Come Christmas, there's always one of those annoying little plastic puzzles at the bottom of my stocking along with the de rigueur apple and orange. You know the ones, black plastic, a couple of inches square with sliding number or letter tiles on one side. The object being to shove 'em around until something meaningful turns up. Usually, of course, you get utterly fed after a few tries, bin it and go back to eating Terry's chocolate orange. Puzzle is an electronic rendition of same. Thomas Lovell of Peterborough decided that the seasonal dose at Christmas wasn't enough and decided to code a version which you can play all year round Oh well, some programmers just love to punish... AA |