GameQuartet for iPhone and iPod Touch
Four new, casual games in one app!
Peg Solitaire 
Boule Sliding Tiles Word Squares
- Three unique puzzles, plus an unusual version of roulette known as Boule
- Fun graphics and animations
- Entertaining sound effects (which you can turn off for discreet playing)
- No ads
- Games are challenging, but casual
- Scrolling text prompts let you start playing immediately, while complete online help is a tap away for those who want the full details
- iOS 4 suspended mode is supported, so you can pause the app and then quickly resume play
- Game states are saved and restored, so you can pick up right where you left off
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As you view the game images below, note that the messages at the bottom are not truncated. These are scrolling text prompts that move continuously across your screen to provide clear instructions for each stage of the game. You can tap the Learn Game button if you want more detailed instructions.
Peg Solitaire
Peg Solitaire is based on the classic board puzzle that is traditionally played with small pegs or marbles. According to legend, the game was invented by a French aristocrat imprisoned in the Bastille in the seventeenth century.
The game starts with a single missing peg. You can choose which peg will be the missing one or you can shake the device to have the app remove a random peg, to add variety to your play. The objective is then to remove as many pegs as possible by repeatedly "jumping" one peg over another and into an empty hole on the opposite side.
The best you can do is to end up with a single peg. Five or more pegs remaining at the end of play indicate a need for improvement! When the game ends, it rates your performance and plays a few bars of either celebratory or consoling music.
Boule
Boule is a simple form of roulette that originated in the eighteenth century. It is played today primarily in France. The goal of the GameQuartet version is to build the amount of money you start with to $1000 or more. This is not an easy feat, especially with smaller starting amounts!
In the first screen, you place one or more bets by dragging chips from the Chip Holder onto the green baize layout board.
By tapping the 
button you can change the chip value, as well as your new game starting amount.
When you're done placing bets, you tap the Throw button to display the second screen.
In the second screen, the Boule bowl appears and the ball is thrown. When the ball comes to rest in one of the numbered indentations, the results of the throw are displayed and you can return to the first screen, where your losses are collected or your winnings are awarded. You can then place more bets, funds allowing.
When your total chip value either reaches $1000 or ends up at $0, the game stops and the app plays a few bars of celebratory or consoling music.
Sliding Tiles
Sliding Tiles is based on the traditional sliding-tile pocket puzzle, which was invented in America toward the end of the nineteenth century. In the traditional puzzle, the tiles are numbered from 1 to 15, with the 16th tile missing. After scrambling the tiles, you attempt to arrange them in numerical order. In contrast, the Sliding Tiles iPhone game displays part of a graphic pattern on each tile and lets you choose which tile will be the missing one. After the tiles are scrambled, your task is to keep sliding tiles into the empty space until you have reconstructed the original pattern. Sliding Tiles combines the visual challenge of a jigsaw puzzle with the mechanical challenge involved in moving the tiles to their correct positions.
Each time you tap the New Game button, the game generates a unique mathematical pattern. You might never see exactly the same image twice. For those who are easily entertained, it can be fairly addictive just to keep hitting New Game to see the amazing variety of patterns that appear!
At any time while you are solving the puzzle, you can view the complete original pattern by scrolling the screen over to the right page. (The game would be too difficult to solve otherwise, since the tiles aren't numbered.)
When you slide the last tile into its correct position, the missing tile reappears and the app displays the number of moves it took you to solve the puzzle and plays a few bars of congratulatory music.
Word Squares
Word Squares is a puzzle in which you are given 16 letters and attempt to arrange them on a 4 x 4 game board to form a valid word square. In a word square, each row and its corresponding column form the same word. That is, row 1 and column 1 both contain one word, row 2 and column 2 both contain another word, and so on. Word squares were a popular amusement in nineteenth century England. The concept is simple, but the game is surprisingly challenging!
When you tap the New Game button, you can choose from 30 unique games, each one supplying the set of letters required to create a different word square. The letters are then scrambled and placed outside of the game board. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is to arrange the letters on the board to create the valid word square from which they were derived.
When you place the last letter in its correct position, the game ends and the app displays the number of moves it took you to solve the puzzle, while playing a few bars of triumphant music.
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