Friday, July 29, 2011

Bulby iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app.

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Bulby is one of those puzzles that require aligning the battery to the light bulb. Click on individual square and they will rotate in place...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Doodle Quadro: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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Doodle Quadro is fun! Look for any sized rectangle within the grid that has each corner the same color. The bigger the rectangle, the more...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Globs: iPhone iPad puzzle app

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Globs is almost identical to Floodit and several other versions. The graphics are much cooler. The game starts with the image on the left...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Vanish 10: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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Vanish 10 is perfect for kids. Tap on the numbers that add up to 10 - quickly! The easy grids require paired numbers. Other challenges req...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Dr Pantazis Houlis: puzzle inventor and friend

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At last year's International Puzzle Party, held in Osaka, my friend Pantazis Houlis showed me his hypercube puzzle made of antennae. Re...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Doodle Breaker: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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About 15 years ago I was addicted to Blocks. At least that's what I think it was called. I've seen numerous versions of this. Doo...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Full House: puzzle app for iphone, ipad, ipod touch Review

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I received some 20 emails last night wondering why I did not post yesterday. Sorry kiddos, I had Federal Jury Duty. Longtime followers ...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Museum of Math!

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Finally! The Museum of Math will open soon. My puzzle friend George Hart is one of the driving forces behind this. Look for my article about...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Align It! iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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When I saw the icon for this puzzle app I thought: Oh no, not another puzzle where you slide the horizontal and vertical axes to align the ...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

100! iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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100! is very similar to The Knight's Tour. The object is to fill the grid with the numbers 1-100 following 2 rules. Moving horizontall...
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011

God's Algorithm for Rubik's Cube

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The number of permutations for Rubik's Cube is something like 4 quadrillion. And yet, back in the 80's, somebody proved that any pos...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Flip Them All: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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We've seen so many versions of Lights Out. Tiger Electronics sold 3 versions - all of them superb. Flip Them All is a terrific versio...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Blockshift: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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Blockshift is a puzzle game where you score points by lining up 4 tiles in a row or column. Tap on the arrows to shift individual rows. Mi...
Friday, July 8, 2011

Blockado Jungle: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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We have seen sooooo many versions of Rush Hour by Nob Yoshigahara and Harry Nelson. Almost all of them are, frankly, rip-offs. Blockad...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Fantastic Jigsaw Puzzles!

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2 years ago I wrote an article for Games Magazine about Artifact Puzzles. Maya Gupta is the proprietor. I get the feeling it's a 1-man ...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Oskar van Deventer's Over The Top 17x17x17 Cube Puzzle

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There is a 4-page article describing Oskar van Deventer's Over The Top 17x17x17 Cube Puzzle in the September 2011 issue of Games Magazin...
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Sunday, July 3, 2011

Crazy Circles: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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About 25 years ago, I found Doug Engle's Circle puzzles - flat versions of Rubik's Cube. I thought I understood the puzzles compl...
Friday, July 1, 2011

Pet Jump: iphone ipad ipod touch solitaire puzzle app

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Pet Jump is a solitaire peg jumping puzzle app. There are 3 different game boards. Notice the second image above. I think that's a u...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Hierogrid: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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Hierogrid is an interesting game/puzzle. Your man will travel along the grid in all directions gobbling up tiles. Step on a 4 tile and tra...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Mark Setteducati in the Wall Street Journal

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The Wall Street Journal on Saturday had a nice article on my magic/puzzle friend Mark Setteducati.

Mortal Coil: the competition

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When I first started playing Mortal Coil, practically nobody had played it. I started my quest to solve all 400 levels. A daunting task. A...
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Monday, June 27, 2011

Unlock It: iphone ipad puzzle app Review

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Christophe Burckbuchler is one of many people who have taken the concept of Rush Hour by Nob Yoshigahara and Harry Nelson to make their own...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Pipe Pressure: iphone puzzle app

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The object of Pipe Pressure: rotate individual tiles so the light source reaches the target number. We've seen many of these types of ...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Continuity 2: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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Continuity 2 is the sequel to the original game published about 2 years ago . That original game could only be played online. Truly fab...
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Mazzle: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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Mazzle is similar to other puzzle apps. The object is to arrange all the colors into squares. This is done by shifting rows & columns. ...
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Pipe Push: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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The object is to shift rows and columns so that the lines have proper end points. 9 levels. Not too hard. I spent maybe 15 minutes on this....
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Binary Sudoku Puzzle iphone puzzle app

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Binary Sudoku: the concept has been around for a while. Each grid uses only 0's & 1's. Each row & column must have an equal...
Monday, June 20, 2011

DropZap 2: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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A while ago I reviewed a game/puzzle app called Drop 7. Amir Michail contacted me recently about his 2 versions of that called DropZap and...
Friday, June 17, 2011

Monorail: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app Review

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About 2 months ago Glenn Iba sent me a promo code to play-test Monorail. Terrific stuff. Then I forgot about it. Now the real version is ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Mortal Coil: iphone ipad ipod touch puzzle app

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Puzzle Friends: you may have noticed that I've slowed down on posting reviews of puzzle apps. The truth of the matter: I've become ...
Thursday, June 9, 2011

Head Spin: puzzle app

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Head Spin has come out in more than one version. Simple concept: align the heads to be right up by shifting rows & columns. Tricky!
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Parking ManiaS: puzzle app plagarism?

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Parking ManiaS looks very similar to ThinkFun's Leapin' Lizards. Very suspicious.
Monday, June 6, 2011

Synchrony: time travel puzzle app

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About 2 weeks ago I got this email from Haran Shivanan: "Synchrony is a puzzle game involving time-travel. As the protagonist, yo...
Thursday, June 2, 2011

Lab Mice Puzzles: Award Winner!

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http://www.parents-choice.org/product.cfm?product_id=29225 The very wise judges at Parents' Choice have awarded Lab Mice Puzzles from ...
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...