Flow Free

I think I used to have this on my phone... if not, I at least remember seeing ads for it on Facebook or something. It's a pretty simple premise: connect the two same-colored dots with a line that doesn't overlap with any of the other lines.

Interlocked

This was a fun little find in the Google Play Store. Each stage is like one of those interlocking wooden puzzles where you have to figure out how to configure the pieces to each other in such a way that you can pull them apart. They were a lot of fun!

Tents

This is Tents, from Brain Bashers. The trees and numbers around the edges are what you're given at the beginning. There will be one tent associated with each tree. A tree's tent must share a side with it (not a corner). A tree can have more than one tent sharing sides with it, but only one tent will be that tree's tent. The numbers around the edges tell you how many tents will be in each row/column. You click on the blank (white) squares to change them between blank, grass (no tent), and tent.

It's kind of like a mix of minesweeper and the ABC Path game I played a while back, also from Brain Bashers.

Yellow

If I've learned one thing from September's games, it's that I really like games where every level/stage has its own logic: I Don't Even Know, What's in the Box, Red Remover, plus The Idiot Test from August!

The goal in this game is to make the whole screen yellow in each stage.

In this one, you can start at any spot (I think; I started in the top left corner) and follow the arrows to click the next box to turn it yellow. So since I did the top left corner first, then I did the bottom left corner because that's three arrows down. Then I did the one two to the right of that because it has two right arrows on it. And so on and so forth. Get it?

This one was tricky but shouldn't have been. I clicked (tapped) everywhere, dragged things, tried all sorts of stuff... then I got stuck and sat there for a second, and the pupil started to grow, eventually engulfing the whole screen in yellow. The solution was: do nothing!!!

This one is staying on my phone for a while, like Little Alchemy and Aqueducts. I like this one.

Music Crossword

This one's a little different! I saw the above posted to a Facebook friend's wall, and thought that would be fun. If it's hard to see, it's a crossword where each clue is written in music notes.

It was pretty easy, when you consider (1) I took piano lessons for ten years and was in marching band for four years, and (2) all the clues were in treble clef, so I didn't even have to switch back and forth to bass clef.

What's in the Box?

We may never know the answer to the name of this game: What's in the Box? Every level is a different puzzle with its own logic that you have to unlock to get to the next "lid" to the box. On the one in the picture above, the little shapes in the top right corner are the hint to what numbers you need to put in the dial (the number of sides on each shape).

In this one, you have to click one of the middle buttons to light up the top green light, then the other middle button to move it clockwise around the circle until it's in the last blank spot, then light it up again and move it again, etc. etc. until they're all lit up.

Red Remover

This is a cute, fun puzzle game from Addicting Games. You have to remove all the red blocks from the screen, leave all the green blocks on the screen, and blue blocks are neutral: remove them or leave them, it doesn't matter. Some stages have different gravity logic.

And all the blocks are so HAPPY to be where they're supposed to be! Red blocks are grumpy until they start to fall, then they're as happy as the green ones are to be on-screen.

Yaaaay!

ABC Path

I discovered a site called Brain Bashers that has lots of different types of puzzles like sudoku, and this is one of them.

It gives you the "A" and you have to put in the rest of the letters. The sequential letters have to touch (so B has to share a side or corner with A and also with C, C has to share with both B and D, and so on) and there are letters around the edges telling you what row/column/diagonal they have to be in.

In the photo above, I actually have some of it wrong. You can see the finished puzzle below:

Einstein Riddle

It's apparently a Google Play Store kind of week for my games. I had such success with finding a great game when I chose Aqueducts, I thought I'd try again... This one was not nearly so great, but it did remind me that logic puzzle should be added to my list of games, because I love them!

These, however... these are not good logic puzzles. Want to know why? Of course you do. Here's why:

First, they aren't multidirectional. I don't know if that changes in the harder levels (I played Easy because it was almost bedtime).

Then, the clues are written poorly. Again, I know I was in Easy mode, but there were too many redundant clues. When you have a clue like "the person with a baseball hat doesn't play basketball," there are a lot of useful clues you could follow up with, but "the basketball player doesn't have a baseball hat" is not one of them.

And finally, they don't have any story behind them. Maybe I was spoiled as a kid, but my logic puzzles at least tried to make a little sense. Like, you might be combining breeds of dog, types of dog treat, and leash colors, and you're a dog-sitter who's watching all these dogs and trying to remember which one likes which type of treat. The ones in this app are literally just combinations of objects. The second one I did had vehicles (submarine, ambulance, helicopter, and zeppelin) and types of money (20 pound note, 10 pound note, 5p coin, and 1p coin) and two other elements, I think hats was one of them? But the clues referred to the elements like, "The one that has a 20-note owns a zeppelin." What? Under what circumstances are we trying to sort these things out? You're telling me that someone who owns a submarine only has a penny? What's happening here?

Aqueducts

I didn't really know what I wanted to play today, so I poked around the Google Play store for a minute and saw this. It was categorized under puzzle games, and looked pretty (and was free) so I went for it, and was pleasantly surprised.

There's quiet, pleasant music, the art is lovely, and the whole thing is just very peaceful.

You're given a mess of an aqueduct (like above, partially completed) and you turn the individual sections to get the water from left to right. In more advanced levels, there are extra pieces that won't be used, to throw you off the trail.

That's the map between levels. Even that is pretty!

50 States

This is an old Flash game I found lurking around Addicting Games that is really straightforward. It's basically a puzzle where the states are the pieces. You just have to place them precisely and in order. So, for example, when Kansas shows up next and you haven't put down any of its adjacent states to border it on, you put it slightly off from where it belongs and get some "miles off."