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Fine packaging and a superbly designed cassette insert can't make this anything but a mediocre program, bettered many times before.

Shortly after loading you are instructed to stop the tape and full instructions and scoring appear - beware, you can read them only once before loading the full program. You must record or print them.

The game - a version of Yahtzee - can be played by up to four players, each having 14 turns, with the object of scoring the most points possible from various combinations of five dice. Pairs, priles, fours, full house, short run, long run, five dice and chance all have to be understood and used to gain points.

A game can be accidentally "broken" and the Basic program listed - so don't touch the wrong key!

After choosing number of players and entering name, the score-board momentarily appears, before five dice come on screen to be shaken three times, with option to hold after the first two. They are even shaken when all five are held! Then the scoreboard reappears and you choose where to place the dice combination, and the score is entered.

At £2.95, fair value - but could easily have been improved.

T.W.