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Giving a new coat of paint to a product can give it an extra period of life.
Continuing its European excursions, mixed with puzzle solving and Hidden Object game play, AVI Games adds another offering.
Can you, with the aid of some Match 3 game play, assist Holmes and Watson solve the mystery of the annual Pearl?
Whatever the season, whatever the type, this collection of Solitaire game play will keep you busy.
"Suricate Software","Jewel Match Solitaire Seasons"As part of its Jewel Match series of game playing offerings, Suricate Software has released Solitaire Seasons title. Available in Collector's Edition format, this digital Solitaire card game comes with a promise that it will take the player on a year-round adventure of Solitaire action. This will involve 1,000 levels of card playing spread across ten different locations.
This is the latest foldable screen Smart Phone from HONOR. Instead of the idea of a tiny phone enlarging to normal size this offering from HONOR starts as normal size and opens like a normal book to increase to double the size.
In its folded condition the measures 15.5x7x1.5cm the last figure at the 4.5cm round 3 cameras and flash unit on its back. Open it so the camera is now on the right back and its 14.5cm wide this gives a diagonal imperial measurement of very close to 8 inches. Its weight is only a little more than most standard phones at 237 grams.
With montage of various images and limited instructions, this next offering will certain challenge your searching skills.
Are you ready to enter a world where Dadaism meets Hidden Object game play in a puzzling offering? This is the challenge that Tiny Little Lion places before you with its offering of Gallery of Things - Reveries. While this title allows you to adjust volume levels for background music and various sound effects plus make a selection from a choice of resolutions, it neglects to allow you to create profiles for different players as it only allows single player action to be recorded.
A visit to a strange city can cause problems when residents become dolls.
With an opening of a floating wreath sinking beneath the waves as it reaches the shore, Friendly Fox introduces you to Dark City - Kyiv. This Hidden Object Adventure game casts you in the role of Detective Agatha, a specialist in the uncovering of fraudulent psychics. You have been asked to investigate an outbreak of spiritualist frauds that were currently taking place in the city of Kyiv.
Can you defeat an evil sorcerer while rescuing who have fallen under his spell?
Opening with a warning regarding its content, Halloween Stories - Written in Blood is a Hidden Object Adventure game from Elephant Games that is available in Collector's Edition format that bundles a number of bonus items to supplement the main game.
When looking for a place to house ghosts, a derelict amusement park seems to be ideal.
Mystical Riddle - Ghostly Park is a Hidden Object adventure title from the Domini catalogue of games. I have been looking at the product's Collector's Edition version for the purpose of this review. This enhanced version of the offering comes with a number of bonus items to supplement the basic games involving the search for a long-lost sister and what was once a joyful amusement park which was now shrouded in darkness and disrepair.
When something goes bump in the night, this next title might help to strengthen your resolve.
If you thought it was safe enough to venture out during the hours of darkness after completing the IKi game of Spooky Dwellers 2 with its offering of Match 3 action, then think again. Obviously IKi Games has other thoughts. The company believes you are ripe to be further tested with regards to dealing with all forms of the skeletons, ghosts, eerie creatures and other mystical beings who inhabit the nether world of gaming playing environments that occur during the Halloween period.
Take the home environment as a source of inspiration, 8 Floor Games has produced another jigsaw collection.
For its next release in its 1001 Jigsaw series, 8 Floor Games has tackled the Home Sweet Home puzzle area with version 3 of this title. As usual with other offerings in this series, you are provided with a collection of 500 jigsaw puzzles. Covering various aspects of the home environment, this collection of puzzles is split between five books that each contain 100 images of the puzzle scenes which are displayed four to a page in photo album style.
This is a notebook from the HP range marketed under the Firefly Poly label and unlike most other notebooks does not just have a 30 day trial of A/V software it comes with a possible 15 months for no charge, now that is a useful addition.
The HP ZBook Firefly G11 is a 14inch Windows 11 notebook, measuring 31x22x1cm at the front and 1.5cm at the back it weighs 1500 grams. Going around the outside has HDMI, USB, two USB 'C' and an LED on the left, the front is clear, the right side has Kensington Lock port, USB and a 3.5mm socket for audio, the back is clear as the screen goes back to near 180 degrees. The base has two thin horizontal rubber bars to keep the unit off whatever you are resting it on. Open the lid and there is .
Keeping a secret can bring unexpected problems to those with tight lips.
Secrets Can Be Deadly is the title of this next offering in the Strange Investigations series. Developed by Elephant Games, this Hidden Object Adventure game is available in Collector's Edition format that bundles a number of bonus items with the main game play offering.
Sometimes a task can be simplified if you work by numbers.
Adding to the Paint by Numbers genre of titles, Pop Art 4 is the latest entry from the T1 catalogue of image colouring offerings. This title is based around 64 outlined sketches and an associated colour palette for use when completing the outlines. The sketches, presented in a photo album style of eight images to a page, have been split up into numerous areas that have been numbered to indicate the appropriate colour that should be applied to that section.
Hidden Object fans, especially those with a more twisted sense of enjoyment, have a treat to look forward to with this next product.
Developed by Joe Cassavaugh, the Clutter Puzzle Magazine 17, entitled Flower Power, is now available in Collector's Edition format. As with the earlier version of this product which I looked at previously, this collection of puzzling challenges consists of 1,800 puzzles and features a Main Quest of 100 levels to test your searching skills. This Puzzle magazine offers the player various adjustable settings. Profiles can be created to record the progress of different players.
Natural disasters can occur but you can help by repairing the damage caused.
Following excursions to repair the damage caused to location with safe refuge for turtles and colourful birds in their natural habitat, Mixo Games returns to the subject of ornithology and disaster in their Twistingo series of titles. This time the rescue mission comes in the form of Hummingbird Haven.
Can you put your skills to the test and rescue the land of Camelot from attack by evil forces.
AnaWiki would like to challenge you to compete a Match 3 type adventure. The action will take place over a route that stretches over 250 Match 3 levels as you make a journey through a land that was famous for its respect for nature and its acceptance of magic. This is the magical land of Camelot. However, of late, the land has been affected by the machinations of an evil wizard who was determined to take over control of everything.
As when playing Jumanji, using a Ouija board can cause problems for those attending.
Mysteries Mix - Echoes Between Worlds is a Match 3 game. This title is the latest edition to the numerous offering developed by e-Funsoft. It follows the standard pattern of other Match 3 titles from the same company. As such you have s story line that spreads over five chapters featuring over 72 Match 3 grid action with linking cut-scenes featuring static characters.
This is a story of a girl – not in itself all that unusual – told by her in the most part, but what is unusual it starts when she is still in her mothers belly about to be cut out as her mother dies. Quite how she can talk at this stage is unusual but of course you read on to try to make sense of it.
Normally the only books I read are manuals, but I was sent this to review so I set aside time to read a few pages and was hooked by now she was kept as a child, the doctor who performed the operation had a large house in the country with an even bigger garden and she had a range of people to look after her as the doctor only visited around every three weeks.
You can search the world of hidden objects but do not expect to find too much information.
If you are ready for another trip involving a variety of locations to be found dotted around our world, then BD Studio Games has a product that might help. Adding to its Beautiful Earth series, the company has released version 8 of the title.
Cruising the Med can involve plenty of searching as this title reveals.
If you have any time to spare then Lazy Turtle Games would like to invite you to take an Amazing Cruise of the Mediterranean. This trip will be carried out in a Hidden Object game conducted on the Ocean Pearl cruise ship as part of the Majestic Wave Cruises Company.
To save you the bother or working with either Numbers or Pixels, this next colouring title lets you use both methods.
In the past I have looked at various titles dealing with producing images either through the Paint by Numbers process or using the Paint by Pixel method. Rather than restrict you to either of these two types of painting, this next title allows you to work with both methods using the same image samples. Developed by AWIGOR, Art Colouring allows you to seamlessly switch between working in Paint by Numbers mode and opting for a pixel targeted approach to produce your colourful image.
Can an author claim copyright if a story he wrote is then used as a plan for an actual murder?
Developed by Domini Games, Criminal Archives - Murder in the Pages is a Hidden Object Adventure game set in the city of San Francisco. I have been looking at the Collection's Edition of the product which adds a number of bonus items to supplement the main detective based action. Domini Game's usual options are available for creating the gaming environment to suit your style of playing.
Keeping your data safe is your responsibility but some help is available with regards protection.
Data, whether of the personal or more general type, is a valued commodity. It should be protected from unauthorised access especially when being transported between various locations for whatever reason. Over the past 25 years or so, iStorage has been providing devices aimed at delivering both portability and protection to our valuable data in such situations.
A trip to Japan involves the creation of Mosaics.
DIGIMIGHT would like to take you on a trip to the Land of the Rising Sun. This trip forms part of the company’s Adventure Mosaics range of titles. Your mode of transport for the journey will involve solving a number of Japanese Crossword puzzles which are sometimes referred to as Nonograms.
This is an on ear Headset. It is a USB 'C' offering and surprisingly to me anyway does not come with a USB 'C' to USB adapter so without one if you only have USB you could not use it, surely a trick missed.
The Quick Start guide is a 10x6cm folded card with Setup an option to download the Plantronics.com software, ANC to tell you how to activate noise cancelling and Fit to show you how to mute the microphone. While there are several other leaflets in the box these are mainly to satisfy various countries rules and of no real use to the user. The Poly brand is a high end quality range marketed by HP and so you get what you pay for, quality in sound and speech via the microphone arm.
When a gift arrives do you open the box immediately or opt to play safe?
The expression that you should never look a gift horse in the mouth, which was based on the Trojan horse story from Greek mythology, should, perhaps, have been appropriately observed when receiving a box at the start of this next game. As a member of the team at Detective United, you never know what the day may bring when you sign in for work in your role as Anna Gray.
Relations of Holmes and Watson get together to tackle the return of the Dancing Men.
In 1903 The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was published. One of the 13 tales making up this collection concerned the story of the Dancing Men. This same story now makes an appearance as the central plank for the Elephant Games offering entitled Ms Holmes – The Case of the Dancing Men which is currently available in Collector’s Edition format featuring a number of bonus items.
Do you consider yourself to be intelligent and creative? If so then you might be an ideal candidate to offer your services to Dr. Charles Michaelson as he explores the world of Innovatrix. The chance to take part in this opportunity comes in the form of Maze of Realities – Symphony of Invention, a game developed by Domini Games.
As usual with titles from Domini Games, options are available to create profiles to record the progress of different players taking part in the action, adjust various volume levels and view the game in full screen mode with a custom cursor and special effects feature turned on or off. You also have a choice of four levels of difficulty as you select from Casual, Advanced, Hardcore or Custom.
Jigsaws come in a variety of sizes and styles as you are challenged to complete puzzles in this next title.
With a title that gives a clear clue, this next offering will no doubt appeal to fans of jigsaw puzzle solving. Developed by The Revills Games, Jigsaw Puzzle Lovers 2 combined elements of puzzle types, varied content and a selection of settings for use with individual puzzles. Prior to entering this jigsaw heaven you can create profiles to record the progress of different players.
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