Looking for a thought-provoking and entirely original puzzle game to occupy your mind? Look no further than title="Download Connectrode on the App Store" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/connectrode/id438450056?mt=8" target="_blank">Connectrode – a new puzzle game developed just for iOS by a team of independent designers. Connectrode takes similar puzzle genre games like match-three, Sudoku, and brick breaker and turns them upside down in a straightforward, but elegant multi-level puzzle game.

The basic premise of Connectrode is to clear the gridded board by connecting like-colored microchip squares  with the same color connectors. The only hitch is you can’t place a connector block in any section of the grid that is blocked off by already placed connectors. In other words, new blocks can’t pass by way of existing blocks. The challenge is to rack up the score as you clear the board by acquiring bonus points for clearing 3 chips or having no remainder connectors or microchips. The guidelines are straightforward and consistent, but technique adjustments with every randomly generated level. (…)
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style=' float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;' class="size-medium wp-image-25090 alignleft" title="minicannon" src="http://www.appcraver.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/minicannon-e1295397965712-300x200.jpg" alt="Mini Cannon iphone game" width="300" height="200" />Mini Cannon has earned a fair amount of buzz for being the first game published under the GameSalad Accelerator program. This means that the developer, title="Gendai Games' developer site" href="http://gamesalad.com/accelerator/minicannon" target="_blank">Gendai Games, created Mini Cannon using GameSalad Creator, a free program that allows for the programming of original games, using an innovative visual interface. As exciting as this is, Mini Cannon should gain notoriety simply for being a very good game. The old cliche applies: It’s easy to pick up, but hard to put down.

The object of title="download Mini Cannon" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mini-cannon/id408448204?mt=8&partnerId=30&siteID=saW0nB/fQ6o" target="_blank">Mini Cannon is to launch these little breath-mint-looking things into a box, using a cannon. If the projectile makes contact with each of the little cartoon stars during its flight path, then extra points are earned. As the levels progress there are more stars, fewer projectiles, and more platforms and other obstructions in the way of the box. Mini Cannon succeeds because it makes great use of a simple premise.

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In terms of addictive and fun puzzle games, Bejeweled has always been at the top of my list. So, when I saw Bubble Blast Holiday, I figured now was a good time to lose a few hours of my life while also getting into the holiday spirit!

If you’ve played Bejeweled, you’ll immediately understand the concept of the game. If you haven’t, the idea is to arrange the falling objects (in this case, it’s Christmas themed objects like gifts and ornaments) in order of three or more of the same color combination. The more you can get at once, the more points you will ultimately score.

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Baffler Bindu Truss Puzzle

Ceaco, the parent company of board game publisher Gamewright, has introduced a new line of jigsaw puzzles called The Baffler. Designed by Chris Yates, The Baffler is billed as “the most unique puzzle ever,” no overlapping images, unique shapes, and without the traditional straight-edged border. There are three puzzles in the series, with 67, 69 and 78 pieces. I received a sample of the 78-piece Bindu Truss puzzle, and I was curious whether it would be as baffling as it claimed to be.

Baffler Bindu Truss puzzle, unassembled

First impression: the puzzle is smaller than I expected, at about 8 inches square. It actually comes assembled in the box, in this sort of cardboard tray/frame, and the rest of the box is actually just a spacer. The first time I worked on the puzzle I actually had to take it apart first, which is a little less work than punching out a bunch of cardboard tokens for a board game but finicky as I worried that I’d damage some of the tabs.

Although it’s advertised as having “no straight edges,” you can see from the picture that there are a few straight edges here and there. However, it doesn’t have a traditional straight-edged border—all of the border pieces have at least a few tabs and notches. Of course, having the frame means that when you assemble the puzzle it’s kind of like somebody has already completed the border for you anyway.

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Was there a guy in your sixth-grade class who spent day after day drawing geometric shapes on graph paper, fascinated by the perfect symmetry that medium afforded him? Well, he’s made an app. It’s called Slice It! and it allows you to develop your own compulsive obsession for symmetry, even if you are otherwise healthy.

To be fair, Slice It! is an upgrade from sixth grade graph paper. The game will draw the shapes onto the iPhone/iPad touchscreen for you. What you get to do is only slightly less entertaining: you get to slice the shapes into equal-sized bits.

Simple enough, right? Slice It! draws a square, you bisect it. Slice It! draws a circle, you cut it into pizza slices.

If it were only that easy, there would be no reason to become obsessed. No, this seemingly simple slice it and dice it game has a mean streak. (…)
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The Shishkin Art Puzzle 2 Android App by MotleyM takes artwork by famous painters and puts them in a puzzle for you to solve. There are 5 pieces of artwork and 3 levels of difficulty. In each level of difficulty the puzzles get broken up into smaller pieces than the previous level of difficulty.

To move the pieces around simply press on the piece that you want to move, drag where you want it to go and release. The controls are very responsive and the artwork are very detailed, high quality versions of the artwork. Each puzzle that you solve is timed and the results are posted next to each piece of artwork by level of difficulty so you can try to beat your best time.

Overall, this is a very challenging puzzle game for the Android platform. The app could use some more pieces of artwork but since it’s a free app 5 is good enough. At the time of this review the Shishkin Art Puzzle 2 Android App is free. Thumbs Up.

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Concrete Software has announced the release of the Aces Traffic Pack for Android, which is a puzzle game with unique display graphics and menus.

This game offers 480 puzzles of various difficulty, which are solved by strategically maneuvering the cars around the parking lot to free the red car from the obstacles.

Aces Traffic Pack also features statistics, which tracks how many moves it takes to complete each puzzle, as well as an online leaderboard.

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While casually browsing around App Brain, which you and I both know is everyone’s favorite Saturday morning activity, I came across a little gem of a game called Spaghetti Marshmallows. A silly name, yes, but really there’s no other title to accurately represent the experience that is Spaghetti Marshmallows (I just love saying it).

Mechanically the game is quite simple: your objective is to piece together marshmallows with sticks of dry spaghetti in order to create elaborate structures, the object of which is to land a marshmallow in the yellow circle up in the sky.

Like any structure, if too much of a load is placed on a spaghetti, it will bend and can ultimately break, causing a spaghetti/marshmallow pileup which, frustrating as it may be, is kind of fun to watch.

It takes a little while to get the hang of it, but once you figure out the mechanics, you are on your way to being your very own carbohydrate architect. Best of all – it’s free! So go on, live a little, and download Spaghetti Marshmallows Lite for Android below!

Note: this game requires Android 2.0 +, and is known to not work on the Xperia X10.

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Think you know the songs in your iTunes library? Perhaps you should try your hand at iMusic Puzzle, a $0.99 game from I-Play.

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In Blaze: Fire Puzzle, soothing graphics and sounds are fused with a clever, yet simple game to create an app you’ll keep returning to.

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I spent a few moments playing Limbo, an Xbox Live Arcade Game, at Comic-Con. It was immediately obvious this E3 darling was a game worth buying and playing through a few times. Its muted black and gray colors and echoing soundtrack evoke a dream state in the same way Ico or Shadow of the Colossus did. Limbo is a puzzle game and a darn good one too. While you might have to try a level a few (or a few dozen) times, none of the puzzles are so difficult that you can’t figure them out with trial and error. The brilliant brain-teasers use levers, weights, boxes, magnets, gravity and more to alter your character’s environment and are uniquely clever and fun in the same way that last year’s Braid was.

The game’s puzzles are suitable for most audiences, however – and this is an important point and the reason the game is rated T for teens – the character does die, repeatedly, by means of machine gun, buzz saw and giant insect, sometimes being decapitated or disemboweled. Still, these events, like the rest of the game, only occur in silhouette.

A complete run-through of the game can be accomplished in an evening. But completing all the achievements and finding hidden easter eggs will require multiple attempts. Rumor is that Limbo will be coming to other platforms soon, but for now is only available on the Xbox 360. A trial game is free, but the full game is 1200 points or $15 and is well worth it because Limbo is a really wonderful experience.

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It’s always refreshing to find a good puzzle game burried in the App Store that is both unique and fun to play. Frogiz may not be on your radar, but if you enjoy puzzles it’s worth a look. Similar to Fling!, but with its own unique objective and more layered, Frogiz features a 5 x 5 grid with pink and green frogs and round and square lillypads. The objective is to clear the grid by manipulating the frogs and lillypads in accordance to the game rules.

Frogiz is a truly whimsical logic puzzle game. It’s premise is simple, but the puzzles are increasingly difficult to reason out. (…)
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What was your inspiration for developing this app?

Paul Gnusin:

I remember that being a kid I used to draw different figures using continuous lines. Even at the University during some lectures I would find myself drawing something on the margins of my notebook. Once I caught myself drawing a house and suddenly an idea of creating this type of video game occurred to me. Well I thought why not? So I tried and it worked.

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What’s your personal favorite Android App that you did not develop?

Paul Gnusin:

You know right now I can’t really single out one particular application because every problem requires its own application. For example in order to read .doc files (files written in the .doc format) I prefer to use Quick Office.

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Can we expect any updates to your app in the near future?

Paul Gnusin:

I hope to think of some new levels for Glow Puzzle and maybe even make some changes in the game.

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Do you have any new apps that will be on the Android Market soon that we should look out for?

Paul Gnusin:

In the nearest future I am planning on writing one more logical game perhaps using physics.

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Color Puzzle 3D is a three dimensional, multifacited puzzle block solved by switching and rotating the faces of cubes until all the colors are matched up together. Loosely likened to the famous Rubik’s Cube, Color Puzzle 3D instead features tiles with four triangular color segments per cube face, which can be switched out with another tile anywhere on the object or rotated in position 90 degrees at a time.

As a fan of most every kind of puzzle game, be it the word, picture, or number variety, I had pretty high hopes for Color Puzzle 3D.

On the plus side, it’s definitely challenging. I found it more challenging than Rubik’s simply because the puzzle cube is less of a cube and more of a rectangular prism to start, which means there are more faces to manipulate. (…)
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With multiple versions of Pac-Man already available on the iPhone and iPad, Namco Networks will roll out another release featuring the iconic arcade game figure — this time in the puzzle genre.

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I’m down in Miami for a few days, so before boarding the plane yesterday I checked the CrackBerry App Store to see if there were any new time-kiling games for me to load up and have some fun with during the flight. Lo and behold I found a new one from Swoosh Software called PopUp that, while basic, proved to be pretty darn fun. PopUp is a puzzle game where you need to work fast to match block clusters before the board overflows. That’s it. Simple and fun. Oh, and the special blocks mix things up a bit. You can grab PopUp at the link below. It’s on sale until April 12th and a free trial is available.

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Mystique is a 3D RPG puzzle game that is available in 3 versions on the Android Market. I have seen this game in the Featured Apps section hundreds of times and only today was I curious enough to want to download it. On my brand new Nexus One this game blew me away. The 3D graphics and textures were amazing that I actually felt like I was the character in the game, even though I was playing on a 3.7 inch screen. The game is reminiscent of “Silent Hill 4: The Room” if you’ve ever played. The first installment of the series entitled “Foetus”, is somewhat of an intro to the series and quite short, depending on how quickly you can figure out how to get out of the “DAMN” room as I have coined it after the frustration it will cause you. When I say frustration, it’s the kind of frustration that makes you want to keep going and prove yourself to the game.

Just to give you a little taste into what this horrifying game is about here is what I have found out about the back story of the character’s epic adventure. In chapter 1 you start off locked in a bathroom where you must use anything and everything you find to get out of a room. A room that seems to be filled with ghosts of frightening children who look like they’ve been hit in the face with death. Chapter 2 “The Child” adds more to the story of where you actually are. From what I have gathered by the different rooms you explore is that you are in a sick and twisted mental hospital composed of surgery, torture, and padded rooms. Still only stuck on one floor of the building you must now find a way out. I have not started chapter 3 “Obitus” but I have it downloaded and installed ready to go when my phone cools down. I played straight through for approximately 4 hours trying to finish chapter 2 and now it feels like I’ve microwaved my new N1. Please don’t repeat my mistakes and take a break every once in a while from the game for your phone’s sake, if not for your own sanity!

I have tested the game on an LG Eve and a Nexus One and while the graphics are very similar, the overall smoothness of gameplay takes a hit on lower end phones. Even if I did not own a Nexus One I would still buy the game though because it is such an exciting and horrifying adventure. Trust me though, this game is not for the light-hearted as the game can be quite graphic sometimes. At a price of free for Chapter 1 and $1.99 for Chapters 2 and 3 this game is a steal, there is no reason to not buy this game.

See below for trailers of Chapters 2 and 3.

Mystique: Chapter 3

Mystique: Chapter 1

Mystique: Chapter 2

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