Music Puzzle Reviews

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This is the best computer game out there...especially if you're a huge Backstreet fan, like me! I haven't played this computer game yet but I'm dyin' to try it 'cause it looks soooo cool. If you're a Backstreet fan - even if you're not good with computers 'cause you can just get somebody to teach you - you should definitely must own this item for your Backstreet Collection. It's a great buy and you won't be disappointed. Say you're buying this for a friend to make an excuse to buy this for yourself!

It is a great game that takes a lot of skill and strategy to figure out how to put the music videos together. Even if you aren't a backstreet boys fan, anybody would want to have this mind boggling game.

Well, my title says it all--where else can you get 1000 high-quality puzzles for under twenty bucks??!! Interface is simple to use with Hint, etc. features. I printed a bunch of puzzles and stuffed them in my laptop case for plane rides--now if I could just manage to keep a pen in there too!! Puzzles are challenging but I can generally get every letter (sometimes all correct, sometimes a few errors). Excellent product for any crossword enthusiast!!

This was game was not only fun, but it was also challenging!
I've played many hours and continue to try to conquer the many puzzles.
I was able to print the puzzles and bring them with me.
I recommend this over the other puzzle games out there.

Look at it this way: you can buy a book of 60 themed puzzles from the New York Times for about $10. Or you can buy this program, and get 1000 themed puzzles, constructed by the same people who construct the NYT puzzles, for $20. You can work these puzzles on the computer, or print them out and solve them the way you would a puzzle in the newspaper. The puzzles are about equal to the Wednesday/Thursday puzzles in difficulty. If you solve them on the computer, you can ask for hints - a letter or word at a time. Bottom line: great themed crossword puzzles for 2 cents a piece. You can't beat that.

This is a great package - two fun word games! You can challenge your mind by looking for words -- or you can REALLY challenge your mind and play with a timer! Either way, it is fun, and you can make excuses that it is also educational. What more do you want?

What Word looks a bit like boggle, but don't shake the monitor. :-)

You're given a board of 5 rows by 5 columns - 25 letters. Some letters have a brighter glow, making them worth more points - this is a random occurance. On the right panel is a list of words and their point values, below that are the words you must complete before you run out of turns (depending on the number of letters you've used) and below that is a super "what" word that can only be completed by making words with special orange tiles.

Challenging and addictive!

Text Twist is almost like Hangman on steroids. You're given jumbled letters and you try to get as many words as you can. You can click a button to randomly shuffle your letters over and over again to re-order them to see if it stimulates your brain into spotting new words. You can play an untimed mode in which you have to find all possible words, or a timed mode in which you have to find the longest word to survive, and all other words are bonus points.

You can use your mouse, but an easier method is to just type out the word and hit enter. Easy and fun - and a great way to speed up your typing skills!

If you played Wordtris before, but got bored - this is the next level and you won't get burned out!

Santa gave this game to my 5 year old son. My son loves Batman, so this game was a perfect fit. The graphics are great and very entertaining. There is NO violence of any kind. In order to complete the entire game, you must solve several task which require listening, observation and thinking skills. There are 3 different levels to vary the difficulty of the challenges. However, once you have solved the game, that is it. It is the same everytime. My son's don't seem to mind though, they just play it over and over.

An edutainment game that will help your children learn about science (botany, cellular biology, zoology, genetics, and human biology) as they solve puzzles and make their way through the world of Bioscopia. My nine and six year-old children love this game. Children under eight will probably need some assistance, but adults should enjoy this game as well.

PS--Although it doesn't mention it in Amazon's description, this game is a hybrid PC/Mac (OS 8.1 or higher) game!

Simplicity and grace. A little like Tetris in appearance, similar objective (remove rising lines of blocks), but no twisting of pieces - just rapid fire mouse clicking. Some pieces cannot be removed without the help of the occasional bomb that shows up.

Lots of options and different variations of game play are available. The maker will let you download a demo to try out. Try it once and you'll have to play again and again - and finally you'll have to just buy it so you can play it every day. Great sound effects with stereo sound compliment game play - options let you modify music and sound effect volumes independently.

I got this game with a multipack and it rocks!!! But just kind of a little hard but I like it.

I was introduced to this game while helping out in an elementary school computer class (yeah, I'm technically a grown-up). It's an engaging way to teach logic skills, and the puzzles are a lot of fun. I agree that there are a LOT of Zoombinis to save (the purpose of the game)and that once you've mastered the higher levels it's a bit tedious to keep playing the harder versions of the puzzles, especially if there are any you don't like to begin with.

On the other hand, this game is wonderful for a variety of age groups (some of the younger kids may need some help figuring out the logic behind the puzzles), for different ethnicities (the Zoombinis are blue), and genders (most of the characters are somewhat ambiguous on gender, and the Zoombinis are all equal). I've seen it played solo, and in groups, with equally enjoyable results. And there are a number of resources available for educators, parents, etc. to help your kids make meaning from the games they are playing.

All in all, this is a must for any elementary/middle school computer educator, and a highly recommended for parents who want their kids to use computers as a tool as well as a toy.

This extraordinary entertaining software filled with logic puzzles makes students use their critical and math thinking skills without the use of numbers or math operations. I liked the fact that students can receive excellent practice with recognizing patterns, forming and testing hypotheses, analyzing data, comparison, and etc. This software program is relatively free of stereotypes and bias because the Zoombinis are not like people but tiny, delightful, blue characters each with its own characteristics and are created by the students using this program. Each of the four levels becomes more challenging as students move through the puzzling program. The solutions to the puzzles are different every time the program is used which makes students wanting to play this program again and again. The students do not realize that they are using their critical and math thinking skills when solving these puzzles. The challenging puzzles are visually and mentally captivating and extremely fun to do. Even my adult basic education students are challenged figuring out how to solve the puzzles!

We have three of the Scooby Doo Case File Games.
My four year old loves these games. He will play it for a long time. There is problem solving and mazes and other activities in each game.

My problem with this game (and the other Scooby Games) is that there is no variability. Once your child solves the game and plays it again, the puzzles are essentially the same. The clues might change and the villian might be different, but the puzzles are the same and the clues are in the same places.

This is not a problem for my kids though. They both enjoy the game and play it for many hours.

Enjoy.

I would rate this a middle of the road four or at the very least a high three.

First the positive- the scooby gang are in a museum and a green glowing bug man has messed up the displays. They have to put the displays back together in order to earn clues. The clues point to a villian. Each of the 'games' or displays involves a different part of the brain- in one scooby has to jump on a conveyer belt to earn scooby snacks and collect bones, another is a puzzle, another is a matching game and so on. There are three different levels so you can have it fairly easy to fairly difficult. My five year old was able to play the easy with no help and the medium level with only a little bit of help.

The Negatives- The games are the same. The villians change but the games are the same- you are always doing a puzzle in the dinosaur room and it's always the same puzzle. The placement of the boxes in the puzzle might change but the idea is the same. I would have also liked to have seen the ability to change the levels of the puzzle as individual games, not the whole game.

However, it's a fun game.
I would also suggest the Freddy Fish games if your child likes to solve mysteries.

Enjoy.

If any of you have expierienced past Scooby Doo games of this style, then you will understand this. In comparison, the voice acting in this is sub-par. The vocal animations are so generic that every word they speak looks just like the last. The load times between screens is a lot longer in this one than in past games. However, the puzzles are clever, and the background animations and layouts are very colorful and creative. Dropping you in many foreign locales. A good representation, and learning tool, of different cultures. My 5 year old enjoys this. But, myself, as a Scooby Doo fan, did not think that much of it. It was a bit shorter than previous games as well. Good game. Just not great. Hope the next volume shows more promise.

I wouldn't buy this for my kids. Thankfully it was a gift for my 8-year old daughter. She tried to play it on her own at first and couldn't really figure out what to do, I guess she didn't read or listen to the instructions. The instruction file was enormous and complicated to follow for the specified age group. I played it on my own later to see what in fact this was all about. I solved the mystery and actually enjoyed myself, then my daughters(4&8) played it and the mystery was exactly the same for the next 3 times they used it. Maybe I haven't found how to change the level of difficulty, but I felt that everything was too obvious and not really a "mystery". I felt the kids were being humored and this game was really dumbed down. We haven't picked it up again since then, it has been a couple of weeks now. They'd much rather stick to "Clue Finders" and other such programs or the written word than play this game. They may give it another shot soon. Bottom line, this game just doesn't suit our tastes.

As crazy as my children are about Scooby Doo, I expected this game to be exceptional. Although my 7 year old has played it quite a bit [and I probably got my money's worth] he quickly leaves it to go back to other software games like: Train Simulator, Oregon Trail, Lionel's Trans Con, and Mission THINK. The game advances slowly and the graphics are flat like watching the cartoon. Guess I was expecting more educational basis to this software, but find it's really more like watching the show on TV.

My kids ages 5 and 8 loved this game. It flows just like the cartoon show on TV, as we follow Scooby and the gang as they search for clues to solve the mystery. My kids had it completely solved in an hour or so, then played it a few more times to see the different clues and villains, and now they're done with it--not 24 hours since we brought it home! They want to play the next two Scooby games now. "If it hadn't been for those meddling kids..."

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This is perhaps the worst port of a game I've ever seen. I can't understand how the other reviewers have failed to mention some of the serious flaws in the game. I'm guessing they all work for Capcom. The biggest problem in the game is the two player mode. In the playstation/saturn versions of the game the two player mode is what made this game an absolute gem ~ without doubt the best puzzle game in history. Unfortunately the gameboy version is completely buggy. When you play two player mode, the game gets out of sync and it's possible for both players to win against each other. In fact, this happens regularly - play it twice and it will happen. Even worse is that once it has gotten out of sync you can't play against the other person anymore. Of course, you could try playing two player using one gameboy (yes, this is possible), but that's just ridiculous.
Also, it should be mentioned that the game slows down noticeably when you break even small gems. Combine that with the fact that gems don't fall smoothly - sometimes they suddenly appear at the bottom of the screen - and you get a very jerky experience of the game. I'm really annoyed actually because I REALLY love this game and I was looking forward to being able to play against my friends wherever I went. Capcom, did you do ANY quality testing before you released the game?? Make sure to test a friend's copy of the game before buying. Don't trust these other reviewers. They're all Capcom stooges

No doubt about it, its a great game. I never have had any memory bugs as in the other reviews, I have completed all of the challenges, and they are still saved months later. The learning curve is pretty big, but once you learn it, its awesome. If ya wanna try the arcade one, get a CPS2 system emulator and download the rom (although I can't say I did this, I know it exists). Pay attention to the learning video, and always just work on combos, and don't break little blocks, and lay pieces very fast. I wish there was someone here at my university that played it, I could go on for hours playing this. For an added challenge, try to beat the game with Dan (something I did on hard mode last night), or unlock master mode and go at it on there (not the toughest thing in the world). Although, I do feel master mode w/ Dan will never happen over here.