Five Great Puzzle Games For The iPhone And iPod Touch

Posted by Eric Meister

December 1, 2009

The iTunes App Store is, without a doubt, full of puzzle games. Some are looking to jump on the bandwagon of Tetris copycats, while others present a match-three style. All attempt to challenge the iPhone gamer. We want to give you a glance into five new iPhone puzzlers competing to grace your screen.

Cross Fingers utilizes a simple premise: rearrange the light-colored wooden shapes to cover the dark background space. Shapes are moved simply by dragging them into place. There are two types of shapes: light wooden pieces and red wooden pieces. The red pieces offer a unique challenge, as they do not stay where they are placed, but rather slide back to their original position. You will be required to move and hold these pieces in temporary positions to facilitate moving other pieces around them. It is this element that bore the name Cross Fingers, as you are bound to get your fingers tangled as you attempt to hold multiple red pieces in place while sliding the wooden pieces around the gameboard.

Pocketball is built on the Box2D physics engine. In this game, players start with balls that drop at predefined points, and they have to fall into colored pockets. Draw ropes between pegs, which bounce the balls at different angles according to gravity. To complicate things, there are obstacles carefully placed to stump you: bombs that destroy nearby balls, gravity wells, and arrows that push balls in a direction.

IUGO Mobile Entertainment’s Implode is made up of 60 levels of building structures begging to be brought down violently. The game presents itself in a neat chalkboard style where buildings are drawn with only their support beams showing. Players must utilize bombs and dynamite to destroy buildings in each level. The resulting rubble needs to be lower than a horizontal dotted line in order to pass the stage. Upon completion of a level, players are awarded a letter grade determined by a number of bonus factors. There are Explosion Points, Height, Difficulty, and Unused Bomb bonuses. After adding all these factors up, a total payout it granted. Receiving an A+ grade is very difficult, which we believe adds some replay value to the puzzles. Progressing through the levels of Implode will introduce new characteristics and obstacles needing to be overcome.

Famous puzzle creator Dr. Knizia, has released his latest iPhone creation in the form of Monumental, a Mayan themed game. Players must arrange stones within a pair of 3 x 4 grids. Stones, which are randomly presented, must be placed in either of these grids with the goal of making matches. These stones are categorized by color , symbol, and the number of symbols on their faces. As an example of gameplay, players attempt to have three stones that match color, symbol, and number of symbols in the same row. This would generate the highest score. However, this is a rare case. Points can be awarded even if only the colors, symbols, or number of symbols match though. An identical pair of stones in a row can also award points, even if the third stone doesn’t match any characteristic. Players must be aware of broken stones too as these can only be matched by colors.

Wordigo is a unique word puzzle game for sale on the App Store by RiverEdge Game Company. Combining creative word development and a fierce seven minute time limit, Wordigo aims to be the word game players will keep coming back to. Unlike other word building games, Wordigo prescribes where you can create certain words and limits each game with a strict descending seven minute clock. Eight puzzle boards are offered, each designed with horizontal and vertical paths for words. Think of a partial cross-word puzzle with several word paths and empty areas. The goal is to construct words using randomly generated letter tiles. Players can only move on to a new path once the previous path is complete. Scoring is based on clever vowel placement.

These are just a few of the latest puzzle games in the iPhone App Store that caught our attention. Whether you choose one or all of them, we feel each boasts a handsome interface and gameplay elements that will satisfy puzzle fanatics the world over.

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