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Jigsaw puzzles I love, but sliding block puzzles I find infuriatingly difficult, so I would not judge this game suitable for anyone younger than eleven; at least not without practice. Certainly most adults will find enough entertainment at the higher levels; although I am not fully convinced that the lower levels are much easier.

The tape is very attractively packaged; the instructions clear. There is a choice of four excellent, colourful pictures and five levels of difficulty; each picture taking seven minutes to build before being sectioned into a number of blocks which then scatter. By using the cursor keys, you have to arrange them into their correct order, and an appropriate tune is played on completion of each correct picture.

This suite of programs should improve the spatial ability of any young person, and the information given at the end of each completed picture, time taken and number of moves, enables it to be used as a competitive game.

A good educational game, but annoyingly the level of difficulty can be altered only be reloading the picture.

J.H.D.