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This enjoyable game's friendly characters and ease of play make it suitable for junior or newer players.

You control a bumble bee and propel it round a garden. As it moves, it must try to eat scattered pollen grains. Toadstools and bowls of fruit are also on display, but must be avoided as they are poisonous.

At regular intervals, spiders are released from their nest into the garden and attempt to kill the bumble bee. They are immune to the toadstools, but not to the bowls of fruit.

While moving through the garden, the bee collects bonus points by eating the extra large bundles of pollen and by eating the fruit that appears periodically in the spider's nest.

The garden has paths and gates. As the bee moves about it, it opens the gates and creates new pathways to follow. The spiders cannot open the gates and so can only follow the bee.

Besides the spider's nest, the other main feature is a tunnel leading from one side of the garden to the other. The bumble bee can follow this, but not the spiders.

No fairies at the bottom of the garden, but a large gate to the next level of play. This only opens when the bee has eaten all the current level's pollen. At higher levels the game is played at successively faster speeds.

The strategy is to direct the bumble bee to open the gates so the spiders are forced to follow the paths: the spiders can be lured towards the bowls of fruit, which kill them. However, giving bonus points for eating the fruit that occasionally appears in the spiders' nest is spoilt by having an indicator telling you when the next spider is due to appear.

Bumble Bee was an enjoyable game to play, but it is not for the experienced player.