Others say...

"Pandoras Box Game"
This game is very challenging and you learn while completing the puzzles and travel around the world.

"no good"
Neither the orignal or the replacement worked and I have returned both. I have yet to receive a refund of my purchse, which also included another game, which didn't work in a completely different way. The fact that the games don't show up on my account as a purchase, which I suppose is because I used 1 click shopping for the first and last time, makes it worse. All I know is its awfully hard to make contact or get satisfaction, when the computer does'nt acknowledge the purchase. Even cotacting by e-mail is made difficult by the redundant pre formed responses by the automated customer service. By the way , I'm running XP pro on an athlon 64 bit processor, and every other game I've purchased have worked.

"Unbelievably bad!!!!!"
UUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I read the reviews before I purchased this game. I CAN"T believe how boring this game is. Puzzles are simple to solve and the story line is cheezy!!! I am a puzzle game addict. This one, unfortunately, will be used as a coaster.!

"Endlessly Diverting Puzzles"
Pandora's Box is a cornucopia of puzzles, put together with a slender framing device. You're attempting to recapture the escaped trickster figures from several world mythologies -- each suite of puzzles solved earns you a segment of a little trickster story, and at the end of each level you solve a more challenging puzzle to capture the trickster and move on to the next. It's just enough structure to make you feel like doing the puzzles has a greater purpose -- hey, I'm not just twiddling here, I'm capturing Anansi! -- but not enough to distract from the pure pleasure of solving puzzle after puzzle.

And a pleasure it is. Pandora's Box is beautifully put together, right down to the pleasant background music, the unobtrusive but satisfying sound-effects when you get a piece placed correctly, and the map that you use to navigate (decorated with animated sea serpents!). I'm sure that works of world art were used because the images were in the public domain and hence free -- but who cares? They're gorgeous! Getting to see the picture when you solve each puzzle is a reward in itself.

The puzzle varieties are a mixed bag; I loved the three-dimensional puzzles, the overlaps, and the one in which you swap parts of the image until they're all correctly placed. There's another puzzle format in which you have tiny moving images which must be placed, though -- that one just made me seasick. And I found the "fill-the-outline" puzzles almost impossible to complete on a laptop, at the higher levels. Even with the more annoying puzzles, however, the compulsion to try this one ... and then that one ... and then just one more ... is overwhelming.

This in an incredibly satisfying and relaxing game, and I've never played anything else quite like it. I knocked it down a star rating because a few of the puzzle types are really poorly thought out; I would rather have had less variety of puzzle types, and more of the really good ones. But this is highly recommended title nonetheless.

"Keep those brain cells fresh"
I bought this game for my significant other and had to load it into my own computer because I was scolded for telling my love how to play. this game and all it's beautiful images will keep you up at night! The puzzles are challenging and frustrating! This game is so addictive, but you feel a heightened sense of intelligence after playing it. I must admit my love is farther ahead in the game than I am, but that is because of the hours being put into the game. Buy this, you will not regret it. I want to get through all the challenges, but I do not want the game to ever end!