Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Attention all Android users......

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Two things: 1. Solitaire Chess is now available for Android users. 2. Which leads me wondering: are there any puzzle apps that is availa...
Monday, May 30, 2011

Duality: iphone ipad maze puzzle app

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Ajit Rao has come up with a challenging, fun, brilliant, original set of puzzles. The object: move the blue orb to the big blue dot. Note...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

TipTapTop: puzzle app for kids

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TipTapTop - also known as T3 - is a puzzle app for kids. Tap on 2 images to make them swap and restore the photo to order. Patrick Shirkey...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Gemocide: puzzle app for iphone, ipad, ipod touch

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Move gems round a board and see how they interact to help (or hinder!) clearing gem-homes. No time limits, no random scoring – what you do ...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Mortal Coil: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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Mortal Coil is similar to many other puzzle apps: there is a tilt-maze aspect combined with a topology problem of filling in all the square...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Hi Lo sudoku variation iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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Does the world need another variation on sudoku? No! But this one is so fun, I spent about 1.5 hours on it yesterday. Object: make a Latin ...
Monday, May 23, 2011

TriZen: puzzle app for iphone ipad ipod touch

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TriZen is a tangram type puzzle with some 500 levels. Craig & Lindi Kemper are the authors. They've also created some other tangra...
Friday, May 20, 2011

Tippy Tower: balancing puzzle app for iphone, ipad and ipod touch

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We've seen many version of this type of puzzle. The makers of Tippy Tower contacted us yesterday with great enthusiasm. Tiago Loureiro...
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Thursday, May 19, 2011

Twister 3D: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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Twister 3D is a series of take-apart puzzles. I tried this on my ipod touch and was a bit frustrated. The graphics are smooth and sleek....
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Trigee Color: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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Trigee Color comes from http://istomgames.com/ . Istvan Galos is the game designer. The object of the puzzle is to restore the colored tri...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Roll Doku: sudoku type puzzle app for iphone, ipad, ipod touch. Review

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Download the Free version of Roll Doku & just try to do 1 puzzle. A solved Sudoku puzzle is wrapped around a cylinder. Then it i...
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Monday, May 16, 2011

Puzzlers in the news: Scott Kim - cool puzzler.

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My favorite newspaper, the Wall Street Journal , has this interesting article about Scott Kim who's had a brain teaser column in Discove...
Friday, May 13, 2011

ChessQuest (one word): iphone ipod ipad puzzle app

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ChessQuest is an interesting series of puzzles. There are about 25 puzzles, which I solved in about 15 minutes. Why am I so good at this? B...
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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Mystic Glyph: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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Puzzle friends: I have received some 50 queries the past few days about why I have not posted in 1 week. The reason: I have been consume...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

2Bit: iphone ipod touch ipad puzzle game app Review

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2Bit feels like a 1970's arcade game. You are the little white square. You are always moving forward. As you progress through the gri...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

9 cards puzzle app for ipad, iphone, ipod touch Review

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9 Cards is an edge-matching puzzle. Place the cards into the frame so that all the edges match. We've seen several hundred versions ...
Monday, May 2, 2011

ZooLogic: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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Place the animal and food tiles on the various grids to avoid confrontation or eating. The dog cannot be next to the cat or the bone. The...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Unlucky Twist: an Oskar van Deventer puzzle

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I am now the proud owner of Unlucky Twist from Oskar van Deventer. The order: 1x2x13. This puzzle is not hard to solve. What make the puz...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Spins 3D puzzle app for iphone, ipad, ipod touch Review

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Spins 3D is a very sleek puzzle app authored by Nathan Carter. The object is to spin each circle to rotate the positions of the balls. M...
Monday, April 25, 2011

Nadibom: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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I downloaded Nadibom in part, because the image seemed silly, but compelling. The object is to get your man to the bomb. The mazes look s...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Bumpling: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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Have you played Fling!? If so, you will love Bumpling. The object is to knock the balls off the hexagonal grid until only 1 remains. Howe...
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Cube 2D: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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For a few minutes I thought to myself, 'Oh no, not another sliding rows and columns puzzle!' Yes and no. For the easy puzzles, i...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Reiner Knizia's Cluster Master: iphone ipod ipad puzzle app Review

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Reiner Knizia has produced many high quality great puzzle apps. Cluster Master: Fit the hexagons into the grid to make clusters of the same...
Thursday, April 14, 2011

Jabeh: iphone ipad ipod puzzle app Review

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There are so many very good puzzle apps to play. Jabeh is a deceptively great puzzle app. Find the 12 stones in the grid. The numbers on ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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

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Does the world need another tilt-maze? Not really. However, life is so much richer when a good one comes along. The makers of Boxat are m...
Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Move It

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The object of Move It - to move the red square to the upper right corner. 50 levels are free. After that, there are 6 Level Packs to purcha...
Friday, April 8, 2011

Boxed In 2: completed!

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Not all puzzle apps have this little reward for completing all the levels. Boxed In 2 consists of 50 sokomind puzzles with a twist. Some o...
Thursday, April 7, 2011

Pixel Shift: puzzle app for ipad ipod iphone Review

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If you've been following this blog, then you have seen half a dozen or more puzzles very similar to Pixel Shift. Slide the rows and co...
Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Drazzle: iphone, ipad, ipod touch puzzle app Review

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Here's a colorful puzzle that's very similar to some other puzzles we've reviewed. The object is to slide the horizontal & ...
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

See the Light: iphone, ipad, ipod touch puzzle app

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See the Light has nothing to do with religion. It is a puzzle app. Use mirrors, prisms and lenses, absorbers and other tools to direct th...
Monday, April 4, 2011

Drop 7: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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Drop 7 comes from Zynga, the creators of Farmville and Mafia Wars. Drop the numbered discs into the slots strategically. It seems like Tetr...
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Friday, April 1, 2011

Computer simulation for a 1000 x 1000 x 1000 cube

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This puzzle does not exist as a physical model. However, it's nice to see that somebody has programmed a computer to solve it! http:/...
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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...