![]() From Issue 45 Title: Join'em Requires: 4MB RAM, VGA graphics, Windows 3.1 or above. |
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Join'em is a clever puzzle game where you try to remove blocks that are touching, and are of the same color. So, game play is fairly easy - simply find a group of blocks of the same color that are touching, click one to select the group, and then click again to remove them from the board. Depending on how many blocks you remove at a time, you may see your score jump up dramatically. You get (n-2) X (n-2) points for the number of blocks ( "n" ) that are removed. Once blocks are removed from the board, any blocks above the removed group immediately fall down to fill the spaces. If a whole column happens to be removed, columns from the left will shift over to fill the gap. Now comes the strategy. To get better scores you'll want to try and consolidate small groups of same-colored blocks into larger ones before removing them - remember the unique scoring system. Your goal is to remove all the blocks, but you have to be careful, as one false move can strand the other blocks for the rest of the game. Isolated blocks can't be removed from the board. So, take your time and think several moves ahead - there's no clock ticking in this game of skill. |