Threes! for Android

I have music and sound effects turned on, but there’s no sound. I’ve deleted the app and reinstalled it, but still no sound.

Love this simple game of numbers. Play offline it is my go to game when traveling by air. Plays exactly the same when my phone is in airplane mode. No sound needed to fully enjoy game so I can play anywhere even if I don’t have headphones. I can easily put down and pick up again. So great to play in the doctor’s/dentist’s office waiting room or on a break at work.

Night mode is embarrassing. OLED needs black to really benefit for battery

This is a somewhat fun game, but my main problem is it essentially only goes as long as the game feels like letting you. Past a certain point, you literally have no control over your own gaming experience. You play as long as the game feels generous enough to give you moves to play, and that’s it. That will maybe only be a handful of moves, or maybe it’s enough to net you some really high-scoring tiles. Either way, you’re done when the game decides you’re done, and you have no choice in the matter. It might as well just play itself.

On my phone, games come and go, but Threes has stuck around for the long haul. It takes about 10 seconds to figure out how the game works. Sure, you can agonize over each move and play slowly and methodically. But I also love to sometimes just swipe away, almost in a meditative state, and see how far I can get. You can play however you want! IMO this is the greatest simple puzzle game since Tetris.