![]() Halloween will never be the same!”Īnd there’s also a spooky version of the Sudoku-like logic puzzle, Futoshiki. “Do you know Mary Shelley from Marilyn Manson, or Freddy from Jason…?” asked the game’s description at “Questions topics include horror movies, Halloween facts, scary novels, gruesome history, magical creatures, myths and legends. On his birthday, a little boy named Tristan is haunted by a little ghost girl, and the game’s description on Amazon promises that as its four-part story unfolds, “your child explores a town full of mysteries on the night before Halloween.â€īut one Halloween, the best-selling game in the Kindle Store was the “Ultimate Halloween Quiz” - which actually became one of the top-40 best-selling items in the entire Kindle store! HandyX had already created seven other “interactive quiz” games, but this one promised questions about monsters, magic, and other October-appropriate topics. (The size of the game file is 4.6 megabytes). It describes itself as “An Interactive Children’s Book for Kindle,” and I’m really impressed by its funny, elegant graphics. I think the most interesting title ever for a Kindle game was Ghostboy and the Nameless Grave. ![]() It’s really fun to see game developers taking their established Kindle titles, and updating them with special Halloween editions. Even black and white “e-ink” Kindles can share in the fun, since many of these games were written before Amazon had even introduced their own line of color touchscreen tablets. Halloween is one of my favorite holidays, so I love the fact that there’s Halloween games you can play on your Kindle. But that just makes it totally engrossing, like a good game of Sudoku. ![]() It can be “challenging” - you have to do some logical thinking in your brain. I’ve played this game, and it’s a lot of fun. ![]() (The puzzles were grouped into six categories: Winter Begins, Hanukkah, Christmas, Winter Continues, Kwanzaa, and New Years.) But for the second “holiday” version, Amazon created 35 more puzzles, each one with a fun holiday theme. In both those games, users try to form a picture by darkening all the correct squares in a grid, making logical deductions from clues showing the number of squares that need darkening in each row and column. It was a “sequel” to a free game Amazon released called simply “Picture Perfect Puzzles”. (Like the woman in Minnesota who posted “OMG! OMG! OMG! This is my all time FAVORITE Kindle game, I’ve been waiting for a Part 2 forever!! YESSSS!!!!!!!”) “Check it out for yourself, but don’t blame us if you suddenly get the urge to start stringing lights and singing carols!” That new game was “Picture Perfect Holiday Puzzles,” and within four hours of the announcement, it had already earned 208 “Like” votes on Facebook and drawn 35 enthusiastic comments. “We were going to wait to start talking about the holidays, but this new free game for Kindle is getting us in the spirit a little early,” read one announcement on the Kindle’s page on Facebook! And for Christmas a couple years ago, they also released one that was specifically designed for the holiday season… If you own a black-and-white Kindle, Amazon’s already released 18 different free games. Here’s a special free holiday treat from Amazon.
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