Threes!

I just spent a good chunk of the day playing a browser port of the iOS exclusive game Threes! (port that I’ve been playing).

The concept is familiar and the execution is excellent. At first everything seems easy enough. Put 1’s and 2’s and matching multiples of threes together to create larger numbers. With every shift of the board a new number gets pushed onto the board and any pairs that are lined up in the direction of the shift merge to a single tile of their sum. With every shift you see the next number that is queued up to move onto the board with the next shift.

So simple and yet so addictive. It’s easy to pick up, but difficult to master. All with the clean Apple-esque aesthetic. I love it.

There is only one problem, it’s not available for Android. This may or may not be a good thing considering how much time I have already burned on the browser version in just one day.