Description of Puzzle Pak program from Softdepia.com:
Spoker Connect the spokes to the hubs with a click of the mouse. A '5' hub must end up with 5 spokes attached to it, a'2' hub must end up with 2 spokes attacked to it... When every hub has the correct number of spokes, the puzzle is solved. Spokes can NOT cross each other. There are hundreds of unique puzzles to solve. This puzzle is solved. Hedges Each puzzle starts with hedges between every garden. If a garden contains a 6 (like the garden in the upper left corner, then you should be able to see 6 other gardens (count them). Remove hedges until all the gardeners can see the correct number of gardens. There are hundreds of unique puzzles to solve. This puzzle is solved. Neighbors Each puzzle starts with no houses in the lots. If a lot contains a '2' then that lot has two neighbors. A neighbor is a house that is to the right, left, up, or below any other lot. The top-left lot with the '2' has two neighbors, one the the right and one below. The top-right lot contains a '0' and has no neighbors, but has a house because it is a neighbor to the lots below it and to its left. It's a little confusing, but check it out. There are hundreds of unique puzzles to solve. This puzzle is solved. Bee Hive Each bee hive puzzle starts out with no bees. You add the bees to solve the puzzle. There are numbers between the honey combs. If number '2' means there are two bees next to the space between the combs. Look at the '2' at the top-left. There are two bees next to it, one diagonal down-right and another diagonal down left. There are hundreds of unique puzzles to solve. This puzzle is solved.
Description of Puzzle Pak program from developer:
The four puzzle games are -
Spoker v2.0
Hedges v2.0
Neighbors v2.0
Bee Hive v2.0
Spoker - the playing field is made up of rows and columns of hubs with a number in each hub. The number is the correct spoke count coming from the hub. You must attach spokes to the hubs so that all the hubs have the correct number of spokes.
Hedges - the game field is made up of rows and columns of square gardens with a number in each garden. The number represents how many other gardens a person can see while standing in his garden. The object of the game is to remove hedges so that all the gardeners can see the correct number of other gardens.
Neighbors - the game field is made up of rows and columns of housing lots with a number in each lot. The number represents how many neighbors that lot has. A house is a neighbor if it is to the right, left, up or down from another lot. The object of the game is to place houses(with the mouse button) on the lots so that all lots have the correct number of neighbors.
Bee Hive - the game field is made up of a honey comb with a number between every group of 4 combs. The number represents how many bees are in the combs surrounding the number. The object of the game is to place bees (with the mouse button) in the combs so that all combs have the correct number of bees.
There are 4 levels of difficulty for each game. The first two levels have 50 and 100 puzzles to solve. The easy levels are good for teaching numbers, math and problem solving to kids age 8 and up. When you play the hardest levels there are 500 tournament puzzles per level and your goal is to complete as many as you can. The results are saved so you can quit and come back another day. If you get stuck you can see the solution to the tournament puzzles.
After you finish a tournament puzzle you can compare your solution to the computers solution.
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Puzzle Pak is a "Free to try" program. You can download and try it for an evaluation period.
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