help keep track, you can right-click the squares to plant little flags that mean, “Don’t step here.”) You win if you mark all the mine squares with flags.
Purble Place Meet Microsoft’s nod to the next generation of Windows fans: Purble Place, which is geared toward the elementary-school (or even preschool) set (Figure 7-16). Figure 7-16: All three of the games here smack of the games you find on educational CDs like Reader Rabbit.
Which game you play depends on which of the three Fisher-Price-style buildings you click first: •• Purble Pairs. It’s Ye Olde Memory Matching Game. Click any two tiles to reveal what’s on their faces. If they match, they disappear. If not, they spin facedown again; as the game goes on, you have to remember where you saw that darned hat, or cake, or whatever. You’re racing against the clock. •• Comfy Cakes. The TV shows you what kind of cake the chef needs. As the naked cake moves down the assembly lines, you have to click the right pan shape, batter color, frosting flavor, and decoration by clicking the appropriate buttons below the belt. The idea is to make the cake match the one shown on the TV. As you get better, the conveyor belt speeds up (can you say I Love Lucy?). •• Purble Shop. Your mission is to build a Purble character whose features match the mystery dude (marked by the question mark). Each time you assemble some features from the shelves (eyes, nose, mouth) and click the checkmark button, the 298
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