Parents' Guide to Square Wars

Parents need to know that the free Square Wars puzzle app contains some advertisements with iffy content. A paid version in the Android Market has no ads. This strategy game -- based on a familiar pencil-and-paper game -- encourages kids to think ahead. The object is to create more squares than your opponent(s). The screen starts off as a blank canvas filled with dots. To create squares users must touch in between the dots to create a line. Once a square is complete, the point goes to whomever completed that square. The difficulty in strategizing comes in blocking the opponent(s) from completing the majority of squares. Users have the option to select different levels of difficulty, as well as choose between a single player or multiple players. There is also an option to choose how many squares can be created per game (determining the length of the game).