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TicBits Ltd. is a
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development company based in
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, founded in 2010 by cousins Fredrik and Niklas Wahrman. The company specializes in both original games, mainly for the
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platform, as well as its own interpretations of classic games. In
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Technology Fast 50 Finland 2013, TicBits was placed third in the Rising Stars 2013 list. In July, 2016 Ticbits was acquired by ASX-listed mobile game developer
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for 5.4 million AUD.


Games

In addition to developing classic games for mobile devices such as
mahjong Mahjong (English pronunciation: ; also transliterated as mah jongg, mah-jongg, and mahjongg) is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century. It is played ...
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freecell FreeCell is a solitaire card game played using the standard 52-card deck. It is fundamentally different from most solitaire games in that very few deals are unsolvable, and all cards are dealt face-up from the beginning of the game. Microsoft h ...
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Sudoku Sudoku (; ; originally called Number Place) is a logic puzzle, logic-based, combinatorics, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. In classic Sudoku, the objective is to fill a 9 × 9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and ...
, Ticbits has developed interpretations of other games, such as its match-three game ''Cruel Jewels'',
word games A word is a basic element of language that carries meaning, can be used on its own, and is uninterruptible. Despite the fact that language speakers often have an intuitive grasp of what a word is, there is no consensus among linguists on its ...
''Jewel Words'' and ''Word Strike'', and
tower defense Tower defense (TD) is a Video game genre, subgenre of Strategy video game, strategy games where the goal is to defend a player's territories or possessions by obstructing the enemy attackers or by stopping enemies from reaching the exits, usual ...
games ''Crazy Kings'' and ''Crazy Defense Heroes''.


Current games

* ''Crazy Defense Heroes'' * ''Crazy Kings'' * ''Cruel Jewels'' * ''FreeCell :)'' * ''iAssociate 2'' * ''iAssociate 3'' * ''Jewel Words'' * ''Mahjong :)'' * ''Minesweeper!'' * ''Solitaire :)'' * ''Solitaire Gold'' * ''Sudoku :)'' * ''Toon Match'' * ''Unblock :)'' * ''Word Strike''


''iAssociate'' 2

TicBits’ most popular game is ''iAssociate 2'', the second version of '' iAssociate'', a word association game developed by its CEO Fredrik Wahrman. The game was one of TUAW's favorite apps of 2009. The game was also mentioned on
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. In addition, actress and talk show host
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noted on
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in 2012 that ''iAssociate 2'' was her favorite app at the time.


References

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External links


Official websiteiAssociate 2 website
Privately held companies of Finland Video game companies of Finland Mobile game companies Video game companies established in 2010 Finnish companies established in 2010 Turku