Puzzle Baron’s Cryptograms: Volume 2 (Code Breaking Puzzles for Kindle)

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Nov 132011
 

Puzzle Baron’s Cryptograms: Volume 2
Developed By:  A Gamz

Cryptograms is a game that tests your deductive and word finding skills as you decode a series of letters to reveal a hidden message!

Puzzle Baron’s Cryptograms is the 2nd volume of the highly rated PBC1 that scored 4.7/5 stars. Volume 2 contains 100 new quotations which are organized into some new and popular categories like Actors, Musicians, Scientists and U.S Presidents.

The second volume is equipped with special features that displays the remaining letters of a puzzle and even the letter frequencies! The ability to view the answers after completion has also been added to Cryptograms Volume 2. Continue reading »

 

Triviac (A Quiz Game for Amazon Kindle)

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Oct 242011
 

Triviac (A Quiz Game for Amazon Kindle)
Developed By: Alazar GmbH & Co. KG

Triviac is a quiz game for the Amazon Kindle which is somewhat similar to the TV Game Show “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?”

Triviac incorporates over 1000 interesting questions from 10 different categories which are: US general knowledge, Sports general, Mixed Music, Famous People, Geography, Entertainment, History, Classic Movies, Literature, Science and Nature. You will be challenged with 15 randomly selected questions from these categories and each question is slightly more difficult than the previous one.
 

Mystery Castle: Dawn of Illusion (A Game for Kindle)

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Oct 172011
 
Mystery Castle: Dawn of Illusion
Developed By: Runestone Games Limited

Mystery Castle is a puzzle game of excellent artistic standards and great playability. You play the wizard Monty, who is trying to get through all the rooms in the castle. Each level of Mystery Castle contains keys, locked doors and five skulls that you must collect before you get to the next level. To do this, you need to move things around in the right order and think carefully about what goes where and when. Continue reading »
 

Mahjong Butterfly app by Namco released for Kindle

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Sep 212011
 

Mahjong Butterfly is the first Kindle game released by Namco Networks America. It is a crafted implementation of the game of Mahjong Solitaire with a Butterfly theme.  This theme creates the goal of collecting caterpillars (i.e. matching tiles), then feeding them (more tile matching) and finally watching them hatch with the goal of getting the entire set and viewing them in your ‘Encyclopedia’ or as part of the ‘Statistics’. The game has detailed help and lovely custom images. Continue reading »

 

Free Kindle App: Jigsaw Words – A Picture Review

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Sep 152011
 

Jigsaw Words is Amazon’s most recent free app. This joins a growing set of free Active Content games, and has been an instant success. This “picture review” shows how the app works from beginning to end.

Jigsaw Words opens with a Table of Contents

Jigsaw Words opens with a Table of Contents. Play takes you to the Categories screen shown below. Tutorial starts the very first game. Instructions goes to the six page guide.

 

The categories all have a different theme

The categories all have a different theme and you can see in this list how many of each you have completed.

 

Each category has ten unique puzzles

Each category has ten unique puzzles corresponding to the theme. As you finish each puzzle the titles of subsequent puzzles are shown. This adds a bit of excitement!

 

The first page of the guide explains the rules.

The first page of the guide explains the rules. The following pages explain the various keyboard shortcuts, some tips and the menu options.

 

Playing the game after asking for a hint.

Playing the game after asking for a hint. You can solve the clues in any order. Tip: Start with the easy ones first so there are less tiles to choose from for the hard clues!

 

Pressing the Menu key gives shows the options available while playing.

Pressing the Menu key gives shows the options available while playing.

 

Sudoku Works for Kindle has millions of games

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Sep 132011
 

Sudoku Works is the latest of many Sudoku puzzle apps released for the Kindle. Unlike the other puzzles, however, this is an “unlimited” set of puzzles at multiple levels. The style of play in each of these games is slightly different. Not surprisingly, this one matches the Sudoku game found in the Puzzle Pack 1 also made by Oak Systems Leisure Software.

The navigation is well done. You can use the top row of letters as keys (Q=1, W=2, etc), or navigate using the 5-Way controller using the grid at the bottom right by using the Select key to move between the puzzle grid and the choice grid (see the screenshot).

Pressing the Menu key shows the many options available for Sudoku Works

Pressing the Menu key shows the many options available

The Menu key controls the many options in the game such as hiding the timer, selecting Undo, highlighting mistakes, “pencil marks”, clear all, show solution, and pause the timer.  Although there are many possible puzzles, each one comes with a code on the bottom that you can share with others so they can play the same game. A thoughtful touch.

We’re not expert enough in Sudoku to judge the appropriateness of the 5 difficulty levels, but when combined with the grid sizes available of 4×4, 6×6, 8×8 and 9×9 and the millions of combinations, this is certain to satisfy most Sudoku players!

 

Table of Contents for Sudoku Works

Table of Contents

The 4x4 level of Sudoku Works in the middle of a game.

The 4x4 level in the middle of a game.

 

Task List To-Do Manager for Kindle

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Sep 072011
 

The Kindle now has a To-Do List manager! Task List Professional from Jujuba Software joins the growing number of productivity apps available at the bargain price of 99 cents!

Task List Professional is simple to use. When you first run it, you will be shown the help pages, and then the “main page” which is a list of your tasks. From there you can start typing to create a new task, or use the 5-Way controller to move to a specific task and then select it to view the details or modify them.

Each task has a:

  • title
  • due date
  • priority
  • description
  • completed checkbox
In the summary “main page” you can sort by Name, Due Date, Priority and Status. You can also Search for a task containing a word.  There are various shortcut keys to speed navigation, and abbreviated help for each page.
You can also copy tasks from your Kindle to your computer by plugging it in via USB and following their instructions. Very nice for backing up or creating or modifying tasks on your computer.
 

Math Quiz educational Kindle title from HandyX

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Jul 212011
 

Ultimate Math Skills Quiz from HandyX is their latest title, following their release last month of Cocktail Mixer. This joins the growing series of educational apps available on Kindle. Although Amazon doesn’t release details of Kindle demographics, there seem to be a growing number of children with them – perhaps encouraged by the dropping price of Kindles combined with more adoption by schools and libraries.

Math Skills has 1000 multiple choice questions, each with 3 possible answers. A simple score page keeps track of how many have been answered correctly. There are two modes of answering the questions, “Round Robin” which has groups of 20 questions that must be passed (5 out of 10) as a group, or the simpler “ask me another question” continuously.  Each mode can be timed or not.

The questions are clearly presented and the navigation and answer is intuitive using just the 5-way controller. Navigate down to the correct answer, press Select to choose the answer and then select again to confirm the choice. You’re then told if it is correct or not and can continue to the next question.

The timing is done on a per question basis. I.e. you can take as long as you like between questions. This takes some of the pressure off the timed mode.

The level of questions is quite broad but appears to be at a USA grade 5 and above. They cover the following topics: Algebra, Geometry, Data Handling & Charts, Fractions, Decimals & Percentages, Multiplication & Division, Order of Operation, Ratios, Powers & Roots, and Approximation.

 

New Kindle word game: Puzzle Baron’s Cryptograms

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Jul 092011
 

Puzzle Baron’s Cryptograms: Volume 1 is a new release from A Gamz built in partnership with www.cryptograms.org (Disclaimer: A Gamz hosts this blog, see our policy).

This word puzzle for Kindle contains 100 scrambled quotations arranged in ten categories: Art, Celebrities, Comedy, Great Writers, Math and Science, Military, Philosophy, Politics and Sport.

The solution screen is designed to make solving fast and fun, for cryptogram puzzle experts and beginners alike.  As you guess each letter, all the corresponding letters are filled in, and you can see the quotation start to take shape as you try different combinations. By default, the frequency of each letter is displayed, but this can be hidden to make it harder to solve.  Along the bottom is a list of all the letters waiting to be matched.

When you complete the solution, you’ll see a graph of how your solution time compared with thousands of other puzzle solvers from the Puzzle Baron’s Cryptogram website (adjusted for the Kindle vs web browser interface).

Other features are the Menu -> Hint option that fills in the current square with the correct answer. This is great to use while learning.

If you haven’t tried Cryptogram word puzzles before, take a look at these tips and stick with it for a couple of puzzles. The first few can be frustrating, but as with any good puzzle, you’ll begin to see patterns and it will start to get easier. The puzzles in Puzzle Baron’s Cryptograms are graded 1, 2 and 3 stars to indicate their difficulty (as measured from thousands of players).  The quotes are fun, and provide a little extra incentive to complete the puzzle.

Give Puzzle Baron’s Cryptograms a try. We think that any word puzzle fan will find they are a pleasant way to pass some time and stimulate some brain cells!

 

Word Quest – word search for Kindle with all the toppings!

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Jul 072011
 

 The newly released Word Quest Active Content Kindle app from CompuLab is the classic word search game, but with everything included. At first glance, it may appear simple, but even a quick play will prompt many a “Ah hah!” as you notice its many features.

First and foremost, this is NOT a fixed set of 100 “find the words in a grid” puzzles that you will delete after solving them. Instead, CompuLab has provided multiple groups of 50-80 related words (2500 words in all) and generates a new puzzle every time you play. As the cover says, there are literally millions of variations.

Next, there are five levels of play (with the cutesy but catchy names of Casual Classes, Apprentice Adventurers, Pro Pursuits, Expert Expeditions and Masters’ Missions). Generally these mean larger grids to search on, but in the case of Masters’ Missions, it also means searching for less words – on the premise that its harder to find them if there aren’t as many. Stats are tracked separately for each set of words at each level.

A large range of settings are available from the Aa (Options) button (or Menu -> Settings).  For example, this is the first app we’ve noticed that implements full Screen Rotation support. This puts the words to the right instead of below the grid. Other settings control the Font Size and Style, Word Marking style, Timer on / off, obscure the Word List (so you can’t easily see what you’re looking for) and allow wrap from side to side while navigating.

The 10 pages of clearly written and well organized instructions detail some of the other features, such as faster cursor movement (including diagonally) by using the keys around S and double speed when combined with the shift key. This removes much of the tedium associated with ‘driving around’ the screen.

Last, but not least, are the hint and show solution Menu options for the frustrated puzzler.

Word Quest is an excellent new addition to this extremely popular category for the Amazon Kindle. Highly recommended.

 
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