Posted on Wednesday, Nov 19, 2008 by Dieter Bohn
File Under:App Store Apps, App vs App, Featured, Games; Tags: 2 across, App Store Apps, app vs app, crossword, crosswords, Games, puzzle
I love me some crossword puzzles. You can keep your silly Sudoku, I played enough logic games getting my philosophy major from a department that didn’t go for them crazy postmodern language games (seriously, the folks at St. Thomas love them some logic). I love having crosswords on my smartphone because it’s the perfect ‘quick game’ app: you can spend two minutes or twenty on them, there’s many new and free ones available every day, and they fend off cognitive decline in old age (Seriously, speaking of Catholics, look into the “nun study“).
Anyway, point is I want my crossword puzzle app to be awesome. So this week’s App vs. App is crosswords. Today’s contestants: 2 Across (1.2.2) by Eliza Block and Crosswords (1.13) by Stand Alone, Inc. Which one will better serve your word-puzzle fetish? Read on!
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I’m going to come right out and say it: I hate Sudoku. Don’t get me wrong, I can do Sudoku puzzles and I even know some of the tricks and (god help me) the terminology for the various combinations of empty boxes. But it’s not my bag, my bag is crossword puzzles. So seeing this pop up inside installer.app is welcome.
It looks like getting the .puz files is a bit of a hassle — it would be better to have a source list of online puz files, but these are getting tougher and tougher to find these days anyway. Otherwise, great native app. Come on, you have an iPhone, which makes you cool. Language puzzles are so much cooler than mere number and logic puzzles. If you’re jailbroken, hop on over to installer.app and give it a shot.
Learn more here: iCrossword at Rustywagon (via)
