Marple

Mikko Kankainen

About this game

Getting tired of Sudoku? Why not try Marple?

Marple is a game of logic and deduction. The playing field consists of 20 tiles arranged in 4 rows of 5 columns each and a set of clues. The goal of the game is to figure out the correct order of those 20 tiles using the given clues by process of elimination.

There are four different types of clues: "In between", "Left of", "Same column" and "Next to". "In between" clue tells that the middle tile has to be located in between the other two. It however does not tell the order of the other two tiles or how far they are from the middle one. "Left of" clue tells that the left tile has to be located left of the right tile. It however does not tell how far apart they are. "Same column" clue tells that the two tiles have to be on the same column. "Next to" clue tells that the two tiles are adjacent to each other. It however does not tell the order of the two tiles.

There are 1,000,000 fiendishly clever puzzles to play so don't expect to run out of them any time soon! At 3 minutes / puzzle, 1 hour / day = ca. 137 years of puzzles!

Extensive hint system and a tutorial are provided to help you get into the game.

Ratings and reviews

One of my favourite logic game apps, I have been playing it for years :)

Excellent app for any thinking person, great alternative to Sudoku. Been playing daily for over 5 years first on iPhone then on Android. Free to play, cheap to own.

I'm so happy that Marple is finally on Android! I use to play this ALL THE TIME on iOS and honestly was one of my biggest loss when I dumped Apple. Keep on making it better! Please don't give up because it's worth it. For starters, I disabled the zoom tile option because the whole interface blacks out when in zoom. It's breaking the immersion. But if fixed, I'll use it again because it's pretty practical. Thanks so much.

What's new

Fixed layout issues.