All right boys & girls, I couldn't stop playing Boxed In. I completed the 50 levels in about 3-4 hours - riding the subway, eating...
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Boxed In iphone ipad puzzle app review

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Are you a fan of sokomind or boxworld? If so, you know that you can never push a box into a corner to solve any level. Boxed In sometimes...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Martha Stewart Show Tuesday 2/22 Hallmark Channel

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Martha Stewart will have Will Shortz- NY Times Crossword puzzle editor. Also Richard Garriott - mechanical puzzle collector. Watch the pre...

Block Fill: iphone ipad ipod puzzle app review

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The object of Block fill is to fill the grid with rectangles and squares. Each number must rest inside one of those rectangles and there mu...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Witty Bump: iphone puzzle app review Updated!

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About 2 weeks ago I talked about Witty Bump. It's a maze puzzle with bumpers, wormholes and splitters. I just completed all 100 levels ...
Friday, February 18, 2011

The Nightmare Maze: text puzzle app

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Alex Livingston created this very strange, dark twisted little tale. Answer correctly and you will increase your lucidity and insight. If...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Slide to Unlock: ipad/iphone action puzzle app

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This website likes to focus on the best iphone/ipad/ipod touch puzzle apps. Slide to Unlock is not really a puzzle, though it was listed i...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Gear Shift: twisty puzzle modification review

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http://www.shapeways.com/model/139482/gear_shift.html?gid=sg13603 Gear Shift is the creation of Bram Cohen & Oskar van Deventer. The...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Flup: iphone/ipad/ipod puzzle app review

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Just yesterday(!) I was telling somebody that I'm not a fan of rolling cube puzzles. But now, I've played Flup. Flup has is a rol...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Solitaire Chess: iphone/ipad/ipod puzzle app review

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Years ago, this Mechanical Puzzle Correspondent was a chess fanatic. Then lost interest. The object of Solitaire Chess: every move must i...