This cassette contains three rather routine games - Hangman, Codebreak and Pairs. They are all the sort of games that the new ZX81 owner might try to program himself, but they are good versions and run well.

Hangman offers a total of 450 words and there are three levels of difficulty - increasing difficulty being represented by six, eight and ten letter words. The letters tried are displayed on the screen throughout each game.

Codebreak is a version of the popular game in which you have to try and decipher a secret number code, in this case chosen by your ZX81. The computer selects a four or five digit number, make up of the numbers one to six. After each guess from the player, the screen indicates how many numbers were absolutely correct and how many were correct but in the wrong place. A game to test your powers of logic.

In the well known game of Pairs, the screen displays twenty blocks identified by the letters A to T. The player chooses two letters and the numbers under those blocks are revealed - if they don't match then they are hidden again. The object is to find all the pairs in as few tries as possible - a good memory training exercise.

These three cerebal games from Axis Software on one cassette make Classic 3 a good buy.