Whatever your belief system, the highly addictive game of Alchemy for android phones and tablets allows you to control your own universe.  The premise of the game is simple; start out with four basic elements and try to make as many items as you can.   Using just the original water, fire, earth and air, can you develop three hundred and eighty separate and unique products?  Some may be easier than you think and others will surprise you.

            The initial items can be incredibly easy to find, such as swamp, sea and stone.  But after a few hours at the game, you really have to start being creative.  For instance, you could end up with a zombie, werewolf, vampire or other supernatural creature.  Combining these off the wall characters will give you an even bigger surprise as popular culture makes an appearance in the form of popular singers and movie characters.  And with more than one way to create an individual element you may end up with an airplane before you even develop life or trees.

            You can purchase Alchemy for your android in the market, or in some cases download it for free.  Either way, you are going to have days, weeks and possibly months of fun.  When your friends see what you are playing you are going to end up with a contest on your hand, as they too start to create their own world.  One warning though, this game will make you forget to clean your house and may even get you in trouble at work.  And if you have children in the house, they will come running to you in the middle of the night when they figure out that life and rock may make a dinosaur, and then of course they want to know how to make a museum so they can put that dinosaur somewhere.

            Easily one of the most family friendly puzzle games on the market today, Alchemy is perfect for when you have a few moments to spare in a doctor’s office or waiting to have your car serviced.  There are no plot lines or goals to follow, simply create as much as you can at your own pace.  You won’t find a cheat sheet here, as that would take away much of the fun and squash your creativity.  Anyone can follow someone else’s instructions to complete this game, but the puzzle is meant to challenge your perception of how and why certain products are created.

            Alchemy is by far one of the best games on which to spend your time and money.  There is no doubt that you will find it entertaining and unique.  Can you beat your friends and neighbors on the quest for the wheel, or find out how to make Yoshi?  If you think you can, then download it today and start playing god.  It is not blasphemous, just pure clean fun for the whole family that will have you all thinking in circles for weeks to come.

 One of the most popular games for the Nintendo DS handheld gaming systems, is Brain Age.  This incredibly user friendly but mind bending game can be a real joy to play.  Marketed towards the older generations, Brain Age is suppossed to help keep your mind sharp and prevent the onset of memory degradation.  But even kids will get a kick out of seeing how old their brain really is.

            Based on the premise that the quicker your eyes and mind can focus and respond to visual and audial clues to achieve an answer, the basic games in Brain Age test your recollection and your cognitive thinking processes.  A particular favorite is the word blend game, that has the player try to decipher two or more separate words spoken at the same time.  Although complete quiet is best, this application will quickly have the entire room shouting out possible answers and combinations.  If you are particularly good at anagrams and other word games, you might enjoy Brain Age for the word scramble.  This test has a spinning circle of letters that you must unscramble in a certain amount of time to find the correct answer.

            No matter which application becomes your favorite, it is a guarantee that you will enjoy all of them.  Newer versions of the game also include a piano player and other mathematical games that will help keep you on your mental toes.   And just like always, new and old versions allow you to test your “age” daily, while also allowing you to do training to help bring that score up to its highest potential.  You might just be surprised that your eighty year old grandmother has a brain age score of twenty five, while you are entering your dottering golden years with a score of sixty two.  This game does help illustrate the old saying, if you don’t use it you will lose it.

            Brain Age is a must have for any Nintendo DS system, and is now often included as a pre-downloaded option for many.  It doesn’t matter if you are ten or ninety, Brain Age will sharpen your wits and your brain power.  This game while helping to maintain mental clarity, also claims to be able to help reverse the downward slide of memory so often attributed to advancing age.  And with fun extras including the tetris-like virus buster, everyone in the family will find something to love about Brain Age.

            Although this game has been on the market for years, the designers over at Nintendo keep finding ways of updating Brain Age so that there are new and more exciting games and levels to be played.  Definitely one of these easiest games to play, it may take you much longer to master.  As the saying goes, a mind is a terrible thing to waste.  So keep yours in tip top shape by acquiring Brain Age, and start pushing your brain to the limit, it will thankyou for years to come.

If you love Farmville on Facebook but are tired of just harvesting the same old crops day in and day out, then you need to take a look at Zombie Farm.  This quirky adaptation of the typical sim farming layout will keep you entertained and add just a little extra gore this Halloween.  Zombies and other supernatural ghouls are one of the hottest ticket items on the market today.  If you prefer to be a just a bit odd, but a whole lot cool then check out Zombie Farm for most mobile devices.

Basic Idea

            The makers of Zombie Farm took a simple idea and made it totally unique.  In addition to planting the traditional carrots and potatoes, you also plant dead bodies.  That is right dead bodies!  After you care for and nurture these delicate and highly unstable crops for their specified gestation time, you will be rewarded with a wonderful odiferous smelling bounty of zombies.  There are as many different types of zombies as there are tomatoes, and each one comes equipped with its very own skill set.  After they are harvested, put them to work as farm hands or the ever important invasion force.

Invasion Force?

            Unlike other farming platforms you are not required to make friends with your neighbors and share the fruits of your labors, in fact it is highly frowned upon.  In Zombie Farm the ultimate fun is to take your newly grown zombies and attack the neighboring farms.  The graphics for these invasions can be quite humorous, as your neighbors retreat from your army by climbing on top of barns and other structures.  Your zombies will reward you with their pillage and plunder and you will be able to reward them with brains.

Brains As Currency

            Brains are, in fact, the most important currency in the game.  While you can still acquire gold from the production of regular crops, the game has the added bonus of being true to zombie stereotypes, allowing you to harvest brains from your hapless and zombie prejudiced neighbors.  With the accumulation of brains from your invasions, you can upgrade your farm and its decorations.  You can even use brains to acquire other more unique types of zombies with different skills that you may find useful during game play.  Although to maintain a free status during the game, you must acquire brains and brain fragments by attacking the neighbors and completing other tasks; you may also purchase brains through the itunes application market to help speed up your farm’s growth.

            Zombie Farm has been available to the ipod and iphone toting public for about eighteen months, but will also soon be made available for android users.  Now all zombie farmers, regardless of wireless device, will be able to harvest an entire army of creepy ghouls for this coming Halloween.  It is time to stop just planting vegetables for gold, start planting your own zombie invasion force and keep Old McDonald on his toes, or rather on his roof.