Pumpkin Carver

Pumpkin Carver is a cosy Halloween carving puzzle. Every pumpkin comes with a pattern card and a face stencilled onto its skin in dotted lines. Drag along a line with your mouse or finger and the carving tool follows; close the outline and the piece pops out and tumbles onto the grass. The closer you stay to the line, the higher your match score, and a quick run of neat cuts builds a streak. Carve the last piece and the candle inside lights up, a friendly ghost floats out to say boo, and your candy is counted.

There are 40 patterns and the detail rises slowly: the first ones are two triangle eyes and a grin, later ones add eyebrows, fangs, whiskers, freckles, little bats and stars. Every pattern has a par time and up to three stars for accuracy and speed, and your best score for each one stays on your device. Rush is the quick, endless mode: pumpkin after pumpkin against a clock that every finished face tops up, so each run is a chase for a new high score.

When you just want to relax, Free Carve hands you a blank pumpkin and no rules. Draw any closed loop and it drops out, then light the lantern and see your own face glow in the dark. Every cut, pop and glow shows on screen, so it plays just as well with the sound off, on a phone held upright or on a big screen with a mouse.