{"id":12725,"date":"2012-08-01T11:09:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T16:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=12725"},"modified":"2012-08-01T11:09:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T16:09:55","slug":"snapp-judgements-cross-fingers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/column\/snapp-judgements-cross-fingers\/","title":{"rendered":"SnApp Judgements: Cross Fingers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every night at 3:15 AM Eastern, Amazon gives away a free paid app through its Amazon app store. I let you know if today\u2019s app is useful or more clutter in your app drawer that just plain isn\u2019t worth downloading.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s free app of the day is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Advanced-Mobile-Applications-LTD-Fingers\/dp\/B00885MDHM\">Cross Finger<\/a>s, a puzzle app designed to challenge your mind. The aim is to fit several light wooden pieces into the dark form. Sometimes there are red pieces which you must hold on in order to complete the levels, often involving the need to \u201ccross your fingers\u201d in order to win.<\/p>\n<p>Cross Fingers is fun and mildly mentally stimulating, allowing some entertainment while on the subway or a long car ride, but I can\u2019t imagine it\u2019s something you take out every day to excite you. After breezing through levels for a while, even difficult challenges just aren\u2019t that fun.<\/p>\n<p>This app is for those who enjoy a good puzzle game every now and again and is worth picking up if you fall into that category. Just don\u2019t expect it to be a daily runner like your Words with Friends, Fruit Ninja, or my current pick, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Zapto-Games-Logos-Quiz\/dp\/B008IYS4M6\/ref=sr_1_2?s=mobile-apps&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1343837251&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=logos+quiz\">Logos Quiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every night at 3:15 AM Eastern, Amazon gives away a free paid app through its Amazon app store. I let you know if today\u2019s app is useful or more clutter in your app drawer that just plain isn\u2019t worth downloading. Today\u2019s free app of the day is Cross Fingers, a puzzle app designed to challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":12726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,614],"tags":[244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12727,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725\/revisions\/12727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}