Touch me I'm slick again: area/code relaunches Drop7

In mid-December I was delighted to discover that Manhattan developer area/code had stealth released a port of Chain Factor -- the Flash puzzler they'd created in partnership with CBS tv drama Numb3rs as part of a promotional alternate reality game -- to the iPhone as snap7.

As it turned out, it was a bit too stealth for my own good: just hours after I'd posted it, the app had to be removed from the store. But now, a month later, it has re-emerged under its new name Drop7 at a re-introductory $0.99 price, and comes as very, very highly recommended as it did to start: it's been one of my most regular smoke-break and long-trip iPhone companions since.

The only downside is -- gasp -- my high scores have been removed in transition, and I know I've had at least one absolutely brilliantly executed Sequence mode run where I scored well higher than my original 87k.

To learn more of what the game's about read my original writeup, and find the game on the AppStore here.

Drop7 [area/code entertainment, iTunes phobos link]