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This is the "holy grail" of all puzzle games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: January 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is truly an awesome game. I love how the pictures, music and storyline all blend together while at the same time you are cultured and gain a sense of accomplishment. The best games are those where you learn without realizing it. Bravo, Alexey Pajitnov! (If there was any concern, this game is compatible with Windows XP)

Good Puzzles

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 15, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Lots of fun. Not extremely difficult but addictive. Puzzles get harder as you go. Requires some patience so relax. Worth buying.

Endlessly Diverting Puzzles

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Pandora's Box is a cornucopia of puzzles, put together with a slender framing device. You're attempting to recapture the escaped trickster figures from several world mythologies -- each suite of puzzles solved earns you a segment of a little trickster story, and at the end of each level you solve a more challenging puzzle to capture the trickster and move on to the next. It's just enough structure to make you feel like doing the puzzles has a greater purpose -- hey, I'm not just twiddling here, I'm capturing Anansi! -- but not enough to distract from the pure pleasure of solving puzzle after puzzle.

And a pleasure it is. Pandora's Box is beautifully put together, right down to the pleasant background music, the unobtrusive but satisfying sound-effects when you get a piece placed correctly, and the map that you use to navigate (decorated with animated sea serpents!). I'm sure that works of world art were used because the images were in the public domain and hence free -- but who cares? They're gorgeous! Getting to see the picture when you solve each puzzle is a reward in itself.

The puzzle varieties are a mixed bag; I loved the three-dimensional puzzles, the overlaps, and the one in which you swap parts of the image until they're all correctly placed. There's another puzzle format in which you have tiny moving images which must be placed, though -- that one just made me seasick. And I found the "fill-the-outline" puzzles almost impossible to complete on a laptop, at the higher levels. Even with the more annoying puzzles, however, the compulsion to try this one ... and then that one ... and then just one more ... is overwhelming.

This in an incredibly satisfying and relaxing game, and I've never played anything else quite like it. I knocked it down a star rating because a few of the puzzle types are really poorly thought out; I would rather have had less variety of puzzle types, and more of the really good ones. But this is highly recommended title nonetheless.

pandoras box

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: February 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is a fabulous game to play and very relaxing. I just wish they would come out with another one........:-)

Keep those brain cells fresh

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: June 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I bought this game for my significant other and had to load it into my own computer because I was scolded for telling my love how to play. this game and all it's beautiful images will keep you up at night! The puzzles are challenging and frustrating! This game is so addictive, but you feel a heightened sense of intelligence after playing it. I must admit my love is farther ahead in the game than I am, but that is because of the hours being put into the game. Buy this, you will not regret it. I want to get through all the challenges, but I do not want the game to ever end!

ckj

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love this game. When I sit down to play it for just a few minutes, I get so involved that it ends up being a few hours.

Great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I think this is a great game, very challenging, I think it could be a little more fantastical, because you are dealing with pandora's box, but it is a very good game.

Puzzle game that engulfs you in foreign lands!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I loved this game from the first time I ever played it. The puzzles are quite fun and get more difficult as your level of play increases.

I love that you are engulfed in the land you are playing in the puzzle. You are shown scenes from around the world broken down into fun puzzles that keep you challenged all the way until the end of the game. Music plays from each country of origin and the scene is set so realistically that I often play this game to get my desire for travel filled - for the time being ;-).

Great Puzzle Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 25, 2006
Author: Amazon User

It has so many kinds of puzzles. Alot of fun when you have some free time :)

Pandoras Box Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 03, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is very challenging and you learn while completing the puzzles and travel around the world.

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