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LABYRINTH OF CRETE +1Clk Windows 11 10 8 7 Vista XP Install

LABYRINTH OF CRETE +1Clk Windows 11 10 8 7 Vista XP Install

$ 19.95


Actual Game

 

Labryinth of Crete

1-Click Install
Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista, XP

(Philips 1995)

MY PROMISE
My games are genuine, install in one step, look, sound and play in Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP like they did in the old days, or your money back. This is my unconditional guarantee for three years.

WHAT IS INCLUDED
This listing includes the original game CD. Online help is available within the game. The box is pictured for reference and is not included.

I will also provide a compatibility CD that will allow the game to run under ALL VERSIONS of Windows 11, 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP, both 32 and 64 bit.

INSTALLATION
One step: Insert my CD and the game will automatically work on your computer. Done. Yes, it's that simple.

Want to play? Click the icon. Want the game off your computer? Click Uninstall. Zero hassle.

TECH SUPPORT
Rapid response technical support for three years is always an e-mail or phone call away.

In the extremely rare event I cannot get this title to work on your system I will take it back for a full refund. All I ask is minimal assistance from you during the troubleshooting process.

 

The Game
Labyrinth of Crete is based on Greek Mythology. You have been sentenced to death for stealing from Hera, Queen of the Gods. However, a reprieve from Zeus leaves you trapped inside the Labyrinth and you must solve a series of puzzles in order to escape.

You can play up to 12 separate games, each one consisting of 47 challenges. These take the form of word, shape, action, memory and logic puzzles. You can set the level of difficulty (choosing from Beginner, Advanced and Expert) for each of the types of challenge and it is also possible to change this while you are playing. This can be particularly useful if you get completely stuck halfway through a particular game and don't want to start a new one at a different level of difficulty.

In most challenges, clicking the right mouse button or pressing the space bar brings up a menu bar from which you can get instructions on how to play, reset the puzzle, in some cases undo your last action, alter the difficulty and change to a different challenge or swap to another game. An autosave feature keeps track of the challenges you have solved in each game you are playing.

When you begin a new game you are shown an animated introduction which leaves you in what is called the god directory. Here you have five doors to choose from leading to the temples of Poseidon, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes and Hades. Here too are the exit to the Labyrinth guarded by the Minotaur and a door into the Maze of Madness.

Clicking on one of these doors takes you into the first challenge, Patchwork. This action puzzle involves putting together a picture from 42 blocks which move across the screen - something like a combination of Tetris and electronic jigsaw puzzles - and you have a rather distorted monochrome representation of the picture to guide you. If you get three blocks in the wrong place then the challenge resets to the last correctly assembled row. The pictures are quite elaborate and this type of challenge can require a good deal of experimentation. It quickly becomes apparent that practice makes things easier, especially when you try to complete the penultimate row when your decision time is greatly reduced.

Successful completion of the patchwork action challenge leads on to a further three challenges in each temple. These can be

Words: Tracer

Shapes: Block

Memory: Arcade

Logic: Scramble, Maze, Maze of Madness, Minotaur Armoury and Zodiac Tile.

Tracer presents you with a grid of hexagons with letters on them. You are given the starting letter and must trace out a sentence by clicking on adjacent letters. A message area shows how many words and letters there are in the solution and fills these in as you go. Sentences all relate to Greek mythology and/or astrology, for example, 'The water lily and the willow are symbols of Pisces'.

Block is a pentominoes puzzle where you must make up a rectangle of anywhere between 6 and 15 different shaped pieces. None of these can be rotated or lifted out of the borders of the rectangular shape. Sliding them around each other can be a nightmare and this was the only type of challenge where I finally had to resort to reducing the level of difficulty at which I was playing. At Expert level you get no clues as to which piece should go where; at lower levels you get either one piece or the layout of the whole lot to guide you.

Arcade consists of a number of astrological symbols floating up the screen. Clicking on each of these turns on or off one or more lights in the background picture. The objective is to select the right symbols to turn on all the lights. This is not too difficult although I found it impossible without making a written note of what effect clicking on each symbol had.

Scramble shows a zodiac symbol split into eight pieces. You have to rearrange these by clicking on certain hotspots in the surrounding picture. Each of these hotspots swaps two of the pieces. Here again, I found most of these puzzles impossible to do without writing the results down.

Maze sets out two words, one at the top and one at the bottom of the screen. The letters of one of these can be picked up and dragged through the maze where they are 'morphed' into different letters according to the symbols they pass over. The objective is to change all the letters in one word to match those in the other.

Tile is a logic challenge in which you are shown a set of three, four or five tiles. Choosing one moves this tile to the bottom of the screen. The god (or goddess) against whom you are playing then chooses one and moves it to the top. This repeats until you each have three tiles and they are then scored. However, the trick is that you don't know the rules governing the game and what makes a winning row will differ from game to game. I found that doing some astrological research helped here.

After solving all the five god challenges you have to get through the Maze of Madness. This consists of a screen full of zodiac symbols which you must select in the right order and the clues for solving this are found somewhere in the Labyrinth.

When you have successfully completed all 47 challenges, clicking on the game piece at the start will enable you to play any of the challenges separately without having to work your way to them through another game.

Labyrinth of Crete is worth dipping into now and again and I certainly learned a few things about Greek mythology and astrology while I was playing it.

 


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