After driving everyone crazy for thirty years with artful puzzles and word teasers, Dingbats (also known as WHATZIT? in the US and Canada) released for iPhone and iPod touch devices. It’s from the cartoonist Paul Sellers, creator of Dingbats puzzles, to celebrate the 30^th anniversary of the game and available for $2.99 in App Store.

In Dingbats, you will have to solve puzzles, which are made of cunningly disguised names, phrases and sayings that are turned around, upside-down, sideways or jumbled up. To find out the hidden word or phrase on each card, you can get the clues from the size, position, direction or style of the words. Sometimes, pictures combined with words or numbers will also you the answer for a puzzle.

Here is how you can play Dingbats. There will be a set of cards with a puzzle behind each of them in every level. Tap a card to select it and find out the hidden word or phrase. You will have to answer the puzzle within certain time. A timer will be running as you started the puzzle. The sooner you answer higher the points you get. When the timer runs out, you will get a clue to on how many words or letters. You can also use PASS to skip the card. But remember, pass will get renewed after every 1000 points. So don’t use it unless you required.

Likewise, you will have 15 levels of carefully chosen very best puzzles to tease your brain. If you hit the home button accidentally, don’t worry, your progress will be saved so you can come back anytime and resume your game. In the cards gallery, you can see all the puzzles that you solved when you hit the ‘Cards’ option. There is a global scoreboard with all the scores submitted from all over the world. You can filter the scores by country and by        day, week or month for each country or globally. You can also see the top scores by time too.

I like the way scoreboard gets displayed. Just like the airport arrival/departure board, scores are displayed with cool and animated style. Also while playing the game, all the cards in the gallery are displayed in beautiful, bright red and green colors with cute 3D-like animation.

If you like enjoying solving word puzzles and tricks, Dingbats is a must-have app for you. Once you solve the puzzles in each level, you can brag about your ability and flair to solve the world’s trickiest yet interesting puzzle game through twitter. Yes, just like every other game app, this one also has twitter integrated to spread your score and level in this app to your followers.

Price: $2.99
Compatible With: iPhone and iPod touch
Required OS Version: iPhone OS 2.2 or later
Download Link: iTunes
Developer Website: Starberry