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No virtual egg rolling?

Thursday 1st April 2010
A duelling iEgg, courtesy:http://eggseggseggs.info/

Having nearly made it to midday without being 'hunty gowked' Gaberlunzie looked very suspiciously at a release from 1337bit Ltd (pronounced Elite Bit), but having seen it also offers Croatia and Montenegro weather, (don't mention the word snow!) he went to see what was what.

The old Easter tradition of Egg tapping for Easter breakfast involves family members sitting around the Easter breakfast table tapping painted hard boiled  Easter eggs into each other. 

Each player holds an egg firmly in one's hand and the egg then taps/knocks another player's egg on the tip of each egg.  The shell of one of the eggs breaks. The other egg usually stays intact and  the player with the intact egg is the winner. The egg with the broken shell, the losing egg, is then eaten. The old custom is commonly played today around  breakfast tables of Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia.

The iPhone version, named 'Eggs Eggs Eggs', uses the iPhones' motion sensor technology to record the strength of the 'egg tapping'. The player with the stronger 'tap' wins.  There are 70 differently 'painted' Easter eggs to choose from. If you lose all of your egg stash (by losing in the egg tapping games), you can purchase new eggs in  the EggStore. The Eggs app is available from the AppStore retailing for 99c in the US and similar pricing worldwide.

Even if you don't play, the video definitely has its moments!

What Gaberlunzie wants to know is who has gamed the old Scottish tradition of egg hunting and hill rolling?

He's found a primary game and a Suffolk virtual easter egg hunt (in fact there are lots of those) But there's a distinct lag in apps when it comes to egg rolling. Shame really. He's off to find his rolling hill. Happy Easter.

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