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Ponzi Poker is the only game that blends all of the best elements of poker, solitaire, and investment fraud! Where else can you earn points by defrauding the elderly, incompetent, and gullible? Nowhere (besides the Forbes Rich List, of course)!

Here's how Ponzi Poker works in a nutshell: during most turns, you draw two Investor cards and select one to add to your Pyramid of Investors. Once you select an Investor for your pyramid, you draw four Investment cards (standard poker deck) and select two of them to add to your Accounts. To earn money, you must "pay off" Investors by providing them with their desired poker hand from your Accounts. Easy enough, right?

Well, sometimes (always) even Ponzi schemes don't work out as planned. Not every Investor you recruit will trust you with their hard-earned money and join your pyramid. Instead, these suspicious investors will spout off nasty rumors (facts) that you are promising far more than you could ever hope to pay out. When this happens, panic sets in. Investors will stop joining your pyramid, Investment cards will come in at a trickle, and your existing Investors will start getting panicked and demand to be paid off. Fail to promptly pay off all of your panicked Investors, and the panic will spread and spread until your entire pyramid is in revolt. Let this happen and your scheme goes up in smoke. Oh, and even if you do manage to prevent total panic, don't get too cocky. When you "borrow from Peter to pay Paul," you'll never really be in the clear – accumulate enough suspicious investors and no amount of eleventh hour payouts can keep your scheme afloat.

So, you're asking why run a Ponzi scheme if it's likely (100% certain) to fail? Excellent question, but what's that behind you? Nothing? Well, it was worth a shot. What was your question again? Oh, right, the point... destined to fail... right, right... Well, if certain failure didn't dissuade such luminaries as Carlo Ponzi or Bernie Madoff, why on earth should it dissuade you? The point isn't to get away with anything – that's just crazy talk! The real point is to have as much fun playing with other peoples' money for as long as you possibly can! If you wipe out a few peoples' retirement accounts in the meantime, don't fret – I can set them up with all sorts of other investments they can make that will replenish those accounts and more in no time flat!

Give Ponzi Poker a try. It's the only game that lets you have all the fun of fraud without any of the risk of spending 5-10 years in a minimum security prison!

The rich web experience features 9 individual sections of multimedia content (such as Newspapers, Magazines, Television, Entertainment & Syndication, Business Media, Interactive Media, Real Estate & Other Operations) spanning Hearst's many successful properties and their accomplishments last year, including the following functionality and content:

- Video
- Quizzes
- Quote widgets
- Slideshows
- Hybrid scrollbar/slideshow widgets
- Custom scrollbars
- Animated GIFs
- Letter from the CEO translatable into 5 languages
- Print/Share functionality with Facebook, Twitter, Email sharing as well as print/download PDFs
- Full timeline with flip animation for each date across the bottom of every page
- Multiple points of navigation with smooth animation transitions from page to page

We used the CodeIgniter PHP framework version 2.1.0, HTML5, CSS3 (with 3D CSS animation for WebKit browsers), jQuery and AJAX. The website was designed to run on Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Internet Explorer browsers, as well as the iPad. We're proud to have worked on this project and wish Hearst another groundbreaking new year!

The screenshots below are either scrolled up or scrolled down - in some you can see the multicolor navigation at the top, and in others you can see the timeline at the bottom, but they are visible at the same time on the live site.

Chipper’s Nuts pits one determined chipmunk against the clock - and the world!

Here's the premise: With his wife waiting back in the burrow with their chiplets (and her frying pan), stocking up on nuts is a life or death matter for Chipper. But there are squirrels out to eat those nuts, cats out to eat Chipper, and let’s not even get started on the nuclear squirrelcats. It's up to you to help Chipper gather those nuts, evade a gruesome death, and rescue his stray chiplets before time runs out.

We're always psyched to see our team doing what they love - support independent game developers and check out Chipper's Nuts! (...You'd be nuts not to). Congrats, Keith!

Get it on iTunes now...

Presenting Nut Job Games' mobile debut: Chipper’s Nuts pits one determined chipmunk against the clock - and the world!

With his wife waiting back in the burrow with their chiplets (and her frying pan), stocking up on nuts is a life or death matter for Chipper. But there are squirrels out to eat those nuts, cats out to eat Chipper, and let’s not even get started on the nuclear squirrelcats.

It's up to you to help Chipper gather those nuts, evade a gruesome death, and rescue his stray chiplets before time runs out.

The secret to looking younger? It’s here, in Good Housekeeping's newest iPhone app: the Anti-Aging Beauty Shopper.

This shopper brings you the latest in anti-aging skin and hair care, thanks to two years of research by scientists at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute. A team of editors and researchers rigorously tested 90 skin-care and 73 hair-care products, recruiting 1,300-plus volunteers and conducting more than 5,000 lab tests to find these top performers for you. They really deliver on their promise of a younger-looking you. Download the app today and shop on the spot - younger looking skin and hair are just a tap away.

How it works:

- Browse 39 award-winning skin- and hair-care products, all tested and approved by editors and scientists at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute
- Zoom in and out on before and after shots to see the results you can get from skin-care products
- Personalize your results to address your own skin- and hair-care needs
- Share products with friends through Facebook, Twitter, and e-mail, and create your own list of favorites
- Find the skin- or hair-care product you want and link directly to the product page to buy it!

The app is also available on Android!

The Curbed app delivers daily intelligence about real estate, design, and neighborhoods in more than a dozen cities and nationally. Download for easy access to the latest news and detailed info about the places around you.

Curbed Network publishes Curbed, Eater, and Racked nationally and in a dozen cities across the country. They obsessively chronicle the subjects people wake up thinking about in the nation's most vibrant urban centers - real estate & design, restaurants & nightlife, and shopping & fashion.

Eater and Racked apps coming in 2012!

Have a Thanksgiving cooking question? Can't find the right ingredient? Pie crust too soggy? The FOOD52 Hotline app delivers fast, personalized answers from experienced home cooks and well-known food authorities to all of your food and cooking questions. Inspired by the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line, the FOOD52 Hotline is a 24/7 service powered by the terrific community at FOOD52.com. Ask the FOOD52 Hotline and get quick, reliable answers on the go.

And for anyone who likes to answer questions, you can build your ranking on the app and win the trust of fellow Hotline users. The app also features top food writers like Dorie Greenspan and Mollie Katzen, who weigh in on questions as well. With the FOOD52 Hotline app, there's no need to panic - in the kitchen or at the grocery store - ever again!

Features:

- Ability to mark a question as "Urgent" for faster response time
- Ranking and voting system highlights top users and best answers
- Hotline MVPs - food and cooking experts on call
- Questions sorted by Newest or Most Popular, so you can see what the hot topics are
- Seamless integration with FOOD52.com's community of home cooks and database of over 14,000 recipes
- Tags make it easy to find related questions
- Facebook and Twitter integration

More often than not we are developing the ads in either HTML5 or Objective-C based on assets provided by the advertiser, but there are cases in which we're called to design the creative for the iAd as well. One such case was the Platinum Guild International engagement ring calculator iAd for the new CFG: Cosmo For Guys iPad mag.

The ad calls boyfriends or husbands-to-be to use an interactive calculator to enter their salary, which then brings up a selection of PGI engagement rings within their budget. Our Creative Director Paul designed a sleek iPad experience based on calculator functionality on PGI's website and small flash banner ads, and one of our Senior Web Developers, DeVon, executed it to a "T," working out all the calculator logic and mini galleries of ring selections that drive to the PGI website for further info and purchasing.

We're happy to announce this D&T designed and developed ad has been featured in McPheters & Company's iMonitor Vol. 31 as part of the "Outstanding Ads" section!

Congrats to the D&T team and CFG! Find out more about our iAd work with Hearst here, and check out the CFG: Cosmo For Guys app here.

Created by Lazy Brain Games, developed by Crater House Games, and published by Dom & Tom, Bug Hunt 8-bit is a simple yet addictive romp back to the days of 8-bit, hi-score arcade gaming.

Features:

- Help our titular hero Bongo feast on as many insectoids as possible, before being overtaken by the impending hordes of killer bees!
- Featuring a timeless and catchy 8-bit chiptune and a graphical style that exploits the sensibilities of yesteryear, Bug Hunt is easy to pick up, but hard to put down.
- Test your reflexes and start your tropical arcade adventure today!

You can also LIKE Bug Hunt on Facebook.

We're proud to announce BUG HUNT has hit the App Store!

Created by Lazy Brain Games, developed by Crater House Games, and published by Dom & Tom, Bug Hunt 8-bit for iPhone and iPad is a simple yet addictive romp back to the days of 8-bit, hi-score arcade gaming.

The premise: Help our titular hero Bongo feast on as many insectoids as possible, before being overtaken by the impending hordes of killer bees! Featuring a timeless and catchy 8-bit chiptune and a graphical style that exploits the sensibilities of yesteryear, Bug Hunt is easy to pick up, but hard to put down. Test your reflexes and start your tropical arcade adventure today!

Here's some more info about the other awesome studios involved:

Lazy Brain Games specializes in the "rapid prototpying" of retro arcade games that transport you to the gaming days of yesteryear while embracing new design ideals and concepts. Headed by Johnny B., Lazy Brain Games strives to create unique and interesting gaming vignettes that delight, entertain, and challenge the player.

Crater House is a small-on-purpose game development house with a dramatic need to create little experimental games at a grueling pace. The team of four has worked on all walks of interactive media, from board games to installations, and has most recently enjoyed stuffing Unity games onto iPhones for fun and profit. Our motto is, "If you've got a problem, we'll solve it; check out the hook while the DJ revolves it."

Get it on the App Store NOW! There's so.. many.. bugs...

You can also LIKE Bug Hunt on Facebook!