Hi-

If you like puzzle puzzles, I'm playing a really fun puzzle game called Pandora's Box. It's not an adventure game and the plot is very thin but the puzzles are great fun. It's got over 400 puzzles from Easy to Hard. I play it to relax from Myst Revelation, etc.

It was made by the creator of Tetris.

Jayne

I have the old version of this game by Microsoft & also enjoy it occasionally. Mine does not have that many puzzles though.

Melanie

Oh I love Pandora's Box! What a great diversion! I love the music too! hahah!

Melanie, there is Pandora's Box and then there is Pandora's Box Game of the Year version...it has about 50 more puzzles to it...nothing new, just more of the same...like more jessies strips etc etc...You can find it at WalMart for about $10 !

Which ones do you like the best? The worst?

I'm glad others enjoy playing it too. I didn't know it's been around for so long.

My favorites in order are: Find & Fill; Slices; Outer Layer; Jesse's Strips; Overlap; and Focus Point.

I avoid, if possible, Image Hole, Rotascope and Interlock. I don't see the point in Lens Bender.

Which do you like/dislike?

Jayne

I also love Pandoras box.

Does it run on XP?

Rusty

It runs fine on XP. I have both the old and the newer version. Even my grandchildren like it. I avoid image hole whenever possible. Some of the Rotascopes were fun, others very very difficult. I like lens bender, it was fun too. Over all I love the game as a diversion when things get stressful.

I've heard about the newer version, Looney, but haven't picked it up yet. One of these days if I find it staring me in the face.

The Rotascope & Find & Fill are the puzzles I try to stay away from.

Rusty, the old version needed a patch before it would play on my newer xp computer. I got the patch on Microsoft's site. They call it a pentium 3 patch, I used it for my P4 though.

Melanie

I love Pandoras Box!! I have the GOTY edition with the extra puzzles. The rotascopes are great fun, apart from the one with the large spider!!!

I love this game. I bought is for my mother-in-law, who's a puzzle addict. I ended up loving the Rotascopes--which is weird, because they're kind of like sliding tile puzzles and I hate those. But I was disappointed in the extra ones in the GOTY edition! I was expecting the final one to be this huge thing so I saved it for last and it turned ut to be this cheesy little four part wheel I solved in 30 seconds <img border="0" alt="" title="" src="graemlins/cry.gif" /> But at least I wasn't seeing it behind my eyes when I tried to go to sleep that night!

WW

I wish I could do the Rotascopes. I have a difficult time with even the easy ones.

However, the Find and Fill, even when they are rotating and you have NO idea what the picture is, are fun for me and much, much easier than the Rotascopes. While I will struggle through the Rotascopes the Image Hole is almost impossible for me. I use my "Free Solves" for them. My brain just won't work that way.

Jayne

the rotascopes are circular sliders... get the outside ring done first then the next one... it gets easier once you have done a few

We love Pandora's box here! My favorites are find/fill, Jessie's strips, overlap, and focus point. The others can be fun too.

The only kind I solidly dislike are the floating hole ones. Most of the puzzles are very easy now but those still drive me nuts!

I used to be awful at Rotascopes, until I mastered th technique Tigger just mentioned. Yes, the spider's web ending puzzle is really tough. So is the Monkey challenge imho.

For those who don't know (I had to be told, so I thought I'd mention it.) the extra 50 puzzles in the GotY edition are hidden under "puzzles only."

Susan

Yet another Image Hole hater.

Pandora's Box is never far from our PC, as all four of us enjoy it, even my youngest daughter who was 6 when she started playing about with it! (albeit not with any great success )

Gremlin

Could anyone of you help me to get the game on it's way?
I have tried to install it on two of my pc's,
one running under XP and one running under Windows ME and they both break off installation.

Do I need an extra programme?

Your enthousiasm about the puzzles only whets my
game appetite.......

Bye, have fun. M.

Purple Flower!

Have you installed the Pandora's box patch from here or from Microsoft here?

Considering it was a GOTY, pity Microsoft did not release a follow up rather than just adding a few extra puzzles in the game of the year version

Hi Purple Flower and to Gameboomers. If you have the Microsoft version, you need a patch.
Bets

I don't like Image Hole either. Seems like none of us do. Anyone really like them?

Not me. I didn't like the image hole ones either.

Was wondering, if I saw the later edition of Pandoras Box in a bargain bin, is it worth it for the new puzzles they added?

And, I noticed I am now finally
a 'settled boomer'

WOW! Y'all are so helpful!
Thanx for this info! I'm going
to check it out. :kiss:

And to Purple Flower!