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Wouldn’t it be wonderful to go hunting for treasures in ancient Mayan ruins for your next holiday? This is a wonderful proposition for a vacation; however if you don’t have the time or money to really go for an expedition, why not experience the thrill while sitting in the comfort of your home? The puzzle game, Jewel Quest is such a game where you have to look for treasures in the ancient Mayan ruins.

This is a free online puzzle game, which is considered to be the ultimate in gem matching games. All you have to do in the game is to go on forming matches of three in a row with the help of interchanging adjacent relics in the puzzler. The aim of the game is to explore the ruins of Mayan civilization while looking for hidden treasures and priceless artifacts.

What you have to do in Jewel Quest is to rearrange valuable relics by turning sand tiles into gold. Once all the tiles in the puzzle board turn gold, you win the game. You tend to encounter more difficult puzzles as you venture deeper into the jungle. These puzzles contain cursed items, buried artifacts and secret twists that you have to look for. By earning the respect of all fellow archaeologists, you get to collect lots of treasure and jewels.

The important thing to remember when playing Jewel Quest is to keep a watch on the time. This is because you have to turn all the bricks into gold within a specified time limit. You have to follow a strategy to win in Jewel Quest. You have to encounter, and progress through 180 challenging puzzles to win in Jewel Quest. As you win each puzzle, you get promoted and get to unlock more and more puzzles and hidden jewels. If you want to improve your score, Jewel Quest offers you the choice of replaying unlocked boards.

Lost cities are enthralling to explore; this is why the puzzle game Lost City of Gold is an addictive puzzle game. The main aim of this game is to discover the secrets of the Lost City of Gold. This is a game where you have to match three ore more pieces that are like colored, and then remove them from the game.

While playing the game Lost City of Gold, color and proximity bombs help you on your way. However make sure you are aware of all the unmovable stone pieces found in the game. While playing the Lost City of Gold, you have to ensure that you work quickly as there is a time limit to the game. If you complete the puzzle in time, you get to climb to the next level in the game.

When playing Lost City of Gold, it is possible for you to keep a tab on your progress in the game. You are helped through the game with the help of color and proximity bombs. However be ready to get addicted to the game as the Lost City of Gold is a very addictive and entertaining game.

While venturing through the dangerous jungles and rivers of the game, you have to collect 9 special jewels with which it is possible for you to create the key that leads you to the treasure room of the Lost City of Gold. The proximity and color bombs found in the game help you with the game. However there are still some stone pieces that can’t be moved, which hinders your progress in the game.

The puzzle game, Lost City of Gold consists of forty five levels; which is sufficient to keep you busy for quite some time. So if you are looking for some family entertainment for you and your family, why not pitch your wits against each other with a healthy and interesting game of the Lost City of Gold.

If you like tribal action, and the computer then the puzzle game Zuma is the online game for you. The aim of this game is to make the stone frog idol you are to fire balls to make sets of three. However speed is essential else you end up out of the game.

Zuma is a puzzle game that offers two fun, but interesting and challenging modes for you to choose from. There is continual excitement in the game with the more than 20 temples for you to explore. The tribal sounds and music prevalent in Zuma makes playing the game more enticing than ever.

While playing Zuma, you have to fight for survival in the jungle temples while attempting to clear a deadly chain by shooting magical balls. The reason you have to clear the deadly chain is to hamper its progress to the golden skull. Moreover with the many dangerous traps out there to slow you down, you have to avoid all this and enjoy the excitement of this action packed game. It is possible to eliminate balls by creating groups of three or more balls of the same color. With this, these balls explode, and get eliminated.

The colored balls found in Zuma tend to creep towards the abyss. It is up to you to stop them by shooting balls from the frog’s mouth. The balls that you shoot from the frog’s mouth have to be in groups of the same color as the creeping balls. This makes the balls disappear. Once the Zuma meter is filled, there is no more addition of balls to the chain.

You control the frog’s head through your mouse pointer where a left click launches the ball from its mouth. When playing Zuma, you have to ensure that your balls don’t reach the golden skull as with this, you lose a life in your game. There are hints offered in this game where you have to look closely where you will find the next ball located behind the frog. You can use beneficial or special balls to slow down your game of Zuma or to blow up groups of balls.

Puzzle games are often very much fun to play and can help in passing a number of hours in rapt attention while trying to solve whichever puzzle is before us. A puzzle game that is much liked and which most people will enjoy playing is named Maxit that is a game that is quite simple to play and it is played on a board that has eight rows as well as eight columns to make a square matrix of sixty-four fields.

Each of the sixty-four fields excepting one has a number that is placed in it and such numbers are randomly picked from a set of predefined numbers that can range from minus nine up to fifteen. The one position that does not contain a number is reserved for the Maxit cursor which is placed there and it is used to show the number of the board’s row from which the player (you in this instance) needs to choose a single field. This field will have a number whose value is added to the player’s (your) score, and one should also be aware of the fact that there are also fields that hold numbers with negative values. Once you choose a field you will then see that the Maxit cursor is moved to that field and the position where the Maxit cursor was previously positioned will then not have any value.

Once you have made your move, you must then wait for the computer to make its own move which will mean that it (the computer) needs to select a field in the same column where the Maxit cursor was placed by you. Whichever number is selected by the computer will be added to its score and the Maxit cursor will then be moved to the field that the computer selected and now it is your turn to play again. This is how the Maxit game continues and it will end only when the computer is unable to make a move.

The original version of Maxit was actually written in the computer language known as BASIC and the author was a person named Harry J. Saal who wrote it in the year 1981 and it was played on the Commodore PET after which it began to be played on IBM machines and was later written again by a person name Owen G Williams which had a better interface of only eighty columns. It later became known as Blue Angel 69 and this was the first time that Maxit was adapted in graphics and colors were used to denote negative and positive numbers instead of the minus and plus signs. Since then, Blue Angel 69 became Sexy Droids and later Murmel. Finally, it has become Erotica which is how the career of Maxit has developed from its early days.

One of the more endearing qualities of a puzzle game such as Darwin’s Dilemma is that it, unlike many other puzzle games, does not have time as a constraining factor and it allows players to spend as much time as they wish to on solving this very exciting and some would say ‘true’ puzzle game. However, this puzzle game known as Darwin’s Dilemma is a Macintosh game only that is quite intriguing to play and requires an identical number of animals in each game whose position can vary and is decided randomly.

The purpose of Darwin’s Dilemma is that Darwin is able to walk all about the screen and in the process can kick the animals, and when the animal is kicked, it will slide in the direction in which it has been kicked till such time as it strikes another animal. If the animal that has been struck happens to be a different type of animal, the animal that was struck will simply stop while if the animal that it strikes happens to be of similar kind then the two animals will merge into one another to form a single animal. In other instances, the animal may even slide off the screen and in that case it comes out on the other side. And, in case the animal that has been kicked does not strike another animal nor does it slide off the screen, then it will simply return to its starting position.

As you may have guessed, the purpose of playing this puzzle game is to be able to get all the animals to merge into one another and under normal circumstances it would take as many as four animals of a kind to go up one step in evolution though this may vary from game to game. Thus, after each of the animals of a particular kind has merged into one, you will have finished with that level in the game.

There are further complications as it would not be possible for the player to complete the level with merely kicking the animals and there are also only so many swaps that are allowed with eight being the maximum when starting out, and two additional ones being given after having completed every new level. Also, if you click the animal and also hold down the apple key it will cause it to change places with Darwin. So, if you wish to succeed with this puzzle game, you need to learn to use the barest minimum swaps as is possible because firstly, they are limited in number and secondly, every time you use them, your score is lowered considerably. However, you should not give up heart as even though it may be very difficult for you in the beginning, with time and experience you can certainly learn how to climb the evolution ladder one level at a time. And, once you get stuck into this puzzle game, you would not be able to stop yourself from playing it more and more.