With gorgeous graphics and animations, a sleek and seamless interface, and an unlimited number of challenging yet rewarding puzzles, Triazzle sits atop the upper echelon of App Store puzzle games.

Aurora Feint II: Arena Daemons is a complex, compelling match-3 with actual depth, featuring many multiplayer features and quite a bit of strategy. While it’s plagued with crashes and will drain your battery, the actual game is excellent.

While major publishers work to port their blockbuster games to the iPhone, it’s the indie developers that are paving the way to the platform’s strong suits. Eliss brings innovation as well as targeted controls to the playing field, but how well does it actually deliver?

If you like difficult games, you’ll love Crossbones. This card-matching game might have a pirate’s tenderness when it comes to serving up its learning curve, but once you learn how to play, it’s a fast-paced, thrilling card game that requires some mental agility.

This matching game for preschoolers offers toddlers a fun and different way to learn to identify animals, shapes and colors while offering parents a (possibly) welcome, if not temporary, reprieve.

Melody Match is a new twist on the classic card-matching game using—you guessed it—sound clips instead of flash cards. Some of the melodies are real treats for the ear, and the game uses a variety of themes, ranging from snippets of Bach and Mozart to upbeat Brazilian tunes to traditional songs like Yankee Doodle.

Yet another match three game, Gemmed differentiates itself by including little colored monsters which you’re charged with getting to the exit. The game is fun but it’s hard to say that it will appeal to everyone. Hard core match three gamers may find the extras as gimmicky, and others may find the game a bit too busy and lacking of real challenge.

The Touchmaster series is generally quite good on the Nintendo DS platform, and while the games here are also good, there isn’t as much variety present. Furthermore, while the games Midway has included aren’t all that exciting, if you are a puzzle fan you’ll definitely find something here to like.

Poker Stacks is a matching game that manages to transcend the genre with a unique method of match play.

Yet another matching game. This one with fantastic graphics and varied gameplay.

Glyph is a color matching game with a fun story mode

Trism was one of the first, most original, and best games released for the iPhone

Geomex is a great color / pattern matching game with plenty of variation to give it value

Pinch ‘n Pop is a quick, fun, and beautiful arcade color matching game

Azure Rings is a matching game that’s different than the normal — just not enough.

Touch Em is an interesting and fun take on the tile matching game type