List of Kindle Active Content

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FYI, two new Kindle apps:

POGO Hearts, Spades and More! (5 Card Games for Kindle) by Electronic Arts Inc ($3.99)

Product Description
Play 5 popular card games: Hearts, Spades, Euchre, Gin and Canasta.

In Hearts, the object is to win as few points-paying hearts as possible or to win all of the points-paying cards at once. The winner is the one who finishes with the fewest points at the end of the game. In Spades, the object is to bid and win a specific number of hands, by playing the highest card by round or by playing the highest spade. The team that bids and wins the most hands, wins the game. In Euchre, the object is for you and your partner to get as many tricks per round as possible. You get tricks by having the highest trump card or highest suited card if no trump card is played. The team that scores 10 points first wins. The goal of Gin is to make sets of cards, based on runs in suit or matching rank. The player who can make the most matches earliest typically wins. In Canasta, you make sets of up to seven cards. The player who first makes sets of all his cards will make the most points and typically wins.

Learn and master each game through in-depth tutorials with rules and tips on how to improve your play and track your stats across all 5 games.

What game are you going to play first?

TakeNote (A Note Taking Tool for Kindle) by IzzyLabs ($0.99)

Product Description
TakeNote is a tool for Kindle that lets you jot down whatever is on your mind quickly and easily.

TakeNote is designed to make note taking quick and easy. For example, as soon as TakeNote opens, you can start taking notes right away without having to press any buttons to begin. You can capture a phone number or address, add to a daily diary, take some meeting notes, and even save a shopping list while on the go.

For easy access, your notes are listed in your notebook in chronological order. You can add, edit, or delete them as you see fit. While navigating a note, you can quickly jump to the top or bottom if needed. Help pages are available from anywhere in the title.

TakeNote lets you jot down what you are thinking right now.

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FYI, new game apps for the Kindle:

Doodle for Kindle (Line Drawing on Kindle) by 16 Hands $0.99

Product Description
A great drawing tool for kids, Doodle makes creating line art easy and fun.

We know how much kids like to take a break and draw every once in a while, and Doodle for Kindle helps kids create line drawings as simple or as complex as their imagination allows. Your kids can use the 5-way or keyboard to start drawing on Kindle right away, and they can use drawing features that include a press-and-hold to draw mode, a continuous mode in which they can press once to start drawing, and press again to stop, or use a step mode which lets them draw short, precise segments with each press. It's easy for them to change segment lengths, save their drawings, change drawing speeds, and choose between black on white drawings or white on black drawings.

Doodle comes with drawing samples that include an elegant swan, the Mona Lisa, a mouse, and the Seattle skyline. Don't worry about the samples being drawn over. Your child can save the drawings with their changes or reset them back to their original state.

Have fun watching your kids create their own works of art, or even enjoy the fun of doodling on Kindle yourself! Get Doodle today.

Diamond Crosswords - 50 Easy Puzzles (A Word Puzzle for Kindle) by Puzux $0.99

Product Description
Diamond Crosswords, 50 Easy Puzzles, is a unique twist on the classic crossword puzzle.

Diamond Crosswords combines the fun of classic crossword puzzles with a unique, diamond-shape design. Each puzzle is smaller than a traditional crossword and features everyday vocabulary words. You can navigate clues and change the solving direction - Across or Down - using quick keyboard shortcuts, and an indicator will always show you which clue you're working on and in what direction. You can also zoom in or out to increase or decrease the puzzle grid size to fit your preference, as well as check for errors, reveal a letter, or get a puzzle completely solved if you're stuck. Designed by professional puzzle writers and developers Myles Mellor, Bob Williams, and David L. Hoyt, Diamond Crosswords is sure to be enjoyed by crossword lovers.

Try Diamond Crosswords on Kindle today!

Diamond Crosswords - 50 Challenging Puzzles (A Word Game for Kindle) by Puzux $0.99

Product Description
Diamond Crosswords, 50 Challenging Puzzles, is a unique twist on the classic crossword puzzle.

Diamond Crosswords combines the fun of classic crossword puzzles with a unique, diamond-shape design. Each puzzle is smaller than a traditional crossword and features everyday vocabulary words. You can navigate clues and change the solving direction - Across or Down - using quick keyboard shortcuts, and an indicator will always show you which clue you're working on and in what direction. You can also zoom in or out to increase or decrease the puzzle grid size to fit your preference, as well as check for errors, reveal a letter, or get a puzzle completely solved if you're stuck. Designed by professional puzzle writers and developers Myles Mellor, Bob Williams, and David L. Hoyt, Diamond Crosswords is sure to be enjoyed by crossword lovers.

Try Diamond Crosswords on Kindle today!

*There's two other just released Diamond Crossword puzzles:

Diamond Crosswords - 200 Easy Puzzles (A Word Puzzle for Kindle) by Puzux $3.99

Diamond Crosswords - 200 Challenging Puzzles (A Word Game for Kindle) by Puzux $3.99

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Jigsaw Words (A Free Word Game for Kindle) by Amazon Digital Services

Product Description
Jigsaw Words is a word game that challenges you to combine groups of letters into words that match the clues given.

In each Jigsaw Words puzzle, you start with a set of 10 clues. You also have a set of randomly arranged puzzle pieces with letters on them. Your goal is to solve the clues in the puzzle by arranging the puzzle pieces so that the letters form the word that matches each clue. Start with the easiest clues first. As you use each puzzle piece, it is removed from play, making it easier to find the more difficult matches. You can also shuffle the grid of puzzle pieces at any time for a different perspective.

Jigsaw Words has 100 puzzles and each puzzle has 10 clues to solve. The puzzles are organized into 10 themed categories like Holidays and Animals, and you can use the theme to help you solve the clues.

If you enjoy working with words and patterns, try Jigsaw Words and test your ability to build words today!

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FYI, new Kindle apps from Cluemaster:

Cluemaster Jigsaw Volume 1 (A Number Puzzle on Kindle) by Cluemaster ($1.99)

Product Description
Jigsaw Sudoku is a refreshing variation on standard Sudoku.

Instead of boxes in 3x3 squares as in standard Sudoku, Jigsaw Sudoku uses sets of cells in irregular shapes. These puzzles really require out of the box thinking!

This pack includes 100 puzzles - 25 Gentle, 25 Moderate, 25 Tough and 25 Diabolical puzzles. Your progress on all puzzles is shown in the menu, and you can restart a puzzle whenever you wish. Using the Pencil Marks feature, you can enter notes in each cell to help solve the puzzles, and there is an Auto-Pencil feature which can calculate notes for you automatically. You can also turn on auto check which highlights incorrect guesses. There is a timer that tracks elapsed time, or if you like more of a leisurely puzzle then you can hide the timer.

Cluemaster supplies puzzles to numerous newspapers across the world including the Daily Telegraph and Chicago Tribune. All our puzzles are expertly graded to ensure your enjoyment. If you like Sudoku but would like a fresh puzzle experience then try Cluemaster Jigsaw Sudoku, we think you'll like it.

Cluemaster Mini Sudoku Volume 1 (A Number Puzzle for Kindle) by Cluemaster ($1.99)

Product Description
Mini Sudoku is regular Sudoku played on a smaller grid; but that doesn't mean that they're all easy!

Unlike Sudoku's 9x9 grid of cells grouped into 3x3 boxes, mini Sudoku is played on a 6x6 grid of cells grouped into 2x3 boxes. While only the numbers 1-6 are used, all the other Sudoku rules apply.

All the puzzles have only one solution and can be solved without guesswork. This pack includes 100 puzzles - 25 Gentle, 25 Moderate, 25 Tough and 25 Diabolical. Your progress on all puzzles is shown in the menu and you can restart a puzzle anytime you wish. The Pencil Marks feature lets you enter notes in each cell to help solve the puzzles, and there is an Auto-Pencil feature which can calculate notes for you automatically. You can also turn on auto check which highlights incorrect guesses.

Cluemaster supplies puzzles to newspapers across the world including the Daily Telegraph and Chicago Tribune. All our puzzles are expertly graded to give you the most enjoyment. If you like challenging number puzzles then try Cluemaster Sudoku. We think you'll like it.

Cluemaster Sudoku Volume 1 (A Number Puzzle for Kindle) by Cluemaster ($1.99)

Product Description
Sudoku has been a huge success across the world and our expertly graded puzzles provide you with a real challenge.

All our puzzles have only one solution and can be solved without guesswork. This pack includes 100 puzzles - 25 Gentle, 25 Moderate, 25 Tough and 25 Diabolical. Your progress for all puzzles is shown in the menu and you can restart a puzzle anytime you wish. Using the Pencil Marks feature, you can enter notes in each cell to help solve the puzzles, and there is an Auto-Pencil feature which can calculate notes for you automatically. You can also turn on auto check which highlights incorrect guesses. There is a timer that tracks elapsed time, or if you like more of a leisurely puzzle then you can hide the timer.

Cluemaster supplies puzzles to numerous newspapers across the world including the Daily Telegraph and Chicago Tribune. All our puzzles are expertly graded to give you the most enjoyment. If you like challenging number puzzles then try Cluemaster Sudoku. We think you'll like it.

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12 Kindle games are discounted to $0.99 until Sept 12!

Save on customer favorites like SCRABBLE, YAHTZEE, and other eligible games. Offer ends September 12, 2011.

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FYI, another new Kindle app:

Flight From The Dark (A Lone Wolf Adventure) by Worldweaver ($3.99)

Product Description
Flight From The Dark (Collector's Edition) is the first installment of the game book series Lone Wolf by Joe Dever.

This is a game book, or interactive story. As you read you will make decisions as to where to go, what to say to other characters, and what to do with items you might find. The Lone Wolf adventures are a unique interactive fantasy series - each episode can be played separately or you can combine them all to create a fantastic role-playing epic.

You are Lone Wolf. In a devastating attack the Darklords have destroyed the monastery where you were learning the skills of the Kai Lords. You are the sole survivor. You swear revenge. But first you must reach Holmgard to warn the King of Sommerlund of the gathering evil. The servants of darkness relentlessly hunt you and every turn of the page presents a new challenge.

This Kindle active content includes additional bonus content included in Flight from the Dark's Collector's Edition.

Choose your skills and your weapons carefully - for they can help you succeed in the most fantastic and terrifying journey of your life.

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FYI, new Kindle apps:

Japanese Puzzles Volume 1 (A Puzzle Game for Kindle) by puzzle.tv ($0.99)

Product Description
Japanese Puzzles is a collection of 5 different kinds of logic puzzles.

This collection contains 100 logic puzzles: 20 each of Kakuro, Number Islands, Hitori, Picture Cross and Sudoku.

In Kakuro, you insert numbers into a grid of squares so that the sum of the numbers matches the clue for that section without repeating digits. Number Islands is played on a grid of uncolored squares. Each square must be painted black or white according to a set of rules and numeric clues given. Hitori starts with a grid of squares containing numbers. The goal is to black-out some squares so that the remaining cells do not contain duplicate numbers in a given row or column. Picture Cross has an empty grid that must be colored according to numeric clues given for each row and column. In Sudoku, your 9x9 grid of squares starts with a few numbers, and your goal is to fill in the remaining squares such that no numbers are repeated in the same row, column, or box of 3x3 squares.

Instructions and step by step tutorials are included, and hints are available to help you keep going if you get stuck.

If you love number puzzles and are looking for something new, you'll love Japanese Puzzles on Kindle!

Link Four (A Game for Kindle) by Jon Larimer ($0.99)

Product Description
Link Four is a four-in-a-row game for Kindle.

In Link Four, two players each take turns dropping a round game piece onto the board. The piece drops to the bottom of the board or lands on the piece below it. The first player to get four pieces in a row - either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally - wins the game. You can play Link Four in single player mode against Kindle or with a friend in Pass 'n' Play mode. When playing against Kindle, you can play with an easy, medium, or hard difficulty level, and you can also decide if you want to go first or if Kindle should.

Far more engaging than Tic-Tac-Toe, Link Four is fun for kids and adults. Try it today!

My first slider puzzles (A Game for Kindle) by AR Entertainment ($1.99)

Product Description
Now your kids can enjoy an artistic rendition of the classic Slider game on Kindle.

In My First Slider, kids are presented with a set of tiles, each with a part of a picture shown on it. The tiles are placed randomly on a grid, and the goal is to slide the tiles around the grid to recreate the original picture.

The art is designed to appeal to kids, and the grids come in 3 sizes: the easier 2x3 size, the 3x3 and the harder 4x4 grid. There are 5 different pictures for each grid size so there is a variety of challenges for everyone.

Help you child engage their spatial skills and practice planning moves in advance with My First Slider.

MyFood (Nutrition Facts for Kindle) by Pomegranate Software ($2.99)

Product Description
MyFood provides complete nutrition facts for over 300 foods.

With MyFood, you can search for foods by name, category, and even search for a list of foods high in vitamin A, potassium, or other vitamins and minerals. MyFood uses data provided by the USDA National Nutrient Database to provide information for the following food groups: Beans, Cheese, Eggs, Fish, Fruits & Vegetables, Grains, Herbs & Spices, Juices, Leafy Greens, Meats, Milk, Nuts & Seeds, Oils & Vinegars, Seafood and Sweeteners.

Be more aware of what you eat. Use MyFood today.

The King of Shreds and Patches (An Interactive Novel for Kindle) by Antiquarian Productions ($3.99)

Product Description
The King of Shreds and Patches is a novel-length work of interactive fiction in which your choices control how successfully you navigate the story.

As the main character, you will explore a historically accurate recreation of Elizabethan London, circa 1603, interact with some fascinating characters both historical and fictional, and thwart an occult conspiracy that threatens to bring down the entire city -- or worse.

You receive a note from your old acquaintance John Croft. You expect nothing but an evening of good food and drink and tall tales. Instead, you quickly find yourself plunged into a conspiracy of black magic that involves some of the most powerful and important men in London - and possibly even someone else, someone much closer to your own heart.

Interact with XVII-century London by typing simple commands like "Go to London Bridge", "Examine the note" or "Ask the bartender about the play". An elaborate hint system reveals as many clues as you desire to solve the story without spoiling the fun.

Lovers of mysteries, horror, adventure games puzzles alike will play the role of the protagonist, experiencing the story from the inside.

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Memory Classic ($1.99), by JoyBits

Book Description
Memory Classic is a fun matching and memory game for Kindle.

In Memory Classic, you are challenged to find pairs of illustrations hidden beneath tiles on a game board. The game board starts at 2 tiles x 2 tiles for easy play, and progresses to 5x6 for a really challenging game.

There are three game modes with over 15 difficulty levels each. Take your time in Relaxed Mode, or race against the clock in Classic Mode. In the Arcade Mode you will need to clear the screen while new rows of tiles appear as the time passes. The leaderboard feature lets you compete against friends and family for the top spots in the Hall of Fame!

Stretch your memory with Memory Classic today.

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FYI, new Kindle apps:

Task List Professional (A Productivity Tool for Kindle) by Jujuba Software ($0.99)

Product Description
Task List Professional is a handy tool to organize tasks both large and small.

You can use it to keep track of long term tasks, like filing taxes by a given date or changing the oil in your car. You can also create small daily checklists like groceries lists or things you need to do to prepare for your child's birthday party. You can assign a due date to any task and set or change its priority as appropriate. You can attach a text note to any task and easily turn this note in a checklist of tasks to be completed one-by-one.

Task List Professional can also be used as a note taking tool where notes can be organized into folders for ease of use.

Task List Professional is a versatile tool that can help you get organized today!

Timothy Parker's 50 Family Crossword Games Volume 1: Easy (A Word Puzzle for Kindle) by Premiere Digital Publishing ($1.99)

Product Description
Timothy Parker's 50 Family Crosswords is great fun from the "World's Most Syndicated Puzzle Creator".

These clever, hand-crafted puzzles are designed to be enjoyed by the whole family. Although adults and kids can tackle these crosswords separately, the puzzles are intended to be shared. Clues that begin with (k) are specially authored for kids. Spend time with your little future puzzle masters in a fun, educational way.

The Timothy Parker Crossword app is built to enhance the puzzle experience and deliver hours of great crossword fun. Features include: Timothy Parker's special scoring and ranking system, dynamic viewing of puzzle clues, auto-save puzzle progress, quick-start entry into your last unfinished puzzle, and lots more.

Download this game today for the best family crossword experience on Kindle, and see how you measure up against the great Puzzle Master Timothy Parker.

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FYI, we're trying to keep up with the new releases at this site, http://www.kdlapps.com/, where we're also collecting reviews and trying to group the apps. E.g. we did a recent list of educational apps (http://www.kdlapps.com/all-educational-apps-for-kindle/) and will soon add interactive fiction and productivity apps.

If anyone is interested in writing some guest reviews, we'd be happy to post them and cross-link back for full credit of course (I wish we had a budget to pay writers, but it would be a token amount at best). We'd especially like some comparison articles in categories by enthusiasts. E.g. there must be at least 5 Sudoku apps available now. Which ones are the best and why? Or, which of the two Peg Solitaire games would win if they played against each other?

Has anyone else noticed that the release rate has increased a lot lately, with a lot of new publishers getting their 1st apps released? Interesting times ahead maybe...

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FYI, new Kindle apps:

Contacts (A Contact Management Tool for Kindle) by A Gamz ($0.99)

Product Description
Organize that stack of business cards and scribbled notes using Contacts for Kindle.

Contacts tracks names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, notes, and other information about people and companies. Once you store the information, it's easy to access with an easy to use Search feature. You can even combine several words like "Mike Chicago" to find all the Mikes you know in Chicago. You can also search for words in your free-form notes.

Contacts can store up to 1000 records, and supports multiple fields for many types of phone numbers, addresses, and email addresses, as well as organizations and titles. Already have your contacts on your computer but want to have them on the go? Contacts will import many vCard records from existing contact software and address books that use ANSI character vCards in either 2.1 or 3.0 vCard file format.

Contacts for Kindle is a handy way to make sure you always have important names and addresses with you wherever you go.

7 Dragons' Tips for Kindle (User Tips for Kindle) by 7 Dragons ($0.99)

Product Description
Did you know that your Kindle can play music, read text to you, and display your own pictures? 7 Dragons' Tips for Kindle shows you how to do these things and more.

Tips for Kindle has over 100 useful tips, and every time you open Tips for Kindle you are shown a Featured Tip. You can browse through the Tips at your own pace, or use a slideshow mode that circles through the Tips for you. You can add the Tips you like most to a Favorites List so they're easy to look up quickly if you forget one. If you find a tip for Kindle elsewhere, you can type it in to Tips to become part of your Tips library.

Interested in getting even more from your Kindle? 7 Dragons' Tips for Kindle can show you how!

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FYI, new Kindle app:

Sudoku Works (A Number Game for Kindle) by Oak Systems Leisure Software ($0.99)

Product Description
Millions of Sudoku puzzles are at your fingertips with Sudoku Works for Kindle.

Sudoku Works can create puzzles in four grid sizes (4x4, 6x6, 8x8 and 9x9) with five difficulty levels, so it can make puzzles for everyone from beginner to expert. And with over 50 million possible puzzles, it's unlikely you'll ever run out of puzzles to play.

An exciting way to share the Sudoku experience is with the "Puzzle of the Day". With "Puzzle of the Day", all Sudoku Works players will be given the same puzzle to solve so you can play with or against your friends. A puzzle timer is available to make it easy to compare results.

Special features in Sudoku Works make playing Sudoku easy and fun. You can use "penciling" to make notes in the squares, and use the "auto-pencil", "show mistakes" and "show selected number" features to help you if you need it. If you want to take a break, you can always return to a partly completed puzzle, or you can replay any previously completed puzzle.

If you'd like a virtually limitless supply of Sudoku Puzzles and a great way to play them, then Sudoku Works is for you!

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FYI, a review with more screenshots of the just released Sudoku app is at http://www.kdlapps.com/2011/09/13/su...ions-of-games/.

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Pirate Stash, by Amazon Digital Svcs., a game for Kindle, is free for a limited time (availability is limited to US residents only).

Book Description
Pirate Stash is a logic puzzle game that challenges you to hide all of your treasure chests on a deserted island.

X marks the spot as you push one or more treasure chests to be buried in designated hiding places. Maneuver your loot through a maze of obstacles, but be careful not to make the wrong move. You can only move one chest at a time and the chests cannot be pulled. When the treasure chests are all in place, you have solved the puzzle.

Your score for a puzzle is the number of times each chest is pushed, with a lower number of pushes being better. Achieve up to three stars on a puzzle. Gain one star for solving the puzzle, two stars for matching par for the puzzle, and three stars for a perfect score. Over 100 puzzles of increasing difficulty allow anyone, from beginners to experts, to challenge their minds. Can you beat them all?

If you like puzzle games, you'll love Pirate Stash!

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FYI, new app for the Kindle:

Jewels (A Game for Kindle) by Mobigloo ($1.99)

Product Description
Jewels is a matching game which will put your planning and pattern recognition skills to the test.

The rules of Jewels are simple: you swap adjacent jewels (horizontally or vertically) to create combinations of three or more jewels of the same type. Once matched, the jewels are removed and the remaining jewels above it slide down to take their place. The challenge comes when there are few potential matches to find, and you must pick your next move carefully or risk eliminating remaining matches when the jewels shift down. If that's not challenge enough, then consider playing the timed mode where you race against a relentlessly decreasing timer and each successful match adds just a bit of time back to the clock.

If you cannot find a match, use the Hint feature to show you the next move. The game keeps track of your ten best scores for both Easy and Timed modes, so you can see just how much the pressure of the timer affects your performance!

If planning and pattern matching appeal to you, then you will love Jewels for Kindle.