Fishy Brainteaser Madness: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

        

Fishy Brainteaser Madness comes from Paul Abraham Jaimovich. The object is to slide your fishy characters to the correct bucket. Naturally, when a fish travels in any direction, it will go until it hits an obstacle.


Here's what's particularly interesting: level 5 seems impossible. Until you realize that the treasure chests can be moved in the same was as the fishy fish.


In level 8, it also seems impossible. Then you realize that you can destroy treasure chest by tapping on it twice.


Also, you must land exactly on your spot. It's possible to overshoot it, similar to Lunar Lockout.


What's very different: let's say you're hugging the left wall. You CANNOT get behind the fish and push it rightward.  However some levels have purple plungers that will push your fish - but only as far as 1 square.


Big Negative: way too many ads pop up.
There are 24 levels. Of those, I've done all of them.
https://itunes.apple.com/ye/app/fishy-brainteaser-madness/id875287067?mt=8

Array Puzzler

Loyal Blog Follower @edderiofer recently pointed out Array: Puzzler.
Array: Puzzler is very similar to an old game LogiSquares, which I really liked.


The objective is to place tiles in the lower half of the grid to match the pattern on the top. Keep in mind that when you place a tile anywhere, it's a 1. When you place another tile next to it, the old tile now becomes a 2.  There are 135 of these levels and I've done about 40 of them, including the last 10.  If you've already done LogiSquares, all of these will be easy.

The Hexagonal version is more interesting. Again, there are 135 levels and I was not able to just jump to the end. Needed to get my feet wet on the easier levels. The easy levels are very easy and I flew by them.  The harder levels: every cell on the board is filled. The tricky part is figuring out which 1's are actually 1's or really 7's.  Weirdly, after level 95 or so, they get really easy again.
I completed all 135 levels, but would have like to have seen more levels with full boards.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/array-puzzler/id877660061?mt=8

Baffles Classic Puzzles

The gentlemen at Baffles the Fox contacted me about a month ago about their new compendium of puzzles: Baffles Classic Puzzles.

It's a collection of old puzzles from Sam Loyd and other sources. It includes lots of modern puzzles too.

Let's pause here. If you don't own this book by Sam Loyd, you simply must.  Loyd was America's first great puzzler. For each puzzle he created a story with a charming drawing.

Back to Baffles Classic Puzzles: there is historical information about each puzzle. These guys know their puzzle history!

https://itunes.apple.com/app/baffles-classic-puzzles/id921805059

The graphics are terrific.
http://bafflesthefox.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Baffles_PlayItNow60sec_1280x720_HD.mp4
My only complaint is that to advance, one must either be perfect at solving these puzzles, in order to collect chickens (points) or watch a lot of ads to add more chickens. At the moment I'm thinking of a certain dexterity puzzle that I think is impossible to solve at the minimum speed. But dexterity's never been my primary skill.

The modern puzzles include some good relatively new Lateral Thinking Puzzles.


Baffles Classic Puzzles is definitely a fine introduction to the general World of Puzzles
http://bafflesthefox.com/

Frown Icons: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

      

Loyal Blog Follower Joel, from Germany is a fan of Frown Icons. He's done 30 of the 130 levels. I must confess that I'm not a big fan of these types of puzzles.


https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/frown-icons/id999004234?mt=8
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Flanker: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

Marc Zovighian's Flanker is another maze puzzle app.  Yawn?  Actually no.


The objective is to get the blue ball to the white square. As expected: there are mirrors and of course....wormholes.


Here's what I like: when the blue ball passes over the little yellow squares, they grow and become walls.

Look at the second image. See the white stars? They travel around swiftly so you have to time your swiping.  One level in particular, I forgot which one, is particularly challenging & fun.


According to the game, there are 75 levels. In fact, there are only 60. They go pretty quickly.
Marc's goal is to raise money for Parkinson's.  I like that.
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id999771110

Prismatica: puzzle on Steam

http://store.steampowered.com/app/377500


Would love to see this as an ios app.

Laser Maze 2015: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

Pierre Wilmot is the author of Laser Maze 2015.  We've done countless laser puzzles.


Here's what good about Pierre's game:


1. The black squares act as mirrors and slide along the lines.
2. There are only about 20 levels and I enjoyed solving them all.
3. It's free!
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id988389441?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Star Lights: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

Star Lights is a puzzle app where  the objective is to rotate circles in order to transfer the red balls onto the red spots. Same for the blue and green balls & dots. Tap on the area between 4 circles and the balls on those 4 spots will rotate.

This is not a new concept. However, I liked the overall presentation and confess that I liked solving them quickly. For the most part, they were easy. There are 40 levels and I've solved them all
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/star-lights/id1004072441?mt=8
https://twitter.com/firelight_games

Overgrown: free puzzle app for iphone, ipad

Overgrown is a chess-like puzzle game.  The object is to place the tree roots to fill up the grid with roots. Some trees act like rooks, others like queens.  Still others act like a combination of the two - 1 diagonal and horizontal.

The graphics are really quite good.
The game reminds me an awful lot like Combination, a game from about 3 years ago.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1005591295

RLogic: free puzzle app game for iphone, ipad

 

Richard Sandberg recently contacted me about his new puzzle app RLogic. It's actually 4 different games in one tiny package. The first image shows Turn on the Lights. It's not a version of Lights Out. Rather, it's a topology puzzle. Start at a single point and traverse a path around every dot.  There are 50 free levels - did them all very quickly.
The second image is for Return the Balls. This is the most interesting of the lot.  The yellow circles indicate how a ball in that row can travel, perhaps 2 up or 1 down.  Naturally, get the purple ball to the purple ring....etc. Also 50 free levels - solved them pretty quickly. Though I imagine the more advanced levels could get pretty tricky.

 

The third image is the classic Measure Water. Given a 6 gallon jug and a 13 gallon jug, how can you perfectly measure out 5 gallons? I've only done 13 of these. That's enough.
The last image is for the game Turn the Wheels. This is very interesting.  The goal is to turn each wheel to 0 at the same time. Tap on, let's say green, and it will rotate 90 degrees. See the tiny blue and red circles with 3's next to them? They will turn 270 degrees on green taps. Quite tricky. I like.
https://itunes.apple.com/app/rlogic/id1007593078?l=en&mt=8

Froggy The Collector: puzzle app game for iphone, ipad Tuesday

Alessandro La Pergola recently contacted me about his puzzle app game Froggy the Collector.  The objective is to rotate the circle at the bottom to catch the colored coin.

The concept is nothing new at all. It's been done 25 times in the last month.
However, there's an easy mode that goes nice and slow. Yes, it's good for older folks. Also, tap on the right side to rotate the disc clockwise, left for counter clockwise. I like.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/froggy-the-collector/id993609607?mt=8

Clone of Dwelp

 

Unite Puzzle: Colored Squares is a complete rip-off of Dwelp. From their twitter account: 'We are young boys - who love to create games and apps on IOS, Android, WP, Android wear & Apple Watch! Wooho'


Above, I randomly selected level 49 from both games.
If you haven't played Dwelp, you simply must.
http://gottasolveit.blogspot.com/2014/12/dwelp-puzzle-app-game-for-iphone-ipad.html