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The Belated Puzzlers' List

     Hey, everyone. I have sufficiently recovered from my eating, gaming, Baggage (TV Show) binge to blog once again. Here is Carley's list of her favorite puzzle games.
1) Scrabble- Yes, scrabble. Most people would think that this tried and true board game would not translate well to the modern world. Ha! It is to laugh. I kept telling Carley, "This thing is in the top ten list again and again. Well, it is by far her favorite game. She got it for 99 cents the last time it was on sale and has played it for hundreds of hours.
2) Hidden Wonders of the Deep 2- She played this game all the way through, then started on it again. She especially likes the smack-talking crab who skitters about the game board. She also likes the fact that the puzzles vary inside the game. It is not so monotonous as other games. Truth is, when the shooter games @#%! me off, I play this game, myself.
3) Cover Orange- She has played over 200 levels of this. It is cute, environmentally sound and a bargain at 99 cents.
4) Rhymie Stymie- This is the game that took over our Christmas Eve party. See the post for that day.
5) Word to Word- Also described in the above-mentioned post.
6) 4 Elements- She has played this game all the way through, twice. You have to clear a path for lava to flow. You do this by running your finger over matching tiles. I can say that it is more fun than it sounds like it would be.
7) Let's Tans Deluxe- Fit shapes into boxes.
8) TruPuzzle- Clear a path so that you can match green squares with green circles.
9) Topple! -Make sure you put the exclamation point on your search. If not, you will get a game about stacking blocks with faces on them. In this game, you must take rows of letters and slide them upwards into blank spaces, thus making an 'old saying'. Hey, you know puzzlers are wired differently.
10) Cross Fingers- Move colored shapes to fit them into black spaces.
11) Bookworm- This game is a big favorite around the house. Letters fall down the screen. Some are on fire. If you don't make a word with a fiery letter before it reaches the bottom, you lose.
     Let me mention that all these games are either free or 99 cents, as far as I know. Prices change a lot on the app store and I didn't look them up. Puzzle games, as a rule, are cheaper than shooter games.
    Well, it's back to the salt mines today, so I'll bid you goodbye, from the author's green retreat.
   CE Wills and Carley Wills.
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