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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games – Coin Drop, You Don’t Know Jack, Woozzle (April 22 2011)

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Quality Index: The week's best iPhone games – Coin Drop, You Don’t Know Jack, Woozzle (April 22 2011)
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Welcome to the weekly iPhone Quality Index (Qi) games round-up, giving you the LOWdown on the HIGH scorers every Friday on these illustrious pages.

As you may already know, Qi trawls the web for iPhone game reviews from the world’s most respected online and print sources.

Qi then applies its own magic formula to each site (such as 148Apps, Macworld, and iPlayApps) to establish a single definitive Qi score for each iPhone app and game.

Coining it in

Spinning and bouncing onto our leaderboard in the #1 position off the back of three rave reviews this week is the 9.4 Qi rated Coin Drop!, Full Fat’s follow-up to the finger-flicking phenom that is Flick Golf!

As the name implies, you have to fire coppers from the top of the screen at increasingly inventive angles to remove the four so-called ‘bad pennies’ and rescue the imprisoned girly coral coins.

Portals, lasers, and magnets deliver welcome variety to the gameplay, yet in Slide to Play’s opinion, “what stands out most is the highly polished presentation. It has lively, colorful graphics that look terrific on any iDevice you own, and music and sound effects that sound inspired by the Mario series.”

But who’s Jack?!?

Jellyvision’s insinuation that you – yes, you! – know worryingly little about the world which you inhabit became a party video game staple in the mid-1990s, (in)famous for its deeply irreverent take on the quiz show format.

For the 2011 iPhone edition of You Don’t Know Jack, 200 impressively topical questions have been carefully constructed, such as the brain-meltingly brilliant, ‘If Elizabeth Taylor wanted to be buried next to her husband, how many pieces would she have to be cut up into?’ (Seven, by the way.)

Gamezebo was tickled pink by YDKJ’s imaginative humour and cross-cultural smarts, guaranteeing that “if you like your trivia funny, challenging, and a little risqué, there’s simply no better choice on the App Store.”

The cogs are turning

Cerebral conundrums of an entirely different nature await you in Flash Technical’s marble-based Woozzle, which draws its inspiration from the classic Milton Bradley boardgame Downfall.

Yeah, you know the one: move your coloured discs to the base by turning a series of slotted dials. Now throw in a few teleporters, a couple of flippers, an authentic jungle soundtrack, and – shazam! – Woozzle.

You can get the up-to-date information about which games are reviewing best over at the Quality Index.

Richard Brown
Richard Brown
With a degree in German up his sleeve Richard squares up to the following three questions every morning: FIFA or Pro Evo? XBox 360 or PS3? McNulty or Bunk?