Big Top Ten is, without a doubt, an excellent game. If I ever write my “Sixteen iPhone Game You Must Own” article that I’ve been planning, Big Top Ten has a good chance of being in the list. It’s not a sure thing, but it’s got a good chance.

There is however, something you need to know about it.


If you don’t play it for a while, you lose all your skills. Big Top Ten skills are just that. You can’t keep up your skills by playing other games. Playing Big Top Ten doesn’t make you better at other games. It sits on its own, doing its own thing.

This is not a bad thing at all. It’s just something you have to remember, to stop yourself from bursting into tears when you start the game up after a few weeks and find yourself hunched over your iPhone, your face red, straining to squeeze out even tiny amounts of points. My best score this lunchtime was a pitiful 2,007. Must try harder.