You've tried tiling the roof and bathroom, now it's time to slap on your scruffy overalls for Impatience, a new two-game pack for the SAM 512K (the new name for SAM Coupe, by the way) which, surprisingly enough. includes a tile game!

In the 3D-style Triltex, match together and eliminate tiles with similar patterns and colours. Cursor keys, joystick or mouse control the pointer in twenty levels of frustration.

Five kinds of special tile appear later in the game. Bombs blow away neighbouring tiles. Flippers swap the positions of the four tiles around it. Mystery tiles only show their faces when 50,000 is scored, Teleporters swap positions and Twirlers flip the tiles clockwise or anti-clockwise.

Triltex's presentation is great, with slick, well-drawn graphics and music that begs to be turned up! Some people moan there are too many puzzle games on the SAM. This may be true, but who cares when they're as addictive and professional as this?

The Viking Game is an ancient board game from the Viking Empire, 900 AD. (Unfortunately, there's not even a sniff of wanton maidens or Skol-quaffing, horn-helmeted, long-bearded, pillaging Scandanavians!) At first glance, it's similar to both chess and Draughts but once in play you soon notice the difference.

It's for two players only so you need to find a partner. As a conversion of the board game, it does its job, but it isn't graphically impressive.

Impatience is a good purchase for any SAM puzzle freak. It's not as playable as Revelation's Hexagonia but I'm sure there's room for both in your software collection.