[Q] Games similiar to FOOL'S ERRAND?
Oskar Itzinger
Some time ago I'd finished Cliff Johnson's THE FOOL'S ERRAND which I enjoyed
very much.
Are there any recent similiar, i.e. purely puzzle-based, games available?
I'm familiar with Sierra's DR.BRAIN games but these are really much too
simple to be of any challenge. No, I'm after games which are on a comparable
difficulty level to FOOL's ERRAND.
Thanx.
/oskar
Zorg
Thanx.
/oskar>>
Try At the Carnival or 3 in Three, both by Cliff Johnson
matthew b charlap apmt stnt
In article <4v0r2u$c...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Zorg <zo...@aol.com> wrote:
>><<Some time ago I'd finished Cliff Johnson's THE FOOL'S ERRAND which I
>>enjoyed
>>very much.
>>Are there any recent similiar, i.e. purely puzzle-based, games available?
>Try At the Carnival or 3 in Three, both by Cliff Johnson
Did these every come out for the PC? I thought they were only on the MAC.
(I played 3 in 3 on a friend's machine- a lot of fun. didn't ever find Carnival
though)
--Matthew
Cathy Artigues
At the Carnival was out for the PC. Never heard of 3 in 3 though.
Another PC game that was similar was Are We There Yet about a family on
a cross country journey to each of the 50 states. There were two puzzles
per state. Most of the puzzles in these games are translations of
classic paper and pencil puzzles onto the computer screen.
Another group would be games that are like playing with 3-D puzzle toys
(ball mazes, Rubik's cube, 3-D jigsaws, chess sets, etc.) Games I would
put in this category would be 7th Guest, 11th Hour, Jewels of the
Oracle, Karma - Curse of the 12 Caves (I happen to have Karma for sale
or trade, e-mail me if interested.)
You might also like some of Sierra's games. The Goblins series and The
Incredible Machine games involve setting up Rube Goldberg-like chain
reactions; some of which are pretty hard to figure out. The Dr. Brain
games are definitely oriented towards children.
Cathy Artigues
arti...@sisna.com
Stuart Southerland
In article <1996Aug16.1...@njitgw.njit.edu>,
mbc...@hertz.njit.edu (matthew b charlap apmt stnt) wrote:
> In article <4v0r2u$c...@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, Zorg <zo...@aol.com> wrote:
> >><<Some time ago I'd finished Cliff Johnson's THE FOOL'S ERRAND which I
> >>enjoyed
> >>very much.
> >>Are there any recent similiar, i.e. purely puzzle-based, games available?
>
> >Try At the Carnival or 3 in Three, both by Cliff Johnson
>
> Did these every come out for the PC? I thought they were only on the MAC.
> (I played 3 in 3 on a friend's machine- a lot of fun. didn't ever find
Carnival
> though)
>
There is a fairly new Cliff Johnson game called Merlin's Aprentice. (1995)
It's a PC/Mac hybrid game. Philips has done the worst job of all time in
promoting a game designed by someone who, only a short time ago, made one
of the most popular Mac games of all time. (Three in Three) You can't
find it anywhere. I had to get the game directly from Phillips.
BTW, it's not as good as Three in Three or The Fool's Errand, but it's
worth getting. Especially if you liked those games. (The box has a 1-800
number on it -340-7888)