Bejeweled is about as far down this particular rabbit as I’ve ever been.

Wordament is another Microsoft winner on android. You earn Xbox cheevos too. Nice.

Was just playing bejewelled the other day, love it.

I actually really love a dirty match 3 game off the play store from time to time. The wee endorphin rush at the end as everything explodes. Install, blitz it for an hour, delete.

Yep.

Kow wrote:

Was just playing bejewelled the other, love it.

You really can’t beat it for my money.

Paul the sparky wrote:

(patience, obviously)

Not just me then, thank you

Peggle is only casual if you want it to be. What a game.

It is yeah. Well was, dunno if servers are still going.

ooh...forgot to mention that I adore Yahtzee. It's a great old MP game. I first played it on a computer - before I knew it was an actual dice game; an Apple IIe version in school that supported 4 players - made my "top 100 games I enjoyed ever" thread entry.

Tetris is a game adapted from a puzzle that involves filling a grid - no falling pieces of anything - was a physical puzzle. They weren't 5 block pieces though in that - were 7 I think?

Underlines the genius of adapting that old puzzle to create a genre.

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Liv, if you got to my apps in the app store, and select all, rather than installed, there should be a record of every app you've ever used.

I quite like a few of the mobile phone game types that appear on the EShop.  I assume they were originally mobile games and I've only seen them after the port.  I can usually convince my wife to get involved if it's a one button score chase thing (no luck with Switch 'n Shoot though).  

I can't think of the name of the main one we played, but you use one button to fling a square between the top and bottom of the screen (it sticks at either side until you press a face button) while other shapes move horizontally across your path - so you're just picking your spot to squeeze through as one hit pops you.  Every time you get to the other side you get an extra point, if you narrowly miss a shape you get a point boost, there are three power ups (one of them pops everything on screen, one slows everything down.  The other one probably does something too).  Otherwise that's it.  We've played it loads.  

I also bought this, but it's not been such a hit in the Moot house.  Perpetual motion in the left loop, triggers to speed up or slow down.  Don't bump into anything.  

Yes.  The other hand must be shoved down the front of your trackies/jeans.

Wizard of OZ Slots.

Downloaded this to see what this genre of game is about. Free to download of course but peppered with opportunities to spend money.

To the publisher's credit the buying prompts and ads don't get in the way of what little game there is - it's about as interactive as a firework display - but the craft on show here is admirable. The quality of the audio-visual assets is high and the amount of stuff going on in the form of side-on distractions is remarkable. There's definitely a genre waiting in the wings that challenges a player's judgement in this way instead of just asking them to adjust the stake, tap spin, and resist the challenge to buy in.

The real skill of the devs here is the timing of psychological payoffs - quite remarkably well done. Just as I start to tire it throws something new in - I could see how folk of a certain type could easily get drawn in.

I want to see all the machines and you can grind your way through to that. Not sure if I'll stay the course but this is a curious genre of entertainment/distraction. It's a pity the design and dev skill on show isn't funnelled to more rewarding content.