Puzzlers Corner: Let's Tans Deluxe

     Carley urged me to mention a game which she downloaded the other day. The name of it is Let's Tans Deluxe. It has nothing to do with tanning beds or lying on the beach. It is a puzzle game in which you try to fit various geometric shapes into other patterns. From the perspective of a shooter dude, this game appears to be the result of holding a roomful of high-school geometry teachers captive, torturing them and making them work with programmers while chained to a dungeon wall.
      There are a huge variety of difficulty levels, from Kids, Juniors, all the way to Einstein level. There are 10 varieties of puzzles with an example being the chore of looking at a white silhouette and reproducing the shape from the colored tiles at your disposal. In another type, you have to drag a shaped mask, rotate it as needed and capture seven different colored 'tans'.
    With the 10 categories and a minimum of 70 puzzles per each one, there are close to 1000 puzzles in this game, for free. Some categories have a whopping 200 puzzles. It is an exceptional value and my wife loves it. It bores me to tears to even talk about puzzle games for the simple reason that these foolish humans expect the player to think. This is uncomfortably close to work. Ludicrous, at least for a shooter. To my jaded palate, puzzles are something to be used to keep brainy people quiet while I shoot zombies. Ha, ha.
     Hey, let me give a shout to the folks who made Desert Zombie. Please update the game so that it will save our progress. Thanks.
    From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.

Comments

Shadowgun: Crushing The Driller On Level 4

Hey, everyone. Let's talk about the game called Shadowgun, the I-Pad game with which I have a love-hate relationship. Most of you who made it past the evil Cyber Lobster are doubtless locked in a death struggle with the Driller at the end of level 4. At this point you have been in the cave for a long time. The Driller breaks through the rock wall and chases you through the tunnel as you try to shoot out the green lights which slows the Driller down. If you are slick enough to shoot out all the lights and emerge from the cave, a rolling door crashes on the Driller and crushes his aggravating carcass. I have tried and failed to beat the Driller at least 250 times. I hate the Driller to the heights and depths my soul can reach. I hate it like a plague. I hate it with intensity of feeling. I hate it like a rich man hates taxes. Excuse me, I got carried away. We had a big dinner here at the green retreat and my friend Trevor was ...

You're Aiming the Missile Where?

Hey, everyone, out there in game-land. The number 1 game on the friendly neighborhood app store is Call of Duty: Strike Team . No wonder, because it is a terrific game. The farther I play, the cooler it gets. But before I get to that, what are all these numbers indicating on my gun? Has to be some sort of ammo indicator for the clips, I guess. either that or some of my compadres has trouble doing his math homework. Whatever. Hey. Check out the picture of me hitching a ride on an enemy truck so that my team can infiltrate a missile silo. Do you like the face mask? I bought it at a store called Fashions by Bane. Ha, ha. (Batman Reference) On this mission, my team was assisted by a Russian Spetsnaz squad. How's that for detente, comrade? These Spetsnaz guys make everything fun. What I mean is this. We shoot bunches of enemies and get into the bowels of the silo. We get to the gantry where the missile is (Pictured above) and we see that the rad...

Shadowgun: Killing The Windbreaker

Hey, everyone. I thought it might be a good time for a bit of an update on the riveting game called Shadowgun. Consider this your spoiler alert and tune out if you want to. Once you get past the dreaded Driller, things get better but you are certainly not out of the woods. You will want to make sure you keep a full clip in your gun as you stroll through the realm of the evil and crazy Dr. Simon. But hey, you're John Slade, the Shadowgun, and wherever you set your foot is the place to which your authority extends. I love the way that some of the barriers disintegrate under the impact of bullets. I didn't learn this at my mother's knee but I darn sure know it now. I have learned that there are certain places it is good to plan on using the rocket launcher. Keep your stock of those filled. There are these transporter guys who are aggressive punks. The only way they respect you is if you kill them, so that's the way I roll. As...

CE Wills

Search This Blog