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If you love puzzles then this is a must!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I don't like most computer games. I only like word games and puzzle games. This is the ultimate puzzle game. Although many of the puzzles are in the same style the become increasingly more and more difficult as you progress through the game. And as a bonus even if you haven't played for a while it is still fun to go back and try them all again. HINT: If you find the piece early go back and solve all the puzzles. Every 10 puzzles you solve you get a reward and as the puzzles get harder you will need all the help you can get!

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 ;-).

EXCELLENT!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 29, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This games is fun, challenging and it shows you the world! It takes much skill and thought, especially at the upper levels. But the neatest thing about this games is that you get to see works of art, architecture and pictures of exotic and historical places all over the world. Very educational and fun!

FUN!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Wonderful group of puzzles. Graduated difficulty levels of different kinds of visual puzzles, most of which are variations of jigsaws. I have played almost daily for over a year now and still love it.

Excellent puzzle game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game is a steal for just $10. The puzzles are interesting and consist of piecing together art or sculptures from around the world, using about 6 different types of puzzle varieties. Some puzzles are simple and involve moving picture pieces around until they match up, others are more complex involving "strips" of pictures to be assembled together, or filling in colors to identify certain items from pictures (not as easy as it sounds).. I found the variety of puzzles really kept things interesting. And the exotic music that accompanies the puzzles is fantastic- it varies according to each locale and really adds a great dimension to the game. There's also an overriding mythical story to the game which adds a nice touch, so it doesn't feel like one is just endlessly solving puzzles without a goal. Hoping they will make a Pandora's Box 2 sometime!

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.

no good

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 7
Date: August 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Neither the orignal or the replacement worked and I have returned both. I have yet to receive a refund of my purchse, which also included another game, which didn't work in a completely different way. The fact that the games don't show up on my account as a purchase, which I suppose is because I used 1 click shopping for the first and last time, makes it worse. All I know is its awfully hard to make contact or get satisfaction, when the computer does'nt acknowledge the purchase. Even cotacting by e-mail is made difficult by the redundant pre formed responses by the automated customer service. By the way , I'm running XP pro on an athlon 64 bit processor, and every other game I've purchased have worked.

Unbelievably bad!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 6
Date: July 24, 2006
Author: Amazon User

UUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I read the reviews before I purchased this game. I CAN"T believe how boring this game is. Puzzles are simple to solve and the story line is cheezy!!! I am a puzzle game addict. This one, unfortunately, will be used as a coaster.!

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.

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!

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