iTouch Hacks

In Boggle, you shuffle 16 six-sided dice, each imprinted with letters, in a tray that holds the dice in a 4-by-4 grid. You must find words in sequences of letters on adjacent dice. You can go up, down, left, right, or diagonally. In the desktop game, you’re timed using a sand-filled hourglass; each turn is three minutes.

Boggle for iPhone features three game modes: Classic, which adheres to the three-minute rule; Advanced, which lets you set your own time limit, features “Portal Cubes” that swap first and last positions when a word is formed, and has a “Panic Flip” that lets you find words using a new roll of the dice in the last 20 seconds of the game; and Self Score mode, a sandbox mode in which you play by your own rules and score yourself however you want.

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Flood-It Pro, a $1 game from LabPixies with a free lite version, is an engaging tile-based puzzle game. Presented with a 12-by-12 grid sporting six colors of tiles, you need to work methodically to flood the entire game board with one solid color. Color Coordinated: In Flood-It Pro, you’re trying to fill an entire 12-by-12 grid with one color in as few turns as possible.

Flooding begins from the top left corner. Every time you tap a colored circle on the bottom of the screen, the top left color changes, as does every connected tile with the same original color. On each turn, an increasing percentage of the board takes on your last chosen color. You want to fill the entire board with one color in as few turns as possible.

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