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An excellent suite of programs for four to 13 year olds which combines entertainment with spatial learning.

The tape is well packaged, has good instructions and gives four excellent pictures and five levels of difficulty. Each picture takes seven minutes to build, before being split into a number of blocks which the program then jumbles. The player than has to rearrange them in their correct positions. The pieces are moved round the screen by pressing the appropriate letters of the two pieces to be transposed.

When the picture has been correctly assembled, a tune plays and time taken and number of moves is displayed.

Unfortunately, level of play cannot be altered without reloading the picture but this will be less of a problem with a group of children than with an individual. Also, the four pictures are identical to those used by the same company for its Sliding Block Puzzle tape.

A good but limited educational game, more suited for a group than an individual.

J.H.D.