thinking (27 products)

Align It! 2.41 (Shareware, $14.95)

This highly addictive game will keep you thinking for hours. The simple object: Prevent the board from filling up completely by aligning balls of the same color into a vertical, horizontal or diagonal row. The lines disappear, increasing your score and freeing up space on the board. Longer lines give you a higher score, but shorter lines are easier to build. As you try to line up the colors, more balls will come down to block your path until there is no more room for useful moves. This great-looking game is easy to learn, but hard to master. Plus - an optional Internet gaming mode is included.

Arcade Lines 1.64 (Shareware, $14.95)

How about a nice game for unwinding while you have a break? Try Arcade Lines - A relaxing, yet highly addictive puzzle game featuring brilliant graphics, optional pulsating music and a great variety of different game modes. It is very easy to learn, but not so easy to master! You'll be hooked for hours. Arcade Lines is played on a board that fills up during game play with a variety of colored pieces. You have a very simple objective: prevent the board from filling by forming rows of 5 or more pieces of the same color. The completed rows will disappear, leaving the spaces for new pieces. Sounds too easy? Build more lines in consecutive moves to get the combo bonus for a higher score. Only one piece may be moved with every turn, and only then if there is a clear path to its destination. As space becomes scarce there are less useful moves to choose from, so the game becomes increasingly more difficult. 6 difficulty levels, the time-based and the custom game modes plus various additional game pieces like the two-

Beeline 1.0 (Shareware, $19.95)

Meet with adventures of a small bee! Guide it through the fields

BOXES1 7.0 (Shareware, $19.95)

BOXES v7.0 [ASP]:

BrainBurst! 1.3 (Shareware, $10)

BrainBurst! is the ultimate puzzle game. The goal of the game is to get rid of all the squares. BrainBurst! will challenge and improve your abstract thinking and logic. Different interface skins and a lot of levels are available to change the look and feeling of the game.

Brainstorm Bungy 1.20 (Shareware, $39)

Do not be afraid - this is not about jumping off a bridge with a rubber band attached to your legs. The only stretching here is of minds as Brainstorm Bungy facilitates group brainstorming sessions. It provides a powerful, yet simple means of recording ideas and then evaluating them against agreed and weighted criteria.

BUBBLES 1.5 (Shareware, $19.95)

BUBBLES (ASP) from DynoTech Software. Unique puzzle game plays upside down! Maneuver the rising bubbles so they float into matching bubble pods. Watch out for nasty soap scum! See awesome digital graphics, listen to your favorite classical music, save games, pause play when you need a break, and much more. Requires: 486 or faster (Pentium 166 recommended); 8MB RAM (16 MB RAM Recommended); Windows 3x/9x/2000/NT; High color SVGA; Sound Card (optional, but highly recommended). - [www.dynotech.com]

Buckets 2.0 (Shareware)

Buckets is a game that does not fit easily into any standard game category. It is a sorting game in which arrays of colorful objects must be sorted into two or three buckets based on shared features. Buckets requires flexible thinking rather than knowledge of trivia. The puzzles range in difficulty from childish to devilish. Nobody can play just one.

Bunch 1.01 (Shareware, $9.95)

Bunch is a highly addictive puzzle game that can be played by absolutely anyone! The general aim in Bunch is to group

ConceptDraw MINDMAP 3 (Shareware, $99.00)

ConceptDraw MINDMAP 3 - Brainstorming, mind mapping and visual thinking ConceptDraw MINDMAP is your personal assistant when discussing ideas, making decisions and planning projects. It enables you to present information in a simple, visual way by building trees of ideas or Mind Maps. Use ConceptDraw MINDMAP to organize brainstorming sessions, take notes, plan your work and make presentations. Macintosh and Windows versions are available

Dino Trilogy 4.0 (Shareware, $29.95)

Get three exciting educational games for ages 5-12 at single low price: Dino Match (Memory Building), Dino Numbers (Arithmetic Skills), and Dino Spell (Spelling Practice). These Windows games have been optimized to work with Windows 9x and OS/2 Warp [NSTL Certified]. Dino Trilogy was designed by a team of professional educators.

Five+ 2.72 (Shareware, $14.95)

Five+ is a simple and yet extremely addictive puzzle/strategy game with nice graphics. It is even simple for kids to learn and has yet enough strategy to keep adults entertained for hours. The object is to line up five or more pieces of the same color. When you do so, those pieces are removed from the board and points are scored. Moves are made horizontally or vertically but not diagonally. For every move you make, the computer places three more pieces on the board. You race to make as many moves as possible before the board fills up and no more moves may be made. The game's attractive graphics look best in high color or true color modes, plus nice sound effects (which may be toggled off) are built-in. Play Five+ on your own or use the unique Internet gaming mode to compete with thousands of other Five+ players from all over the world at the same time. Can you beat the world's Top 10 highscores?

Galactic Battle 1.2 (Shareware, $19.95)

Galactic Battle is an easy to learn yet hard to master turn based space strategy game. Your are fighting for survival against a number of AIs that control rival star empires. To win the game you need to cleverly develop your planets, colonize (read: conquer) new ones, and keep the computer from grabbing too much of what is meant to be YOUR galaxy. Mass fleets, divide and conquer, protect your well populated worlds from marauding armies, make tactical advances, and develop new technologies to boost your armies' strength and fleets' range.

JumpOver 5.00.0405 (Shareware, $16.95)

JumpOver is a varied PC version of the classic peg game Solitaire. The aim of the game is easy to understand but hard to succeed: Try to remove the marbles on the board by jumping over the marbles nearby.