Super Jigsaw Great Art

                   From www.gamehouse.com

                      Reviewed by Sue

This is the latest jigsaw game from Gamehouse. This time all the
images are works of art. Some are well known, others not so
familiar. Ones I recognised included Bedroom at Arles, Le Bar aux
Folles and Klimt's 'The Kiss'.

This demo works the same as previous Gamehouse jigsaw demos.
Select the puzzle you want to do and then pick a difficulty level.
Pieces can be square or traditional jigsaw shape and the puzzle
from 4 to 442 pieces. Individual puzzle pieces can be skewed a
lot, slightly or not at all and there's an option to start with
some pieces rotated which would add to the difficulty.  Pushing
the 'Start' button also starts the clock - you can play the demo
for just 60 minutes.

Pieces are picked up by clicking on them then dragging them with
the mouse. If you've selected the rotation option, tapping the
space bar turns the current piece through 90 degrees. An 'edges
only' option from the main menu hides all non-edge pieces if
you're like me and like to do the edges first. If the pieces get
piled up, hold CTRL and click the mouse to move them apart. And if
they don't show up well, you can change the background colour.

While you start playing, a preview of the finished picture is
displayed at the top left but you can turn this off if you'd
prefer.  There are lots of other options such as shuffling the
pieces. When you finish a puzzle, the full game lets you save it
as your desktop background but the demo doesn't.

If you like jigsaws, you'll enjoy this program. But I must admit I
still prefer a proper cut puzzle to a computer version.



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