Magic Minute: City of Mages

You get one minute and a board full of potions.

Drag your finger through potions of the same kind: the longer the chain, the louder it goes off. From four potions up, the blast jumps to the neighbours, and sometimes one chain takes half the board with it. That's the whole trick, and it doesn't get old.

But Magic Minute is more than a puzzle. You have a mage — a human, an elf, a dwarf or an orc — and everything that happens on the board is his fight. Long chains charge the staff. The staff casts a spell. And the spell is what finally brings down the guardian waiting at the end of the chapter. Guardians, by the way, don't play fair: one buries your potions under stone, another freezes a whole row, a third swaps the look of the bottles.

Between rounds there is a town with places to go. A market with hats, robes, rings and staffs (they really do change the fight). A forge where gems are cut and set into rings. An arena with duels on one shared board and team fights, two on two and three on three. A notice board with a new trial every day.

What's inside: — 200 levels in two worlds, nine kinds of goals — 20 guardian fights, each with dirty tricks of its own — more than 150 pieces of gear; rare finds drop only in play — duels and team fights against heroes run by the game — a guide built into the game, with every rule and number written down

And a few honest things: No ads. Nothing is sold for real money. The game works without the internet. You can play without an account, or sign in with Apple — then your hero is saved and comes back on a new phone. Arena opponents are heroes controlled by the game, not live players; the game says so too.

English and Russian.