Touch me I'm slick (and free): area/code's Drop7 Lite

Hopefully, if you're a regular and iPhone owning reader of Offworld, you will have already downloaded area/code's phenomenal iPhone puzzle game Drop7, especially with the recent price drop and release of its Facebook-integrating social update.

If you haven't, and I'm not sure exactly what it is you're waiting for, a quick recap -- the game is the portable version of the studio's original promotional web game Chain Factor, and works like this:

Numbered discs fall into a 7x7 playfield, and are cleared away if a disc is in a row or column containing that many discs. For instance, in the image above right, the 6s are disappearing because they're in a row of 6 discs, as well as the 3, as it's in a 3-high column. The trick? Interspersed with the numbered discs are blank grey discs. In order to clear those, you've got to clear adjacent numbered discs twice to "break through" the grey (as is happening under the 3) and reveal the number beneath.

Not fully convinced that it's seemingly effortlessly one of the most original and addictive puzzle games of the past several years? You're in luck: a free Lite version of the game has just hit the App Store, and -- even better -- it's an essential download even for those that already have the full version.

Rather than simply doing a timed or crippled version of the full game for its demo release, area/code have created a unique 'Countdown' mode which has you playing for a high score with a total of 100 discs.

Give the Lite version of the game a go, let us know your high scores via the comments below (my first run's a tepid 66,574), and soon enough you'll fully understand the near inescapable and entirely shameful kiss of death represented in that picture to the left (what are you supposed to do in those situations [other than not get yourself into them]?).

Drop7 home [area/code, full version App Store link, Lite version App Store link]