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App Review: Pentago is a twisty strategy game with legs
The ideas behind the two-player abstract strategy game Pentago are about as old as any abstract strategy games we can think of. If Connect 4 is an evolution of tic-tac-toe, then Pentago is an evolution of Connect 4. There's also a bit of Reversi/Othello in the game, with enough of a twist (and I use the term advisedly) to make it different. The game designed by Tomas Flodén and was first released IRL in 2005 in Sweden and has received two Game of The Year awards (2005 in Sweden and 2006 in France) and was also named a Mensa Mind Games selection in 2006. In the App Store, its history is questionable. The currently available app, called simply Pentago [$1.99] was in the store for a while but then disappeared. That app did not have an AI, but a similar app from a different company, Pentago HD, offered the same gameplay and an AI opponent for a short while. It disappeared without a word and has not resurfaced. Now, Pentago is back, and you might want to snag it while you can even though this looks like an official port from Mindtwister, the company that makes the tabletop version. Don't know if you want to or not? Read on to find out. %Gallery-105806%
