Fans of Ticket to Ride, rejoice: the excellent board game of building trains now fits in your pocket! Days of Wonder did an excellent job on the iPad version of the game (especially when a later update added the Pass-and-Play option), and they’ve kept tweaking it in response to player comments. ...

See this screen? Don’t be fooled by its innocent—almost cute—appearance. This is the face of your downfall. Okay, maybe I exaggerate, but just a little. Remember Trainyard? It was an elegantly-designed puzzle app that probably ate up hours of your life if you tried it out. Aqueduct is here to claim the ...

I love iPhone games. They’re cheap, you can play for a few minutes in between other tasks, or with one hand while you’re eating lunch. They just don’t take the investment—financially, emotionally, temporally—that typical video games do. I guess they’re ideal for my stay-at-home-parenting lifestyle because I don’t have to ...

Earlier this month, fellow GeekDad Jonathan Knudsen asked, “Where are the stories for girls?” That got me thinking, in large part because I have two young daughters myself and I certainly want to find stories for them that feature girls who are smart, funny, brave and not simpering fools who ...

Everyone knows you can play music on an iPhone and iPod touch. Most of us now think of these devices more as mini-computers that fit in your pocket, but before all the apps and video and snazzy features, the iPod was a (not-so-)humble music player. Of course, there’s a difference ...

When you don’t feel well, what’s your typical response? Make an appointment with your doctor? Hit Google or Wikipedia? Flip open a book? Now, thanks to Dorling Kindersley, there’s an app for that. Family Doctor uses a flowchart system to check your symptoms, offer a diagnosis and inform you on ...

Fruit Ninja, everyone’s favorite fruit-slicing game for the iPhone and iPad, just keeps getting better. Early on they introduced Zen Mode: no bombs, no lives, 90 seconds of combo-scoring glory, and included an HD version for the iPad. Then they introduced the head-to-head multiplayer mode via the Game Center. This week, ...

I recently came across a relatively new iPhone/iPad app called Trainyard that is a work of art. Well, perhaps not literally a work of art, although the interface is not bad on the eyes — it’s a puzzle game with an excellent design and execution to match. The basic goal is ...

If you like puzzle games and logic puzzles, All-in-1 Logic GameBox is a one-dollar iPhone app that will keep you occupied for … well, let me pull up my statistics here … Whoa! Nineteen and a half hours so far? Really? I should mention that I got this app less ...

Any geek parent knows that iPhones are great for keeping kids occupied for a few minutes, but some of us feel a wee bit guilty about giving young kids a bunch of screen time. So we look for apps with some redeeming value, telling ourselves things like “Well, at least ...