Cross Fingers

Calling…all…puzzlers! It’s my delight to present a tangram puzzle application called “Cross Fingers” that is loaded with hours of pleasant perplexity. (In case you were stumped already, a tangram is a Chinese puzzle where seven shape pieces – five triangles, a square, and a rhomboid – are used to form various designs and figures.) “Cross Fingers” offers three levels of game play (easy, normal, hard) with120 puzzles. Once you decipher the first 120 puzzles, you can unlock a set of bonus puzzles found in the arcade mode (that’s what I hear, anyway… I’m still working my way through the “hard” level.) This game is enthralling, mentally-challenging, and a great way to escape into meditative thought. The interface has a tactile quality to it with puzzle shapes that feel and sounds like wooden pieces that click together in a satisfactory way. The puzzles go beyond matching shapes - they also require strategic thinking; to solve the puzzle, you must also discover the correct order or sequence to move each piece. This app is rich in entertainment value, and “Cross Fingers” is a great way to help exercise creative problem solving and to develop spatial pattern recognition..