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Toytek unleashes The Ultimate Alphabet - Pocket Edition onto iPhone

More difficult than A-B-C

Toytek unleashes The Ultimate Alphabet - Pocket Edition onto iPhone

The Ultimate Alphabet is a hidden object game where you look at a series of pictures identifying things that start with the same letter of the alphabet. Sounds like it's for kids, doesn't it? Well it's not.

It's an erudite, cultured puzzler that developer Toytek guarantees will, "keep you mentally agile and test your vocabulary and general knowledge to its limits."

The Ultimate Alphabet – Pocket Edition, which is the iPhone version of the recently released iPad game, is based on a puzzle book by Mike Wilks originally published in 1987. It was a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller.

The iPhone version promises more than 7800 cryptic clues to decipher, words to find, and jigsaws to solve. The crytic clues were set in part by Philip Marlow, who also sets clues for the Independent, the FT, and The Telegraph.

If you're still confused about how it all works, let's hear from developer Georgina McKenzie, who recently spoke to Pocket Gamer:

"It's a hidden object puzzle game and consists of 26 stunning and surreal paintings, one for each letter of the alphabet. The aim is to name all the strange items within the paintings. Cryptic clues, hints and jigsaw jumbles are available to help the player get some of the more obscure words.

"For example, in the painting of the letter A you may find an abbey, apricot, atlas, artilleryman, ammunition, aardvark, autogyro, astrolabe, aryballos, amputee and the Egyptian god Anubis!"

If you're still confused, check out the video below.

Coins, medals, and trophies are awarded depending on how much help you need to complete each of the letters, and the first person who can demonstrate that they've won a perfect gold trophy for any one of the letters A to D gets a copy of The Ultimate Alphabet signed by the author. There are four to win.

The Ultimate Alphabet - Pocket Edition is free to download, and you get to play the A puzzle for nothing. The other letters are available as in-app purchases in bundles: A-D is £3.99, and more are promised, with some free unlockable letters.

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Rob Hearn
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