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© Nodtronics Pty Ltd 2009. 1 CASUAL GAMES COLLECTION Take a break, challenge your mind and join with the millions of people around the world regularly playing ‘casual games’. What are casual games? Casual Games are very engaging yet easy-to-play games designed to exercise your brain and make you think. With so much stress in our daily lives, we all need time to sit back and relax - time to distract ourselves from the hustle and bustle of modern life. The big difference with casual games is that you don’t need to be a ‘hard-core gamer’ to enjoy them - and if you only have a few minutes a day to play - perfect! Studies have shown that just a couple of hours per week of casual gaming can lower stress levels. In addition to this, children who are encouraged to play ‘casual games’ for an hour or two each week have shown improvement in their cognitive ability and manual dexterity. Play as much or as little as you wish, although be warned, once you pick them up, you may not want to put them down. Why are casual games so beneficial? Keeps your brain active - ‘Use it or lose it’. Enhances your decision making process. Expands logical thinking abilities. Increases cognitive ability. Improves manual dexterity. Increases confidence. Improves hand-eye coordination. Promotes stronger concentration. Easy to learn. Suitable for all ages. Lower your stress levels. Can help to bridge the ‘computer game generation gap’ with parents, grandparents and children working together to solve puzzles. Brain Teasers Brain Teasers is a challenging collection of trivia games designed to test and improve your general knowledge. Emphasising local Australian and New Zealand content, Brain Teasers draws its information from around the world. Up-to-date questions, answers and explanations are presented in fun game environments where up to 4 players can participate. At the end of every game, each player can analyse their performance and identify any area of weakness. You can either practise by yourself or challenge your friends to see who will be the next Trivia Master. As an added bonus, create and print your very own trivia quizzes, selecting any number of questions and categories, with a separate answer and explanation sheet. Categories include: Art, Geography, Movies, Politics, Literature, Fauna, General, Music, Science, Technology, Flora, History, Famous People, Television, Sport. Boxed Compilation Windows ME, 2000, XP or VISTA - PC DVD-ROM drive

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Page 1: GAMES Casual Games Product Info

© Nodtronics Pty Ltd 2009. 1

CASUAL GAMES COLLECTION

Take a break, challenge your mind and join with the millions of people around the world regularly playing ‘casual games’.

What are casual games?Casual Games are very engaging yet easy-to-play games designed to exercise your brain and make you think.

With so much stress in our daily lives, we all need time to sit back and relax - time to distract ourselves from the hustle and bustle of modern life. The big difference with casual games is that you don’t need to be a ‘hard-core gamer’ to enjoy them - and if you only have a few minutes a day to play - perfect!

Studies have shown that just a couple of hours per week of casual gaming can lower stress levels. In addition to this, children who are encouraged to play ‘casual games’ for an hour or two each week have shown improvement in their cognitive ability and manual dexterity.Play as much or as little as you wish, although be warned, once you pick them up, you may not want to put them down.

Why are casual games so beneficial?

Keeps your brain active - ‘Use it or lose it’.• Enhances your decision making process.• Expands logical thinking abilities.• Increases cognitive ability.• Improves manual dexterity.• Increases confidence.• Improves hand-eye coordination.•

Promotes stronger concentration.• Easy to learn.• Suitable for all ages.• Lower your stress levels.• Can help to bridge the ‘computer game • generation gap’ with parents, grandparents and children working together to solve puzzles.

Brain TeasersBrain Teasers is a challenging collection of trivia games designed to test and improve your general knowledge. Emphasising local Australian and New Zealand content, Brain Teasers draws its information from around the world.

Up-to-date questions, answers and explanations are presented in fun game environments where up to 4 players can participate. At the end of every game, each player can analyse their performance and identify any area of weakness. You can either practise by yourself or challenge your friends to see who will be the next Trivia Master. As an added bonus, create and print your very own trivia quizzes, selecting any number of questions and categories, with a separate answer and explanation sheet.

Categories include: Art, Geography, Movies, Politics, Literature, Fauna, General, Music, Science,

Technology, Flora, History, Famous People, Television, Sport.

Boxed Compilation

Windows ME, 2000, XP or VISTA - PC DVD-ROM drive

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Eureka’s Ultimate Mah-jonggEureka’s Ultimate Mah-jongg lets you play Mah-jongg like never before! It comes with tile set and tile layout editors as well as everything else you could want from a Mah-jongg game. Eureka’s Ultimate Mah-jongg is more than just a simple Mah-jongg game, these are some of its main features:

Play using 2D or 3D view modes• Eureka’s Ultimate Mah-jongg allows you to quickly switch between 2D and 3D.

Over 1000 pre-made layouts!• Eureka’s Ultimate Mah-jongg comes with an incredible 1000+ tile layouts ready for you to play, all of which are unique and challenging.

Compete against your family, friends or the rest of the world• See who is the best Mah-jongg player by getting your score on the top 10 score board. You can even upload your scores to our website!

Create your own tile images• Put your own pictures onto Mah-jongg tiles and make a custom tile image set. Images can be any size or format for total ease of use.

Unlimited undo and redo• If you make a bad move and need to go back then there is an undo feature, which can undo or redo an unlimited number of moves or shuffles

Original music• Choose from a selection of soothing oriental music created specially for the game.

Create your own Mah-jongg tile layouts• The layout editor which comes integrated into the game couldn’t be easier or more intuitive to use, create new tile layouts to challenge you or your friends.

Get a hint• If you get stuck or need help finding a move then there is a selection of hints available to you, everything from peeking below a layer to matching a chosen tile.

Amazing special effects• Watch tranquil butterflies flutter around the screen and fade away, in 3D mode set up coloured lights or choose from a list of lighting themes. Eureka’s Ultimate Mah-jongg is full of visual effects which make it even more fun.

Mahjongg: Journey of Enlightenment

Embark on an enchanting journey to the world of Mahjong: Journey of Enlightenment. Featuring two playing modes, “Adventure” and the all-new “Free-Play”. In the “Adventure” mode each layout is strategically harder than the last and each layout completed unlocks secret layouts which you can play in the “Free-Play” mode. Can you unlock all the secret items and complete your journey of enlightenment?

Over 1,050 secret items to be found, including 1,000+ layouts!• New “Free-Play” mode lets you play all the layouts you unlock.• Challenging gameplay; race against the clock to win.• Beautiful graphics and special effects.•

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101 Puzzle & Logic Games

3D Aqua Slider• Arcade Chaos• Paratroopers• Atomic 3D Shooter• Blockbuster• Collector• Quadcolor• Remover• Shift Mania• Smart Mix• Strip Mania• Time Mania• Turn Play• Unicolor• Collector• Quadcolor• Remover• Shift Mania• Smart Mix• Colour Wheel• Crossword• Word Match• Word Builder• Word Match• Word Builder•

Flower Garden• Jigsaw Maker• Lord of the Shades• Mahjongg• Maze Cube• Maze Maker Plus• Marble Solitaire• Paper Scissors Rock• Pharaoh’s Pitfall• Egypt Pairs• Moboc• Nylus Danger• Pyramid’s Panic• Sharks• Sunken Treasure• TetriBox• Blocktris• Columns• Mosaic• Pentix• Picktris• Quadrix• Tokkobot• UFOrce Drive• and many more•

101 Card & Board Games

Alaska• American Toad• Auld lang Syne• Backgammon• Baker’s Dozen• Batsford• Beleagured Castle• Bridge• Bristol• Canfield• Card Game 1001• Carlton• Castless in Spain• Chameleon• Checkers• Chess Master• Citadel• Clock Patience• Congress• Constitution• Cruel• Deuces• Draughts• Eagle Wing• Eiffel Tower•

Etowers• Euchre• ForeCell• Fortress• Forty Thieves• FreeCell• Golf• Gypsy• Klondike• Little Forty• Mahjongg• Milligan Harp• Monte Carlo• Penguin• Poker Palace• Pyramid• Rainbow• Red and Black• Scotch Patience• Sea Battle• Sieben bis As• Simple Pairs• Strata Poker• Streets and Alleys• and many more•

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Over 1000 Jigsaw Puzzles

Eureka’s Jigsaw Mania is like playing a real Jigsaw puzzle game packed full of features:

Create your own Jigsaws!• Got a picture? You can turn it into a Jigsaw puzzle to play yourself or send to a friend.

Over 1000 free Jigsaws• Eureka’s Jigsaw Mania has a special built-in Jigsaw Browser and creator feature which makes it easy to find images and turn them into Jigsaw puzzles.

A game for the whole family!• Eureka’s Jigsaw Mania is designed to be simple and easy to use, you can pick it up and play straight away. It’s a game the whole family can enjoy, from the kids to the grandparents.

Email your favourite Jigsaws• Automatically email your new Jigsaws to anyone using the built in email feature.

Unlimited Jigsaw sizes!• Puzzle sizes are only limited by your computers hardware, which means you can have puzzles with 6000 or more pieces.

Overview Window• The overview window allows you to keep track of your large puzzles, it shows where every piece is so you never lose anything.

Save and load your position• Are you right In the middle of a large Jigsaw and need to go out? Well, you can save your current position instantly and come back to it later on.

Varied piece sizes and types• Eureka’s Jigsaw Mania contains different piece sets and sizes, for different ages and abilities.

Ghosted preview mode• This mode allows you to see a transparent image of the finished puzzle in the playing area helping to act as a guide.

Mind Bending Word Puzzles

Hours of fun for the whole family with 20 of the world’s favourite word puzzles in the one package!

Eureka’s Great Wall of Words• Eureka’s Great Wall of Words will test your word building skills in Time Attack, Conquest and Word Search as you strive to beat the clock and save ancient China.

Multimedia Crossword Puzzles• Design your own crossword puzzles. It can automatically fit words into a grid and even output to a file ready to publish on the internet to challenge your friends.

Word Collection• Featuring 11 different puzzles, the Word Collection will test your vocabulary. Have hours of fun solving anagrams, unjumbling words and more...

Puzzle Letters• Swap adjacent letters on the board to make up words with 5 or 6 letters.

3D Master Word Builder• Get the whole family together, or play against the computer in this classic board game. Build words from top to bottom, left to right and even diagonally to take advantages of the bonuses spread around the board.

Word Challenge Extreme• Beat the clock with these 4 classic word puzzles. Make as many words as possible with Word Whiz, discover the 7- letter word in the Word Jumble, guess the hidden word before the hangman appears or hunt for a list of words.

Word Search Maker• Create word searches to challenge yourself and your friends. Add your own word lists and the program will automatically fill in the grid for you in this popular and classic puzzle.