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Game Review: Crazy Caps HD

     Hey, everyone. Puzzle people need love, just like everyone else. Although I love the shooter games, I play a bit of the Match 3 games as well. I just recently started on a new one called Crazy Caps HD. It is a fun game and I think you might like it. Moreover, it is free and as far as I can tell, has no in-app con games going on.
    As I said, it is a match three. There is a board laid out with bottle caps of different colors and designs. You move a cap so that it will line up three of like color which causes them to flip over and fall off the board. As you progress through the matches, a meter, which resembles a tube of acid, proceeds to fill up on your right. When it is full you proceed to another board. Soon you have cool additions, such as a cap with a rocket on it. When you tap that one it zooms off the board, taking all the caps with it in the direction the rocket is pointing. This racks up some points on filling the acid tube, believe me.
    There are other special caps as you progress. For instance, there is an atomic cap and a cap which has a spooky face on it. The spooky face takes out all the surrounding caps when it explodes. There are also black caps which do nothing except to impede your progress.
    There are three modes with this game. In puzzle mode you merely try to get these two bird faces in contact with each other. They start out separated by part of the caps and you move them until you get them together. Survival mode is a deal where you see how many caps you can match in one minute. I don't like to be timed in anything so this is not my favorite. My favorite is the classic mode which I described at the first of this post.
      This game has nice colors, graphics and animations. I like the sound of the caps turning over. There are no adds or in-app purchases. It is free at the moment and it is one of the very few games that carry a five star rating on the app store with over a hundred ratings. I recommend it to you puzzle folks. It is nice to have a game which you can actually play without getting stuck, angry or ripped off by in-app purchases.
    For you guys that like nostalgia, do you remember when soft drinks made by Royal Crown Cola (RC) had bottle caps that sometimes had an imprint under the cork? If there was a red diamond, you won a free drink, a blue diamond won a free carton of colas. You dug the cork out with your fingernail to check. I think soft drinks were a nickel at that time.
    Speaking of nostalgia, click on the label link below this post and read more posts about this sort of thing. The labels are a cool way to check out some of my older posts. They are all free, with no adds. I particularly recommend the ones about mountain lions, so I will put that label below this post as well. Bye.
     From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.

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