Gabysoft’s FlipPix puzzle collections provide sets of these picture-grid logic puzzles grouped by theme, and they’re very popular. You begin by viewing a beautifully rendered image of a setting, like a zoo or park, then click on one of the question marks floating in the picture to open each picture-grid puzzle.
FlipPix Art – Holidays (avg review rating 5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99) – 6 holiday scenes containing 74 puzzles in three sizes for a total of 222 puzzles and range from very easy to challenging. Also known as nonograms or griddlers, FlipPix Art – Holidays puzzles are designed specifically for tablet devices. Also included is a 7th Bonus scene for loyal customers which contains an additional set of 13 puzzles in 3 sizes. A short tutorial on the basics of the game is included.
FlipPix Jigsaw – San Francisco (avg review rating 5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99) – FlipPix Jigsaw provides a new twist to FlipPix Art puzzles. Each of the individual puzzles forms a piece of a larger picture. After the puzzles are solved, the pieces of the picture must then be rearranged to form the final image. FlipPix Jigsaw San Francisco contains 8 iconic scenes of San Francisco, and has 85 puzzles in three sizes for a total of 255 puzzles, ranging from very easy to quite challenging levels of play. A short tutorial on the basics of the game is included.
FlipPix Art – Castle (avg review rating 5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99) – 6 scenes containing 73 puzzles in three sizes for a total 219 puzzles. Also known as nonograms or griddlers, FlipPix Art – Castle puzzles are designed specifically for tablet devices and range from easy to very challenging levels of play. A short tutorial on the basics of the game is included.
FlipPix Art – Home (avg review rating 5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99) – 6 scenes containing 67 puzzles in two sizes for a total 134 puzzles. Also known as nonograms or griddlers, FlipPix Art – Home puzzles are designed specifically for tablet devices and range from easy to very challenging levels of play. A short tutorial on the basics of the game is included.
Flip Pix Jigsaw – Small World (avg review rating 5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99) – 15 images from the insect world and has 83 puzzles in three sizes for a total of 249 puzzles, ranging from very easy to quite challenging levels of play. A short tutorial on the basics of the game is included.
FlipPix Art – Zoo (avg review rating 4/5 stars, currently free!) – one zoo scene composed of nine puzzles. A short tutorial on the basics of the game is included.
You may want to start with the free, Zoo FlipPix puzzle set, and if you find you like this type of puzzle, buy one or more of the other collections.
PathPix and PathPix Pro are similar to FlipPix puzzles, but with an added challenge and level of complexity. Picross puzzles are logic-based, picture-grid puzzle games where you have to figure out which squares to fill in based on clues provided along the top and side border of the grid: the number at the top of each column and the side of each row reveals how many squares should be filled in for that column or row. With PathPix puzzles, instead of filling in individual squares, you to fill in snaking lines of squares to reveal the picture.
PathPix (avg review rating 5/5 stars, currently priced at $1.99, currently includes $1 Amazon MP3 store credit with purchase)
Discover PathPix, the picture-forming logic game. Relaxing and addictive!
Draw paths with your finger, connecting pairs of colored numbers. The length of each path must equal the numbers you are connecting. There’s only one way to do it, and all squares will contain a piece of a path when the puzzle is solved.
Finish connecting all the lines to see the miniature picture that you have created. Get an extra reward for success, a quote related in some way to the picture. It may be witty or wise or perhaps even a bit strange – a little something to think about as you go on to the next puzzle.
- Includes 169 colorful picture logic puzzles.
- Draw bright bold lines of color, connecting pairs of colored numbers with paths of the same length.
- Find the unique solution to each puzzle and discover a little piece of pixel art.
- Play in portrait or landscape mode; pinch zoom to make squares fit your fingers.
- Touch any place without a number to scroll to other areas of the board – intuitive, fast.
PathPix Pro is the follow-up; it has an average review rating of 5/5 stars, contains 300 new puzzles (many at a higher difficulty level than those in the original PathPix collection), and is currently priced at $2.99.
Note that all of these puzzle game apps are appropriate for children old enough to understand how they work, too.