Puzzle Island

Puzzle Island

$19.99

Stranded on a mysterious tropical island, you have only your wits to help you survive. Can you discover the mystery of Puzzle Island and escape your exile? Puzzle Island is a game of twelve different puzzles that range from simple tile matching puzzles to mind bending logic puzzles. With four difficulty settings, an adventure that is a puzzle within a puzzle and the ability to play the individual puzzles anytime (once unlocked), this game will keep you busy for months, if not years to come. Why buy one puzzle game when you can have twelve in one!

For those who already have Puzzle Island, you may want to see the release notes for the new version! Version 1.0.3 is a free upgrade for those who have already purchased a license for any earlier version.

Puzzle Island is a universal Mac OS X shareware game that has five tile matching puzzles, five logic puzzles and two path finding/creating puzzles. Some of the puzzles included are puzzles based on Sudoku (with no numbers!), Nonograms (also called Griddlers), Mind Bender, Black Box and a new take on Minesweeper.

There are four difficulty settings: involved, puzzling, perplexing and enigmatic. And, all of the puzzles are randomly created so that there is always a new game waiting for you!

Puzzle Island includes an adventure game in which the twelve puzzles come together to create a story. In the adventure, you have been shipwrecked and marooned on a strange tropical island. The question is: Can you survive? Solving the steps (and the order of the steps) to getting off of the island is yet another puzzle.

In addition to the adventure game, you can also play each of the twelve puzzles individually. Most of the puzzles have unlimited levels when played individually. You'll need to play through the adventure game to unlock access to all the puzzles.

In individual puzzle mode, high scores are tracked with the top 16 scores saved for each puzzle and each difficulty setting. The scores are across all user accounts on your computer. Each user account on your computer can also have up to five player profiles in the game.

Puzzle Island can be played full screen or in windowed mode and plays nice with other applications. So, go ahead and leave your email program running while playing; turn off the in-game music, and launch iTunes to play your own mood music. You could also leave your work or school work applications open for quick switching when the boss or a parent comes by. (But, you didn't hear that from us. We also didn't tell you that the "Hide when in background" setting would help facilitate your ruse.)

Below is a couple screen shots of some of the main pages. To see screen shots of all 12 puzzles go here. Click on a screen shot to see it at full size. See below or the screen shot page for a synopsis of each puzzle.

Synopses of the Twelve Puzzles

Pure Logic Puzzles

• Precarious Path: This is a nonogram or griddler puzzle, sometimes called painting by numbers. In this case there are no pictures just a great logic game. If you like soduko you'll like nonograms. At the easiest level this is almost trivial, but you need to solve a couple of trivial puzzles to get the point of the puzzle.
• Elemental Code: Based on the mind bender puzzle. At the higher difficulty settings you not only need to deduce the symbols but also the color of the symbols. That will get you thinking!
• Laser Light: Based on the Black Box board game. By studying the behavior of beams of light shot in a box, can you surmise the location of the objects inside?
• Crystal Matrix: A great version of sudoku that doesn't use any numbers!
• Curious Cavern: Unlike the others, this game is one in which the puzzle is figuring out what the puzzle is and how to go about it. If you can figure that out, the actual walking out of the solution is the easy part.

Tile Matching Puzzles

• The Lagoon: You need to move your marker from one area of the board to the other side by making matches of three or more tiles. By making matches in the right position and orientation, the marker will be moved along as the playing field fills in the resulting gaps.
• The Beach: In this game, certain matches (based on tiles and orientation) will move you along an area map. You need to make it to the opposite side of the map.
• Fruitopia: A tile matching game where fruit falls from the top of the puzzle and you can only move tiles from the top of a column to the top of another column.
• Strange Wind: In this game you slide entire rows or columns instead of selecting individual tiles.
• Navigation: The layout of this puzzle is circular instead of a rectangular grid. Its the difference between polar and Cartesian coordinate systems. At some levels, some of the connectors will be missing, which will prevent matches between those locations.

Path Creating/Discovery Puzzles

• Climbing Vines: Rotate tiles to form vine paths that link the ground to the top of the tree.
• Quicksand: A mixture of a mine sweeper game and a maze. The object here is not to find all the sinkholes (mines) but to safely find your way across this stretch of beach without stepping on sinkhole.

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