- CellFighter Game 2.04. New Life for Game of Life — Almost 40 years ago, when computers were large working machines and the phrase «computer game» sounded absurdly, a famous British mathematician invented the so-called «Game of Life», which by no means was a game, it was rather an example of a cellular automata clear for even a child. You certainly have seen those black-and-white cells (and possibly even have written you own example in the middle school). Many…
- GenealogMap 4.01. Genealogy and Fun — First: Genealogy studies are useful, interesting and exciting. Is it the study of your own family («Grandma, do you remember your grandma’s birth place? I should know!») Or that can be the biography of Great Poet’s grandchildren (irrespectively of who the «Great Poet» was). Or that might be some less-known Civil War hero’s life. Collecting the data, names, dates, and cities, organizing…
- EnTren - Learn Through Fun. — EnTren is the ingenious foreign language trainer you’ll never get bored with. It is very easy and funny to work with, and through the game-like process all your foreign language skills will seamlessly grow to a much higher level. The most valuable thing is that many skills (like grammar understanding, working vocabulary, speech) are trained simultaneously, in complex. The other goodie is that there is no boredom in the…
- Double Solitaire, Another Dimension of the Old Game — The computerization of good old board games (like cards) sometimes brings awesome results. I am talking about cases where the author of a «virtual equivalent of a real game» can find and embody some new features, because of which the game remains almost the same, but its playability receives a completely new dimension. The good example is Double Solitaire, which harmonically combines the logical challenge of the classic…
- BookPrintXP 2.1.03, More Printing Fun — During the last 5 or even 10 years, home and office printers have become good enough to print something with the «professional» level. I’m not talking about boring reports now (150 pages, 3 copies for your boss to review in 3 minutes and throw away) or work documents to «work with» (because you get headache because of your monitor but still need to work). I’m talking about things that are…
- War Games Construction Kit — Do you sometimes think it’s high time you took a break and put your work off for a minute? You definitely do. Wouldn’t it be nice to release the tension and wreak some havoc on the battlefield? But what would be a good time killer in a situation when you don’t have any games at hand? There is an answer for all action-lovers out there — War Games Construction Kit! This game is ideal…
- Lines Push 3.45, The New Old Game — You definitely know the old classic Lines game, which was like «move the colorful balls through the field to make the combinations (lines) of a color». And if you know the game (you do!), there were times when you fell in love with it and spent days to solve that puzzle seemed to be so easy. If the above is the story of you, (it is!) you probably remember the sad day when you noticed you were bored. Even…
- My SUDOKU 1.62, The Game From Endless Time — In 1849, prominent mathematician Leonard Euler published his work «De quadratis magicis» («On magic squares»), describing properties and construction of «squares of digits» with special constraints for sum by rows and columns. In 1979, American architect Howard Garns published in Dell Magazines a puzzle called «Number Place». In 1986, Japanese puzzle publisher Nikoli republished Garns’ puzzle…
- Matryoshka 2.40, Colouring and Fun! — Matryoshka doll is one of Russian traditional handycrafts; typically it means a set of nested dolls, each one made of two parts. The Matryoshka game takes from this famous doll the idea of nesting, and makes a funny puzzle from the idea. Not very doll-like, so don’t think it’s a «game for girls», even a mature mind will find a task worth thinking here! At the beginning of the game you have…
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