A game for anyone who enjoys a fast-paced word puzzle! Alphen presents you with several words of equal length, one above the other. The only problem is that the letters have been mixed up: the letters are all in their proper positions from left to right, but most of them are in the wrong rows! Your only clue for unscrambling the words is that you are told the category each one belongs to. The first word might be the name of a flower, the...

An intriguing puzzle game that gives you the task of deciphering a randomly generated mystic symbol. Work up through the difficulty levels from 3 by 3 (easy) to 5 by 5 (quite difficult). This is a contemplative game: there are no time limits or high score tables or other forms of pressure. Relax and allow your subconscious mind to guide you to the core of the mystery.

This holiday season activity center lets kids explore the delightful fantasy of being an elf living and working in Santa's House at the North Pole. There are ten main activities, including decorating the tree, baking cookies, wrapping gifts, and testing toys in Santa's Workshop. Beautifully illustrated by Brigid Skelton, I Live At Santa's House! captures the timeless appeal of an old-fashioned Christmas. Windows shareware for ages 3-7.

A word game in which your task is to unscramble a familiar catchphrase. For each letter in the phrase you get from three to six choices. You must pick the right ones to recover the jumbled phrase. Configurable phrase lists! Five time limit options! Four difficulty levels!

Oktagon comprises two separate octagonal puzzles. In the first, you must rearrange a set of four to eight irregular shapes to form an octagon. This is based on a puzzle in our shareware game Uncle Julius and the Anywhere Machine. In the second puzzle, you must rotate six concentric octagonal rings until all have the same orientation. The catch is that the rings are linked, so that rotating one also rotates one or two others.

Pic-Tac-Toe is a cousin to three-dimensional tic-tac-toe, but it's easier to play, better looking and more fun! You can play against a friend or try your hand against the computer at your choice of difficulty levels. You can even sit back and watch the computer compete against itself. Built-in help and rules demo makes learning practically instant! Graphics are configurable.

A coloring toy for ages 3-7. Choose from four ready-to-color or randomly-colored backgrounds, then add, position and color objects to create a unique picture. Objects can be sized large or small, reflected, moved or deleted at any time. A purple person dancing on a tangerine shore? Why not? Express yourself! Sean's Magic Slate is a freeware sample of the activities in our shareware game I Live At Santa's House.

Spell-Mell is a spelling, vocabulary and quiz game the whole family will enjoy. It comes supplied with numerous game modules, each in effect a separate game. Also included is SLED (the Spell-Mell List Editor), which lets you create your own modules. The evaluation version includes an illustrated Foreign Vocabulary Pack of approximately 300 words in nearly 20 languages from Icelandic to Esperanto! You can also sample the first level of each of...

Playful, computer-generated retellings of ten classic fairy tales will have you rolling on the floor! Every reading is unique and 100% hilarious! Gorgeously presented and illustrated: the beautiful all-graphical main screen lets you pick your favorite story within a lush woodland setting. Ideal for young readers, but give yourself a treat and read along too! Includes Hansel and Gretel, Cinderella, and eight other timeless classics.

Whirlwords is based on the familiar pencil-and-paper word chain puzzles that require you to connect two words by a series of steps in which you change one letter at a time. Our version extends the concept by providing six types of transitions from one word to the next instead of only one. Whirlwords comes with more than 100 puzzles in order of increasing difficulty. It also features a nifty graphical interface, a built-in editor so that you...