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Anagrams This program lets you create a grid of words with jumbled up letters. You have to tell the program the number of letters that your words will contain (up to 30 letters) and then enter the words. The program …

A cross-word grid creator and editor. This program allows you to create cross-word puzzles. Both the empty exercise grids and corrected solutions can be printed out and images and text can be imported. Le MotsCroiseur will work in several different …

A tile matching game To play Plunk!, you must find groups of matching tiles and click on them to remove them from the board. The larger the group, the higher the score. There are hidden bonus tiles which give you …

Escape from a dungeon This is the 3D version of DeadEnd (also available for download on this site) The aim is to guide a blue ball to the yellow exit out of a dungeon. Massive blocks of stone and big …

A brick-breaker This is a classic paddle and brick wall game. It is freeware, although the author requests that you send him a postcard. MacOs PPC

A running game with betting and cheating. You control one of four runners in a race and have the possibility of making bets and cheating by purchasing information and weapons. If you find you don’t have enough money you can …

A adaptation of the electronic Simon game. The aim of this Simon for Mac is to memorize and reproduce different sequences of colors. Simon will light up colored zones in a certain order and the player must then click on …

A french national lottery simulator. This program will display virtual french “loto” tickets and allow you to create simulations of eventual wins. It contains a data base of french “loto” draws from 1976 onwards. PPC

A 3D version of mastermind. This is quite simply a computerized Mastermind. You have to work out a combination of different colors chosen by the computer. This soft reproduces the original Mastermind board-game down to the finest detail and has …

A quick brain-teaser. This is a simple game in which you must remove all the pawns from a board by finding two or more adjacent pawns of the same color and clicking on them. The clicked-on pawns will disappear and …