Nintendo DS News | Matchstick Puzzle Strikes DS

Matchstick Puzzle, or 'Matchstick Puzzle by DS' to give it its complete name, will be coming to Nintendo DS soon courtesy of Mercury Games. Based around the traditional game, players will use the stylus to add and rotate matchsticks to solve puzzles in the Ertain-developed game.

There will be 150 different puzzles to be played over four difficulty settings, spanning a number of genres from solving word or numerical problems or creating/adapting pictures and shapes. The aim is to complete the puzzles as quickly as possible, but time can also be sacrificed if you're in trouble by clicking a handy hint button. As well as the standard puzzle mode, a time attack is also included, asking players to complete ten random puzzles as fast as possible without using any hints.

Mercury Games are touting the game as "simple to use, but fiendish to complete". You'll be able to see if it holds up to this and whether it's a worthy adaptation of the actual game in November when Matchstick Puzzle by DS is released at a budget price of around