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App Sale: Spikey’s Bounce Around

Spikey’s Bounce Around is on sale for free – normally $.99-$1.99
If you’ve ever taken a peek at the growing catalog of app store titles from Donut Games, you already know that these guys got some, uh, “mad skillz”! Their games are polished and slick, and Spikey’s Bounce Around is no exception.
The object of this quirky [...]

NineGaps

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 [...]

Doodle Bomb

Bottle Rocket’s Doodle Bomb: Physics Puzzle with a Bang wasn’t the game I was expecting it would be.  It was better.  Much better.  The game’s story is simple enough: You are a Doodle.  But you’re not just any Doodle, you’re a Doodle Hero.  But you’re not just any Doodle Hero.  You’re The Doodle Hero, the one [...]

Rune Trails

From the pan flutes in the soundtrack to the stony jungle themed graphics, Quadion Technologies pulled me into this puzzle game that is unlike anything I have ever played.
The game board itself is 8×6 square grid minus one random square of debris. Your game pieces are stone squares (runes) that have a piece of trail running from [...]

App Sale: Finger Physics

Finger Physics is on sale for free – normally $.99
Fans of physics-based stuff like Ragdoll Blaster and iChalky should definitely check out Finger Physics! This is a super-frustrating physics game where your job is to solve puzzles that use the magic of the accelerometer to piss you off, I mean, challenge your intellect.
Btw, if anyone [...]

Sudoku!

Sudoku, everyone’s favorite Japanese puzzle game. It first became popular a couple years ago and spread from newspapers to hand held games to finally the iPhone. Of course you know how to play, right? If you answered, “No,” to that question, you should Google it. This sudoku app designed by Mayan Software is cheap, fun, [...]

App Sale: Bebbled: The XMAS Challenge

Bebbled: The XMAS Challenge is on sale for free – normally $.99
Bebbled is one of those puzzle games that will drive you up the freakin’ wall if you’re the type of person who absolutely refuses to give up! It’s a little like reMovem with all the pretty colors and match gameplay, but it also lets [...]

Christmas Sudoku

Hey sudoku nuts, are you ready to tear your hair out? Christmas Sudoku is a holiday-themed sudoku game where the typical rules apply… even when you’re playing with “goodies” instead of numbers.
That’s right, in this game you can choose to play with either numbers or nine little Christmas goodies like candy canes, snowmen, and jingle [...]

App Sale: BoXiKoN

BoXiKoN is on sale for free – normally $.99
Puzzle fiends, get this app now! BoXiKoN is a little like Tetris, except instead of trying to fit pieces together as they fall, you have to drag them from the bottom of the screen into the main puzzle area. Pieces waiting to be used will rotate in [...]

App Sale: Billionaire

Billionaire is on sale for free – normally $.99
If you like Tetris, then I think there’s a good chance you’ll like Billionaire… it’s pretty similar, but instead of trying to fit blocks together you’re basically doing a match 3 thing where you have to match up falling jewels.
The action is a little slower than I’m [...]

App Sale: Yumsters 2

Yumsters! 2 is on sale for free – normally $.99-$1.99
Yumsters are crazy about fruit and music! Yeah, who isn’t. Yumsters! 2 is one of those match 3 games that’s won awards and has apparently gained a big following in its PC incarnation. There’s a whole story about how these cute Yoshi-looking creatures won some kind [...]

App Sale: Styx Halloween

Styx Halloween is was on sale for free – apparently the price has gone back up to $2.99
Styx Halloween is one of those match 3 games where you run your finger across matching units that are either touching or diagonal from each other. I guess that technically makes it a “match as many as you [...]