Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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Two days ago I started the puzzle game Pandora's Box, and I love it. No, it isn't an adventure game, per se, but it certainly has puzzles galore! Does anyone else like this game as well? So far I've done a few over 100 of the 350 puzzles, and they are really starting to get hard now.
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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I never take this off my hard drive. It's a great way to relax.
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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I had some real fun times with Pandoras Box.
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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ohboy.......you guys are making me want to get this game..........
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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What sorts of games are included in Pandora's Box? When I saw it before, I thought it would be sort of like the 7th Guest. Is is more of a collection of mind games/puzzles or more like Shivers, where you are doing a puzzle to get into a particular room?
What lies behind you and what lies before you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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This post made me want to reload it, so now it's back on the computer and I spent 2 hours playing nonstop I do have 350 puzzles on my version and I intend to play them all this time around. The first puzzles you encounter are all distorted or rearranged pictures to put back into order. Later on there are some vases to reassemble, my personal favorites.
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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I'm playing it on my XP with no problems whatever.
Bryan's mom - there are ten different kinds of puzzles.
There are sliders in a circular format. There are pictoral puzzles with overlapping parts. There are pictoral puzzles cut into strips that go in all directions, and you are given the puzzle in different colors. There are 3D objects with parts of the surface missing, an a stack of pieces to the left, and you have to place them on the surface. There are overlapping outlines of people/objects and you have to fill them in with color to isolate one from the other - these were my favorite, until they started to spin them, Yikes! There are floating hole puzzles. You are shown a blank screen with object shaped holes that roam over the screen, and you have to click them into place where they belong one the underlying picture. There are broken up pictures that you must look at through different lenses to see, then to orient them in the right order to place them to create the picture. There are pictures broken into different size blocks. They are then magnified or miniaturized to fit the block they are shown in. You need to swap them to the right places to see where they should belong. There are objects such as statues, that are sliced into pieces, and you have to orient them in 3D to place back together in the right order.
Ack! I'm missing one type! Oh, well, you get the idea, I'm sure.
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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Thanks for explaining, everyone! This sounds like something I would really like! I just don't like valve and lever/getting machines to work puzzles. I really liked the puzzle in ND: The Scarlet Hand where she had to reassemble the vase, and this sounds like that sort of puzzle! Thanks again, Beth
What lies behind you and what lies before you are tiny matters compared to what lies within you. --Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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Originally posted by Fairygdmther:
There are sliders in a circular format. There are pictoral puzzles with overlapping parts. There are pictoral puzzles cut into strips that go in all directions, and you are given the puzzle in different colors. There are 3D objects with parts of the surface missing, an a stack of pieces to the left, and you have to place them on the surface. There are overlapping outlines of people/objects and you have to fill them in with color to isolate one from the other - these were my favorite, until they started to spin them, Yikes! There are floating hole puzzles. You are shown a blank screen with object shaped holes that roam over the screen, and you have to click them into place where they belong one the underlying picture. There are broken up pictures that you must look at through different lenses to see, then to orient them in the right order to place them to create the picture. There are pictures broken into different size blocks. They are then magnified or miniaturized to fit the block they are shown in. You need to swap them to the right places to see where they should belong. There are objects such as statues, that are sliced into pieces, and you have to orient them in 3D to place back together in the right order.
Ack! I'm missing one type! Oh, well, you get the idea, I'm sure. That's a very good description of the type of puzzles in the game. They're all about reassembling images in various ways - usually 2D but in that one case 3D. I have the original version and I'm quite satisfied with it. I have a friend who had the original and bought the newer version hoping to get new types of puzzles. But she said the new puzzles turned out to be the same varieties only harder. Some of those puzzles in the original version took 2 hours each. I wouldn't want any harder ones.
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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Thank you Jenny 100. I am thoroughly enjoying this game, have just passed 200+. The only ones I really can't get so far are the floating hole puzzles - you just can't see enough of the picture to know where to put the pieces. The longest I've taken so far, and this was to beat one of the challenges at the end of a section, was 50 min. In most cases my times range from 1-20 min. I must say, it is very challenging to assemble a picture or sculpture when you have no idea what the finished product will look like.
Come visit us at Mystery Manor My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light. Edna Saint Vincent Millay
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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Originally posted by Fairygdmther: The only ones I really can't get so far are the floating hole puzzles - you just can't see enough of the picture to know where to put the pieces. Those floating holes are a real challenge! I found the best way to attack them was to take the biggest piece and move it all over the picture while I located where the smallest ones belonged. After I have all the little ones in place, then the bigger ones aren't so hard...
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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To SuMac-I was hoping you saw my earlier message about double clicking it. I'm glad you got it working.
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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You said, Jenny, "Those floating holes are a real challenge! I found the best way to attack them was to take the biggest piece and move it all over the picture while I located where the smallest ones belonged. After I have all the little ones in place, then the bigger ones aren't so hard..."
Are you saying you CAN move them where you want to? I haven't been able to do that, but sometimes I make them sproing across the screen.
Come visit us at Mystery Manor My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light. Edna Saint Vincent Millay
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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I have played Pandora's box on my pc with Windows XP Pro. I used the compatibilty wizard and also downloaded the patch, although I did find that despite the patch and the xp compatibility setup, Pandora's box didn't work right if you had 'autorun' enabled on the cd. So what worked for me was to have a shortcut icon on the desktop and then run it from there. If the CD auto-started, I clicked cancel and then used the desktop icon, worked like a dream. Fantastic game, have played it several times, it never loses it's appeal. It's one Good Point for Microsoft I suppose!!!!!
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Re: Pandora's Box - I'm hooked!
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Well I have been adjusting the speed okay, but today I tried clicking them toward where I want them to go. That did help some. I actually got one of those puzzles!
Come visit us at Mystery Manor My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light. Edna Saint Vincent Millay
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