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Review: Flipper
If you ever had a childhood pet that you loved dearly you’ll understand the appeal of Flipper, a DSiWare puzzle game. The premise is simple: you play a young boy whose beloved goldfish, Flipper, has been stolen. In order to get him back for good you’ll have to rescue him from 20 puzzle levels in five worlds. Successfully get through all the worlds, and you’ll be reunited with your little pal.
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Review: Ingenious (iPhone)
Ingenious may be the perfect name for this puzzle game from developer United Soft Media Verlag, because you pretty much have to be a genius to master it.
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Review: Snood for iPhone
Snood is a “match-three” puzzle game from Electronic Arts. First released in 1996, the colorful puzzle game has graced multiple platforms and has become arguably the most successful casual game in history (save Solitaire). EA brings the classic gameplay elements to the iPhone and embellishes the title with new modes and features, making this version of Snood more than a simple port.
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Review: Aargon
If you are looking for an easy and pansy puzzle game, then this is the wrong place to search for it. Aargon is more difficult than the usual game on offer in the puzzle genre, but as difficult also means challenging, it packs quite a punch.
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iPhone’s Valet Hustle Aims to Promote Homosexual Marriage
Factory Games has taken a bold step in an odd direction, announcing that their puzzle action title Valet Hustle is now available and that by buying it you’ll be supporting gay marriage.
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Review: Gold Mine
How fast can you move a gold bar across a maze? The Gold Mine, developed by Klogia for the iPhone and iPod Touch, is a unique, single player puzzle game that encourages you to become creative both in your planning and strategy.
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Rising Prices Don’t Puzzle Jigsaw Fans
Some enthusiasts (known as dissectologists) also appreciate the jigsaw as a shrewd investment. Over the past decade the value of vintage puzzles has climbed steadily, with sets once fetching £200 now worth £500. The rarest can sell for thousands of pounds.
It is a far cry from the Seventies when early wooden sets were usually thrown away as junk or sold for pennies at jumble sales.
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Dan Feyer Is the New A.C.P.T. Champion
Congratulations to Dan Feyer, the new king of crosswords. Two years ago, he won the C Division. Last year, he easily took the B. At this year’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, he won it all, beating out Howard Barkin and Anne Erdmann on the big board.
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Superplexus Vortex Puzzling, Pricey
As its name implies, the Superplexus Vortex is a super-sized version of the Perplexus, a plastic spherical maze. The Superplexus Vortex not only has a catchy name, the mere sight of it is probably enough to make a drunk man vomit. In marketing speak, the gigantic maze is “a complex network of chicanes, multi-planar hairpin turns, spirals, and staircases – even a vortex.”
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Discovery Could Lead to More Difficult Sudoku Puzzles
In a recent study, mathematicians have found that the way that numbers are arranged in Sudoku puzzles is even more random than the number arrangements in randomly-generated matrices. The counter-intuitive discovery may enable researchers to develop algorithms that generate Sudoku matrices with fewer clues, making them more difficult to solve.
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