I was wondering how Picross could work on an iPhone screen, with it not being big enough to hit small squares. Pixelogic has come up with an excellent auto-zoom solution, which means that errant taps hardly ever happen. But they do, and that’s a problem.


You see, Pixelogic is one of those Picross games that let you know you made a mistake as soon as it happens, which I hate. There’s nothing worse than a badly-placed tap resulting in a red cross on the board when you’ve been trying to solve the puzzle without help.

It’s annoying enough to stop me buying the full game – or even finishing the first 15×15 puzzle I tried. If there’s a way to turn it off and play the puzzle “neat”, I couldn’t see it.