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Users Played IOS Game Dots 25 Million Times

By TechTaffy Desk

Dots

25 million games of Dots have been played in just a week, says betaworks. Dots has been downloaded a million times.

Dots is also in the top five free iPhone apps, and is the numero uno game in eight countries.

Dots is an iOS game that lets users connect colored dots.

[Image courtesy: Betaworks]

Note: This story was scheduled to run at least a couple of hours ago, but we were busy unlocking Dots trophies.

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