★★✩✩✩ (iTMS)

Aqua Jigsaw is one of those apps that’s a fun idea in theory but on the iPhone it’s hard to execute. 99 Games brings iPhone addicts the ability to solve over 75 small, simple jigsaw puzzles with, as the name suggests, an oceanic theme.

Aqua Jigsaw also allows the user to use one of their own images to create a puzzle with as well as the ability to take a brand new picture and load it up in puzzle form. And while Aqua Jigsaw does this just fine, with no real bugs, is a 12 piece puzzle really something you want to do on your iPhone?

As you’d imagine, it doesn’t take long to put together one of the puzzles and Aqua Jigsaw even times you but with 10 of the 12 pieces being edge pieces; the only challenge is finding that last piece or two with an entire puzzle overlapping it.

I’d imagine this game was developed for small children, kids who enjoy puzzles, to keep them occupied while waiting at the doctor’s office or on a car ride and if that is what you would be using it for, I can somewhat recommend Aqua Jigsaw. But if you’re the iPhone user looking for a way to pass the time, this is not the app for you.

At $1.99, if you’re buying Aqua Jigsaw for your children, go ahead. Otherwise drop your two dollars on something a little bit more challenging.