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8th Day are all out for controversy with their latest game, H.R.H. The cover depicts the Queen on a stamp, making a rude sign, and that kind of "Spitting Image"-humour continues throughout the game.

You start off in the Post Offive, queuing up for your dole money. Behind you, Princess Diana waits for her family allowance as Prince William runs about wearing a pair of large rubber ears! You take your cheque, but soon realise that it is made out to the Queen, and is worth for £250,000.

In your mind's eye, you see yourself being knighted as you hand the Queen her dole money, but as you set off to return it to her, Prince William kicks you in the leg, and runs off with the cheque. Now you must recover it!

The game is "Quilled", with a little help from The Illustrator, and will only allow you to type in the exact answer to each puzzle. If you type anything else, it tells you: "I nearly understand".

The first problem involves you passing on telephone messages from Prince Andrew's girlfriends, saying that they are not pregnant. When you tell Andrew the good news, he gives you a drink - and by the third call, you're feeling rather tipsy. The game uses a rather naughtier word, so beware, kiddies!

When drunk, you can actually take a Pink Elephant, which you see floating above you, to give to William. He gives you a spider, which so frightens an old lady, she drops her bus pass, and so on. By the way, this little sequence runs up three points out of the total 250 required to complete the game.

There are many ways for you to be stopped in your tracks during the adventure, so it is a good idea to take full advantage of the 'Memory Save' option, which involves no extra loading during a playing session.

All in all, this is an average Quilled adventure, though more effort seems to have been put into a funny story, rather than trying to involve complicated levels of vocabulary.

If you like Spitting Image humour, this could be right up your street!