Friday, March 29, 2013

Signal to the Stars: free puzzle app game for ipad, iphone

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Signal to the Stars is a free topology puzzle app game. The scenario: an alien is stranded. He has a spaceship. Place him on the grid an...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Esi-Code Breakers:

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Robert Hardman recently contacted me about his new puzzle app game: Esi-Code Breakers: "On the first level you have to arrange all 5 ...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Trivia Death Match: Ken Jennings Puzzle Game App

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About a month ago I watched Jeopard and was not happy. The topic was geometry and the answer was a triangle with sides 6, 8 & 10. The ...
Monday, March 25, 2013

Dreams of Spirit: Fire Gate - puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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Dani Ohayan from http://www.mercurymaze.com/ has released Dreams of Spirit: Fire Gate. The best way to describe it: it's like Myst,...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Islands Planet: puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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Guillaume Ortega & Eric Caginicolau recently contacted me about their new puzzle app game Islands Planet. You may recall that Gu...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Spinpossible: puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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Eric Kelsic, Alex Sheive and Alex Sutherland from ALX Games recently contacted me about their new puzzle app game: Spinpossible.  The ob...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Ship Shuffle: latest ripoff of Rush Hour

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Ship Shuffle is the latest ripoff of ThinkFun's Ship Shuffle.  I believe this is the 4th ripoff this year. On another note, have you...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

nQubed: Rubik's Cube type puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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nQubed comes from Gregory R Wathen. Practice your cube solving skills from a 2x2x2 to a 7x7x7 cube. Want to get the orientation of the i...
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Swapagon: free puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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Swapagon is an interesting puzzle app game. Timo Heister is the author.  The object: rearrange the squares on the grid so that the number...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Acuity Games: train your brain puzzles

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Acuity Games has a mission: to train your brain to work fast to ward off Alzheimer's. It's a good mission. There are a numb...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Rynglets: puzzle game for iphone, ipad

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  Ken Tylman recently sent me a promo code to play his new puzzle game app: Rynglets.  The object is to rotate each circle so that the ...
Friday, March 8, 2013

Pack A Puzzle: puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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Kasper Bøttcher recently contaced me about his new puzzle app game: Pack A Puzzle. The object: fit the pieces into the grid.  We've ...
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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Color Fill !!! free puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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'Color Fill !!!' is the name of this puzzle app game. The object it to color your map with just 4 colors or less so that no 2 neig...
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Just Four Colors: free puzzle game for ipad, iphone

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Just Four Colors is based on an old math theorem: any map can be colored using just 4 colors so that no 2 neighboring countries have the s...
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

300,000th visitor - will it be you?

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If you're the 300,000th visitor, take a screen shot and send it to me via email. Then I'll send you a prize. Nothing expensive. Sorr...
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Boxes Free: puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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The image basically shows the objective. You are given a grid with numbers. Draw rectangles that have exactly that many boxes. We've...
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Monday, March 4, 2013

Matrix Cube: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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Matrix Cube is very similar to Lab Mice Puzzles. See the link just to the right of this column. The object is to connect the red squares...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

Parking Jam: this month's ripoff of Rush Hour

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I predicted a dozen ripoff versions of Rush Hour for 2013.  Well, here's another one. I think it's the second one. 
Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Miscellaneous Updates and Ramblings

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The Voxel Agents have updated their puzzle app Puzzle Retreat: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=thevoxelagents.puzzleretreat  P...

Nonogram Style Lite: free puzzle app game for ipad, iphone

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Tom Chen recently contactec me about his puzzle game app: Nonogram Style Lite. The concept is not new. There are 60 free levels, and I...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Just Routes: free puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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The object of Just Routes is to draw 1 continuous line that never intersects itself. Naturally, you must start at 1 and finish at the high...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

Bubble Maze: free puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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Bubble Maze was designed by my Dutch friend Oskar van Deventer.  The object is to tilt your device so that the blue bubble will eventually...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

Mechanical Puzzle Review: Smartphone

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Smartphone is a sliding tile puzzle game.  Raf Peters of http://smartgamesandpuzzles.com/inventor/Home.html invented it. In the last 5 yea...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Lazors : free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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Lazors is a puzzle app game from the the good people at Pyroshere - great company name! Instead of placing the typical mirrors, you must...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Matcube: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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 MatCube is a very interesting, difficult sequential movement puzzle.  It's similar to Lights Out.  Touch 1 cube and the surroundi...
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Monday, February 18, 2013

New Blog about Puzzles

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Nicola Salmoria  created Twin Beams, which is a puzzle that I really like.  He has also been sending me puzzle recommendations for the past ...
Friday, February 15, 2013

Puzzle Retreat: puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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Simon Joslin is one of the Voxel Agents who created Puzzle Retreat. A better title that would help describe the objective: Ice Cube Tray P...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

Extremely Detailed Review of My Puzzles

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Mindware.com has published 2 of my puzzle games: Lab Mice Puzzles and Find Your Way Gnome.  Click here to order them . Below is a very...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Tring: puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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Tring is a new sliding tile puzzle game app that is similar to ThinkFun's Rush Hour. As you can see from the pictures, the pieces...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Rotago: puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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Andrey Biglari recently contacted me about his new puzzle game app: Rotago. I had to do the tutorial 3 times before I truly understood ...
Thursday, February 7, 2013

Harbor Master: free puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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Harbor Master is a puzzle game app where you have to quickly direct purple ships to the purple docks and the yellow ships to the yellow do...
Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Hexius: point scoring puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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Paul Ripley recently sent me an email about his puzzle app game Hexius.  There are 3 modes of play.  The one I'm interested in is the ...
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Jelly Fits Puzzle: free puzzle game app for iphone, ipad

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Jelly Fits Puzzle comes from Qmax, Inc in China.  The object is to slide the colored tiles onto their homes. Look at challenge lev...