Oh I do like to be beside the seaside... Pardon me, but the combination of a hot summer and a game called Candy Floss is more than a mortal journalist can bear.

This is fairly serious business training, as you, proprietor of a Blackpool candy floss stall, decide how many candy flosses to manufacture, using sugar at such-and-such a price, and how much you will charge for them, given the expected weather, and how much you should advertise, given any other prevailing conditions.

In short, it's a microcosm of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Candy Floss comes on a cassette together with a pretty slick version of Hangman, rolling-eyed victim and all, which will let you add your own category of words to its Birds, Football, Teams, Animals and so forth. Unfortunately, there's no hint in the loading instructions as to how you are supposed to load Hangman.

Still, assuming it's Candy Floss you want to play - and it is the clear star on this cassette - loading's easy enough.

"It is sunny" you are informed to the tune of a rather off-beat version of The Sun Has Got His Hat On. "Sugar costs .02p per candy floss". So you must decide how many adverts to buy, and how much to charge, bearing in mind that you set out with a mere £2.

> I planned everything really carefully, set my price just right, made just the right number, advertised just enough and not too much - or so I thought. But, "Oh dear!" chortled the Oric. "Donkeys have eaten all Shirley's candy floss."

Donkeys apart though, this game is a good way of experimenting with the law of diminishing returns by testing out different strategies on apparently similar days. As long as you don't get wildly carried away, you'll make a small profit most days.

A fun educational game, for adults almost as much as for younger players, but one that won't get played more than a few times, since the hazards come at you in the same order each time. Knowing that donkeys are about to attack your stockpile of flosses does reduce the element of surprise.