| Name | Extracted | Size | Date | Description |
| JIG2_WIN.ZIP | Yes | 1258076 | 2/1/1994 | Jigsaw 2 for Windows (Walter A. Kuhn, reg. fee: $9) is an excellent jigsaw puzzle simulation for Windows 3.1. Puzzles are solved by dragging and dropping pieces with a mouse. Pieces will automatically snap together when properly arranged. The program can also find all the edge pieces and sort pieces by color. Puzzles can be saved in progress for completion at a later time. 15 colorful puzzles are included. Requires a 286+ and VGA. |
| MOSAIXW.ZIP | Yes | 191607 | 8/24/1993 | Mosaix 1.0-B for Windows (Data Assist, Inc.; $23) is a colorful computerized jigsaw puzzle game. |
| PENTABL.ZIP | Yes | 38172 | 10/21/1993 | PentaBlox 1.0 (AQUILA SOFTWARE; $20) is a puzzle game with twelve unusual pieces and 2339 unique solutions. The pieces may be rotated and flipped for placement using a handy toolbar and the drag and drop interface. There is no timer and no falling pieces as in Tetris games, and your solutions can be saved to a file for future reference. |
| PICPUZ.ZIP | Yes | 230360 | 3/24/1994 | Picture Puzzler allows you to turn almost any bitmap into a puzzle. Requires VBRUN300. (Frank Font's WorkShop, reg. fee: $8) |
| PUZZLE.ZIP | Yes | 31797 | 6/9/1994 | Puzzle 1.2 (Beckingham, Paul; $8) There are several variations and patterns available, including numbers and letters. You can also choose among 4x4, 6x6 or 8x8 matrices and load images from bitmap files. An auto-solve option is available. |
| VB_JIG.ZIP | Yes | 262595 | 6/9/1994 | VB Jigsaw 1.0 ($0) is a fantastic on-screen jigsaw puzzle. Unlike other jigsaw puzzles in PsL that only split the screen into small rectangles, this one offers a choice of several shapes, such as stars, circles in rectangles, elipses, and more. Any BMP graphic file can be used for a puzzle. The program will give hints if you get stuck, and can also animate the solution for you. A colorful Bart Simpson puzzle is provided. VB source code is included. |
| WINJIG.ZIP | Yes | 117929 | 12/6/1993 | WinJig 0.9 (Tosa, Y.; $1) is a fun jigsaw puzzle game for Windows. It allows you to use any .BMP image as the subject for the puzzle, and you can select various sizes for each puzzle. A check feature shows all incorrectly placed pieces inverted to help you solve the puzzle. Other features include WIN31 sound support, several sample graphic files, and more. |
| WINSAW.ZIP | Yes | 183779 | 9/23/1993 | WinSaw (LeVitt, Richard; $0) is a Windows jigsaw puzzle. You can load any Windows BMP image file from disk and the program converts it into a random set of tiles which you can select and drag into position to recreate the original picture. Only the Windows BMP file format is supported but other formats such as PCX and GIF can be converted into BMP files with programs like Paint Shop. VGA and VBRUN300 required. |
| GUYS.ZIP | Yes | 64354 | 6/9/1994 | Guys! (I.V.S. Entertainment Software; $12) you must lead the "guys" through a hazardous maze to the central exit. Unfortunately, the guys are pretty stupid, and can only follow directional arrows located on the paths in the maze. You must change the direction of the arrows to point toward the exit. Any guys that leave the beaten path die. Guys that run into each other mutate and start changing arrows randomly. Quick mouse reflexes and a lot of practice are required to win at this game. |
| INVMAZW.ZIP | Yes | 69373 | 6/9/1994 | Invisible Maze (R & R Enterprise; $10) creates invisible mazes. Walls only become visible after you run into them. Your score is based on getting out of the maze in the fewest possible moves. |
| LIL1.ZIP | Yes | 338657 | 6/9/1994 | Lost in a Labyrinth 1.0 (AddSoft; $20) is a spectacular three dimensional maze for Windows. It uses beautiful ray-traced images to give you an accurate eyelevel perspective from within the maze. The caption of the window shows the direction in which you are traveling to help you keep your bearings. Amusing statements pop up when you bump into walls. Requires 256-color VGA display, a hard disk, and VBRUN200. |
| LIL2.ZIP | Yes | 279663 | 6/9/1994 | See above. |
| LIL3.ZIP | Yes | 315840 | 6/9/1994 | See above. |
| MASTMAZ.ZIP | Yes | 101775 | 11/11/1993 | Master of the Maze 1.05 (Spice Software; $15) is an incredible 3-D maze game. You must escape multiple levels of twisting mazes, looking for gems and keys. An automapping function helps you see where you have been. There are locked doors, secret doors, ropes to climb, ladders to descend, and much more. 29 mazes are included, ranging from simple to extremely difficult. |
| MAZMAKR.ZIP | Yes | 78808 | 6/9/1994 | MazeMaker 2.01 (Custom Real-Time Software, Inc. ASP; $15) is a multi-floor maze game. Each day the program challenges you with the "Maze of the Day" which is like a house with 4-6 floors and about 2000 rooms. You have to find your way through from beginning to end which is done by jumping between floors. You can choose the easy mazes which only have two floors. If you can do it you are allowed to attempt more difficult mazes up to the ultimate "Maze of the Year!" |
| MAZER.ZIP | Yes | 27024 | 4/18/1994 | Mazer 1.0 is a 3-D maze game for Windows. Just find your way from beginning to end, trying to keep directions straight in your head. (Richard Shock, reg. fee: $10) |
| MAZNMAZ.ZIP | Yes | 13665 | 6/9/1994 | MazinMaze 1.0 (Jendrek, J. P.; $10) will generate and let you solve mazes of varying sizes and difficulty. In EASY mode you are shown all walls and passageways, but in the TOUGH mode walls are invisible and show up only when you bump into them. For people will lots of time to kill there is an IMPOSSIBLE level where the wall are invisible and only a beep lets you know when you hit them. VBRUN is required. (The author can no longer be reached at the address provided in the documentation.) |
| MINEHLP.ZIP | Yes | 17585 | 6/9/1994 | MineHelp (Karrer, Peter; $0) assists you with the Minesweeper game included in Windows 3.1. It is able to solve the simple parts of the puzzle, leaving only the really challenging ones to you. |
| MYNES.ZIP | Yes | 98994 | 12/6/1993 | Mynes (Freed, John; $5) is a variation of the Minesweeper game included with Windows 3.1. The major difference is that you can give yourself up to five lives, so that a careless slip doesn't blow 20 minutes of work. VGA is required. |
| SMAZE1_0.ZIP | Yes | 282864 | 3/15/1994 | SmartMaze 1.0 is an easy to use maze generating utility for Windows. VBRUN300 is included. (Mike Purdy, reg. fee: $9-$12) |
| WINWAY.ZIP | Yes | 21773 | 6/9/1994 | WinWayOut (Tarody, Thomas; $15) is a 3-D maze game that you have to fight your way out of. As you are searching for the exit, you will come across swords. These are needed for slaying the giant spiders that sometime jump out at you. This is a challenging game for maze lovers. |
| BOXWRLD.ZIP | Yes | 34586 | 6/9/1994 | BoxWorld (Jiang, Jeng Long; $5) is an excellent arcade strategy game. You must guide the animated figure around a maze, pushing boxes to cover up gems that are randomly scattered about. The first few levels are fairly easy, but if you're not careful you can box yourself into a corner with no escape. |
| KYE.ZIP | Yes | 35243 | 6/9/1994 | Kye 2.0 (Garbutt, Colin; $various) is an exceptional maze/strategy game. You must get through each level without getting stuck or eaten by beasts. There are numerous types of objects to get around. You will have to start each level over many times as you experiment to see how an object reacts when pushed. Other features include an on-screen maze editor, mouse control, black holes, one-way doors, time bombs, and more. This is a very challenging game with lots of interesting twists. |
| DKF_KYE.ZIP | Yes | 4264 | 6/9/1994 | Dkfky 5 & 6 (Fitgerald, Dennis K.; $0) contains several challenging mazes for the popular game KYE. |
| DKFKY7.ZIP | Yes | 2777 | 3/21/1994 | DKFKY 7 is a set of seven difficult boards for use with the popular Windows shareware game KYE. (Dennis K. Fitzgerald, reg. fee: $0) |
| SOKOBAN.ZIP | Yes | 31199 | 6/9/1994 | Sokoban for Windows 2.2.5 (Liss, Allan B.; $0) The object of this game to push crates scattered about a maze-like warehouse onto the loading dock in the least amount of moves. It is very easy to push yourself into a corner, but levels can be restarted and games can be saved. There are 50 brain-punishing levels. |
| SQ_PLAY.ZIP | Yes | 39839 | 6/9/1994 | Squeeze Play (Henderson Graphics; $15) is a block-pushing type of puzzle, but with a twist you have to push blocks around to trap the creatures before the creatures get you! |
| MSQUARE.ZIP | Yes | 51509 | 9/22/1993 | Magic Squares 1.0.3 (Randy A. Harris ASP; $5) contains three sizes of sliding block puzzles and an intriguing math puzzle for WIN31. |
| MATCHUP.ZIP | Yes | 162362 | 3/24/1994 | MatchUp is a challenging brain-teaser for Windows. The objective is to scramble the tiles, then reorder them as quickly as you can. Each of the 8 identically shaped tiles can be rotated into 4 positions yielding a virtually endless combination of incorrect arrangements, but only one correct one. Other features include amusing sound effects, a high score list, a hint button, and more. (Al Yanchak, reg. fee: $0) |
| SLIDE.ZIP | Yes | 29830 | 9/23/1993 | Picture Slide Puzzle (Interactive Media Design; $5) lets you import any BMP file into a siding puzzle. You can custom design how may squares across the puzzle will be and the size of the squares. Requires VBRUN300. |
| PUZZLE_8.ZIP | Yes | 15739 | 6/23/1993 | Puzzle_8 (Pocket-Sized Software; $5) is a sliding puzzle game. |
| STELLPUZ.ZIP | Yes | 191474 | 6/9/1994 | Stelly's Puzzle Potpourri (James W. Stelly; $15) is a collection of three classic sliding tile puzzles. Interesting background information is provided for each puzzle, and on-line help is readily available. |
| ARROWS.ZIP | Yes | 7894 | 6/9/1994 | Arrows (Doc Software; $5) is a seemingly simple, but challenging puzzle. You must rotate arrows to get five in a row, but when you turn an arrow, it forces the arrow it is pointing at to rotate 90 degrees. Things don't always turn out the way you plan... VBRUN is required. |
| BLAKBOX.ZIP | Yes | 21434 | 6/9/1994 | Black Box 1.0 (Vince the Mince; $0) you must identify the locations of hidden atomic particles on a grid. Clues are obtained by injecting rays into the grid and observing their exit point. This is a great test of logic. |
| BBOX11.ZIP | Yes | 28019 | 11/15/1993 | Black Box 1.1 (Simon Farrell, reg. fee: $5) is a logic game where you have to figure out the location of targets in a grid by firing rays into the box. |
| CBREAKR.ZIP | Yes | 18996 | 6/9/1994 | Code Breaker 1.01a (Fogel, Kenneth and Haden, Charles W.; $0) you must guess the same sequence of numbers that your computer generates from the clues it gives you. |
| CC43.ZIP | Yes | 31312 | 3/18/1994 | ColorCodes 4.3 is a pattern-guessing game for Windows. You try to guess a code involving 4, 5, 6, 8, or 10 colors, or have the computer guess your code. Requires VGA. (George Montgomery, reg. fee: $10) |
| WTHECUBE.ZIP | Yes | 111268 | 12/6/1993 | The Cube 1.0 (KillTime Software; $15) is a rotating cube puzzle. Skill levels range from Beginner to Master. Requires VGA and a mouse. |
| CUBIC.ZIP | Yes | 35002 | 6/9/1994 | Cubic 1.0 (Chappell, Geoffrey; $10-$15) is a well done 3D game of Rubic's Cube. It has a self-solving feature, and you can change the view of the puzzle at any time. This is the closest to the real thing of any Rubic's-type program we've seen. |
| DOT.ZIP | Yes | 12502 | 8/12/1993 | Dot (James Shields; $8) is a deceptively simple little slide-the-pieces puzzle where you try to move the bulls-eye inside the circle. This is much harder than it looks. Requires VBRUN300. |
| FIGURP.ZIP | Yes | 139872 | 4/18/1994 | FigurePic is a unique puzzle game that blends logic and art. You must fill in squares based on the information given by the numbers at the top and side of the grid. When you have correctly filled them in, you will have uncovered a graphic of some sort. Some of the puzzles have amusing animations when solved. (Star Graphics Corp, reg. fee: $33) |
| HANOI.ZIP | Yes | 49065 | 2/17/1994 | The Towers from HANOI (Mohamed Agamia, reg. fee: $10) is a puzzle/strategy game for Windows. |
| HIQ_WIN.ZIP | Yes | 8156 | 6/9/1994 | Hi-Q (Ratsch, Wolfgang; $10-$15) is a logic game in which you must remove pegs from the playing board by jumping over them. Your score is determined by how many pegs you were unable to remove. VBRUN is required. |
| KNIGHT.ZIP | Yes | 10810 | 3/24/1994 | Knight's Tour 2.1 is a demanding test of logic and maze solving played on a chessboard. You must move a knight, which moves in an L pattern, so that every square on the chessboard is landed on once and only once. (reg. fee: $0) |
| LOGIGR.ZIP | Yes | 9339 | 6/9/1993 | Logigram (Mavabe; $10) is unusual puzzle game. |
| LUCAS.ZIP | Yes | 35587 | 6/9/1994 | Lucas's Puzzle 2.1 (Curran, James M.; $5) is a puzzle that seems impossible at first, but which can be solved. As a bonus, digitized sound effects can be heard through your computer's internal speaker or Covox's Voice Master or Sound Master. You have an option to demo a winning game. |
| MISER.ZIP | Yes | 9966 | 6/9/1994 | Miser Mind 1.0 (M & M Productions; $5) is a take-off on the board game of MasterMind. |
| MRMIND.ZIP | Yes | 18668 | 6/9/1994 | MasterMind 1.1 (Curran, James M.; $?) is a Windows 3 version of the well-known game of logic and deduction. This is an excellent game with lots of options and nice colors. |
| NAMEGM.ZIP | Yes | 46422 | 7/16/1993 | Name of the Game 1.0 (TOGGLE BOOLEANS; $0) is a series of increasingly difficult card puzzles. |
| SOLUS.ZIP | Yes | 23517 | 6/9/1994 | Solus 1.5 (Vergos, Yorgo; $10) is an IQ type game where you try to move all the pieces by jumping them over each other. |
| TAKEONE.ZIP | Yes | 27699 | 7/31/1993 | TakeOne 1.03 (Board Games; Jimmy Kavanaugh; 5 Pounds IR) is an interesting variation of peg solitaire. The object is to remove all the markers but one from the board by jumping over other markers either horizontally or vertically. You can play a standard game starting with only one free square, or design your own patterns. Other features include Dead Balls which must be captured with the final move, Watch Balls that cannot be moved until there are only two markers left, instant replay of games at three different speeds, and more. |
| TEETIME.ZIP | Yes | 168855 | 10/15/1993 | Tee Time 1.2 (MerryWare; $20) is an interesting puzzle game. The object of the game is to clear all the blocks on a 10x10 playing grid. The target blocks do not fall but appear in a window for placement, and can be rotated and reversed. The playing grid is divided into four 5x5 quadrants by two mirrors, one vertical and one horizontal. A row or column clears when it can be divided into two halves that are "negative mirrors" of each other. This is a very challenging game. |
| TOBOR.ZIP | Yes | 41240 | 6/9/1994 | Tobor (Lonsky, Nicholas; $5) is a puzzle game in which you must try to move in such a way as to get the Tobor's to run into each other, destroying themselves, before they get to you. (The author can no longer be reached at the address provided in the documentation.) |
| TRIO.ZIP | Yes | 17825 | 8/24/1993 | Trio 1.0 (Torensoft Consulting; $10) is an interesting puzzle game for Windows. The game consists of 81 cards with different colored shapes. To form a Trio and remove cards, you must select three cards where each of the attributes (quantity, shape, color/shading) are all the same or all different. You'll definitely have to put on your thinking cap for this one! Requires VBRUN200. |
| WCUBE.ZIP | Yes | 59421 | 4/22/1994 | wCUBE 1.1.2 is a Windows adaptation of the classic Rubik's Cube. (Fritz Mueller, reg. fee: $0) |
| XFIG10.ZIP | Yes | 107305 | 9/23/1993 | X-Figure 1.0 (Alan Saul; 10 Pounds Sterling) is a crossword puzzle game where the clues refer to numbers rather than words. |