read on!- “Culica Mobile is a new concept, a new style of puzzle game” – Swift, swiftworld.net
Download Culica Mobile! from the Apple App Store.
If anyone would like to port this game to Android, please contact us.
The screen-shots show that Culica Mobile (CM) has a stylish “retro” look that suits the game play.
- “OK I bought it and I’m hooked. What’s the trick?” Jack E. – USA
Play CM because although it is dead easy to learn, it’s a great game. CM is a bit of a challenge on easy level, there are also harder difficulty levels to challenge even hardcore puzzle fans.
- “Culica Mobile is unique, a truly revolutionary puzzle game, the best since Tetris” – James Eadon, inventor.
Rules: You start off with the big shape having cubes that are coloured randomly. Your challenge is simply to change the colours of the cubes in the big shape so that one side should be all red, one all green, one all yellow, and one all blue. You change the colours of the cubes within each side by moving the 2-cube shapes onto the big shape. That’s it!
Looks easy. It’s easy to play. But is it easy to solve? (If you get stuck maybe have a look at these tips.
CM is available on the Apple App Store for the Apple iPod & iPhone for 99 cents (£0.59), that’s far less than the price of a cup of coffee! You’ll find it’s a game that is fun to play anywhere. Shuffling your feet impatiently at a bus stop or waiting for a delayed train? Or are you feeling good and simply wish to be challenged? You can give the CM a quick go at any time you like.
Once you have figured out how to win on “Easy” mode, (shown above) you will be able to improve upon your best time and challenge your friends. Culica Mobile is a devilish “Just one more go!” game.
Then try CM on “Normal”, “Hard” and “Insane” difficulty modes – and find yourself becoming increasingly challenged! In a fun way. 
And let us know if you win on “Insane” mode! Below, you can see a screen-shot of CM in “Insane” mode. Where as in “easy” mode you have all of the time in the world to ponder each move, in the other difficulty levels the cubes “shrink” as you can see in the image below. Let them shrink to nothing and it’s Game Over better luck next time! So as the difficulty levels get harder, you have to be both more cunning about your move strategy and up your speed. Believe it or not, this actually increases the fun for the thrill seekers amongst us.
CM has over 16 million possible combinations, but don’t worry, in easy mode it’s not too difficult to solve. CM is ingenious and you will be so impressed you will forget your name for several days. If you like extraordinary games like Sudoku, chess, Tetris and so on, you will adore CM which is even more fun than those other games!
Upon victory Mr Blockhead (above) will invite you to enter your name. Congratulations!
Your glory is complete!
If you’re fast you will have the honour of winning in the fewest moves. If you’re a bit of a wizard at strategy you will win in the fewest moves. As they say, it’s not winning, it’s the taking part that counts, and even if that elusive victory escapes you, the point is, you will have a lot of fun trying!
See Culica Mobile Rules and Tips.
Credits:
Andrew “MadPole” Szymanski – Developer, Graphics
James “Lord Cube” Eadon – Inventor, Game Play Designer
Chris “Bean Counter” Ollivier – Programme Manager, Biz
The keenest eyed amongst you might notice a certain Mr Blockhead peeking at you in the above CM credits screen-shot. Mr Blockhead wihes the best of luck to all CM players!
Disclaimer: this quote is from a relative of one of us. But it is sincere, we did not pay him, honest!
- “Downloaded the game ages ago but cant get Spencer off it! Finally got to grips with it and hey…I’m impressed. Very addictive… ” Jon O
CM is available from the Apple App Store. Download Culica Mobile!
Trivia for mathematics wizards: the number of possible permutations (combinations or configurations, or positions, if you know what I mean) of the large Culica Mobile shape (4 colours) is 4^12 = 16,777,216. The number of permutations is reduced to 4,195,360 when colour combinations that are unchanged under rotations are considered equivalent, or 2,102,848 if permutations unchanged under reflection are also considered equivalent. The calculations can be done by applying an amazing group theory formula called Burnside’s formula and are shown here: Analysis of Culica Mobile. This analysis is by a professional mathematician who is an expert in “group theory”. (Note, none of this is to do with actually playing CM, just about anybody can easily play CM, 11 year-olds to 111 year-olds can play, you certainly don’t need to be good at maths, you don’t even have to be smart, it’s fun! Having said that, being good at maths is cool!)
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