Wednesday, December 31, 2014

PAGY AWARDS 2014: Best Puzzle Apps of 2014

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The famous PAGY awards are bestowed annually to the Puzzle App Games of the Year. Congratulations to the winners. Sudoku Killer Three...
Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Best Puzzle App Games of 2014: The Nominations

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Puzzle App Players & Designers, Below is the famous List of Best Puzzle Apps of 2014.  I have play tested all of these extensively. M...

Andy's Trains: puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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  Andreas Gunther recently contacted me about his new puzzle app game: Andy's Trains.  Essentially it's an old fashioned 's...
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Monday, December 29, 2014

Tip & Tumble: puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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      Bill & Andrea Mitchell recently contacted me about their new puzzle app game: Tip & Tumble. Andrea & Bill have a very lo...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

Dwelp: puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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  Alex Blaj recently sent me a promo code to review his new puzzle app game: Dwelp. His description: Dwelp is an elegant little puzzler w...
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Saturday, December 27, 2014

Fold the Adventure: puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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Puzzle app fans, I've been away for a week. Thanks for the emails. I'm back. Sometimes I feel guilty. I start playing a new puzzl...
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Thursday, December 18, 2014

Rod Kimball's Path Puzzles

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My friend Rod Kimball is a true renaissance man: juggler, musician and serious puzzler. His Path Puzzles are featured in the NY Times: http...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Fruit Dating: puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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Tomáš Rychnovský recently contacted me about his puzzle app game: Fruit Dating. It's a tilt/swipe maze. The object is to get the two...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Quetzalcoatl: puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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      Quetzalcoatl is a new snake slider puzzle that's very similar to Snake Slider , Wriggle ,  TRUpuzzlE , and Choo Choo Puzzle .  T...
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600,000 visitors

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Long time followers of this puzzle app blog know that I give a prize to every 100,000th visitor. If you're the 600,000th visitor, take a...
Monday, December 15, 2014

Lock Sphere: new mechanical puzzle

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I do not own the Lock Sphere. I'm not a big fan of puzzle boxes. In part because there's been a slew of ingenious box mechanisms and...
Friday, December 12, 2014

Noda: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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  Multiple people have recently contacted me about Noda, a free puzzle app game. Look at the first image. In the top left corner is a yell...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Tealday

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       Nili Abrahamsson recently contacted me about his puzzle app game Tealday. It's a color mixing puzzle.  Look at the second imag...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

One More Line: free point scoring reflex game for iphone, ipad

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  One of my students recently told me about One More Line: a game that's cool, difficult, colorful and somewhat addictive. The game st...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Har*mo*ny: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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   Last week a colleague at work showed me Har*mo*ny 2 from BorderLeap.  Since it cost $3.99, I downloaded Har*mo*ny instead, which is free...
Monday, December 8, 2014

oO: strange, cool dexterity puzzle app for iphone, ipad and android devices

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  Maciej Targoni is the author of oO - a very bizarre, cool dexterity game. Look at the first image. You are the tiny white circle going a...

Do you have an idea for a puzzle game or something else?

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Puzzle App Players, do you have an idea for a puzzle app game? How about an idea for something non puzzle related? If so, allow me to ste...
Friday, December 5, 2014

Miscellaneous Ramblings

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1. I've been playing Number Painting a lot recently.  There are 500 levels and a few levels had me stuck for too long. No advertisement...
Thursday, December 4, 2014

Book of Bad Arguments: free!

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Wow, this book is short, well illustrated and well written. Good for anybody involved in debate. https://bookofbadarguments.com/?view=a...
Wednesday, December 3, 2014

MoYu 13x13 Mechanism Revealed! From CrazyBadCuber

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Years ago, it was a 'proven fact' that there could be no twisty cube made with sides greater than 5x5.  Fortunately, Mr. Verdes from...
Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Watercolors: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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   I played Watercolors months ago. Why has it taken me so long to post a review?  I simply forgot.  The object is to drag your blue paint...
Monday, December 1, 2014

Ones 5x5: free puzzle app for iphone, ipad

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Tadaki Tokairin has made another version of 2048. However, his rules are a bit different. In one version, only 1's will replace the e...
Sunday, November 30, 2014

Kel Snake, master puzzle box maker.

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http://www.mykawartha.com/news-story/5157056-unlocking-kel-snake-s-puzzling-young-s-point-workshop/
Friday, November 28, 2014

Amazing Dot - The Fun Game - not so amazing game for iphone, ipad

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             Amazing Dot - The Fun Game is a vertical jumping game that's very similar to Flappy Bird. I couldn't do that and ...
Thursday, November 27, 2014

Swipe Master - Swipe The Arrows like a Pro!: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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        Swipe Master - Swipe the Arrows like a Pro! - is a point scoring puzzle app game. The arrows scroll down from the top and you mus...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Cubecode: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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  Cubecode comes from Montgomery Guilhaus. It's a point scoring game.  You must swap pairs of cubes in order to get like cubes in a co...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Scribologic: puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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        From the iTunes store: 'Scribologic is an addictive path-finding puzzle app in which you get a graph paper sheet, partly fille...
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Monday, November 24, 2014

Line Rush! - free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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                   Line Rush is a good reflex game to ward off Alzheimer's. Colored bars scroll down from the top. Tap the match color...
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Friday, November 21, 2014

Twelve - Hardest Puzzle: free puzzle app game

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            Cetin Caglar has created a point scoring game that's a combination of 2048 and Tripevo and Moskeez. The object is to combi...
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Slide It+ - free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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Kevin Brain is the author of Slide It+. It's the traditional 15 puzzle, just presented differently.  Nothing truly original. Good for ...
Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Square Lines: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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Square Lines is a free point scoring game that's designed to test your reflexes. Look at the very top of the image.  See the square?...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Yottaminx: giant twisty puzzle

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This video is only 5 minutes long. Matt Bahner is in HS and has invented and prototyped a magnificent twisty puzzle. https://www.youtube.c...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Puzzlations: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

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                        Puzzlation comes from Kevin Brain (Good last name.)  As you can see from the images, it's an edge-matching p...