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I have played a lot of Pearl, and almost as much Unruly and and Keen.

I find a custom-sized Pearl board so that it fills as much of my phone screen as possible without getting teeny is just the right length to fill a minute or two. I wanted to play even bigger boards on my tablet, but it seems the puzzle generation algorithm is exponential and asking for a too-big board will crash the app.

[navane]

Pearl is my favorite too. I didn't understand the rules described, so I started with figuring out the rules by checking move viability. It still has the strangest ruleset in my opinion: "Black dots go in corners that are attached too straights, white dots go on straights that are next to at least one corner."