{"id":12555,"date":"2014-10-09T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12555"},"modified":"2014-10-06T11:47:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T11:47:38","slug":"boxpop-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/09\/boxpop-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"BoxPop (iPad)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/09\/boxpop-ipad\/boxpop_box\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12544\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12544\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BOXPOP_BOX-150x49.jpg\" alt=\"BOXPOP_BOX\" width=\"150\" height=\"49\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BOXPOP_BOX-150x49.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BOXPOP_BOX-300x99.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BOXPOP_BOX.jpg 497w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>BoxPop derives its rules from the game of chess. Your job is to clear as many squares as possible from various boards.\u00a0 But the rule is that you can only clear out squares in the way that knights move on a chess board (two squares up and one square left or right).\u00a0 Use careful planning to clear as many squares as you can in this puzzler available for download on iPad and iPhone (reviewed on iPad here).<\/p>\n<p>Each level has a different arrangement of squares, and you simply tap on a square to clear it away. The game will show you which spaces you can move to and clear away next.\u00a0 Try and clear as many squares as you can to earn stars.\u00a0 Clear the whole board to earn a maximum of three stars per level.\u00a0 You\u2019ll want to collect as many stars as you can because that\u2019s how you unlock higher levels.\u00a0 The more difficult stages later on gradually increase the number of squares on the playfield.<\/p>\n<p>In-game purchases include the ability to go back one move, and to remove all ads. Although I didn\u2019t see very many ads myself, and never felt the need to have to go back a move since levels were so short.\u00a0 If you\u2019re a big fan of chess and other similar strategy games, you may want to download BoxPop.\u00a0 In the levels, there are even quotes from famous chess players and bits of history on the classic game itself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/09\/boxpop-ipad\/boxpop_screen\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12545\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BOXPOP_SCREEN.jpg\" alt=\"BOXPOP_SCREEN\" width=\"397\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BOXPOP_SCREEN.jpg 397w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BOXPOP_SCREEN-84x150.jpg 84w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/BOXPOP_SCREEN-169x300.jpg 169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing violent or objectionable here. Reading skill is helpful for the text, but the game is easy to figure out just by playing.\u00a0 Parental supervision is recommended for in-game purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BoxPop derives its rules from the game of chess. Your job is to clear as many squares as possible from various boards.\u00a0 But the rule is that you can only clear out squares in the way that knights move on a chess board (two squares up and one square left or right).\u00a0 Use careful planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12558,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555\/revisions\/12558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}