Math Star ($2.99) is a new learning game from puzzle.tv. If this is up your alley, then be sure to also grab Why Math Isn't an Awful Nerd, by Jason Marshal, which is still free on Kindle.Book Description
How good is your math? Find out by taking the Math Star Challenge, and progress through 100 increasingly difficult levels to see how good you really are.
Math Star features ten different game types including "Add it Up!", "Takeaway!", "Multiple Trouble!" and "Divide and Conquer". Also included are fun and challenging games like "Fill the Gap!", "Fifty Fifty!" and "Decimal Danger!". With math problems ranging in difficulty from '2+2=?' to complicated decimal and fraction based equations, Math Star is suitable for all ages and abilities. Four user profiles let you save your progress and compare high scores with friends and family who may also wish to play.
Math Star adapts quickly to the proficiency of the user. The level at which you start is initially based on your age, and adjusts up or down according to your performance in the Main Challenge portion of the game. In addition to the Main Challenge, you can practice at your current level by selecting one of the Quick Games. As you progress through levels, you will unlock new Quick Games to play.
Improve your math today with this entertaining game. Are you a Math Star?
Kee-Ko's Quest ($1.99), by A GamzBook Description
Kee-Ko's Quest is a puzzle game in which you need to rearrange objects to clear a path for Kee-Ko, a robot.
Kee-Ko works in a factory alongside other robots. Her boyfriend, F4R4W4Y, has been reassigned to a different room at the end of the factory. Kee-Ko has assigned another robot to take her place, and now intends to make her way to her boyfriend's new room. She and all the other robots in the factory are built to move only on the rails set on the factory floor, and she'll need to move other robots out of her way to exit each room.
Help Kee-Ko navigate all 100 rooms and get to the end of the factory. Earn badges for accomplishments, beat your previous times, see how many rooms you can solve in the minimum number of moves, or just enjoy the challenge of solving them. If you want to skip ahead, feel free. You can complete the rooms in any order you like and return to each room just the way you left it.
Help Kee-Ko find F4R4W4Y and enjoy the challenge of solving clever puzzles at the same time!
YAHTZEE (Book Description
Now you can play YAHTZEE, the classic dice game on Kindle.
Roll the dice with YAHTZEE, a game in which players roll five dice to try and make 4-of-a-kinds, full houses, and straights. Keep the dice you want and re-roll the rest, but think carefully to score the best combination and the most points!
YAHTZEE for Kindle has three modes to enjoy. Play in Classic Mode and brave the luck of the roll, or remove luck from the game and play in Duplicate Mode where each person plays with identical die rolls and only your strategy can make the difference. You may also compete in Battle Mode, where your goal is to reduce your opponents score.
Play solo or Pass 'n' Play with up to 3 other players. Track stats like best scores, total victories, win ratios and more. Share the fun with 3 difficulty levels: easy, medium and hard.
One of the world's favorite dice-driven game scores again. Now play it anywhere you take your Kindle.
Affairs of the Court ($1.99), by Choice of GamesBook Description
Affairs of the Court is an interactive romance novel where you control the main character. In each chapter, you choose how the story proceeds, unlocking different endings.
Play the role of a young noble who comes to court in search of love and power, and catches the sovereign's eye. Plunge into court politics and change the course of history, or pursue a love affair that rocks the kingdom to its foundations. Match wits with the schemers of the court, or play your suitors off each other.
This omnibus edition for Kindle contains both Choice of Romance and its sequel, Choice of Intrigues. The mobile app review website AppSafari called Romance "... a wonderfully fascinating and addictive experience that will leave you playing it over and over again."
If you like gamebooks, you'll love Affairs of the Court. Its unique approach to interactive fiction allows larger, deeper, and richer stories than traditional gamebooks. Will you find true love? Gain a crown? Lose your head? The choice is yours.
Note: May not be appropriate for children.
CodeWord (Codewords and Cryptograms for Kindle) ($0.99), by Oak Systems Leisure SoftwareBook Description
CodeWord is a word game with a splash of logic.
CodeWord includes two different types of word decryption puzzles in a single title: cryptograms and codewords. A cryptogram is a puzzle where you must map letters to numbers to solve the code. All of the cryptogram puzzles are based on famous quotations, but each letter is replaced by a different letter or number. A codeword puzzle is similar to a crossword, but with no clues. Instead a number in each square represents the letter, and you are given a word to start you off.
CodeWord includes 50 codeword puzzles and 50 cryptograms for a total of 100 puzzles. Hints are available if you would like some help, and if you get stuck you can give up and reveal the solution. You can play at your own pace or against an optional timer if you want more challenge. You can also reset each puzzle so you can replay as many times as you like.
People of all ages who like puzzles and word games will enjoy playing CodeWord.
Puzzle Pack 1 ($0.99), by Oak Systems Leisure SoftwareBook Description
Enjoy a variety of classic puzzles on your Kindle.
This pack contains 100 puzzles: 20 Sudoku (5 each of Very Easy, Easy, Medium and Hard), 8 American Style Crosswords, 7 British Style Quick Crosswords (which contain more black squares than American Style puzzles), 15 Word Searches, 10 Codewords, 10 Cryptograms, 10 Symbol Blocks (Easy to Hard), 10 Compass Points, and 10 Criss-Cross puzzles.
Play at your own pace or against the clock. Your game is saved, so you can pause partway through a puzzle and return to where you left off. You can also reset each puzzle and try it again as many times as you like. If you get stuck on a more challenging puzzle, you can get hints or give up and see the correct solution.
People who like puzzles and word games, or people who want to try a variety of puzzles will love this fun collection of games on Kindle.
Jumble, 200 Puzzles ($4.99) expands on this series of games from Puzux, with more puzzles than ever.Book Description
Solve two hundred Jumble puzzles on Kindle with this new interactive version of the popular word scramble game.
Each Jumble puzzle features four jumbled words for you to unscramble, Each Jumble puzzle features four jumbled words for you to unscramble, which gradually identify letters that can be used to solve the bonus phrase. Unscramble the bonus phrase to complete the puzzle. Each puzzle contains a cartoon clue, that will help you crack it, but watch out for puns!
Jumble contains a Solve Puzzle feature if you get stuck and want to see the answer, a Reset Puzzle feature if you want to start over, and a Hints feature to help you out along the way.
Jumble: That Scrambled Word Game! is one of the longest continuously running word games in the world. Try out Jumble on Kindle today and find out why!
Fortune Teller ($1.99), by Sonic BoomBook Description
Have your Fortune told on Kindle!
Fortune Teller for Kindle helps you look into your future in three unique ways: Fortune Teller Hectar Predicts, Fortune Cookies, and Mystic Pyramid.
Hectar the Fortune Teller will look into his crystal ball and make new predictions every day for different areas of your life: Love, Career, Friendship, Money, and Life. Fortune Cookie is inspired by Chinese fortune cookies. Each cookie may give you advice or reveal your fortune, and you may choose up to 3 cookies per day. Mystic Pyramid is a mystical Egyptian-themed pyramid. You are advised to think of personal questions that are important to you "with great reverence and intent" and press a button to get the Mystic Pyramid's answers.
Don't pass up the opportunity to take a sneak peak at your future on Kindle!
Calendar ($0.99), by 7 DragonsBook Description
Calendar is a user friendly scheduling tool and daily planner for Kindle.
Calendar lets you see events and to-do lists quickly and easily with day, month and week views. It lets you create events (including recurring events) and daily to-do lists. You can set reminders that show up when you start Calendar; and sort and search tools make working with your data a breeze. US Holidays are included, but you can turn them off if you want to do so.
A Go-to-Date and Go-to-Today feature helps you move around quickly, and fast typing speed with word-wrap helps you work quickly too. You get 6 font sizes and 9 backgrounds or a simple full-screen mode from which to choose, and you can use the built-in Backup and Restore feature to save your calendar data to a PC or Mac.
Put getting Calendar on your to-do list for today!
Calendar - Appointments, Birthdays, Holidays and Sticky Notes ($0.99), by CompulabBook Description
Calendar is a tool that offers daily planner functions for Kindle users.
You can add and remove notes for appointments, put a sticky note with a short list on a page, and set reminders for the birthdays and holidays that matter to you.
In the Month view, you can quickly see what day is a holiday or a birthday or see if you made a note for that day. In Day view, you can enter appointments and attach short notes for those appointments. You can attach a note to a day, which can be handy if you have a list of things to remember. Calendar also allows you to copy appointments and paste them back in at another time or day.
Use Calendar to manage your schedule on your Kindle today.
Stopwatch and Timer ($0.99), by A Gamz, was the first of two stopwatch apps out for Kindle.Book Description
A Gamz Stopwatch and Timer provides a stopwatch, countdown timer and a date and time display for Kindle.
You can use Stopwatch and Timer as a convenient kitchen helper, a break reminder, or as a stopwatch. The stopwatch has lap timers and the ability to pause. With the countdown timer, you can pause your countdown or reset it at any time. The countdown timer also has commonly used presets of thirty seconds, one minute and five minutes to make countdowns quick and easy, or you may enter any duration you wish. Stopwatch and Timer will also tell you how long since your countdown finished -- in case you miss the end.
Make the most of your time by using Stopwatch and Timer today!
Please Note: Stopwatch and Timer does not make sound nor wake up your Kindle. Stopwatch and Timer will however, keep accurate timer or stopwatch times while your Kindle is asleep.
Anywhere Stopwatch ($0.99), by Nickel Buddy, came out second and seems to fill about the same functions as the first stopwatch program. Neither produce any sounds (a Kindle limitation), nor have a large clock display (to be fair, using as such would probably kill you kindle battery quickly).Book Description
Anywhere Stopwatch is a stopwatch and countdown timer for Kindle.
Use the stopwatch to time your kids at the track, the swimming pool, or just laps around the house. You can save up to 20 stopwatch sessions, so you can go back to see improvement over time. The stopwatch has a lap feature, allowing you to see lap and split times.
Also included is a countdown timer. The display counts down by seconds to 0, and also displays a dial that represents elapsed time and time remaining. Stopwatch does not play sound on Kindle, but the dial makes it easy to see at a glance how much time is left on the timer.
Anywhere Stopwatch is a fun utility that can really come in handy. Get one for your Kindle today!
Cocktail Mixer ($1.99), by HandyX, is a reference title that you can use both when behind the bar at your next party and when shopping for it beforehand.Book Description
Cocktail Mixer is a collection of recipes for 350 delicious drinks including classic cocktails, seasonal drinks, the coolest new mixes and a selection of non-alcoholic drinks.
The cocktail browser feature helps you find your perfect cocktail by organizing them into easy to use sections. Sections include classic cocktails, shooters, non-alcoholic cocktails, cocktails by base ingredient, cocktails by glass type and a range of occasion and party themes. The advanced search function also lets you search for cocktails by name or cocktails that contain specific ingredients which makes it easy to explore new drinks you're likely to enjoy.
You can keep track of all your favorite drinks using the 'My Favorites' function, and you can learn about cocktail making and ingredients in the comprehensive help section. Cocktail Mixer will help you get the taste you're looking for in your old favorites, and can introduce you to new drinks that may become new favorites.
Start mixing it up today with Cocktail Mixer!
Whew! That's a long list of new Kindle apps and games that have snuck into the store over the last few weeks (at least one of which I'm buying today). If you've managed to resist temptation on the existing titles so far, Amazon seems determined to get you to succumb to your urge to play with your Kindle (rather than just read), with the current 99 cent Kindle Game Sale. All of these are marked down thru July 10 (and no longer). Several of these games usually sell for $5, so this is a great discount to take advantage of. Interestingly, the new YAHTZEE game from Electronic Arts Inc. isn't a part of the official sale, so it's 99 cent price could change at any time.
- EA Texas Hold'em, by Electronic Arts Inc.
- SCRABBLE, by Electronic Arts Inc.
- EA Solitaire, by Electronic Arts Inc.
- Word Soup, by Fuzzy Bug Interactive
- Mahjong Solitaire, by Mobigloo
- MONOPOLY, by Electronic Arts Inc.
- Hangman 4 Kids, by Sonic Boom
- EA Sudoku, by Electronic Arts Inc.
- True Backgammon, by Compulab
- NY Times Crosswords Vol. 5, by The New York Times
- NY Times Crosswords Vol. 6, by The New York Times
