Play it on: Android
Current goal: Stop myself
Google Play Pass is really good, as it turns out. Apple may fund developers to make games only for its horrid closed system, but Google seems to have gotten into the habit of noticing what’s popular and just sticking it into their own version of a subscription service. I’ve played a whole bunch of stuff I’ve thoroughly enjoyed that way. And sometimes the additions are bizarre and seemingly based on no pattern at all, which I guess is how Grids of Thermometers got on there. And I love it.
There’s a version of sudoku that was invented by Cracking the Cryptic which uses a similar principle, but this puzzler is a lot simpler. It’s about filling in a grid based on the numbers along the X and Y axes, and the rule that a thermometer running across tiles, horizontally or vertically, is filled from the bottom up. Oh, I’m not going to try to explain it all here. Just download it if you’ve got Play Pass and thank me later.
It’s my current go-to game for playing while watching TV (no, I’m not part of the monstrous second-screen generation, I’m old-school ADHD with a brain that can’t do one thing at a time), and given I plan to spend this weekend just lying on a sofa and complaining about my painful wisdom-tooth-deprived mouth, that seems to be the most likely game I’ll play. – John Walker
