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It’s gotten to the point where Apple can actually say their iPhone is an actual contender for mobile gaming. It may not be as complex as offerings from Nintendo and Sony, but it appears to have its own wide selection of games for the iPhone and some of them are even free. Flood It is one of those games that could be good if bought and fantastic if gotten for free.

Flood It is one of those simple games that aren’t around to wow you or turn your world on its head – it has been often compared to a multi-colored minesweeper, one that needs you to open up a screen filled with so many different colors into a single color, the way the KKK must think of in their intellectual discussions while they teach the younguns how to knot a noose.

Flood It always requires you to start from the upper left corner. Like that ancient puzzle, every time you click on something you change the colors of the square you clicked as well as adjacent squares. It looks easy until it dawns on you that you’ve only got twenty two moves to do it in, like some odd reference to catch-22, a saying that hasn’t been used in media for half a decade.

There are different difficulty levels, offering a greater number of squares to work through, though with more moves. Unfortunately, it’s as difficult as winning a pie eating contest after chugging down a gallon of milk and sewing your mouth shut. Yep, it’s very, very difficult. While there are those out there that will find this preferable to a crossword that refers to obscure Broadway shows in the 50s, there are better options.

Fortunately the game is free – if this had a price, this game would be overshadowed by other, more polished games. The fact that it isn’t designed in a way to show you that it is always solvable can be very frustrating. The random assortment of colors on the screen sometimes suggests that it’s actually impossible to get anywhere productive with Flood It.

Like many free games it’s definitely worth a look and a twiddle. The graphics are very, very simple and you can’t fault the designers for that as it is a very simple game but you can’t help but think that there’s a way to make squares a lot more interesting to stare at. Try it out – downloading is free.