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Crix fun strategy puzzle game app for iPhone and iPad


4.6 ( 3296 ratings )
Games Education Educational Puzzle
Developer: Crix
Free
Current version: 2.29.1, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 04 Oct 2009
App size: 6.89 Mb

Crix has been downloaded more than 2,000,000 times

*** Ranked first in France and Brazil ***

The iPhone game Crix is a collection of puzzle sets. Your goal is to turn off all the buttons. The problem is, every time you touch a button, all the neighboring ones are also switched! Colorful ones are switched off, black ones are switched on. Can you find a way to get a white board in a minimum number of moves?

Crix comes with 160 different layouts, of increasing difficulty. The early levels are fairly easy. They help you learn the techniques you will need to solve the later levels -- which, though simple looking, are surprisingly challenging.

The random mode offers endless possibilities of layouts with a chosen difficulty. And there are other possible customizations.

Can you make it?

Pros and cons of Crix fun strategy puzzle game app for iPhone and iPad

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I got this one because it was just so beautiful in the screenshots, and I wasnt disappointed. The screenshots dont do it justice!
Im an avid fan of logic puzzles & an "app junkie." Have had Crix for several months & it has a permanent place among my fav puzzle apps; its the BEST there is of this type of game! I LOVE the graphics with glowing, cycling colors and AMAZING REPLAY VALUE!!! With 4 difficulty levels AND 4 options to change the pattern the surrounding circles turn on/off, it continues to keep me entertained whether I pick it up for a few minutes or a few hours. Very responsive & active developer, maintaining game with updates & new levels to keep app fresh - something many find difficult to come across! (I promise I am in absolutely no way associated with this dev!) Totally WORTH THE PRICE!
It helps to kill alot of time and helps to practise your brain.
I like this a lot. it makes me think and the awesome graphics make me feel like I traveled into the future.
Bought it just for the icon! Think what you want but thats art baby!
A really fun and addicting game It was worth the $ I didnt pay for it (I dont think it should be a paid app though)

Some bad moments

I dont understand it . It would be okay if u had better directions thanks:)
***Update*** Though Crix is probably not worth the time or energy it took to write my “comment” below from a few days ago, I did reflect on this new “ads nonsense” a bit more in light of rereading a sentence that the seller wrote in his e-mail reply to me. It must not have sunk in and resonated previously, and I thank a colleague for helping me gauge what is seemingly happening here more accurately: in a nutshell, as some potential, makeshift “solution” for those paying customers, the seller is considering including in the next update an option for an in-app purchase to remove the ads. OK, so rather than creating a Lite version with the stupid ads, the seller is planning on this (and try repeating this sentence ten times fast, just for fun): users who paid will now be allowed to pay once again so as to restore the app to a way it was intended to be for paying users when they first paid for it. Paying for Crix twice? Are you Crixing kidding me? I wouldn’t even do that, just on principle alone, for those Birds that are a bit “Upset.” These tactics have that awful stink of greed. Why am I inclined to give those whom I don’t even know the benefit of the doubt (rhetorical question for myself)? Don’t be fooled, people: Crix is now Cracked. Delete. (Yes, two-star rating changed to one.) I am going to submit here less of a review than a “comment” about Crix—all to the benefit, I hope, of the would-be consumer. I suspect that the mere title alone says it all. That’s right, folks: to those of us, myself included, who have been enjoying this Minimalist chromatic light presentation à la puzzle game form can now look forward to, sigh, ads—ads on what was a paid application (and one more than the $0.99 variety) for me and surely for plenty more of you. Granted, the seller (whom I have contacted prior to writing this) is at least aware of the discontent many of us will feel, but it appears that “other factors” (yes, you know what I’m referencing) reign supreme. It’s sad, really. While Crix was not among my “top-tiered” games, it was wholly unique and almost special to me; now it’s just a conduit for advertisements as far as I’m concerned. And surely on its way to being deleted for good unless the seller remedies the situation. Apart from the sheer annoyance of these ads, they compromise, if not ruin altogether the aesthetic design of the game, even notwithstanding the fact that the seller at least attempts to obscure them as much as possible. But if one is going to hide the ads almost as though they’re shameful (which they are, by the way, on a game such as Crix), then just don’t have them. Create a Lite version. Include more in-app purchases—I don’t know, anything, but this. Further, this unwanted development in the new version, 2.6, is not only sad, but rather bothersome in principle. I paid for Crix. I didn’t (nor would I ever) pay for ads, and I must say that the seller seems only marginally concerned about the sentiments of his loyal purchasers. And to make matters worse, the game is now sluggish and clunky when moving from screen to screen, or when accessing menus since this latest update. So we’ve now effectively rubbed some proverbial salt into the wound as well. What a disappointment. So the Crux of Crix, in my humble opinion, for people considering downloading this game—don’t, for there are similar, ad-free games out there. And for those of you who already own the game (and have more likely than not, paid for it) don’t update if you haven’t already done so (I can’t imagine that those additional “20 new levels” are worth the trade off). As for my two-star rating (a consequence of this awful update), I don’t feel that Crix belongs in the dustbin of the worst, one-star apps; but Crix was never five stars before this “incident.” So I think dropping a rating from four stars to two is appropriate. What a shame: I wanted to play this game, and gawk at its glow even more so. I certainly didn’t want to be, let alone pay to be an advertiser’s target.
I bought this game to play when I want. I DO NOT NEED TO BE REMINDED to PLAY. KNOCK it OFF!
It is a boring game and it makes no sense it just wasted your time so dont neither bother to download it.
This game is so stupid! How are you supposed to know what to do!? After I finish this review I am so deleting it!
I hit the button thats supposed to give me a tutorial and it returns me to my ads screen.