Overview
Microsoft Pandora's Box, also known simply as Pandora's Box, is a puzzle game developed and published by Microsoft for Windows PCs on September 30, 1999.
In Pandora's Box, players solve puzzles at key locales throughout the world in order to capture the spirits of seven "tricksters" from throughout mythology after they are released from opening the titular Pandora's Box.
Using a mouse-based interface, each of the 10 types of puzzles focus on manipulating a piece of 2D or 3D art, usually with a variation of either a jigsaw puzzle or a sliding tile puzzle. There are 350 puzzles in total, split into 35 locales, with each puzzle focusing on a photograph or famous art piece (such as paintings and statues) from that locale. As players progress through the game, they can earn limited-use tokens for use with gaining hints (or even auto-solving puzzles entirely).
The game is known for, and advertised as, being designed by Alexey Pajitnov, who was famous then for creating the puzzle game series Tetris. It later received a "Puzzle Game of the Year" re-release, adding over 50 new puzzles.
Puzzles
- Find and Fill
- Focus Point
- Image Hole
- Interlock
- Jesse's Strips
- Lens Bender
- Outer Layer
- Overlap
- Rotascope
- Slices
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