Addicus for IPhone

It's usually a good sign when a game makes you curse under your breath every time you lose. Addicus, an arcade puzzle from Get Set Games, looks like Super Mario...

It's usually a good sign when a game makes you curse under your breath every time you lose. Addicus, an arcade puzzle from Get Set Games, looks like Super Mario Brothers (toadstools, green grass, blue skies) but tests your first-grade addition skills instead of your princess-saving prowess.

Though it will take you a few minutes to get a handle on the gamplay, the premise is simple: the screen fills up with colored mushrooms numbered one through nine, and you have to select the right combination to add up to the "goal number" before the timer runs out. While this seems easy enough for anyone with math skills, there's a catch: the goal number is also colored, so you can only use yellow mushrooms with yellow numbers, and so on. It sounds easy, but tapping the correctly colored mushrooms gets pretty hairy once the goal number tops 30.

The pulsating electro soundtrack only adds to the mental frenzy. As this challenging game progresses, you'll unlock more difficult levels with larger numbers. Though the gameplay isn't varied much and there isn't a ...

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Meghann Myers, Macworld.com