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Small Quickie Games for Android

I'm looking for some quick games I can play on my android phone, for when I'm waiting five minutes or dozing off at night. Ideally these will be more like puzzle or card games rather than action games (and even more ideally, free, but I'll pay a couple bucks for something great). Examples of games I've liked and disliked inside. I like to play a couple of rounds of a quiet game when I get in bed, while I settle down. I also do this when I wake up with insomnia in the night (it helps distract me from thinking "OMG I'm awake and I should be asleep aaaaaaaaaaah!" which makes me more wakeful, so having a quick, calm game to distract me helps me get sleepy again). So I'm not looking for anything that involves high-speed action or lots of motion. A single level or game should take no more than 5-10 minutes, and quitting in the middle of the game should either save where I left off, or be so low-stakes that it doesn't matter if I have start over. The best game has been a game called "Nemo Picross" which was a picross/nonogram game with a couple thousand puzzles of increasing complexity and a good implementation, but I have literally finished the game. I've also enjoyed "Condado," a card game based on "San Juan" (so the game description says, anyway). Various implementations of "Untangle Me" are pretty good although once you know the mechanic there's no real "solving" involved. Various implementations of "Flow" or "Pipes" have been pretty good. "Reiner Knizia's Labyrinth" was great but the file is so huge I had to remove it from my phone. Thinking of flash games, "Dicewars" is painfully addictive and similar games would be good. If anyone remembers "Maganic Wars" from some years ago (a card battle game online), that was great fun. I like time management games a lot, but they'd have to be pretty mellow for me to play as a bedtime game. I like roguelikes but it'd have to be very stripped-down and simple for a bedtime game. I do not like button-mashers and I hate platformers as I incessantly fall off things and die.
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I like the (for pay) logic puzzles http://www.kaser.com/sherwin.html#iSherlock and http://www.kaser.com/hotel.html (I mostly play Honeycomb Hotel because I like the graphics better -- also there are graphics options for both games). I'd probably like the other games on that site, but those are the two I bought. I got the expanded (pricier) versions of both, because I like them so much, but there are free versions to try out. https://play.google.com/store/search?q=everett+kaser&c=apps. I also like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amaizeing.tiny_words&hl=en and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blueoxtech.sevenlittlewords&feature=related_apps#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwOSwiY29tLmJsdWVveHRlY2guc2V2ZW5saXR0bGV3b3JkcyJd, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.celticspear.matches&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5jZWx0aWNzcGVhci5tYXRjaGVzIl0., and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fallentreegames.quell&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5mYWxsZW50cmVlZ2FtZXMucXVlbGwiXQ.. (for pay, and beautiful; it has a free https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fallentreegames.quellfree&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5mYWxsZW50cmVlZ2FtZXMucXVlbGxmcmVlIl0.). I liked this so much, I also got the follow-up https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fallentreegames.quellreflect&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5mYWxsZW50cmVlZ2FtZXMucXVlbGxyZWZsZWN0Il0.. Do you like Jeopardy style games? My husband and I are addicted to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oxothuk.svoyaigraeng&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5veG90aHVrLnN2b3lhaWdyYWVuZyJd, which we play against the "AI." I have other games, but these are the ones I play the most. I was kind of crazy about one Sokoban game, but can't recommend it because every now and then it would hang up, and when that happened I lost all my progress... which with Sokoban and millions of levels is just hopeless. http://games.erdener.org/laser/ is a game I adore and would love to get on my tablet, but so far haven't found. I tried one sorta similar that was nowhere near as good. I mention it just in case anyone knows about an android version of the original.

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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fireflame.dungeonraid is a pretty fun little puzzle game with light rpg elements.

ODiV

Seconding https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enjoysudoku.enjoysudoku&feature=search_result, which was 99c (or whatever) well spent. I want to love https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobage.ww.a560.tinytower_android&feature=search_result, but have fallen really, really hard for https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glu.tinydungeon&feature=search_result, which is, yes, basically a Tiny Tower ripoff, but so unbelievably adorable and surprisingly pretty. Everyone in my life (partner, child, best friend, sister) is obsessed with it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blyts.greedyspiders.free&feature=search_result is an enjoyable puzzle game with many levels and a sequel. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeptolab.monsters.free.google&feature=search_result is fun, too, if kinda short. In the same vein as https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigduckgames.flow&feature=search_result (and the sequel, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bigduckgames.flowbridges&feature=search_result) and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noodlecake.trainyardexpress&feature=search_result is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onelivesleft.pigment&feature=search_result. All four of them are good--you know, if you're the kind of person who likes this thing, this is the kind of thing you'll like. That said, the best going-to-bed game is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spryfox.tripletown. You have to link things up in threes to build a city. Three grasses make a bush, three bushes make a tree, three trees make a house... It took me a few minutes to figure out how to play it, but I've been hooked for about two years now, and it's my default five-minutes-to-kill game, as well as my default falling-asleep game. It's free to play, but there's a turn limit if you're playing free--I think that I ran into the turn limit my first day, when I played for about three hours straight. *cough* Possibly I have a casual gaming problem.

MeghanC

I play Backgammon for this kind of time kill. (Be aware that playing backgammon against a computer will make you better at backgammon and also incredibly ruthless, so your friends will likely not want to play backgammon with you anymore.)

klangklangston

I like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gameresort.stupidzombies&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5nYW1lcmVzb3J0LnN0dXBpZHpvbWJpZXMiXQ... It's similar to Angry birds, but uses a gun and zombies instead of a slingshot against pigs. I feel like it's educational, since there is physics involved with trying to get the ricochet just right to splatter the zombie behind a wall.

CathyG

Seconding MeghanC and Triple Town. I have fallen in love with it, and I use it in the exact same when falling asleep/awake in the middle of the night way that you're looking for. I have the paid version, and love playing the Boom Town option -- you have two minutes to build the biggest and best town you can.

alynnk

I like word-based games. Currently, my favorites are https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.afksoft.WordShakerAndroidFree&hl=en (like boggle for 1), and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brainium.jumbline2free, which resembles the Every Word game you can get for e-ink Kindles.

timepiece

When I had an Android phone, Coloroid was a great zone-out game. And free.

pyjammy

Oh the Where's My Water/Where's My Perry/Where's My Seasonally Appropriate Free Version games are also a lot of fun.

jeather

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.labpixies.flood and (as recommended above) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spryfox.tripletown.

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