NoteCard is an educational utility that will give you drill at recognizing music notes. It can significantly shorten the time it takes to learn to recognize the notes instantly, an absolutely necessary ability for fluent reading. As notes are displayed on a musical staff, you enter the note name, or click in the appropriate place on a piano keyboard or guitar neck graphic. Provides practice with both treble and bass staves. Work through twelve levels as your skill builds. NoteCard is an ideal tool for anyone in the first stages of learning to read music.
Oktagon comprises two separate octagonal puzzles. In the first, you must rearrange a set of four to eight irregular shapes to form an octagon. This is based on a puzzle in our shareware game Uncle Julius and the Anywhere Machine. In the second puzzle, you must rotate six concentric octagonal rings until all have the same orientation. The catch is that the rings are linked, so that rotating one also rotates one or two others.
An abstract two-player strategy game with a twist: instead of moving your pieces yourself, you control them indirectly by means of a cursor on an auxiliary board. You can make more than one move on the same turn, and capture more than one piece in a single move. Despite its novel features, Venables is easy to learn. The computer provides a patient opponent while you are getting used to the game.
A word game in which your task is to unscramble a familiar catchphrase. For each letter in the phrase you get from three to six choices. You must pick the right ones to recover the jumbled phrase. Configurable phrase lists! Five time limit options! Four difficulty levels!