Sprill - The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle starts off with the line "It was a sunny day in the Bermuda Triangle..." which is a sure sign that something is about to go wrong! Sprill the fox is spending a quiet afternoon on the ocean when he is kidnapped by aliens and taken deep under the sea! He is forced to help them solve the mystery of a magical pearl before the aliens will let him go.

Sprill's alien captors direct him to a series of underwater locations to begin searching for clues to unravel the mystery of the pearl. If Sprill is successful, the pearl can be used save the planet, but it won't be easy to find.

This new hidden object game begins when the aliens send you to a sunken ship to start your quest. A list of items to find within each setting will appear on the side of the scene and you will have a (rather generous) time limit to find the needed items. Search high and low to find everything by scanning the setting and clicking on the items as you locate them. If you get stuck, you can use a hint to help you, but don't waste them or you might find yourself out of luck.

The various items are all hidden within the background. Some are very easy to find but others take a lot of hunting and hawk-like vision to spot. However, within almost every level, there are additional hints you can earn by finding variously shaped and colored question marks and clicking on them. These will become very useful as the timer runs low or if you have to find items that you aren't familiar with, such as a balalaika or numbers of amphorae.

After every few levels, you will have to complete a different mechanical puzzle in order to proceed to the next location. These puzzles are similar to the ones found in the Mystery Case Files games, though far less challenging. There weren't very many of them, which is a shame as they break up the monotony nicely.

Within these puzzles, you will be presented with a challenge such as finding a magic shell. In order to accomplish that goal, you will have to figure out a series of steps to maneuver the items on the screen. For instance, one of the puzzles involves dropping lead weights (perhaps cannonballs?) through peg boards onto a seesaw style contraption and then launching one of them up in the air and catching it with a magnet. Once you move the magnet to the center of the screen, a magical item appears...

Our little character has decided to go fishing to the famous Bermuda Triangle. He couldn't even fancy what the whole trip will lead him to... One moment while relaxing aboard his ship the fox felt something strange was going on with his head. When he regained his conscience, he found himself on the bottom of the ocean, and, which amazed him greatly, he felt absolutely no discomfort, for he was able to breathe. This was the work of small green aliens he saw around him.

The aliens told our hero about their problem. Yes, aliens also have problems, whatever you could think. Their home planet, Akvatar, is in danger, and only the Pearl of Poseidon can save it. And...I'm sure you guessed! And that's correct - the Pearl is on one of the ships which have been sinking in the area for quite a long time. Many people taken hostages as Sprill have tried to find it before, but none succeeded. Now Sprill has to do it, otherwise he will be forced to stay underwater forever. And what about all the interesting things waiting for him on the surface? Surely, the courageous fox is determined to complete the mission and return back to his beloved Earth.

This is what the story says. And the game play is quite simple and presents absolutely no problems - you have to examine rooms on different ships to find clues concerning the possible whereabouts of the precious Pearl. For each level you are given a list of items to find, and a number of hints to help you...

Our favorite fox cub, Sprill, is back! Sprill: The Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is a new hidden object game from Alawar Entertainment. The story begins with aliens abducting Sprill and taking him to the bottom of the ocean. The otherworldly visitors explain that they've been sinking ships and planes over the Bermuda Triangle because they need help finding a special pearl that can save their world.

With 35 levels and dozens of sunken ships and planes to explore, there are hours of fun to be had. Each stage must be completed within a specific time limit. While you're searching for the objects you need, Sprill can be seen at the bottom of your screen marking things off his list...

Natalie Brooks - Secrets of Treasure House brings to life the story of a young woman who has inherited her grandmother's house. Join Natalie on a journey to unravel the mystery of the house and find the treasure contained therein. Meet a series of characters along the way that can help you discover the secrets, though beware - not everyone has Natalie's best interest at heart. Act fast, because the city has plans to build a road right through the property!

Similar in some ways to the hugely popular games like Azada and Dream Chronicles, this adventure mystery puzzler is graced with beautiful graphics and an immersive storyline. Bringing together several popular genres, Natalie Brooks - Secrets of Treasure House offers something for almost every gaming taste, whether you enjoy hidden objects, logic puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, adventure, or mystery.

The story line unfolds via a series of comic strip screens and also through the interaction between Natalie and the characters she encounters on her quest. I found the tale very intriguing from the search for the hidden treasure to the revelations about the other character's hidden motives. The tale was engrossing enough to make me want to keep playing just to see what happened, though it could have been enhanced with a clearer translation of the text into English. The ending was rather abrupt and left me scratching my head a bit. Several things were alluded to in the story but never explained or finished before the game ended.

Each "level" consists of a scene in which you use the mouse to interact with the objects. Clicking on an object can add the item to your inventory for later use, cause Natalie to give you a hint about it, or add important information to your notebook. At times you will need to use the items you've picked up to interact with other objects on the screen. For instance, in one level you need to locate and collect some batteries that are scattered around the room. Once you've collected them, you can use the batteries to activate a robot that will then lead to another clue. You are also given a magnifying glass that is quite useful when you need to look at an item for a closer inspection.

The main drawback of this game for me was the poor language in the text. It's doubtful that English is the primary language of the developers. The grammar and spelling errors detracted from the flow of the story - especially during the dialogue between characters - and also presented certain unnecessary challenges within the hidden object mini puzzles. When marketing to a primarily English speaking audience, it would behoove the developer to invest in decent translations...

MAIN GATE
Postcard pieces (1) on the left side of the gate, at the bottom. (2) On the bottom left side, on the grass.
Use the key on the gate to open it.

MANSION
Postcard pieces (1) side of the mirror (2) right side, on the side table (3) right side of the wall, on the sconce.
Click on the statue of the man holding the rifle, on the left side of the scene, and it will expand. Pick up the money, that is at the base of the statue, and it will go into inventory.
Click on the table that is to the right of the mirror and it will expand.
Click on the blue letter and it will expand. (To make the letter small again, click on the outside of it)
Click on the telephone to enlarge it and dial the number that is on the pad, under the word "lawyer" (354-75-62)
Click on the map that is located on the chair that is on the left side of the scene.
Click on the map once it moves to the bottom right side of the screen.

HENRY EDISON'S OFFICE
Pick up the postcard pieces (1) top left side, on top of the cabinet (2) right side, on the last shelf of the cabinet.
Click on the box that is on the desk and it will expand.
Grab the lion amulet and the magnifying glass from inside.
Click on the amulet, it will go next to the brown book for now and will not be used until much later in the game (lower right side).
The game will then ask you to click on the magnifying glass which will take you to the hidden object game.
You can play the game or hit cancel to exit the game.
The hidden object game does not need to be played in order to move on in the game. It is mostly a means to obtain extra hints when needed.
There is a plug on the left side of the cabinet, click on it to pick it up.
Pick up the CD that is in front of the CD player.
Place the plug in the outlet, next to the CD player.Place the CD in the player and Mr. Edison will go to sleep.
Click on the bird cage and the shawl will automatically go into inventory.
Click on the trash can that is under the desk and it will expand.
Grab the rock music CD that is inside and then get the keys that are on the floor next to the trash bin ( the keys will count for 2 pieces)
Put the key on the lock of the top cabinet (right cabinet) once it expands, grab the pen that is inside.
Place the second key on the lower right side cabinet.
Click on the drawer again and once it expands pick up the bird seed from inside.
Grab the bird seed and click it directly onto the parrot. (some dirt will fall on the floor)
Take the shawl from inventory and place it on the small mound of dirt on the floor and a key will appear. (The mouse pointer has to be on the dirt itself, not the shawl)
Place that key on the drawer that is on the top left side of the scene and a key puzzle will appear.
The solution is RANDOM, mine was 3-4-2-1 and on another occasion it was, 1-4-2-3 and also 4-1-3-2. However, in order to solve it, all you have to do is make sure that all keys stay in the middle.
The best way to figure out which key goes first, is to press all four keys.
The one that stays in the middle for the longest amount of time will be the first one you will need to press.
The key that goes back to its original position the fastest is usually the last one in the combination.
Click on the cabinet that is on the top left side. Once it expands, click on the petition with the red seal.
Place the "Rock" CD into the CD player and Mr. Edison will wake up.
Give him the petition first and then the pen...

Natalie Brooks: Secrets of Treasure House. Secrets is an engrossing seek-and-find adventure game in which you play as the title character. When her grandmother passes away, she travels home to tend to family business, only to find herself wrapped up in a mystery surrounding her house and bloodline.

The gameplay is more challenging than most hidden object games because there are numerous adventure-style puzzles to solve. As you travel through the town, you'll meet many different people, including a corrupt cop, a museum archeologist, a smuggler, a lawyer and more. Some of these people want to keep Natalie from discovering the secret inside her grandma's house. As you visit each location, you have to collect certain items to make other objects work. Many mini-puzzles are located throughout the game, too...

Natalie Brooks: Secrets of Treasure House is revolving the leading lady bruks, keeps a section mystical line of sight style Xie Mi with the grandmother which launches for hers inheritance manor plays.

This does the game picture and the similar work compared reduced the full feeling, appeared more has orderliness. Has the cartoon color the character illustration and exaggerates the effect to the person by the intense card dielectric. And includes this makes the unique bank, the office, treasure house and so on the rich scene.

The background music style cheerful relaxed or melodious is humorous, the vivid sound effect also has the good effect, in brief as soon as changes the mystical terror old style of the line.

Natalie Brooks: Secrets of Treasure House has very high seat of honor, seeks the word and secret room the law everybody all extremely to be also familiar. Discovered did not know is plays BUG or the design arrangement, cuts from the secret room solution riddle to the word checkpoint selects the cancellation again, then obtains a time of prompt opportunity...

Museums tend to be rather quiet, studious locales apart from the occasional grade schooler visits (and, not counting the events of Night at the Museum with Ben Stiller). But, not today. All h-e-double hockey sticks has broken loose at the National Museum of History following a 7.6 magnitude earthquake that rocked the city. In fact, it's a frantic room-by-room search and rescue in Escape the Museum.

What started as a warm, beautiful day for Susan Anderson and her daughter Caitlin ends in disastrous suspense when the museum where Susan works is shaken to its core. While able to secure Caitlin safely within the museum, Susan herself is knocked unconscious by falling debris and wakes to a catastrophic shambles. Afterwards it's a frenzied hunt to recover important artifacts while escaping from a maze of debris-barred routes on her way to reunite with Caitlin and flee the devastation together.

In a blend of adventure-style conundrums and hidden-object gameplay, a la Azada and the Dream Chronicles puzzlers, your task in Escape the Museum is to help Susan navigate the crumbling structure by solving a series of 25 object-based puzzles and locating a collection of varied artifacts strewn across some 60 seek-and-find levels. However, it's more than just a string of posers. The game's puzzles and object hunts are knit together via an engaging story, presented in cartoon-style graphics with audio voice-overs, that follows Susan, location-by-location, through the museum. Conversations are handled using a walkie-talkie, cell phone and by e-mail through Susan's handy PDA, which also provides a map of the building.

Object-based puzzles are predominantly of the find-and-combine-items-to-escape-the-room variety. For instance, at one location you need to search a darkened area. This requires a flashlight, which, of course, needs batteries. Other objects nearby include a knife and walkie-talkie. The solution? Open the walkie-talkie with the knife and put its batteries into the light...

Escape the Museum is an utterly fascinating adventure/hidden object game for Windows/Mac that reaches into room escape territory for inspiration. You play as Susan Anderson, a museum curator showing her daughter a dinosaur exhibit when a fierce earthquake rocks the building. Falling debris knocks Susan unconscious, and when she wakes she discovers she's trapped in the room and Caitlin is missing! Find the objects you'll need to reach the exit, then recover precious museum artifacts as you work your way through the rubble searching for your daughter.

Escape the Museum is a lot like Azada or the Dream Chronicles series in that it mixes adventure-style puzzles with light hidden object gameplay. Levels alternate between game modes to keep the experience from growing too dull, and the story is told through a series of cut scenes complete with voice acting. Susan is in contact with several co-workers who provide hints via cell phone, telling her which items she'll need to clear a path to the exit. These usually consist of simple assembly puzzles that require you to locate items or item components and use them in the appropriate area to continue. For example, finding a flashlight and then having to locate batteries and a bulb to make it work, all of which are second nature to room escape fans and adventure enthusiasts alike...

Escape the Museum - Object-Hunting Diversion

I don't know about you, but when I first saw the title I thought about Night at the Museum movie.

But as I dived into the game, I understood that it's a different story. Escape the Museum, developed and published by Gogii Games, is not as friendly and funny as the one with Ben Stiller...

Escape the Museum: Museums are usually not thought of a dangerous place, but the National Museum of History unexpectedly become a disaster area, and its chief scientist Susan caitlin her daughter, who gets stuck in there and separated in a powerful earthquake.

Your first challenge is vestibular Museum, a magnificent rooms and a huge Tyrannosaurus rex fossil at the core. Dinosaurs in the huge and heavy in the head before the doors close, you have to find a way to escape. At the same time in the whole building shake and subsidence, give you a sense of crisis-ridden world.

With similar adventure game, azada or Dream Chronicles, at Escape the Museum, you can click on an object to add it to your list, and then use it at the different place. More interested, move your mouse at the scene, you will find that the mouse will turn into different shapes, but you can also narrow the gap between the screen, you need to carefully inspect the items...

The little rabbit Fridolin is the latest in a long line of pets to go mysteriously missing in what is becoming a common theme in hidden object game storylines. (Not that we're complaining - only a cruel, heartless person wouldn't jump at the opportunity to rescue cute animals.) In Animal Agents you'll do just that, with the unique option of playing as either Anna or Justin and exploring the story from two different points of view.

Anna enjoys spending her holidays on her uncle's farm, where she's joined by her friend Sarah and Sarah's brother Justin. Unfortunately, any hope of a peaceful vacation is shattered when Sarah's new bunny Fridolin goes missing from her backyard. Anna and Justin find evidence that a burglar has been in the backyard, and these clues lead them on an investigation to find out who's been snatching peoples' pets from the neighborhood.

While gameplay is pretty standard hidden object fare - search through different scenes to look for a series of items on a list, some of which turn out to be important clues - what's nice about Animal Agents is that the clues you'll find while searching carry over into the next phase of the investigation, resulting in a clear and coherent story. For example, finding a bottle of pills and a shred of fabric in the backyard leads Anna to head to the pharmacy to try to identify the pills, and to the tailor to see if the fabric matches any clothing. There are 21 scenes to visit in total, including the animal shelter, hotel, diving school, zoo, scrap yard, train station and stable. These locations are marked on an attractive-looking map of the entire town.

While searching for objects, you can find and click on special items that will bestow bonuses like adding more time onto the clock, or revealing the locations of hard-to-find items. There are a limited number of hints, and unlike some other hidden object games you have to find all of the items (instead of most of them), which can be quite challenging...

This week we have been showered with new hidden object games and the latest offering is Animal Agents. Certainly not the worst game in this over populated genre, Animal Agents has you searching through objects to find clues as to the strange and somewhat bizarre disappearance of the neighborhood animals.

Even your pet rabbit has mysteriously disappeared. Has it wandered off and got lost, has it been stolen, or is it being held for something that may prove to be even more sinister?

When Sophie goes out one morning to feed her cute little dwarf rabbit, she discovers to her horror that Fridolin has gone! Her parents are sure that Sophie has forgotten to close the stable door and are deaf to her claims that she has found suspicious footsteps and a mysterious scrap of cloth.

Only her brother Leon and her friend Anna are prepared to stick by her. Together they decide to investigate the theft. Whilst undertaking their detective work, the three animal agents stumble across a major plot and a dark secret. Many more animals have disappeared from the surrounding area!

Renowned for its foggy summers, steep hills, eclectic architecture and famous landmarks like the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island and cable cars, San Francisco is now the site of thousands of cleverly hidden objects in Big City Adventure: San Francisco. That's right. If you're a fan of the hard-to-find, you're in for a delightful time in the city on the bay.

So, what's exactly in store for hunt-and-search aficionados? A scavenger's trip of a lifetime!

Big City Adventure: San Francisco is the latest addition to the popular genre of hidden-object games. Set in cosmopolitan San Francisco, it offers you the chance to visit 20 of the city's famous, and not-so-illustrious, landmarks. In the process, you'll learn some interesting and obscure historical facts, as well as collect some cool mementos.

In all, thousands of objects are concealed amid the game's 120 rounds of cluttered-up fun. Included are 60 rounds of treasure hunting interspersed with an additional 60 rounds of entertaining mini-games (comprised of match-three style play, jigsaw puzzles and memory challenges) that provide a transition between destinations. Each hot spot is also described via a "postcard" that offers some interesting bits of info about its history.

Play begins by entering your name and selecting one of six family members (Dad, Mom, Sister, Brother, Grandpa or Grandma) to represent you. Then, it's off to the first local, Alcatraz Island (other spots include Market & Powell, Haight-Ashbury and the Golden Gate Bridge). While the game doesn't feature traditional separate play modes, you can switch at any time between a Timed and Relaxed mode of play from the Options Screen. Still, you'll usually have plenty of time to find most objects even when playing "on the clock."

Like all games in the genre, what you'll find when you land at each location is a menagerie of items, both appropriate and inappropriate to the surroundings, presented in a manner befitting the best hoarders in the business. Some objects will be quite apparent, while others will be cleverly disguised. In either case, your task is to find all the items listed before time runs out.

But, as alluded to above, gameplay is not just about digging through screen after screen of accumulated junk. Interesting mini-games are used as transitions between San Francisco's numerous locales. Three tile games are employed, including the old memory game where you flip tiles over to match item pairs. In another, objects are visible but must be matched with exact replicas displayed below. Otherwise, you incur a penalty. You'll also find a match-three derivation. In each case, the goal is to break the tile by making correct matches. The last mini-game, a standard jigsaw puzzle, breaks up the tile madness...

I've always wanted to go to San Francisco on vacation, but it hasn't worked out. So Big City Adventure: San Francisco is as close as I can to visit this city full of rich history and fascinating sites. This hidden object game shares all kinds of facts about the city and 20 of its spots.

The game contains 60 levels, so you visit the same spot a few times and pick up a new fact each time you visit. You discover your new destination by completing a mini-game and then do the hunt for hidden objects at the destination. This one nicely ties the hidden object scene and mini-games with the game's San Francisco theme. Be warned… it starts easy, but it will get harder! Avoid any temptation to feel cocky early on like I did.

Upon finding all the objects in a level, you earn a token that appears on the edge of the map screen. The tokens work their way around the map until you've covered all three sides. This helps track your progress. You earn "Quick Find Bonus" points when you find more than one object quickly or complete more than one move closely in the mini-game.

The ultimate feature in this one that should be a standard in all hidden object games: Letting you know when you click something and it turns out to be nothing. Many of the games don't always "hear" your click and you don't want to click again for fear you'll lose points. Not a problem with Big City Adventure SF. The game shows an icon when you click an object that doesn't appear on the list of things you need to find. I'm currently playing another hidden object game and too many times something I clicked earlier turn out to be one of the objects on the list...

If you expect to see another monotonous hidden-object clone, I have to disappoint you.

In this game hidden-objects locations contain animated elements just like in Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile.

What's more important, the graphics itself is amazing.

Each location is created by professional hand with love and great sense of humor.

And when you find yourself on the crowded Market Square, you can hear the sound of the cable car bell and feel like having a hot dog.

In terms of difficulty this game is relatively simple. The time periods for each level are long enough not to make you replay each level for 10 times before you can memorize where all hidden objects are located. I'll tell you a secret: me, I've passed 6 locations in 1 hour being a mediocre detective in MCF...

This is a seek-and-find game where, in a screen-full of diverse objects, you have to find those items which are listed on the bottom of the screen. There is a time limit - or none if you have checked the "Relaxed Mode – no time limits"

This game uses the various local locations of San Francisco to anchor the game. And Oberon does a good job of displaying the map and then selecting the important sites of the city – Alcatraz, the shopping district at Market and Powell, the Opera house, Mission Delores. Before you can access a new area you have to solve a puzzle – a match 3 game, sorting or an actual puzzle. Once you have solved the entire puzzle, you can go back and play it again – with a new group to find...

Big City Adventure: San Francisco Game is a find and seek puzzle game set in San Francisco. Big City Adventure: San Francisco has plenty of levels and is good for several days of game play before you reach the end. Presumably this is going to be continued to other cities. Big City Adventure: San Francisco is good Game value for your family PC and educational, too.

The trip of a lifetime awaits you in Big City Adventure: San Francisco!

Join the Big City Adventure: San Francisco treasure hunt and search for thousands of cleverly hidden items all over the magnificent city of San Francisco!

In Big City Adventure: San Francisco you travel to all of the most famous (and not so famous) locations in this big city adventure in the cosmopolitan city of San Francisco...