I have the Cooking Dash app on my iPhone and it’s one of my 10 year old’s favorites. I enjoy it as well but I have to watch when I play it because I get sucked in and distracted. PlayFirst recently released a new twist on the game called Diner Dash Grilling Green and it’s [...]

The Word Chase is an easy to learn game that lets you play with words. The game gives you three different words and several letters in a column on the side of the screen. You need to take one letter from the column and use it to replace a letter in a word, which then [...]

Pounce is a fun solitaire type game. You can play by yourself, race against virtual players or play against real people using a Bluetooth connection . You’re trying to be the first one to get rid of all your cards, including those in your “pounce” pile. The app has a nice tutorial that walks you [...]

Alien Equation is a math app that really works your brain. Once I figured out how to play it I actually enjoyed it (math, me??) but it took me a little bit to realize what I was supposed to do. I like this app but if I’ve got one suggestion it’s to include some instructions [...]

Numbl is all about taking a screen full of jumbled numbers and getting them to add up. Your given a sum and you need to tap the numbers on the screen that add up to it. You can use one number or two, three…however many it takes. As you use up numbers they disappear off [...]

    This post is more than a little overdue but here goes. For Christmas Santa Claus brought me a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker. What I had asked for was Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred DVD. That made it under the tree too but when I opened up the ice cream maker I decided that [...]

When I first tried playing Gluons I stunk. But I tried it again and after a little bit of practice I got better. Not great, but definitely better. This is an arcade style game that requires some quick moving fingers. In Gluons you are trying to link up colored balls (gluons) before they run into [...]

I’ve received  another addicting app for my iPhone. It’s a good thing I don’t get much down time or else I’d be in the corner playing games all day long. This one is called Tumbledrop and it’s like a game of Jenga played with geometric shapes and a bit of physics thrown in. You’ll want [...]

Have you heard about Train Conductor yet? It’s a terrific, new app that falls into the “traffic management” game category. The idea is to match numbered trains to their numbered tracks. You do this by tapping and dragging your finger to move the trains from track to track. You’ve got to be quick. If the [...]

Frozen Bubble 2 is a game where you shoot colored bubbles onto a playing board. When you’ve arranged the bubbles in groups of three or more they’ll pop. Your goal is to clear the board so you can move on to the next level. As you are playing the ceiling will begin to lower and [...]