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Game Type: Puzzle/Quiz
Premise: Find out precisely how stupid you are by taking a series of banal, nonsensical tests which have been adopted from old email forwards about the wisdom of children and other trick questions. Supposedly makes you think outside the box, but requires that you do so in a very narrow way.
Control/Playability: Each puzzle has you do something a little different. One of the earlier puzzles is the old “how do you get an elephant into the refrigerator” trick, wherein the supposedly childlike will simply remove the giraffe and place the elephant in its stead. As a child, however, I thought it was ridiculous to assume that a refrigerator could hold a giraffe, but balk at a refrigerator holding a giraffe and an elephant. Also, my first answer was “cut the elephant up into little tiny pieces,” but people don’t account for the murderous tendencies for youngsters, and neither did this game. The puzzle you see pictured on the right seemed simple enough, except for the lack of monkey. The answer turned out to be that you needed to tilt the iTouch until the monkey appeared on the screen and then tap it. I, frankly, liked my solution better, and also I was playing the game lying down, so tilting was nigh-impossible. If you can’t tell, I was none too impressed with this “game,” as I rarely am with apps that purport to tell you how stupid you are.
oh my god i'm updating!
Graphics: Neither here nor there, really. I downloaded the game because it had a very cute icon (and, see left, looks hilarious when you update the app). Beyond that, it’s not really a graphical game.
Music/Sound: No music, thank God. The sound every time you make a mistake is beyond obnoxious, although it’s mostly because it’s difficult to figure out why your creative answers to obvious questions aren’t the right sort of creative. Think outside the box, but within the lines. Sorry, can you tell this game irritated me?
Replay Value: Possibly high, if you’re determined to show an app that you’re smarter than it. However, both my best friend and I dropped this app like a hot potato after about two minutes and fifty incorrect-buzzer noises. Are we stupid? Possibly. But I doubt it.
[rating:0] (that’s less than that stupid baby-feeding app I reviewed a while ago)
