Puzzle Poker (Mobile)

GameSpot editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.0 stars Good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Overall score: 6.9 (3.0 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Damon Brown
• Reviewed on: 07/15/2004
• Updated on: 07/20/2004
• Originally published on GameSpot: Puzzle Poker (Mobile) Review

Poker has been overdone on the mobile and puzzle games, unless they are really original, are now also cliché. By combining the two formulas, Microforum's Puzzle Poker is an addictive and interesting play, but it's still a little too basic for its own good.

In a Tetris-inspired well, players manipulate pairs of random cards to construct poker combinations horizontally, vertically, and diagonally and then eliminate them for points. Three of a kind and higher count, and the cards are limited to 10, jack, queen, king, and ace, though all four suits are available. The game is easy to pick up for veterans of poker or Tetris and its clones.

The game has 19 levels of speed that increase based on points. It also has two play modes: normal and mission. Normal is the traditional well-based puzzle style where the game ends when the cards reach the top of the screen.

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