Ten original puzzle types, ranging from quick fixers to brain busters, are included in Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection. Put on your thinking cap for logic puzzles, roll up your sleeves and prepare for eye-hand coordination to handle the action challenges, and engage your brain to outwit the computer in strategic-based contests -- but don't overlook good old-fashioned luck!

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Created by the Russian development group, Mir-Dialogue, the collection contains several puzzles designed or co-designed by Alexey Pajitnov who is known for his worldwide phenomenon Tetris. Of the ten puzzles, the concept for two are credited to Pajitnov while he and Vladimir Pokhilko collaborated on two others.

The Pajitnov-Pokhilko designed games include Fringer, where you must inexorably fight time (ala Tetris) while untangling and untwisting knots from vertically strung ropes, and Charmer, in which you play various flutes causing snakes to rise up to a horizontal vine, thus causing colored pots to disappear from the screen.

In Color Collision, one of two by Alexey Pajitnov, you must control a color-coded moving cursor and hit matching colored circles and sticks to eliminate them and advance to newer levels. In Muddled Casino, the objective is to move target cards off the gambling table using strategy to manipulate them.

Other games include a mix-and-match challenge, Mixed Genetics, in which you must 'breed' varied creatures with different traits to match a target creature, and a logic puzzle called Jewel Chase where you maneuver a thief through mazes, collecting valuable items and opening doors to tougher levels.

Finty Flush has overtones of Minefield as you race the clock and come to grips with spatial configurations, while Lineup also makes use of a multitude of shapes, in this case made up of varying types of sports balls that must be placed 'just right' as in Tetris. The difference here is that you can't rotate the shapes.

The final two games include Spring Weekend, a game that challenges you to rotate rings of various objects to get the configuration to agree with a target display and Rat Poker in which you trap different colored rats and combine them to allow escape from their maze. All ten games provide pop-up windows to register and save high scores.

Alexei Pajitnov of Tetris fame designed several puzzles in this collection of 10 puzzle games. Although the games vary in fun level and originality, most of them, such as Fringer and Finty Flush (which Pajitnov designed), are truly original and fun games that would have been worth the price on their own. The ten games are Fringer, Finty Flush, Mixed Genetics, Charmer, Rat Poker, Color Collision, Lineup, Spring Weekend, Jewel Chase, and Muddled Casino. An amazing value for the money and definitely a keeper for all puzzle enthusiasts.

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1. Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection

Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection

Windows - 1997

Description of Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection Windows

Alexei Pajitnov of Tetris fame designed several puzzles in this collection of 10 puzzle games.

Although the games vary in fun level and originality, most of them, such as Fringer and Finty Flush (which Pajitnov designed), are truly original and fun games that would have been worth the price on their own. The ten games are Fringer, Finty Flush, Mixed Genetics, Charmer, Rat Poker, Color Collision, Lineup, Spring Weekend, Jewel Chase, and Muddled Casino. An amazing value for the money and definitely a keeper for all puzzle enthusiasts.

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ChadMander2020-12-081 point

If you need a product ID use 01234-OEM-0123456-01234

Unowninator2020-11-140 point

It wants a Product ID and won't let me play without one. How do I get one?

NikkiWestside2020-10-151 point

Thank you so much for sharing this. I have honestly looked for Rat Poker among the other games for so many years. I just played one round of each game and I am transported back to my mom and dad's basement having the time of my life. The nostalgia is amazing and I am glad to have and keep these games!

pertilot2020-09-270 point

I LOVE THESE GAMES

David2020-09-130 point

Thank for share!!!. I like playin rat poker

JUSSIE2020-09-015 points

I need the code to install... am i missing somthing?

Erkie2020-07-23-2 points

I got my first computer way back in the late 1990s and it came bundled with Microsoft Entertainment Pack Puzzle edition. After a good run, my trusty old computer died and I had to buy a new one. Yeah it was faster, had more memory and other bells and whistles, but I sure missed the hours and hours of fun I had playing fringer, finty flush, Jewel chase and the other games that came with the puzzle pack. Im so happy that after all these years, decades really, I get to play these awesome old school games again. Thanks!

nad2020-07-121 point

Thanks all, finally managed to play this game. I love them!

No nickname2020-03-10-4 points

All I want is fringer...simply put how can I get it for my phone

Batti2019-06-010 point

I love this web-site, I find my favourite games.
Perfect

Flebbo2019-05-050 point

Thank you so much for this! I was trying to remember what these games were called for years and then I decided to try searching for 'puzzle game rat bubble' and I found it! I'd really missed fringer.

Mrs. Nostalgia2019-03-260 point

This was awesome, these games are so good. If you want to run on a Mac, the Wine program worked well with it. Just download Wine, run the Setup.exe program first to install it, then run Play.exe.

Rumble2019-02-241 point

This is definitely a big dose of nostalgia! Key code listed above works. For anyone having difficulties installing, you need to unzip, then either burn the iso to a disk using your cd burner software, or using that same software (I'm using burn aware free), create a new folder on the desktop and process all files in the iso to that folder. Then run the setup file and you're good. So far, I did not need to change any computer settings to run on windows 10.

Dakota892019-01-111 point

Hi! So, I have a mac (yeah I’m one if those) lol, but growing up we had these games on the family computer. Can these download onto a macbook? I really miss them!
Also I am totally tech illiterate so any help is appreciated:)

Tha Tru Soldja2018-12-20-1 point

For Windows 10 Users Make Sure You Run This In Compatibility Mode for Something Like Windows 7 and you Should be Good

TTMM2018-10-232 points

Hss anyone else had issues running mixed genetics? It is the only reason I downloaded this (LOVED that game) and when I click play it makes a little noise and closes.
I tried changing the compatibility mode and it still won't work.

RangerSequoia2018-09-19-1 point

How do I install this? I'm a total n00b when it comes to abandonware

Nu One2018-08-11-2 points

the product key for this can be all 1s, or all 2s ect...

Vlad2018-06-243 points

It works, 01234-OEM-0123456-01234

Nixie2018-06-203 points

Oh, man, I remember this set! I remember the headaches it initially caused with the certificate number, but then when I managed to find it and uncover it...what fun it was!!
My favorites were Fringer, Color Changer, Charmer, and Rat Poker.

BelongingPluto2018-04-04-1 point

Great! So happy I downloaded this. So many memories! :D

Bluebell2018-02-193 points

When I try to run setup, it says it can't find the language specific DLL. What do I do?

Sandra2018-02-161 point

Works great except my favorite game... Fringer! Some colors of strings just don't appear, which makes it impossible to play! Did anyone have the same problem and find a solution? Thanks!

martin2018-01-230 point

EDIT
I tried compatibility mode, and it works! Oh the nostalgia..

martin2018-01-230 point

every game crashes the second you click on one

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Curses2018-01-101 point

@Kabuki
I used 01234-OEM-0123456-01234 as my product ID. Worked flawlessly. Enjoy your puzzles!

kabuki2017-10-091 point

We need 'Product ID'.
[Locate your 20 digit 'Product ID' and enter it in the space below.
You will find this number on your Certificate of Authenticity.
{ Product ID
{ □-OEM-□-□
[OK] [Exit Setup]
Look please.CD?DVD?BoX? ID

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