When I buy a hidden object game, one of things that makes it a keeper or not, is the mini games. If there is no good "intermission" even the best hidden object game gets monotonous.

My favorites are jigsaw like puzzles and find a bunch of the same item in a picture.

My least favorite is matching games.

Ana

The mini games I've enjoyed the most so far are the type of puzzles (not sure how you describe them) in Ravenshearst & Madame Fate. But there were one or two in Madame Fate I didn't like so much so it was good to be able to bypass them. I don't mind spot the difference but find matching games, jigsaws etc tedious after they been repeated a few times!

Madame fate was full of mini games. I liked those that you must find a lot of same objects in the same picture and i liked the one which you must form different words from some letters.

I like spot the difference,jigsaws,I don't care for the matching puzzles either

I like most of the games except the matching ones. Jigsaws are my favorite.

My favorite would be the puzzle rooms where you have to solve a puzzle (like the last 2 MCF games and in Azada) to progress to the next level. A nice treat in-between the hidden objects rooms.

Linda

I like the games that feature puzzles that you've never seen before as in MCF, Azada and Hidden Treasures-Nightmare.
Like Ana, I also like finding 20 of the same type of item throughout a scene.

I don't really care much for jigsaw puzzles, matching games and forming shapes out of matchsticks. The ones that I dislike the most are the ones in which you have to spot the differences, it seems that is a recurrent mini-game amongst the hidden object genre.

I also agree with Ana that even the best hidden object games without mini-games in between can become boring after a while.

My favorite ones are the ones that I do successfully

L4L,

I had forgotton about some till they were mentioned like Madame Fates, where you descramble the words. That was a family affair in my house.

Ana

I loved the games where you had to unlock the doors in Ravenhearst. They were like those Rube Goldberg cartoons.

I ditto what everyone else has said, especially L4L

Definitely the jigsaw puzzles.

Love the variety of the other puzzles in Ravenshearst and Madame Fate. I loved the doors in Ravenshearst too and just loved Fate all the way around. Big City Sydney has some new things too I am enjoying. But trying to match those pelicans or whatever those birds are, is really something! That's not a favorite of mine either. When the Hidden Objects first came out, I wanted all of them. Now I am pickier about what I buy and only buy them if there is some variety of mini games. These kinds of puzzles/games remind me of "Highlights" the magazine for kids, which is great because of the variety of things for kids to do.

Koalanut

I also like the jigsaw puzzles, I also loved the word puzzles in Madam Fate.

I liked those word puzzles too NY