The application is simply fantastic it is extremely well built and provides for a highly stimulating visual and auditory experience.  This is what we have come to expect from Playfish, but in essence this is the game the put them on the map.    The goal of the game is to get the most points for solving four types of puzzles, each puzzle type is supposed to test different areas of your cognitive and analytic abilities.  I don’t how scientifically accurate that claim is but needless to say the puzzles are still very entertaining, and I know that Quizzes and Puzzles are all the rage these days. 

Of course it wouldn’t be much of challenge if you weren’t timed for each puzzle (1 minute per section).  As you do better the questions become harder and harder.  Once all four puzzles are completed, the scores are totaled and you get your final score.  Playfish always does a good job on the rankings and of course they made no exception here.  You can see how you fare up to your friends as well as the rest of world.  In addition there are different avatars for various scores.  You can also challenge your friends to see if you can brag about how smarter you are.

You can also unlock additional features of the application by ‘going pro’.  This enables such options as performance graphs, exclusive taunts and no adverts, of course you have to pay $9.99 to do it.  But if you are really into this application it would be well worth it.  In another bid to monetize the application Playfish have launched an iPhone/iTouch version which can be downloaded from iTunes. Surprisingly enough Playfish’s business model seems to work much better than others such as Zynga.  If you still haven’t added it to your profile, now is the time to do it. Who knows, maybe you have the biggest brain.

Overall the game is a lot of fun to play, however I’m sure Playfish will be tweaking it as it matures.  Mini Golf Party also includes a challenge feature which works much like the Bowling Buddies challenge.  I reckon they used the same application code for this.  The challenge works by selecting a friend to challenge and then playing a round to set your score.  If your friend accepts the challenge he play the same round and the winner will be decided by the best score.