{"id":11553,"date":"2021-06-17T22:19:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T05:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=11553"},"modified":"2021-06-17T22:19:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T05:19:21","slug":"7-quick-takes-phone-games-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=11553","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes: Phone Games Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/7qt.jpg\" alt=\"7 Quick Takes\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s finally the end of the quarter for me and the end of the school year for Daniel. My brain is fried from dealing with all of this as well as a family medical emergency (prayers are appreciated), so here are some phone games I have enjoyed. (These can all be found on Google Play. No idea about iTunes.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt1\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt1\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 1 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bubble Shooter Rainbow.<\/strong> This is one of those bubble popping games, but there isn&#8217;t a story attached (like Bubble Witch) and it&#8217;s fairly brainless, so I play it while watching YouTube or when I need to think through something with my hands full. It was a good thing to have <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt2\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt2\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 2 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Word Collect.<\/strong> This is one where you get six or more letters and have to make words of a certain length out of them. I have a word unscrambler page bookmarked on both my laptop and phone for this game in case I need help.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt3\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt3\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 3 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Klondike Adventures.<\/strong> This is my current serious addiction, and it&#8217;s one of those mining camp\/homesteading\/town-building games but with a story attached. Besides doing things in your camp (like growing crops, building furniture, feeding livestock, etc.), you&#8217;re also going to different locations and doing quests. I&#8217;m a sucker for an interesting story, so they are doing a pretty good job of keeping my attention.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt4\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt4\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 4 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Clockmaker.<\/strong> This is a spooky Victorian-era game which has you do &#8220;match 3&#8221; levels at various locations to get items you need to continue in the game. I thought it would be a lot of logic puzzles, but I only saw one or two. If &#8220;match 3&#8221; stuff is your happiness, I recommend it. If not, skip it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt5\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt5\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 5 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alice&#8217;s Restaurant.<\/strong> This gives you 6-8 letters (usually in a circle and usually easy in terms of what they are spelling) and you have to put words from those letters in a crossword puzzle format. I find it much easier than Word Collect, and the stars you earn allow you to remodel a restaurant and then an island hotel. There&#8217;s also a story that goes along with this one, but it&#8217;s not quite as compelling as the one in Klondike Adventures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt6\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt6\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 6 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cross Logic.<\/strong> This is one of those <a href=\"https:\/\/logic.puzzlebaron.com\/\">logic puzzle games<\/a> where they give you a grid, and you have to figure out what to put based on the clues they give you. They offer three levels: easy, normal, and hard. My only complaint with this one is that you can&#8217;t pay to make the ads go away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 130%;\"><a name=\"qt7\"><\/a><strong><a href=\"#qt7\" style=\"color: black; text-decoration: none;\">&#8212; 7 &#8212;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Words with Friends.<\/strong> Scrabble is a family bloodsport. This also kept me entertained when I was in the hospital with pneumonia in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>For more Quick Takes, visit Kelly at <a href=\"http:\/\/thisaintthelyceum.org\">This Ain&#8217;t The Lyceum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s finally the end of the quarter for me and the end of the school year for Daniel. 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