Avioane: Brain & Learning

Avioane has a fresh look: meet AVI. Your games and progress are still here. TWO NEW CLASSICS Checkers and Backgammon join the strategy games. Play either one against the computer (Easy, Medium or Hard), against a friend on the same phone, over Wi-Fi or by text. In Checkers captures are optional; Backgammon has no doubling cube, and a win counts as single, gammon or backgammon. FOUR LEARNING GAMES FOR CHILDREN Animal Detective, Space Post, Fossil Detective and Robot Routes are little adventures of three or five missions. Follow clues to an animal and its home, plan a delivery among the planets, rebuild a fossil, or program a robot. Each one has an illustrated field guide, optional read-aloud and saved progress, and a finished mission can be replayed for practice. A HAND-DRAWN LOOK The games now look like crayon and pencil on paper. Avioane has cartoon planes, drifting clouds and a plane that spirals down in smoke. Fleet Battle has a light ocean and ships that slip under the waves. Hangman is a flyer on six balloons, and Paper Soccer has a 3D football, a striped pitch and a cheering crowd. Tic-Tac-Toe, Four in a Row, Hex, Bridg-It, Dots & Boxes, Nim, Fox & Geese, Checkers, Nine Men's Morris, Go and Sprouts are all redrawn too. BIGGER BOARDS Hold the phone sideways and the board in many games now fills the whole height of the screen, with the score and the result beside it. A NEW HOME SCREEN A World of Brain Games: featured games get bigger cards with their own artwork, and you can filter by category or by complexity. Every game now shows how complex it is (Light, Medium or Heavy) and about how long it takes, before you start. HANGMAN TELLS YOU WHAT WORDS MEAN When a round ends, the definition of the word appears. There are now about 2,200 words across the four languages, up from about 800, in six categories. WORD GAMES The cube word game is now called Word Cubes (Cuburi de Cuvinte, Cubos de Palabras, Wortwürfel), with toy cubes in a wooden tray. Your saved rounds and scores are unchanged. Word Ladder is a real ladder you climb, and its puzzles now use only familiar words, in every language. WI-FI AND TEXT Rematches keep a running series score, the same on both phones. Flags and Car Logos fill the whole screen over Wi-Fi and name the winner. Fleet Battle over Wi-Fi has the same layout as against the computer. Go over Wi-Fi and by text passes for a player who has no legal move. FLAGS AND CAR LOGOS Flags has a pencil sketch of the world behind it, and at the end of a run the map shows a pin for every country you got right. Car Logos has a new look too, and it no longer shows a brand's country: the answer card is just about the logo. A FEW MORE THINGS • Tic-Tac-Toe Memory pauses after every cleared level and never lights the same square twice in a sequence. • Kakuro's dark mode is fixed, and a new switch turns a finished run green. • How to play opens with a 20-second quick start in most games. • AVI carries its own fonts, so nothing is downloaded the first time it opens.