Super Jigsaw Medley and Super Jigsaw Landscapes

              Download from www.gamehouse.com

                      Reviewed by Sue

As a jigsaw fan, I was pleased to see the Gamehouse have 
released two new jigsaw games. The first one, Super Jigsaw Medley,
contains a good selection of jigsaws made from photos on nine
different themes - including wildlife, USA, still life, pets and
flowers. Each category contains about half a dozen puzzles to
complete against the clock.

The jigsaw pieces can be square or traditional jigsaw shape. If
the latter, you can select how squewed you want the pieces to be
cut. The difficulty level is selected by altering the number of
pieces into which the puzzle is divided, as well as whether or not
some of the pieces are rotated. On the highest difficulty level,
there are 130 pieces.

When you're playing, you can choose to have all the pieces
displayed or start with just the edges. That's usually the way I
do 'real' jigsaws so I did the same with these.  You use the mouse
to drag the pieces about. When they're in approximately the right
position in releation to an adjoining piece, they snap together.

The background colour and texture can be changed. Puzzles can be
saved partly completed. And if you get really stuck, you can
choose to have the finished picture displayed on the working
surface while the timer measures your progress in the bottom right
corner.

The Super Jigsaw Landscapes installs into the same directory and
adds about 50 landscape puzzles to those already there.

Conclusions? Both programs are nice implementations of
computerised jigsaw puzzles but I'm afraid they didn't grab me.
Gamehouse have been a lot less generous with the unregistered
version. You can only start 5 puzzles before you have to buy the
full program. Adding the Landscapes pack gives you 5 more goes,
but ONLY at the landscape pix. Each game costs $24.95.


















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