First off, even if you don't have kids, you may want to grab
A Charlie Brown Christmas, by Loud Crow Interactive Inc., while it is free today.
Game Description
A Charlie Brown Christmas, the beloved Peanuts classic by Charles M. Schulz, is now available as a spectacular interactive storybook optimized for your Android device. Sit back and enjoy original dialogue, digitally remastered illustrations, animation, music, and narration by Peter Robbins, the original voice of Charlie Brown.
"Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?!"
Only Charlie Brown can turn the magic of Christmas into a problem. Even though the snowflakes are falling softly, carols are ringing sweetly, and people are gathering merrily, Charlie Brown is feeling down. He just doesn't understand Christmas. Join him, along with Snoopy and the entire Peanuts gang as they struggle to find the true meaning of Christmas. It's all accompanied by a charming soundtrack featuring music and sound effects from the original show.
Reading is Wonder-Full
This version of A Charlie Brown Christmas is bursting with fun interactivities that will delight children and adults alike. Go caroling with the Peanuts choir, finger-paint with the gang, and participate in the Spectacular Super-Colossal Neighborhood Christmas Lights and Display Contest to unlock decorations for your very own Charlie Brown Christmas Tree. You can even play Schroeder's piano (to the tune of "Linus and Lucy", of course). Note highlighting helps to introduce and improve musical skills.
Little readers will love turning pages with the swipe of a finger. They can also watch text highlighting as they listen to the story narration, hear individual words spoken with a single tap, touch and drag objects to make them spring to life or tilt to watch them slide and move, and much more. With something to discover on every page, this is one interactive Peanuts adventure you won't want to miss this holiday season!
Next, you'll want to check out
Gameloft's 99 cent Android Games sale. I see a few games I missed during the 10 cent sales (although I did get at least one of them in the Android Market, I haven't worked out how to transfer them, yet). These generally sell in the $5-$7 range and they've even updated the list with new games that were just released this week. Do be sure to configure your KindleFire to require confirmation on (or block) in-app purchases, though, before downloading any game that allows them (especially if you have kids).
- Asphalt 6: Adrenaline
- UNO (Kindle Fire Edition)
- Shadow Guardian HD
- Order & Chaos Online (Kindle Fire Edition)
- Block Breaker 3 Unlimited (Kindle Fire Edition)
- Let's Golf! 3 ** Now free
- Green Farm ** Now free
- Hero of Sparta HD
- James Cameron's Avatar HD (Kindle Fire Edition)
- Modern Combat: Sandstorm HD (Kindle Fire Edition)
- BackStab HD (Kindle Fire Edition)
Over on the nook blog, I saw them boasting about finaly having the
Words With Friends app in their store. It's $2.99
there, but free in the Amazon store (and the
Android Market), as is the add-on
Words Cheat (be forewarned! I downloaded both on my Fire and my phone).
Game Description
Like words? Got friends? Perfect. You're set to play Words With Friends, the addicting word game that allows you challenge friends, family, or strangers and show off your superlative vocabulary and brilliant gaming skills.
Play Words With Friends Free, the world's number-one mobile word game, with both your Android and iPhone/iPad-toting friends. Experience for yourself why millions of players are addicted to the word-building, triple-score-seeking, chat-bubble-sending goodness of Words with Friends. Play Words With Friends Free, the #1 mobile word game, with both your Android and iPhone/iPad-toting friends. Experience for yourself why millions of players are addicted to the word building, triple score seeking, chat bubble sending goodness of Words With Friends.
For those using an eInk Kindle,
Electronic Arts Inc is having a sale, with all of their Kindle games at 99 cents.
- SCRABBLE
- BATTLESHIP
- YAHTZEE
- MONOPOLY
- TRIVIAL PURSUIT Master Edition
- EA Sudoku
- EA Solitaire
- EA Texas Hold'em
- POGO Hearts, Spades and More!
Mobigloo's
Mahjong Solitaire Holiday Edition is 99 cents (for eInk Kindles), as is
Jewels.
Mahjong Solitaire Holiday Edition
It's time to celebrate the Holiday season with this special edition of the popular matching game Mahjong Solitaire on Kindle.
In Mahjong Solitaire, you match pairs of identical tiles in order to remove them from the board. Only free tiles can be matched. Tiles are considered free if they do not have other tiles to either the left or right of them, or on top of them. The objective of the game is to clear all the tiles from the board. The game ends when all tiles have been removed or when there are no more free tiles left to match.
Mahjong Solitaire tracks the number of pairs of free tiles available to be matched for you. In addition, the game allows for unlimited undos, and contains a Hint feature that will give you suggestions for your next move, as well a Shuffle feature that will rearrange the tiles when you get stuck.
The Mahjong Solitaire Holiday Edition gives you 10 different game board layouts to choose from and two special Holiday tile sets.
Jewels
A Best of 2011 Editors' Pick -- Discounted to $0.99 for a limited time (offer ends January 2)
Jewels is a matching game which will put your planning and pattern recognition skills to the test.
The rules of Jewels are simple: you swap adjacent jewels (horizontally or vertically) to create combinations of three or more jewels of the same type. Once matched, the jewels are removed and the remaining jewels above it slide down to take their place. The challenge comes when there are few potential matches to find, and you must pick your next move carefully or risk eliminating remaining matches when the jewels shift down. If that's not challenge enough, then consider playing the timed mode where you race against a relentlessly decreasing timer and each successful match adds just a bit of time back to the clock.
If you cannot find a match, use the Hint feature to show you the next move. The game keeps track of your ten best scores for both Easy and Timed modes, so you can see just how much the pressure of the timer affects your performance!
Electronic Arts Inc. has several of
their Android apps on sale as well; although not at the same discount as the Kindle apps, most of these are a dollar less than the usual prices.
- THE GAME OF LIFE ($2.99)
- SCRABBLE (Kindle Fire Edition) ($1.99)
- SimCity Deluxe (Kindle Fire Edition) ($3.99)
- MADDEN NFL 12 by EA SPORTS ($1.99)
- Worms ($1.49)
- Bejeweled 2 ($1.99)
- TETRIS ($1.99)
Mystery Castle: Winter's Night, by Runestone Games Limited, is currently half-price at 99 cents.
Game Description
Mystery Castle: Winter's Night is the sequel to the top-rated favorite Mystery Castle: Dawn of Illusion.
Monty is back and he's going to save the Holidays! An ice palace has appeared in the middle of the night and Monty the Wizard returns with 32 stages of puzzles and adventure in this new quest to defeat the nasty demon scaring the people and penguins of a small village. Slide across the ice in this winter wonderland, collecting the evil demon's magic crystals.
Find boxes to build bridges across the dark abyss, and clear the path ahead with giant bombs. Teleport to different areas with the magical staircases and reveal secret areas with the 'Eye of Truth'. Be careful you don't fall through the cracked floor!
Mystery Castle: Winter's Night is for people that like brainteasers, puzzles and adventure. Can you solve the mysteries of the castle and save the villagers? Monty is counting on you!
Braintonik Games has a few of their Kindle games marked down to 99 cents.
Picture Cross Christmas Edition (
$0.99), by puzzle.tv
Game Description
Merry Christmas picture puzzlers! 100 all new festive-themed Picture Cross puzzles.
Starting with a grid of empty squares, Picture Cross gives you clues in each column and row with which you must work out whether each square in the grid is black or white. Find all of the black squares to reveal a festive picture. Detailed instructions and helpful tutorial are included, and a hint feature is available if you get stuck. Once finished, you can reset each puzzle so you can replay as many times as you like.
Picture Cross Christmas Edition includes 100 unique hand-made puzzles, each with a seasonal theme. Puzzles come in grids of various sizes, with 20 each of: 8 by 8, which are nice and easy, 10 by 10, 15 by 15, 20 by 20, and 25 by 25 which are very challenging!
The game features fast navigation, check marks and hidden puzzle names.
If you love Christmas and love logic puzzles, you'll love Picture Cross Christmas Edition on Kindle!
Holiday Word Search (
$0.99), by Oak Systems Leisure Software
Game Description
Enjoy the classic Word Search game on your Kindle this holiday season.
Holiday Word Search includes 50 13x13 puzzles, each with a different delightful holiday theme. With categories from Songs and Movies to Road Trips, there is sure to be fun for all ages!
Your goal is to locate and mark off words in the grid using the 5 way controller or the touch screen. Each word appears in a straight line, horizontally, vertically or diagonally in the grid - but be careful, sometimes the words are backwards! Play at your own pace or against the clock and see who can get the fastest time for each puzzle. Pause partway through a puzzle and return to where you left it. You can reset each puzzle and try it again as many times as you like. If you get stuck on a more challenging puzzle then you can give up and see the correct solution.??
People who like Word Searches and Holidays will have a great time with this game on Kindle.
Ultimate Christmas Quiz (
$0.99), by HandyX
Game Description
Take the Christmas quiz challenge and prove that you really have the festive spirit: Ho, ho, ho!
Test your knowledge of all things festive with this fun interactive quiz experience. Question topics include Christmas movies, stories, carols and popular music, interesting festive facts, food and drink and Xmas traditions from around the world. Featuring 500 questions, this fun and educational quiz will get you in the Christmas mood.
Answer sets of questions in rounds of 10, or in a continuous stream. If you think you know it all then crank up the tension with the question countdown timer for an even greater challenge. In the 'Timer Play' contestants in the hot seat are under increased pressure to correctly answer questions before the time runs out!
Be inspired by fascinating facts from Christmas past and wonderful carols that conjure up happy family days. This quiz is perfect for sharing with friends and family members, and as a fun Christmas party activity!
Christmas Cocoa Stand (
$0.99), by Play Gray, might even teach your kids some math (but don't tell them, that).
Game Description
Christmas Cocoa Stand is a game of fun, luck, and skill inspired by classic 'Lemonade Stand'-style strategy and simulation games. Each day, you decide the number of cups to buy, the price, and the taste of your cocoa. You then find out how many people bought your cocoa, and how much money you made. Pay attention to the weather and to your customer feedback so you can make the right decisions. Invest your earnings back into your business by buying extras from the shop, including cocoa flavoring and color posters, that will help you sell even more the next day.
Christmas Cocoa Stand is fun for all ages, and a great game for the holidays. If you make the right decisions, you'll see your stand grow from simple beginnings to selling hundreds of cups to eager customers each day. If you're lucky, Santa may even stop by and give you a tip!
Snakes Christmas (
$0.99), by Applications Innovations
Game Description
Snakes Christmas is a Christmas themed game where you control a constantly moving snake to collect Christmas items.
The game has two modes: Unlimited Play and Adventure Play.
Unlimited Play: Collect as many pellets as possible before your snake runs into its tail, a wall, or another stationary object. This becomes increasingly more challenging as your snake grows longer and longer with each item collected. Three difficulty modes (Easy, Medium, Hard) will increase the speed and growth rate of your snake.
Adventure Play: Become a Snake Master by completing all 40 levels, each with a different layout and a specific goal of items to collect.
If you like challenging retro-style video games with a Christmas theme, Snakes Christmas is for you.
Fivestar Holiday Memory Classic (
$0.99), by JoyBits
Game Description
Greet the holidays with this special edition of Memory Classic, featuring brand new art and a Pass 'n' Play mode!
Fivestar Holiday Memory Classic is a fun matching and memory game for Kindle.
In Fivestar Holiday Memory Classic, you are challenged to find pairs of illustrations hidden beneath tiles on a game board. The game board starts at 2 tiles x 2 tiles for easy play, and progresses to 5x6 for a really challenging game.
There are three game modes with over 15 difficulty levels each. Take your time in Relaxed Mode, or race against the clock in Classic Mode. In the Arcade Mode you will need to clear the screen while new rows of tiles appear as the time passes. The Pass-n-Play mode designed to hold the tournaments between two real players on the same Kindle device. The leaderboard feature lets you compete against friends and family for the top spots in the Hall of Fame!
Stretch your memory with Memory Classic today.
