NineGaps

Brad H | Jan 24, 2010 Games

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(4 votes, average: 3.00 out of 5)

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Let me take you back to 2006, when sudoku is all the craze and I was caught up in it. I had the books, I had a solving method, and I despised when people called it suduko. Fast forward a bit and I had lost the drive to solve the puzzles. It just wasn’t challenging enough so I retired my pencil. Smash cut to now. Enter Quadion Technologies with NineGaps and I am pulled right back in.

NineGaps isn’t your Dads sudoku. Cut out one 9 square section throw in some plus, minus, multiplication, and division symbols between the squares. Place sum totals after each column horizontal and vertical. Then you have to figure out where the 1-9 numbers go on the board so all the totals match up. There are five levels of difficulty to choose from. Novice starts you out with four numbers placed on the board, Medium three, Advanced two, Expert one, and finally Master where you have to figure out where all nine numbers go. As if solving the puzzle isn’t hard enough you also get to race the clock. Your best time for each level of difficulty is saved. NineGaps uses Open Feint for Leaderboards and Achievements.

The art is simple but works well. Everything in the game is a different piece of paper. The main menu is page ripped from a spiral notebook, the difficulty menu is a coffee stained napkin, and the game is played on a piece of graph paper. The game play is easy to pick up and hard to put down. With so many different variations of sums you’ll almost never play the same game twice. The only thing I could suggest would be to have a penalty when your column doesn’t equal the right number.

$.99 is the perfect price for a good brain exercise that’s challenging and fun.