Mobile Casino Games

Casino games have sure come a long way. Once upon a time, if you wanted to play casino games, you had to actually go and travel to a real casino. Then, about a decade ago, they came up with the idea of the online casino. That meant you could stay home and open up your computer and enjoy the same games at home as you would play in the casino.

Now we have the latest thing: mobile casino games that you can play on your mobile phone, iPhone, or iPod Touch.

The best mobile casino games that I have found are at All Slots Mobile Casino. It has a nice selection of the most popular games, like roulette, blackjack, and six different slot machines. It also has some other games that I am less familiar with, like baccarat and keno, but I intend to check them all out.

Another thing about mobile casino games is that you can play them for free or you can play them for real money. Of course, the theme of this blog from the very beginning has been free mobile games, so naturally I started off playing the games in Demo mode. (That’s what they call it when you play the games for free.) After a while, though, I wanted to see what it was like to play them in real-money mode, so I gathered up my courage and opened an account with the casino.

Well, I deposited 40 pounds into my brand new mobile casino account, the casino gave me another 40 pounds as a Welcome Bonus, and I started playing the mobile roulette game. I mostly bet on 27 because that’s my birthday, and I also made some bets on the 25-26-27 “Street,” on the 3rd Dozen, and on the Odd numbers. I played for about an hour and a half, and when I was finished, I had 83 pounds in my casino account.

Mobile roulette was a lot of fun to play. There is suspense as you decide how you want to place your bet, and then the suspense builds as the roulette wheel spins around and you wait to see if your bet is a winner. Mobile roulette is a game that I recommend to all adults to play and have fun.

Mars Invasion

Mars Invasion is a great, fun mobile game that can be downloaded to your cell phone or PDA. In fact, it is one of the best free games I have played. That's because it's incredibly addictive. Unlike most free games, the levels just keep coming and coming, each one getting harder and harder.

The concept is simple. You are invading Mars. You have to capture a certain percent of the territory to move up to the next level. On the first level, you need to conquer eighty percent of the area. By the ninth level, that percentage has been increased to the almost impossible eighty-six percent.

While you are going around conquering area, the Martians are fighting back. Every level, there is one more Martian you are faced with fighting. So on level nine, you are facing nine separate enemies, all intent in reclaiming the land you have conquered already. That is what makes the game so challenging. At one time, you are just two percent away from finishing the level. Then the Martians come along and all of a sudden you are ten percent back.

You start off with three lives. After level four, you earn an additional life for every level you conquer. If you spot a special power-up, drive over it and you can gain a turbo boast or even slow the Martians down with a freeze ray. But be careful, these effects are only temporary. At any time, the Martians come back to life with a vengeance.

A great strategy is to create traps for the Martians and divide and conquer. Keep them apart and you will have an easier time conquering territory. Otherwise, there will be just too many of them in a small space for you to do any serious damage. Conquer small bits of territory at a time, it is a much safer than going for a quick win (although quick wins are more satisfying.)

Metal Ball

Metal ball is a fun mobile game that you can download for free and play wherever you want. All you need is a cell phone with gaming option, PDA, or any other type of hand-held that supports gaming. The game combines, graphics, music, and strategy to provide an addictive form of entertainment.

There are many, many levels. On the first level, all you need to do is move a little, metal ball with the arrow keys, along a track that is both flat and straight. Level one is very easy and in no way prepares you for what is to come. Level two throws a few variations in, the track goes around a few corners, but still nothing fancy. You can handle it.

The real fun stuff comes about around level five. By this time you are going along a track that has ramps going up and down, sudden changes of direction, and places where the track is hardly wider than the ball. If you miss the edge, you fall into the abyss. You will then be restarted from the same track, just further back.

The soundtrack of the game is one of those post modern keyboard pieces that are for some reason soothing to the ear. It is much better than most of the grinding synthesized generated stuff that normally pulses throughout games like these. The designers actually found a piece of music that complements rather than detracts from the game play.

A good strategy is to always try and stay in the center of the track. You give yourself a few precious seconds that way when you see an obstacle is approaching. Play with two fingers and always angle the direction of the ball. Pressing up and left for example, sends the ball to the Northwest. The more you play, the more you will get the hang of it.

Find Your Hero in Heroes: The Official Mobile Game

Feel what it is like to be a real hero

Have you ever wanted to be a hero? Have you ever dreamed about living in a fantasy type world where it is you who is the real hero who saves the day? Perhaps that is why you love the series Heroes. If that is the case, then you will likewise love the mobile phone game Heroes. Because Heroes brings all your fantasies almost into reality as you start to become a part of this cool, super-fantastic world. As well, you also get to relive the show that you have probably been enjoying for a while. Imagine: your favorite show, through your mobile phone and you get to actually be a real part of it. What could be better?

Get even more from this game than from the show

In addition, playing Heroes: the Official Mobile Phone Game gives you more information about the plot of the show. You can play the game throughout America, well, in 4 different places at least, from the streets of New York City, Las Vegas, the future of New York City and the museum. You get to do all this through realistic settings on location that transport you to these places, again immersing you in a wonderful world of fantasy.

Which character do you want to be?

You even get to choose your own heroic character. Who have you always secretly fantasized about being? Is it Hiro, Peter or Niki? You can play one or all of them. And you get to enjoy their individual powers too. All those super hero powers you wanted to have while watching the show, well, in Heroes: the Official Mobile Game, you actually get to live them out. That is what I like doing. I am making my way home after a long day at the office, waiting for the bus and rather than just engage in such mundane activities, I can be a hero and enjoy all those super cool powers. Sometimes I just wish I had enough powers to push my way on to my bus in rush hour! But here I get to do whatever I want and for once in my day become very much less ordinary than the rest of my life. Just think, maybe one day I will be able to save the world. But if that does not happen then in the meantime I can pretend to save the world via this cool mobile phone game.

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Get into Fantasy with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Go into a world of magic with this cool mobile phone game

If you like magic and you love Harry Potter (who doesn't?) then you will have such fun with Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. This mobile phone game features magic, wizards, action, and battles all at the same time. In this game, Harry Potter meets up with some students in an attempt to train them in defence against the dark arts. It is you, the player, who has to fight the Death Eaters in this game.

Enjoy increasingly hard levels for a greater challenge

If you like a challenge, then Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix with its 7 levels will probably appeal. Also, for anyone who is Potter mad (as I am), this is the most perfect way to satisfy that craving. You really get in to the whole spirit of Harry Potter and all the films and you actually feel like (almost) that you are a part of that whole world. The graphics are a lot of fun and they are probably what makes the game so exciting and such a great way for Potter fans to have fun on their mobile phones while reminiscing about those great movies and books.

Enjoy Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix mobile phone game time and again

What really appeals to me about Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is that no matter how many times I play it, there is something new in the game. This is quite unlike a lot of other mobile phone games I have played in the past. But because there is so much going on with this game (pretty much like the books and movies I guess), you always want to come back for more (which is probably why the books and movies were such a success). So as well as re-enjoying the whole Harry Potter series, your gaming skills are tested and challenged too.

MoThello fun for Mobile Phones

Get Better at Othello with MoThello!

Having never played traditional Othello before, I was not initially too excited to start playing MoThello (the mobile phone version of Othello). But my friend at work told me the game was a riot, she loved it and she herself had never gotten into Othello either. "Mobile phones are changing everything," she said. "Even if you never liked a game in its real form, you will love it in its mobile form, especially MoThello." So I decided to give it a go. The rules are the same with MoThello and Othello, but the graphics, sounds and speeds, make the game so much more exciting and faster.

How to Play MoThello

What you have to do is beat the other player by having more of your discs on the board than them. There are two colors (and thus two players): black and white. The person with the black discs moves first. Each player gets a turn when they have to try and flip at least one opposing disc but if this cannot be achieved, then they cannot make a move and their opponent gets another turn. Sometimes though, a player can do really well and flip more than one disc at a time, in any direction (vertically, diagonally or horizontally). When both players get to the point where they are unable to move, the game comes to an end and the player with the most discs on the board wins.

Win MoThello With Fun

I found that initially I was doing pretty badly with MoThello. I guess it was because it reminded me of how bad I used to be at board games and how I had often tried to avoid them. But once I got over that initial attitude and started playing MoThello with an attitude of fun and relaxation, I found that I was able to do pretty well. It took time and it took patience (i.e., the more I played the better I did), but I soon realized that the more I relaxed, the better off I was. Now I play MoThello whenever I have a few minutes at the end of a work day or while traveling to avoid those boring business calls I so often need to take on my mobile phone. MoThello is far more exciting than using my mobile phone to chat!

Develop Strategy to Get 4 In a Row

Are You Better On the Mobile Than On Land?

That is the 64 million dollar question really isn't it? If you ever played a game on a board, or the real (as opposed to virtual) version of the game, were you any good at it? Do you think that playing the same game on a mobile phone will improve your chances of winning or your skill set? Well with 4-In-a-Row I wouldn't know since I had always been really good at Connect 4 when I used to play it against my brother. And I wasn't even sure why. It was not like I was really old enough or intelligent enough to have been able to develop a strategy for play. But somehow I just had the knack. So when I discovered that 4-In-a-Row was available for downloading to my mobile phone, I was pretty excited.

How to Play 4-In-a-Row

There are two players in 4-In-a-Row. Players are presented with a grid with 7 holes across and 6 holes down. Each player has a different color round piece with which to form four in a row (either diagonal, horizontal or vertical). In this version the colors are purple and yellow. While you are trying to form your own 4-In-a-Row, you are simultaneously trying to make sure that your opponent does not form his 4-In-a-Row. If he does, you are automatically out and he has won the game. So the strategy of 4-In-a-Row is very much dual based - look at your opponent and look at yourself as well at the same time. Thus thinking ahead before each move is advisable. If you just throw your piece in, trying to get 4-In-a-Row, you may inadvertently make a move that helps your opponent and thus you will lose!

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Play Like the Old Days With Mobile Checkers

Get Back to Basics With Checkers

I had always liked to play board games on a Sunday afternoon with my parents and younger siblings. It had been a fun way to pass the time since I always found the weekends pretty boring. Now, as an adult, of course, this is never the case; there always seemed to be a huge array of different fun and exciting things to do. The different games you could get for mobile phones these days is amazing so there is always a ton for me to do. And after trying out all the new and exciting and stimulating games, I decided I wanted something a bit more simple. Well, it was at that point that I got hold of Checkers for my mobile phone and I can honestly say that I have never looked back.

First of all, I really think that the mobile phone version of Checkers is way more exciting than the old game I used to play on a board on the floor on a Sunday afternoon. The graphics in this particular version move quickly and the sounds seem to make the game more exciting. It is an easy game to play, once you have learned the basic rules. This version offers three different difficulty levels to choose from. Obviously (just my personality type) I chose the hardest one first. Well, that turned out to be a mistake as my opponent (you can choose to play against the computer chip in the phone or other mobile phone users; I chose the latter) was WAY better than I was. So that was a bit of a disaster.

Understand Basic Rules

The aim of Checkers is to get rid of all other checkers so that you can prevent your opponent from making any successful move. The black checker gets to move first and the only direction you can both move is forward. The two categories of moves are non-capturing and capturing. With the former, you get to move diagonally from one square to an adjacent square (this doesn't include white squares as they are not used). The latter type enables you to jump but this can only be done when the square behind is empty but the advantage is that multiple jumps can be made. You can even jump again if the situation on the board allows for it (i.e., take two moves in one, or even more).

After I got over my arrogant attitude, I saw that by starting at level 1 and playing consistently, I was really improving my skill set in Checkers. I am currently on level 2 and hope that in a few weeks' time I will progress (successfully and with a chance of winning) to level 3. Check it out; it really is a lot of fun.

Let's go Bowling

Do you like to bowl?

I do. It's a good way to pass the time, and you don't need a lot of skill to enjoy the game. I try to get out to the lanes about once a month, or so, either as a date with my wife or a night with the guys.

So, when I got my new cell phone and started playing with, I was pleasantly surprised to find that one of the games was a bowling game. I had to try it out.

At first, I wasn't impressed. The game was simple, but the controls were cell phone controls: too complicated for easy use.

To play, all I had to do was position the ball in the lane, choose how strongly to roll it, and set an angle to roll it. It rolled down the lane and hit the pins on its own. The main drawback is that there is no room at all for individual skill; the game program deteremines what happens when the ball hits the pins, so there is no room for fancy shots that can hit 7-10 split. On the other hand, once you figure what combination of settings will hit the 1-2 pocket, there's really no way at all that you can avoid a good score.

Basically, this game is good for mindless entertainment. The sort of entertainment that you need when you standing in line at the bank or the post office for 40 minutes, to carry out a 3 minute transaction that you really should have done by mail a week earlier, except you forgot, and now a personal transaction is required.

See How Well You Can Drop n' Roll

Since I don't always have that much time to play my mobile games, but I always like the light hearted relief they bring, I decided to check out Drop n' Roll. It seemed like the game was not going to require an intense brain puzzle solving power. Yet at the same time, Drop n' Roll looked like it was going to be a bit of a challenge for the minimal time that I did have. What you have to do with Drop n' Roll is simple enough. You have to get the hero Rollo to the exit, by clearing the blocks. But the only way you can clear the blocks is if they match. Then, when you see matching blocks you just group them all together and then they can be cleared. The other aspect of Drop n' Roll that I really liked was that there are over 50 different puzzles in the game to be solved, so you don't have a chance to ever be bored. I often try different ones, depending on my mood and since the animations and sounds are hot, all puzzles end up being fun. I've yet to attempt the master level because I'm still working on trying to get really good at the general level. But each level gets harder and harder so I feel like I'm getting there, slowly. Drop n' Roll is a good game to improve mobile phone control too, especially for those who are new to mobile phone gaming. Also, no matter how old or young you are, you can find a level on Drop n' Roll to suit and that will be fun and enjoyable. So start moving Rollo around, by dropping and rolling in this cool mobile phone game.

Fill The Pool Fast In Bubukong Bath Time

Make Waves With Bubukong Bath Time

In this game it is speed that counts, but with strategy too. The aim of the game is to fill up the pool with water so that Alyssa can enjoy the bath before mid day. Now, this makes it sound like the game would be relatively easy. But it is not because the players have to deal with Bubukong which makes everything so much harder. It seems that Bubukong does try to help, but by doing so just ends up making things worse. So you have to fight against Bubukong while trying to achieve the goal of the game - filling up the tub. Getting the water is easy; you can get it from the river - but that is not the challenge of the game. The challenge is coming up with ways to beat Bubukong at his own game.

Get Back to Basics with Bubukong

I think I liked playing Bubukong Bath Time because it took me back to all the old games I used to play. I guess this is because the graphics are so basic and simple, almost like the age-old pac man style. Games were pretty good in those days even though graphics were basic. Since today there are so many flash, hyper cool graphics, the old ones seem to have disappeared in to oblivion. So I do like to come back to these basic graphics and enjoy a game like Bubukong Bath Time; it is funny to see how unreal a character like Alyssa looks; she is almost like a square person!

Bubukong Bath Time is also not such a difficult game to master so for anyone who wants a bit of fun but is not looking for too much of a challenge or to be over stimulated, Bubukong Bath Time could really be the perfect game for them. Besides, given that it is free to download to mobile phones, the price of Bubukong Bath Time is most definitely right!

SameGame 2 ? No Good For the Colorblind!

I was always looking for the kind of game for my mobile phone that just didn't take too much energy or brain power. At the end of a long day at the office, or a stressful conversation with my fiancé (never have a long engagement ? it's just the worst), the last thing I wanted to do was be challenged by a game on my mobile phone. Nonetheless, I was still looking for a bit of light hearted relief. And indeed that was exactly what I got when I download SameGame 2 on to my phone. What happens in SameGame 2 is that you are faced with a screen with a bunch of different colors (which you can select depending on your preference). I liked to play SameGame 2 with traditional colors of bubble popping type games so I opted for: red, blue, green and yellow, figuring these were the most dominant and thus easy to distinguish of the colors. There you will find groups of colors bunched together. It is your job to grab as many as possible of the same color and remove them from the board. So what you want to be looking out for is a whole bunch of one color grouped together ? that way, the more blocks you have, the quicker you'll be able to remove them and thus win the game. Then, the more often you do that, the less blocks you have on the board and thus the harder it gets to find a group of clustered one colored blocks. But that just makes the game more exciting. I do find with SameGame 2, time and again, that it's a really fun game that makes you want to come back all the time because you just want to beat your previous score. And the more you play SameGame 2, the easier that is to do.

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So you have a new phone or PDA that you can play games from the Internet on. You have probably played all the usual action, racing, and strategic games. Maybe you have even tried playing a game of chance from one of the many online casinos. Well, don't stop there. There are so many more interesting things you can play on the Internet.

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Castle Smasher

Castle Smasher is a thinking game. It is much less about quick reflexes and more about brain power. Of course, you have to be quick to win, but you also have to be clever. This is a game that is easy to use and lots of fun when downloaded to a mobile device like a cell phone or PDA.

As the name suggests, the object is to destroy a castle filled with enemy soldiers. Your weapon is a catapult and a limited number of stones. You use the numeric pad (or mouse if you are playing from home) to aim, build up power, and release the catapult. Depending on how well you chose, the stone either knocks down a section of the castle or misses it. If you run out of stones, you lose.

After you begin hitting the castle, enemy soldiers run toward you and try and capture the catapult. You must start to shoot faster. You have a few soldiers defending you, but they won't last forever. If you destroy the entire castle, you win the level. Before starting the next level (which is, of course, a bigger castle and more enemy soldiers), you get to choose one of three possible upgrades. Either start with an extra rock, get bouncier rocks, or get one more defending soldier. I recommend bouncier rocks. They can take out more sections of the castle with one shot. When you get an extra rock, that only matters if you get down to your last throw. Usually, if you are down to one more rock, you have more than one castle wall to take down and you can't win.

Castle Smasher is fun, challenging, and doesn't take up too much time. In short, all the features you want in a fun mobile game.

Stunt Pilot Trainer

Who ever thought you could have so much fun on your cell phone! Stunt Pilot Trainer is such a fun game, that you might play it on your phone or PDA even when not killing time. That's right, this is a real game, not just something to do for distraction while you are waiting around. The great thing about the fun mobile game version is that you can take it anywhere. As long as you have a cell phone, you can play. So let's see how it works.

The graphics are clean, well laid out, and easy to understand. Some mobile games are not made to be played on small screens. Not Stunt Pilot Trainer. Ease of use/simplified control is also a good way of measuring how good a game can be on a mobile device. You can't have too many controls to think about and trying to press too many tiny buttons gets frustrating.

With this game, you just have to manipulate two buttons. They control whether the nose of your aircraft is pointed up or down. The object is to make it through giant hoops suspended in the air. Every time you go through one, you score points. If you miss, just keep going up until you flip over. But be careful, if you get too close to the ground you could lose control and crash.

There are also giant hot air balloons floating round the hoops. if you touch one of these, you crash. As the game goes along, it gets more and more tricky. While it is relatively easy to get past levels one and two, level three is a bear. Just keep trying, eventually you will get though it all. One more thing, the quicker you are the more points you score for completing a level. The game also remembers your high score.

Motorallye

No, we did not spell "Motorallye" incorrectly. This free mobile game was made in France where "Motorallye" means "Motor Rally." (Sounds obvious but I put that in just in case someone thought it might mean motor "ally"). What, you may ask is a motor rally? It simply refers to a cross country motorcycle race where jumps, stunts, and extremely sharp turns are normal for the course.

The game graphics are straightforward. You don't want overcomplicated pictures loading up when you are playing on a cell phone, right? You use the number pad to control the motorcycle. You gain points every time you successfully jump an obstacle. You lose points (and eventually the game) if you hit an obstacle or fall down a hole. (Yes, unlike in real races, the course in Motorallye is filled with gaping holes that can swallow a biker and rider whole!) If you complete the course within the time limit, you move up to the next level. The higher level you are on, the harder it gets. However, you accumulate points much quicker also.

The sound effects are not bad for a free mobile game. Of course what you hear depends on the quality of the phone or PDA you are using. On a crowded bus, ear phones would help with this game.

The instructions are written in French, but don't let that stop you. The truth is that you really don't need instructions to play this game. All you need is quick reflexes and to figure out the buttons for jump, go, and brake. That you can do in less than thirty seconds.

The game works well on all types of cell phones although it is best on Nokia and similar platforms. Download time depends on your Internet connection and variable phone speed.

Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway

Forget about snake and bowling, today there are literally thousands of free mobile games that can be downloaded to a cell phone of PDA in a few seconds. Some of them are quite sophisticated. The great thing about them is that you can take them anywhere.

Take Brothers in Arms 3: Hell's Highway for example. The Brothers in Arms series is a sequential action scenario game featuring detailed combat operations and requiring strategic planning. You can download the game for free from a number of websites. While it takes some getting used to, you will like the sophistication. As we said, this is no "snake game."

Just a few years ago, manufacturers added games to phones almost as an afterthought. They had no idea how much people like to play great games while on the move. Let's face it -- in today's world we have a lot of down time. Waiting for trains, buses, and meetings to start, we need distractions that we can look forward to. The Brothers in Arms series is great for this.

Hell's Highway starts where the earlier games left off. You are an army commander leading an elite unit deep inside enemy territory. You get points for completing missions without getting killed. When you complete a mission, you advance to the next level. If you have to go while in the middle of a scenario, you can indefinitely pause the game and pick it up next time you have time.

Hell's Highway really is an entertaining way to -- pardon the expression -- kill some time. You need to read through the rules when you start, but after that its pretty much self explanatory. When you do really well, the game will remember your high score so that every time you play, you are challenged.

Get a Twist on Sudoku with Hitori

Enjoy A Great Puzzle Game with Hitori

I had always been in to Sudoku, ever since I discovered one day by chance in my daily newspaper. But after a while, I am not sure exactly what happened, I felt like I wanted a change. So when a friend told me he had just downloaded Hitori on to his mobile phone, and he described it as a ?game of Sudoku with a twist,? I figured it could not do any harm to give the game a try. When asking about what kind of name Hitori is, my friend told me that he did not know but that it is a Japanese word as the game originates in Japan.

How Hitori is Played

The game is played on a grid like Sudoku (depending on which version you choose there are various grid sizes from pretty small to up to 17 x 17 squares). In the beginning of the game, all the squares have a number on them. They are either shaded or unshaded. Players must ensure that the shaded ones do not ever come in to contact with each horizontally or vertically. Unshaded squares follow the counter rule; they have to be touching at all times so that they form a line at all times. A player can activate shading or unshading by using their left mouse to click on the specific squares.

Cool Things About Hitori

What I found particularly cool about Hitori was the fact that even though it was a really easy game to learn how to play (simple rules and even simpler for Sudoku players), it requires a bit of strategy vis-à-vis what to do with the shaded and unshaded squares. But that is why I was sensible and started with the first, easiest version of the game. I have progressed since then of course, but I have yet to reach the hardest level. Still, I have all the time in the world given that the game is so accessible on my mobile phone.