Puzzle Reviews

This game is sooooooooooooo boring! My brother rented it for me one day and I nearly fell asleep! Even the Nintendo version is funner then this! THIS IS ABSOULTLY BORING! The questions are hard, theres nothing else to do but awnser one boring question after another. I wouldn't recomend it. If you must play it, rent it. DON'T, I repeat, DON'T buy this game with out trying it first!

I love Jeopardy games and this SNES version is just like the rest ;) I like the fact that you can choose who you play and it actually shows the contestants, unlike the recent Playstation versions.

A nice little diversion to play occasionally with friends, but nothing to get addicted to.

Recommended.

...from software versions of Jeopardy. The interface is good and pretty intuitive for a console game. Of course, you don't have those "wonderful" install problems like the earlier PC version of the game with the funky Quicktime 2.0 installs.

This might be a real cool game, but I won't be buying it from
amazon.com. They ship via a third party, J&R Music and Computer
World, that charges $16.50 just to send this software to your home. I'll look elsewhere to buy.

I have enjoyed Rat Poker for years since it appeared in a test download from the NY Times(I think). It has many twists and turns and many ways to philosphize about winning. Several others are ok but it by far the most fun for whiling away the hours and testing your brain.

You will never get tired of this collection. It is definitely for puzzle/logic lovers. Chance does affect the outcome, but if you're good, you'll find yourself battling to increasing your score. It may not take forever to learn all the rules, strategy or any names ( which I appreciate ), but you could spend forever perfecting your skills - and every once in a while going back to it because you just enjoyed one of the games.

The graphics on my dads Original Atari system from the 80's are better than the graphics on this remake. I expected better from a playstation game. I love Tetris, but this version is horrible.

Save your money.

Good things: The gameplay is pretty good, but I didn't much care for the timed single player mode.

Bad things: The background music! Just awful. And the voices, congratulating you every time you finish a level. Sheesh.

All in all, it's great if you can get it a good discount but certainly isn't worth the full price. Just turn off the background music and voices and play your own mp3s and it's fun.

Albeit the single player mode isn't all that spectacular, the 2 player head2head is uber-fun. My wife and I couldn't put the controllers down. The only other 2player mode that I can even think of competing with this was the one on the Disney'ish Tetris game on the N64

For me, the bottom line is: this game is difficult to play on a gameboy. The original arcade game used a trackball and it was a very fun and exciting game. This does not translate well to how a gameboy is played. It is difficult to move the marble around 360 degrees. I do not recommend this game.

The game I've played is not for color, rather the older version.
But, it cant be much different.
Basicaly, you roll a marble around in a "maze" - well, its not a maze, more you move it around obstacles. The fun part of the game is where you roll you marble in front of a "wave" that carries you, but if you dont get off of it, the marble falls and you have to start again (from where it fell)
Overall, I felt the game was okay for a hour or less, but it gets boring after a while. There are more worthwile things to spend your money on.

This is an original "race" to the finish, because you play as a marble and go down a 3D course full of traps, hazards like puddles of acid, vacuums, enemy marbles, slinkies that eat your marble and several challenges. This is not a game for children or anyone who can get frustrated easily, because first of all the controls are not where you press down and your marble goes down, when you press down your marble goes diagonally down and left! Secondly, if you fall far enough, your marble will break and crumble, but fear not, because you have unlimited "marbles," however you are limited by time. Once your time runs out, that's it! There are only five courses in the game. This game is a perfect recreation of the original Nintendo game. There is a two player linked mode, so two players can race each other down the course.

This puzzle isn't difficult its impossible. We started it in January and now its July and guess what, its not finished and nobody cares. Its gathering dust we're too bored with it even to throw it away.

This puzzle is great but requires a lot of patience. You have to get up really close to the puzzle in order to put it together but looking at the little scenes keep it interesting. If you love puzzles as much as I do, and a good challenge, this is great! (...)

These puzzles are great. Yes they are a little challenging, but the reward of finishing one is well worth it. No it's not for young people or old people, it's for EVERYBODY!. They make good family Fun nights. I'm a rather good puzzle builder, so it takes me about a week or two to finish, but on average maybe a month? In a matter of 3 months, my girlfriend and I have completed 6 of them.

Enough said. It used to be fun on Win98.

Boggle is a cool game. You try to find words in a puzzle. It's kind of like a word search. It has awesome music that you can choose and neat graphics. You can choose from Battle, Classic, and Space Boggle. You can play by yourself or have up to 4 friends play with you. I like to play this game at home with my friends and family.

I really have fun with boggle. The only thing I wish was that it would have better games for two people to play. I still think it worth it and it can be fun as a solitary game.

Ohhhh Jaleco why have you forsaken yourself? Premise of the game is you have to save your girlfriend (ooo originality). This game wouldn't be so bad if it actually had action in it. But unfortunatly this game has none, you don't even get to walk around. Which wouldn't be so bad if it had good graphics, but it doesn't. If your hoping for good puzzles this game isn't for you, because the puzzles often make no sense at all! After ten minutes of the game I wanted to hunt down the creators of this game and beat them with a golf club. This game would of gotten two stars if it's name was thuggernaut. And the people that said this was good were high as a cloud. If you buy this not only will you waste your money and time, but also your life because this may ruin video games for you.

Juggernaut left me with mixed feelings...Confused, content, frustrated, thirsty, and pantsless because this game scared them off of me. You bought your g/f this lovely, simple bottle (I dont know either, but it's a video game so let it go...) that happened to be possessed by a demonic creature that travels into her soul and you actually enter your girlfriend to chase the demon out...or perish in hellish misery (actually, you get a game over screen, but I'm sure it's rough for the guy.)

Gameplay: Juggernaut begins with a psychotic and freakish opening that will immediatly have you running to turn the lights back on...the scenes with your g/f are just amazingly detailed, be that a good thing or not (the parts with the priest slicing something with the knife, revealing horrible screams and the doll each are very VERY scary). The gameplay, unfortunatly, lacks a bit in interactivity...it's very very Myst-like, only in a parallel place with almost no people. Too bad the concept wasn't played out well enough, and it left me with mixed feelings about the game.

Graphics: Graphics in Juggernaut are also skitzo...they're highly detailed and lifelike, but they're grainy...it bothers you a bit when you first begin playing, but you adjust to it. Most of the game is cinema, and the quality comes very close to Parasite Eve. It gives it a creepy quality comparable to the game Nocturne for PC. The game is still highly disturbing and starting in the middle of disc 2 gets extremely nightmarish (do NOT play this game if you are squeemish)

Sound: Music in Juggernaut is so clear it's almost unbelievable...the score is a flawless masterpiece, also very disturbing. The sound is lacking something though...no dialogue, just canned screaming and demonic (and BOY do I mean DEMONIC) laughter...

Overall, this is a game for the adventure genre fan crowd. It will leave many of you bored. Rent it and then make a decision, because it will take you MONTHS to finish this game.

The plot behind this game is you bought a bottle with a weird substance for your girlfriend and she has now possedesed by something in it. A priest calles you and tells you that only you can save her. You have to enter her body and save her. Then the adventure begins with you inside her body. When I first played this game, it seemed to have a couple of easy puzzles, WRONG! This game has puzzles that no one can solve. It has very gory sequences and is NOT for the average player. I found it to be very hard to play. The graphics are poor, but it still is a good game for people that can solve VERY HARD puzzles. I had nightmares after the first day I played this game. Trust me, you WILL have nightmares after you play this game also.

We originally bought this for my daughter when she was 3. She still likes it at 4 ½. Her younger brother (less than 2) also likes it. He has become very good at matching the pieces to their proper places.

While this is more challenging than 12-piece wooden puzzles, the design is such that most pieces are easy to tell where they go.

We have had no trouble with the puzzle coming undone while being worked on and after almost two years of use (and lots of travel) the puzzle looks to be still new.

We love the "lunch box" carrying case. It is more durable than any cardboard box and closes more firmly.

All in all this is one of the more popular toys in our household. The only problem is we have not found any other puzzles with such a nice case.

My 3 year old son received this puzzle as a gift from a friend and he was very excited to carry it around in the Thomas tin, and look at the picture while he was putting it together. Great Fun!

This puzzle was disappointing. Almost all the pieces are basically the same shape, so every piece fits with just about every other piece. Also, they're very thin pieces which won't stand up to much 3-4 year old abuse. And even when you put them together they don't really "snap" into place so they just fall apart when you try to add the next piece to the puzzle - very frustrating, especially for a young puzzle builder.

We have the Animals in the Barn Puzzle and it is much better quality all around.

The available features are very handy, and the program allows you to zoom in and out which is helpful for those of us not blessed with 20/20 vision. Navigation is simple and intuitive. Overall, the program is pretty much what you'd expect in a crossword puzzle.

The most disturbing problem is the extraordinary number of typos present! Many times, two letters are transposed in the puzzle and you will be told that your answers are incorrect; to have the program count your efforts as a "success," you must know the _REAL_ answer and then play around with the letters to make it match the program's _incorrect_ answer. I was quite disappointed by this particular flaw. While I have experienced the same problem with other crossword software titles, I had hoped that a product associated with the New York Times would have placed a higher priority on accuracy. It's disheartening to see such a fine paper lend their name to a clearly inferior product.

I have loved this piece of software as much as any I have owned. NYT Crosswords from 1986-1994 are in this package. While, as the last reviewer pointed out, there are typos that will frustrate you, the brilliance of the NYT crossword puzzles shine. I have spent many a happy hour and only a few frustrated minutes on the puzzles.

This package can be found relatively cheaply and provide many hours of enjoyment. I would have given 5 stars except for the typos.

maybe this is not the place to write this ,but the electronic products, and games do not have enough description for me to buy on line. On the games you can't read what games are included, or for what computer they are good for. If they are CD rom or other. I also was looking for an encyclopedia cd, but don't think I found one. If I did it didn't describe it well enough for me to tell. I'm college educated in the 60's but computer only since 96. If you want to get sales up, you need to include easy way for probably 20 percent of the population to find what they are looking for. You need to have someone in you organization to look out for us old folks, and our limited knowledge of use of the internet. Not everyone can surf as you guys put it, the net. thanks for listening. If you need some one to do this job please contact me . You have my address.

George Stobart III

these games are okay, but nothing great. the animation and music are cute at first, but then they just get to be annoying.

i was looking for some games i could install on my laptop (a sony vaio, which doesn't have a cd-rom drive). these games require the cd-rom drive for installation (can't install over a network), and require the cd-rom to be in the drive while playing. in other words, these games won't run on a modern laptop, which is something they don't tell you before you buy.

Here is a list of the games. There are a lot of solitaire and slot machine games, so overall it is an average collection.

Video Poker (5 varieties), Slots (5 varieties), Spades, Hearts, Old Maid, Crazy Eights, Go Fish, Blackjack, Solitaire (6 varieties), Reversi, Backgammon, Chess, Dominoes, Checkers, Memory Games (6 varieties), Puzzle Tiles (15 varieties), Box Battles (20 varieties)