The game presents you with icons and blank spaces to fill out the words. To make your life a bit easier there are jumbled alphabets to choose from to help you guess the meaning of the icons. If you get stuck you can choose to either post the trivia to your Facebook wall and have your friends help you out or use hints available within the game. Each correct answer earns you $1 (virtual game currency) and can be used to purchase hints. If you run out of the in-game currency, but still want to use a hint you can always use in-app purchase to get more $$$.

Visually the game is very minimalistic in its design and goes well with the iOS 7 flat theme. The user interface is intuitive and mostly gesture based.  Flow studio, the developers behind ‘Iconic – Guess The Name Quiz From Picture Icons’ (available for FREE) have included more than 200 hand-drawn icons in the game. The cryptic nature of these icons vary from representing the exact word to giving subtle hints to form the basis of your thinking to solve the puzzle.

The game requires you to have decent knowledge about movies, music, and  famous people. For example, if you haven’t watched the movie Dancing with Wolves or heard about the rock band Alice in Chains, it may take you a while to crack the puzzle. The developers have promised more categories in the future. After solving each puzzle you are presented with a short excerpt from Wikipedia which includes information about the movie, music or person you just guessed.

If you get stuck on a certain puzzle and run out of available hints and don’t want to buy coins, the only option left is to wait for your Facebook friends to help out or try being creative while searching on Google. There is no skip option. This sometimes can have a negative impact on the player. Being able to skip a puzzle and then coming back to it later could encourage the player to continue playing and then come back to the unsolved ones. The current version lacks this feature.

The game comes with a single player mode. There is no timer mode, no multiplayer and no achievements to unlock. It is unclear if the developers are working on these features. Adding different modes and achievements will further enhance the gaming experience and give the game a longer shelf life.

Once you start filling out the blank spaces with the available alphabets there is no way to rearrange them. You have to resort to tapping on the incorrectly placed alphabet and then replacing it. It would’ve been nice if the developers allowed the player to just drag and change the position of the alphabets.

Overall, Iconic for iPhone is a fun and challenging trivia game that successfully manages to ignite that ‘Ah! ha!’ expression.

Touch Reviews [rating: 3.5/5]

Music Quiz Frenzy [rating: 3.5/5]

Quizzes are as popular as ever thanks to email and Facebook quizzes while music is perfectly at home on an iPhone/iPod Touch so any app that can combine the two well is going to be successful and that’s just what Music Quiz Frenzy (MQF) is attempting to achieve in a way that makes the quiz unique and personal to everyone who owns an iPhone/iPod Touch.

Music Quiz Frenzy is a music quiz game based on your iPod / iPhone library.
The device lets your hear a song that you should recognize (suggested answers also come from your iPod)

MQF uses the music on your iPhone/iPod Touch and plays it to you for you to guess. The graphics and layout of the app are simple but effective and after starting the game a random track from your personal music library starts playing and you are presented with 6 options of which artist or track is playing. The faster you correctly guess the more points you get and find it really fast and you’ll earn a joker.

Your Jokers give you a little advantage on later tracks including the ability to fast forward the song, skip a track completely or reduce your choices and these can come in very handy if you have a large library of songs.

You take on a friend via it’s two player mode where two people can take end of the screen and can battle it out to recognize the most tracks in the fastest times. What is nice about the two player mode is that when the other person makes their choice it’s not displayed to the other player until they make their guess so cheating is limited and is not going to benefit anyone! What would be good though is to have the ability to handicap the owner of the iPhone/iPod Touch as they will have a better knowledge of the tracks on offer.

There are many options in this game too which is always nice. For example you can choose to play songs from your entire library, only the 25 most played tracks or only tracks from the 90’s for example. Your choices can also be limited to between 3 to 6 answers, the number of songs can be changed and the time limit for you to make you guess can also be adjusted to make the quiz easier or harder as you like.

The addition of some online tracks would be nice to add some variety and to make the two player game a little fairer, although given licensing rules I can see that this could be tricky to instigate, and a high score board is lacking too. All in all for $1.99 this adds an extra dimension to your iPhone/iPod Touch and can really help dig out some hidden treasures in your music collection.

Price $1.99

The Good

• Uses your own tracks as a quiz
• Two player mode adds extra fun
• Jokers add value

The Not So Good

• No score board
• Owner of the iPhone/iPod Touch has an advantage in two player mode

Reviewed By: Craig Willis

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