[NEW] Rubiks Numbulation

**deadmanworld** · 11-12-2008, 05:39 AM

As sudoku sweeps across the globe, tightening its stranglehold on commuters, Carol Vorderman and millions of people's DSs, numerous other pretenders to the crown have popped up, all vying to be called the Next Big Casual Mathematical Thing.

As a puzzle game with a strong tilt towards people of a numerate nature, Rubik's Numbolution is the newest challenger to the throne – a mathematical puzzle game that relies as much on your ability figure out a puzzle as it does your skill at adding up numbers in the most obscure way possible.

When you begin a game, you'll be presented with a variety of blocks, each of which has a digit on it, from 1-9. At the top of the screen, the game gives you a target number, and it's up to you to select the relevant blocks that will add up to that number. When you've reached the target number, all the blocks you've used will mysteriously vanish, and when you've cleared the screen of blocks, you've finished the level.

Unlike other puzzle games, there's no connecting groups of three here, and there's no rotating blocks, which really helps the game to differentiate itself from the pack (there's your maths joke). In later levels, the game introduces special pieces, such as negative numbers, and bomb blocks, which explode when you use them, though while these do help you to make some huge combos, they do little to expand on the basic formula of 'fastest mental mathematician first'.

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