iTouch Hacks

The game is more complicated to describe than it is to play. Once you understand the game, it’s delightful—and delightfully frustrating. Basic gameplay works like this: You’re presented with a five-by-five grid. On each turn, you’re presented with a card featuring a number from 0 through 5. You’re tasked with placing those numbers on the grid in any playable spot. Each row and column is summed to calculate its point total.

But if you manage to get two of the same number in a row or column (say, two 3s), you’re rewarded with a 10x multiplier of that number (in this example, 30 bonus points). And if you go the extra mile and get a third of the same number in a row or column, a bonus of 100 points is added to that row’s score.

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Luxor’s Egypt-themed premise is fairly simple. A scarab beetle slowly pushes a rack of marbles along a circuitous path that leads, ultimately, to a pyramid. At the bottom of the screen, you’ve got a winged marble shooter loaded up with a single colored marble. If you shoot a colored marble into a chain of three or more like-colored marbles, they’ll disappear. Do it enough, with enough speed or panache, and bonus coins and power-ups will fall down for you to catch in your shooter. Once you eliminate all the balls in the rack, the scarab beetle departs… but another rack is close behind. Once you’ve exhausted all the scarabs on a level, you advance to the next level. But if a single marble makes it all the way to the pyramid, you’ve committed a “foul” and have to start over.

I Want My Mummy: Shooting large groups of like colors gives you bonus points.

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