Puzzle Reviews

My son likes this puzzle (because he likes Dora) but the pieces are curled and hard to fit together. It is almost impossible to put the entire puzzle together without the pieces coming apart.

There are enough solitaire games here for every taste and level of expertise, including some most people have probably never heard of. Visually, the color and layout are nice. But the rules for some of the lesser-known games are a little hard to follow. This is not up to the standards of the Sierra Hoyle games, but is a decent way to pass some quiet time, if that is what you are looking for. As for "Murder, She Wrote", it is nothing more than 4 half-hearted quicky murder mysteries, with accompanying jigsaw puzzles of the crime scenes. Jessica Fletcher/Angela Lansbury fans will not be impressed.

This is a 1998 game that is hard to install, has a very unfriendly user interface, and feels very primitive. The minimum number of pieces per puzzle is 15, which is far too difficult for a young child. Even at its cheap price, I feel cheated. The manufacturers should upgrade and/or discontinue this version.

I could not get this to load right on my computer. I got the pictures but I didn't get an icon so I could work the puzzles. Probably not for the average computer user.

There are not a lot of puzzles with a lot of color and it is not easy to chose puzzles. You are able to chose the number of pieces but not change the shapes like on jigzone.

We bought this game and gameboy for our 8 year old. He was fustrated for the first couple of days. The directions for this game don't say now to select a game. (It only says, turn gameboy off, insert game, turn gameboy on.) It says that checkers can be 1 or 2 players, put doesn't tell you how (do you link 2 gameboys together or can the 2 player version be played on a single gameboy?). It doesn't tell you how to double jump in checkers. It doesn't tell you how to play the peg games, just that 1 or 2 peg holes are empty and doesn't say how to move a peg.

this game is not fun at all. maybe it is fun for children 6 and down. i think that little animal charicters telling you if you won or lost is very dumb.the 4 types of games are peg,board,paper,and puzzle. if i were you i would save my money and buy a differnt game

The box says it is for 4-8 yrs old. It is not for 24 months to 5 years. My 3 year old daughter was unable to put this together without a lot of help. Every single piece was warped. As a result none of the pieces would stay together nicely.

I highly recommend staying away from this puzzle -- *many* pieces are warped so that they don't stick together, and it makes it very frustrating to try and play with. Without trying to bend pieces into some semblance of flatness, I don't see any way someone could complete this puzzle. We also got the blues clues "my size" puzzle, and while not quite as bad, it definitely had a lot of warped pieces. We will be returning these puzzles as they are completely useless. Shame on Mattel for putting out such a shoddy product.

I own this game (in its previous incarnation, with the floppy record, not the CD) and I can honestly say it is the worst Murder Mystery game I have played out of dozens of plays by multiple companies. The plot is uncomplicated and unfun.

Worst puzzle quality I've ever seen! I bought this assortment of artistic puzzles and was HIGHLY dissapointed by the quality. Beautiful paintings, but horrid quality...the paper was cheap, the pieces didn't fit together well, and it was just a nightmare. I'd hate to think of gluing this junk - it probably take a gallon of glue to get it to stick together. (the lesser the quality of the puzzle, the more glue you need to keep it together).

I started a puzzle, gave up, returned the set, and am glad I did. The set's worth more like $7.99 than $19.99 + tax. The title's got it correct - it's a "VALUE pack" meaning it may be a VALUE but it's NOT quality. Stick with Ravensburger, FX Shmidt, Linda Nelson puzzles, etc, NOT this junk.........good luck puzzlin'!

I am very unlikely to buy another puzzle by this company. This puzzle (body in the bunker - a golf puzzle) had many dark (black)areas. In and of itself, this is no problem. However, many of the pieces are almost interchangeable, so that you think you have a piece in the right place, but it is not. There were about 8-10 such places on the puzzle, including the border, where the only way to identify the right piece was to assemble the entire puzzle and use trial and error. I was very disappointed in this, as was my family.