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Booly is a French game, and it doesn't half show. Under the guise of high-tech spaceship weapons console-ness, you must click the mouse pointer on various coloured icons in the display zone. When you do, they change colour. The idea is to get them all one colour.

Sounds not unlike that classic change-the-colours game, Skweek. But you rapidly discover that in Booly, clicking one icon changes the colours of others around it. So realisation slowly dawns - it's a puzzle game. No more, no less. Once you succeed in changing the colours and clear each screen, you move on to harder and more packed ones.

A time limit keeps the mouse whizzing from side to side as you click furiously and curse fluently. There are dozens of levels, so in the unlikely event that you get hooked, you can play and play and play.

The size of Booly is really the only thing in its favour. It's not very easy to solve each screen, either. So, Booly could stay with you forever, which is a pity because it's crap.

1. Like Skweek, this puzzle game should be used to interest hyperactive kids on rainy days.
2. The disk can be used as a small but effective draught-excluder or a makeshift frisbee.