Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Drawesome: free puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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Look at the image on the left. Can you draw it without lifting your pen/pencil and without tracing a line? This was a very popular pencil ...
Monday, July 30, 2012

Banzai Dice: puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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Banzai Dice is a point scoring puzzle app. The object is to create strings of 4 consecutive numbers or 4 identical numbers to score poi...
Friday, July 27, 2012

NineOut: point scoring puzzle app: another update

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I have posted blurbs about NineOut a few times. You might say I've become obsessed with this little game. About 1 month ago, I was th...
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Cast Spiral: Hanayama Mechanical Puzzle of the Week Review

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This puzzle resembles a 4 piece puzzle that is shaped as a square. The old Binary Arts company, now known as ThinkFun, produced it. The ...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Stoked: free puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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The object of Stoked is to eliminate all the bugs - in this case - with 3 taps. Tap on a red bug and it shoots 1 bullet in each direction....
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Chess - Free by CNVCS: free puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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There are many free chess apps available.  Do a search for cnvcs at the app store. This particular version has lots of bells & whist...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Curvy Free: puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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The object of Curvy Free is to rotate all of the tiles - in place - until all of the lines and colors match up. We've seen this type...
Monday, July 23, 2012

Slide Frog: free puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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The object of Slide Frog, a free puzzle app, is to slide rows and columns - not individual cells - to match the given pattern. We've...

650 hits per day!

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This blog now gets about 650 hits per day! Also, if you google the phrase 'puzzle app', this site comes up #1.  The itunes store c...
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Friday, July 20, 2012

Cast Nutcase: Hanayama Mechanical Puzzle of the Week Review

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Oskar van Deventer created this take-apart puzzle. It's tough! I spent hours twisting the nuts back and forth. One of my studen...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Brain Fit 2: free iphone ipad puzzle app

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The object of Brain Fit 2 is to assemble the pieces to fit into the light green rectangle at the top of the screen. The graphics and use...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Frankenword

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The object of Frankenword is to use the given letters to find two words that blend into each other. Frankenword is a free puzzle app. We...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

PathPix HD: puzzle app for iphone ipad

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The object of PathPix HD is to connect pairs of numbers with a line that will cover exactly that many squares.  Look at the center of the ...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Fuusio: puzzle app for ipad, iphone Review

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Marko Salmela recently contacted me about his new puzzle app Fuusio.  You are presented with grids of different colors. Your task is to me...
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Cast Devil: Hanayama Mechanical Puzzle of the Week Review

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Click here for the solution. I first got this puzzle from Thinkfun. I believe they called it Twin Tangle. It's a disentanglement ...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Colbox: free iphone ipad puzzle app

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Colbox: the object is to make all the tiles the same color. You start with your man being colored in the top corner. If an adjacent ti...

Magic Bricks: update on this puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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Previously, I wrote about Magic Bricks. It's fabulous, incredibly addictive. But I'm royally pissed off. Look at the image here: ...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Lost Souls: Enchanted Paintings

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Marta Miernik recently contacted me about her company's new puzzle app for kids: Lost Souls: Enchanted Paintings. As you can see by ...

Update on NineOut: free puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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I've previously posted two mentions of NineOut, which is a point scoring puzzle app. 2 things you should know. 1. I regained the lea...
Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Runeline: free puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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Runeline is an edge-matching puzzle. Grey Runes can rotate and move. Yellow Runes are fixed, but they can rotate. Blue Runes cannot move o...
Monday, July 9, 2012

English 16: free puzzle app for iphone, ipad Review

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In 1990 I bought 2 books of Sam Loyd's puzzles. This puzzle was in one of them. The object is to slide tiles 1 square at a time, or ju...

Update on Rows Free: free iphone ipad puzzle app

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About 5 months ago I wrote about Rows Free which is a puzzle app that is similar to the card game SET. My high score is 22,613. That was o...
Friday, July 6, 2012

Cast Cricket: Hanayama Mechanical Puzzle of the Week Review

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Click here for the solution. James Dalgety, I believe, has the world's largest puzzle collection. He's from England and he desi...
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Update of Snake Slider: puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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Bas de Reuver recently contacted me about an update to his puzzle app: Snake Slider. He's got 25 more levels. I've solved 23 ...
Thursday, July 5, 2012

Number Zone: free puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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The object of Number Zone is to fill the grid completely with groups of colored circles. Look at the 2: that group will consist of 2 ci...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Rubricks: free iphone ipad puzzle app

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The title alone makes this puzzle app worthy of my attention. Worthy of your attention? That's another story. Blocks come down i...
Monday, July 2, 2012

Micron: puzzle app for iphone, ipad Review

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Micron is a mirror-maze puzzle app which requires an element of timing. Bullets are shot from the starting point. In the case above th...

World's Hardest Sudoku?

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Arto Inkala has spent months making this puzzle. 11 stars. Nobody has solved it.
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Friday, June 29, 2012

Cast Key: Hanayama Mechanical Puzzle of the Week Review

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Click here for the solution. This is not the hardest puzzle in the world. But it's one of the most charming. The object is to se...
Thursday, June 28, 2012

Perfect Tiling: puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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Eric Paquet recently contacted me about his new puzzle app: Perfect Tiling. It's his first puzzle app. The diagram above pretty ...
Wednesday, June 27, 2012

PushPop

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Pushpop is a solitaire version which is similar to Crazy Eights and Uno. Tap on any card at the top of a column. The next card must m...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Twin Beams: iphone ipad puzzle app Review

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The object of Twin Beams: plant 2 trees in every park so that each row and column has exactly two trees.  Also, two trees cannot be adjace...
Friday, June 22, 2012

Cast Bike: Hanayama Mechanical Puzzle of the Week Review

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Click here for the solution.  Cast Bike is part of the Hanayama collection. The object is to get the ring off the bike. In terms of...
Thursday, June 21, 2012

BlockUnBlock: another ripoff of Rush Hour

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I've lost count of the number of total ripoffs of Rush Hour. This is the worst. Why? Because it comes with just 27 levels. Skip this...

NineOut: an update

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I've written before about NineOut which is a point scoring puzzle app. I am now the all-time high scorer at 97,000 points. Oh yeah! I...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Kaleido 10: free puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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The object of Kaleido 10 is to score points by finding 3 or more tiles whose sum is 10. When that happens, the tiles above fall down. Al...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Clickmazes Boxup: puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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The object of Clickmazes Boxup is to push the red C into the blue C. Think of it as a kind of sokoban. Years ago I became a huge fa...
Monday, June 18, 2012

Fish Crackers: puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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Fish Crackers is another puzzle app from the prolific Grabarchuk Family.  The object is to assemble the tiles into each frame.  There are ...