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Favorite Games From The Puzzler's Point Of View

    Hello. I'm Carley, CE's wife.  My husband hates puzzle games so he asked me to make a list of my favorite games. So here goes.
1. Scrabble. I hesitated to buy this game, wondering how they could possibly port it to an I-Pad and make it fun. Now I play it almost everyday and have devoted hundreds of hours to it. A great stress reliever. I bought it on sale for 99 cents. If you buy it now, it will cost you a bit more.
2. Unblock Me. This is not about regularity. It's about removing blocks from a square by getting other blocks out of your way. It's fun and the first 400 levels are free. The full version is only 99 cents.
3. Pebble Jump. Free. In this offering, you jump pebbles over one another, leaving only one pebble in the designated hole. My husband thinks it is like Chinese Checkers but it is not. A nice strategy game.
4. Topple! Free. There are two Topples in the store. You want the one without the mean face on the icon. In this game you drop letters to form phrases.
5. Tan Zen. Free. The full version in HD is $2.99. In this relaxing game you fit different shapes together by sliding them with your finger. If you hated Geometry in High School don't mess with this one.
6. Cover Orange. This is a fun and very cute game to play with your children, or all by yourself. I beat 159 levels before it got too difficult for me. You have oranges that need to be moved under cover to protect them from acid rain. For 99 cents, you can't find a better game.
7. 7 Little Words. Free. In this game there are a group of boxes with 2 or 3 letters to the box. You have to group several together to solve the clues given above. It's hard to explain but a joy to play. I highly recommend it.
8. Graveyard Shift. Imagine that you are trying to transfer a corpse to a coffin by solving physics puzzles. I know it sounds a bit morbid but you'll have a ball with it. There is a free version and a paid version for $2.99.
9.Jumble 2. 99 cents. Just like the books you buy at the supermarket. Straighten out letters to form words.
10. Cross Fingers. They offer a free version or a 99 cent version. In this game you move parts to make a more perfect whole. Sounds like a government document or something.
11. Angry Birds and Fragger. Two puzzle games that have enjoyed huge success. They offer plenty of content, free and for 99 cents. Both of these companies have irritated their fans by doing things a bit funny. It would be better to just charge for new content than to throw in adds or charge for the ability to skip hard levels. With that said, they are both a bargain and very fun. They get so difficult that you may have to look up certain levels on You Tube before you can defeat them.
12. Lavalanche. Free. Nice little game. You are the only hope for this little guy. If you solve the puzzles, you can arrange for him to fall on solid ground, rather than in molten lava.
    Well, that should provide a diversion for you; for several months. I hope you like all of them. From the green retreat; same place as that other person, I'm Carley Wills.

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