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  JANTI
A strategy game wherein 2 players (you vs. the computer) take turns placing coloured tokens on the board. The last player to place a token on the board wins. Although the rules are simple, winning can prove challenging!




JANTI
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    ACES UP
Easy but addictive little solitaire. Four cards are dealt-face up in a row. Look for two or more cards of the same suit and discard all but the highest card of that suit, then deal another row of four cards. Continue this process of dealing and eliminating cards until only the four exposed aces remain on the board (which doesn't happen too often!)




Aces UP Solitaire
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    A PUZZLING COLLECTION
Challenge yourself with this entertaining collection of five brain-teasers. These puzzles range in difficulty from moderate to difficult, and span a range of clever conundrums: from calculating the number of cars on a race track to playing a variant of chess involving 8 bishops!




A Puzzling Collection
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    SHAMROCK SOLITAIRE
A moderately difficult solitaire that requires a satisfying balance of skill and luck to win. The deck is dealt in seventeen groups of three overlapping cards, plus one card by itself. The aim is to release the aces and build each one up to king.




Shamrock Solitaire
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    BLOCK ELEVEN SOLITAIRE
Block Eleven is one of the better of the simpler solitaires. A nice variation on the traditional Elevens Solitaire, it includes a new unblock feature which helps improve its success rate from low to moderate.




Block Eleven Solitaire
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    HORSE RACE CARD GAME
Exciting horse racing game played with cards. Bets are placed on the four aces that are moved liked horses toward the finish line. Accumulate the most money after five races to win the game.




Horse Race Card Game
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    LUZON DOMINO SOLITAIRE
This enjoyable solitaire can be won often, if you plan your moves carefully. The object is to clear the board of all 28 dominoes, by removing pairs whose pips total 12. A nice break from the usual card solitaires.




Luzon Domino Solitaire
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    BEEHIVE SOLITAIRE
Looking for a new solitaire to play? This good and little-known solitaire is easy to play, and can be won reasonably often. But it's not unusual for a game to get blocked just when you least expect it!




Beehive Solitaire
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    SERAI PUZZLE
The prince is bored, and so his faithful servant recounts a simple puzzle, in which the object is to correctly align 15 counters around the perimeter of a circle. A per-
plexing puzzle that will keep any player (including the prince) challenged for many hours.





Serai Puzzle
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    CARD PUZZLES
Five clever conundrums with playing cards! Several varieties of puzzles are included in this collection, including stacking, sequence, chess and magic square challenges.




Card Puzzles
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CIRCLET DICE GAME
Popular European dice game wherein players try to score totals from 2 to 12. Sound simple? It would be if your opponents didn't benefit from your throw as well, especially when you are in the lead!




Circlet Dice Game
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    PIGS DICE GAME
An entertaining game of chance. Score big by rolling doubles or lose all if you roll a PIG! Highest score after 14 innings of play wins. For one player (versus a crafty computer opponent).




Pigs Dice Game
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    35 CARD SOLITAIRE
A delightful solitaire requiring more skill than may at first appear. Good judgment, a keen memory and just the right amount of luck are required to win this one (which doesn't happen all too often!)





35 Card Solitaire
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    LUCKY 13 CARD SOLITAIRE
An entertaining solitaire wherein the object is to lay down and build upon a foundation of 13 cards. Easy to learn and not too difficult to solve, but scoring a perfect game is challenging




Lucky 13 Card Solitaire
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    CARD SPIN.
The puzzle consists of 9 disks, each disk having 4 cards positioned along its perimeter (like a propeller). The object is to move and spin the disks so that all neighbouring cards total 10 in value.




Card Spin
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    CLASSIC PUZZLES
A collection of 4 classic puzzles. Each puzzle consists of a number of counters placed on a board. Your goal is to shuffle the pieces into their winning position. Puzzles range in difficulty from easy to challenging.




Classic Puzzles
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    ROBOT PUZZLE
Captain Corbett has a problem. He can't recall the correct assembly sequence for the XTR-4 activation disks. Without it, the robot will fail to activate, and the POLARIS mission will be a failure! Can you help activate the XTR-4 robot?




Robot Puzzle
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    24 KNIGHTS
A chess puzzle consisting of 24 numbered knights randomly distributed among 25 chessboard squares. The object of this challenging puzzle is to move the knights into numerical order in the fewest possible moves.




24 Knights
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    THE ROOK PUZZLE
A chess puzzle consisting of 15 rooks distributed among 16 chessboard squares. The object of this puzzle is to surround the four brown rooks with the white rooks in the fewest possible moves.




The Rook Puzzle
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    MILITARY PUZZLES
A collection of four classic puzzles, set to a military theme. Find the safest placement for airplanes on an airfield, decipher the enemies' code, avoid enemy fire as you retreat through the trenches, and help allocate the correct number of weapons to your tank column. The puzzles range in difficulty from easy to moderate.




Military Puzzles
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    THE BIRD CAGE PUZZLE
The Emperor is an impatient man. He wants to relocate the many bird cages found throughout his palace, and has enlisted your help in finding the most efficient route for doing so. Are you up to the task? (3 variations included).




Bird Cage Puzzles
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    TILE GOLF PUZZLE
A unique and challenging golf puzzle. The puzzle consits of 10 tiles, 9 of which are square and 1 of which is rectangular. The object is to get the golf ball into the hole using the fewest number of strokes.




Tile Golf
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    FOUR CORNERS SOLITAIRE
This entertaining solitaire takes its name from the opening layout, wherein each suit is assigned its own exclusive corner. As the game progresses, only members of the correct suit may enter their perspective corner. Easy to learn, with a fairly high success rate.




4 Corner Solitaire
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    GOOD NEIGHBOURS SOLITAIRE
A catchy little solitaire, in which the objective is to pair off and remove all the cards in the pack. Although the success rate of this game is fairly high, enough skill is required to ensure a high replay value. This game is also known as Monte Carlo or Weddings.




Good Neighbours Solitaire
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