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Windows

Windows/XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, 11

Pentium 166 MHz or faster

Memory (RAM) at least 256 Mb

Hard disk storage about 70 Mb for your first game and about 10 Mb for each subsequent game

Screen resolution 1024 X 768 or greater
(Works at lower screen resolutions with a Screen Reader or the 7-128 Software GameVoice)

Speakers and sound card if using the 7-128 Software GameVoice or JAWS

Blind enabled games self-voice using SAPI or recorded voices.

JAWS does not appear to support any Java programs, including our games, under any 64-bit version of Windows.

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Inspector Cyndi in Newport Detective Games

Image of Inspector Cyndi Newport, Rhode Island in the 1890's was playground to some of the wealthiest people in the U.S. It also hosted Irish immigrants and a thriving merchant community.

You are a detective with the Newport Police Department.

You travel the streets and mansions of Newport, questioning the high and the low, as you solve crimes.

The world famous police detective, Inspector Cyndi, is on loan to Newport from her home in Vienna, capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

She can help you with advice, and a critique of your efforts.

Come! The game is afoot!

Special for Gamers who are Blind or People who are Getting for Gamers who are Blind

All controls for all Inspector Cyndi in Newport games are keyboard accessible and sound labelled. Special audio prompts maintain a clear context of where the gamer is in the game.

Scenes include descriptions of sounds, scents, textures, and other non-visual elements.

Sighted gamers have eye candy. We include ear candy, special background sounds, for gamers who are not sighted.


Inspector Cyndi in Newport - Death Nell

What happened to the downstairs maid?
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Inspector Cyndi in Newport - The Forgetful Sailor

Who is this mysterious man?
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Inspector Cyndi in Newport - When Irish Spies are Smiling

Who stole Mr. Holland's submarine?
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Inspector Cyndi in Newport - The Unfinished Symphony

The lead trumpet player is face down in the potted palm!
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Inspector Cyndi in Newport - Lights Out

A locked room mystery.
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Inspector Cyndi in Newport - Fall from Grace

Miss Helen Grace Stately has vanished from the Steamship Plymouth!
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Inspector Cyndi in Newport - Dead Man's Chest

Recovered treasure isn't usually such a problem
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Tyler Puzzle Games

Image of a sea shell Challenge your memory, your pattern matching skills, your spatial strategy.

Mind challenging puzzle games. Easy to play, at the first level. Maddening at the tenth level.

Master the Tyler puzzles - Entertaining mind exercises that challenge your brain, not your twitch.

Kim's Game

Can you remember the objects? Against the clock?

Special for Gamers who are Blind or People who are Getting for Gamers who are Blind

All controls for Kim's Game are keyboard accessible and sound labelled. Special audio prompts maintain a clear context of where the gamer is in the game.

Our Game Throttle enables all gamers to slow the game, or to speed up the game.

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Kim's Game is intended for age 10 through adult


Tippicanoe

Matching the animals is easy. Matching them before they become trapped is not!
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Tippicanoe is intended for age 7 through adult


Slider

Slide one tile to match another tile. They both disappear. But it takes strategy to make them all disappear.
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Slider is intended for age 7 through adult


Raindrops

Can you match the patterned raindrops as they fall?
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Raindrops is intended for age 7 through adult


Snowflake

Can you match the ordered set of numbers or images?

Special for Gamers who are Blind or People who are Getting for Gamers who are Blind

All controls for Snowflake are keyboard accessible and sound labelled. Special audio prompts maintain a clear context of where the gamer is in the game.

Our Game Throttle enables all gamers to slow the game, or to speed up the game.

We've implemented a number of improvements suggested by our blind gamers.

THIS GAME IS NOW FREE Snowflake game - click here to get
Snowflake is intended for age 7 through adult


Spotter

Can you match the brightly colored patterns... from memory?
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Spotter is intended for age 7 through adult


Picture Puzzle

Photos disassembled. Assemble them to see fun places!
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Picture Puzzle is intended for age 7 through adult


Orchestra

They play when you touch them; but can anyone remember their order?

Special for Gamers who are Blind or People who are Getting for Gamers who are Blind

All controls for Orchestra are keyboard accessible and sound labelled. Special audio prompts maintain a clear context of where the gamer is in the game.

Our Game Throttle enables all gamers to slow the game, or to speed up the game.

This game has gone through several iterations to implement suggestions by our gamers.

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Orchestra is intended for age 7 through adult


The Edge Game

Match the tiles at the edge, against the clock.
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The Edge Game is intended for age 7 through adult


Tyler Runes

Decode the runic puzzles.
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Tyler Runes is intended for age 7 through adult


Foursquare

Slide the tiles into patterns for points.
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Foursquare is intended for age 7 through adult

WOOPLE Word Games

A Crossword puzzle Challenge your knowledge and hone your word skills.

A variety of mind challenging word puzzle games. Captivating and educational, all will entertain and challenge you.

Master the WOOPLE puzzles - Entertaining mind exercises that challenge your brain, not your twitch.

Special for Gamers who are Blind or People who are Getting for Gamers who are Blind

All controls for all WOOPLE games are keyboard accessible and sound labelled. Special audio prompts maintain a clear context of where the gamer is in the game.

Our Game Throttle enables all gamers to slow the game, or to speed up the game.

As much attention is made to designing word games that are entertaining for gamers who are blind as for sighted gamers.

Word Away

You have a grid of random letters. You build words. Those letters disappear and the grid collapses down to fill the empty spaces. Try to clear the grid. Not for the easily addicted.
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Word Away is intended for age 10 through adult


Word Jungle

If you like hidden word puzzles, you will love this game. Developed by an avid word puzzle gamer.

For a bigger challenge, turn the Easy button off and play without the displayed list.
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Word Jungle is intended for age 10 through adult


Scrambled Sayings

Our culture has a lot of sayings. You'll find old favorites here, as well as many you've never heard before. But you'll have to unscramble the letters first.
THIS GAME IS NOW FREE Scrambled Sayings game - click here to get
Scrambled Sayings is intended for age 10 through adult


The Definition Game

How sharp is your knowledge of what words mean? You might be surprised.
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The Definition Game is intended for age 10 through adult


Sounds Like

Do your emails contain misspellings because some words sound alike? This is a fun way to correct that.
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Sounds Like is intended for age 10 through adult


Spelling Bee

An old-fashioned spelling bee. How many words can you spell correctly before you ultimately fail?
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Spelling Bee is intended for age 10 through adult


Synonyms and Antonyms

This has been called the Word Game equivalent to slalom skiing. It's fast and requires mental agility.
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Synonyms and Antonyms is intended for age 10 through adult


Crossed Quotes

Unscrable the letters and learn a new quote. Sound extra well-educated at the dinner table tonight!
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Crossed Quotes is intended for age 10 through adult

PizzaGames for Children

A teddy bear PizzaGames are accessible, educational games for younger children. They are easy to play and can help your child learn.

Each game is based on a single idea such as "cause and effect", "letter sounds" "addition" and "subtraction". They help the child learn the location of keys on the keyboard.

Above all, they are fun to play.

Special for People who are Getting for Children who are Blind

All controls for all Pizza Games are designed to be audio based and as simple as possible.

The games themselves are designed to be as entertaining for a child who is blind as for a sighted child.

Here Comes the Duck!

Here Comes the Duck! is played by blind or sighted children as young as 2 years. Just touch any key and an animal appears, the child hears its name and its sound.

At some point the Duck appears and chases the animals off the screen.

Do you remember your Jack-in-the-Box?

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The Letters Game

The simplest possible way for a child to learn their letters, visually and by sound.

Press any letter key and an object with a name that starts with that letter appears. The name is spoken so the child learns to associate the letter with the letter sound.

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The Spelling Game

A very simple way for a child to learn to spell.

When the child presses a letter key, the Spelling game spells the names of the objects that appear.

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The Dictionary Game

A quick and easy way for a child to learn the meanings of words.

When the child presses a letter key, an object that begins with that letter is presented.

The game spells the name and speaks the definition of that object.

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FindIt

FindIt is a reasoning game for older children.

The child is given an instruction to find either a given number of things or all things that meet given criteria, such as things one would take to the beach.

The child selects the correct items from a field of 36 items.

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The Numbers Game

The simplest way for a child to learn their first numbers.

The child presses a number key and that many objects appear, visually and via interesting sounds.

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The Numbers Plus Game

A simple way for a child to learn addition.

The child presses a number key and that many objects appear visually and via interesting sounds.

They press a second number key and the total number of objects appear. What could be simpler?

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The Numbers MinusGame

A simple way for a child to learn subtraction.

The child presses a number key and that many objects appear visually and via interesting sounds.

They press a second number key and the reduced number of objects appear.

Our "You owe me X apples." approach introduces the concept of negative numbers.

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What Comes Next?

A simple way to introduce a child to the notion of a logical series.

A series of objects is presented visually and in sound. The child selects from another set of objects, the object that comes next in that series.
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Here Comes the Duck! International

Your child hits any key and hears "Cat, meow meow, Cat" and sees a picture of the animal. They laugh and hit again, to hear and see "Dog, arf arf, Dog"

They keep doing this and hear and see elephants, whales, and other animals until suddenly the Duck appears: "Quack, quack, quack!" triggering cacophony as all the animals run away. Great fun when you're 2 or 3 years old.

All sounds are recorded. Neither a screen reader nor SAPI are required. And now you can set this game to use English, French, Spanish, or (Mandarin) Chinese recorded voices.

It runs on Windows XP through the lated Windows release, including Surface Pro tablets.

Lots of fun in four languages.
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GameBook

Save money and desktop clutter, and play THIS GAME IS NOW FREE games.

Our GameBook contains five games and costs only THIS GAME IS NOW FREE.

Not only does the GameBook save you money, but it reduces the number of game icons on your computer desktop.

All Inspector Cyndi in Newport, Tyler, and WOOPLE games can be played from within the GameBook. So you only need one desktop icon to play many games.

In addition, the GameBook enables you to play our Popcorn games. Popcorn Games are small word and arcade games that we periodically offer for THIS GAME IS NOW FREE at this Web site.

The GameBook comes in two different editions: the Perceptions Edition, which is blind-accessible, and our Standard edition.

GameBook - Standard Edition


The Standard Edition of the GameBook contains 5 games:

Inspector Cyndi in Newport - Death Nell - detective game
Kim's Game - memory game
Word Away - word game
Crambles - word game
Sandusky - arcade game
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GameBook - Perceptions Edition (blind-accessible)


The Perceptions Edition of the GameBook contains 5 games:

Inspector Cyndi in Newport - Death Nell - detective game
Kim's Game - memory game
The Definition Game - word game
Crambles - word game
Completion - word game

Special for Gamers who are Blind or People who are Getting for Gamers who are Blind

All controls for the GameBook and all games in the GameBook - Perceptions Edition are keyboard accessible and sound labelled. Special audio prompts maintain a clear context of where the gamer is in the game.

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GameBook - Word Scholar Edition


The Word Scholar Edition of the GameBook contains 13 word games.
All but two are blind accessible.

Scrambled Sayings - Unscramble the letters to get a saying from our culture

The Definition Game - Do you know what that word means?

Sounds Like - Given a spoken word, which spelling is correct.

Spelling Bee - Who doesn't like an old-fashioned spelling bee?

Synonyms and Antonyms - Race the clock. Requires mental agility.

Crossed Quotes - Famous and not so well known quoutes with their letters mixed up.

Crambles - A simple game. Unscramble a word. Against the clock.

Completion - You supply the missing letters. Against the clock.

Longest Word - How fast can you make long words from a set of letters?

Combo - Given three letters in a row, how many words can you make by adding from a set of letters?

Word Builder - How many words can you make from a limited set of letters?

Word Away - Reduce a grid of letters as you build words (not blind accessible)

Word Jungle - Find words of a given theme in a maze of letters (not blind accessible)

THIS GAME IS NOW FREE GameBook - Word Scholar Edition - click here to get

PizzaBox

Get children's games for less money.

Our PizzaBoxes contain multiple games for less than you would pay for individual games.

All of our PizzaGames can be played from within the PizzaBox.
And they can be played directly from your computer's desktop,

Special for People who are Getting for Children who are Blind

All controls for all Pizza Games are designed to be audio based and as simple as possible.

The games themselves are designed to be as entertaining for a child who is blind as for a sighted child.

The PizzaBox comes in two different editions.

PizzaGames - Baby Bear Edition


the BabyBear edition contains 3 games for toddlers age 2 - 5:

Here Comes the Duck! - Playable by blind 2-year olds
The Letters Game - Teaches A, B, C's
The Numbers Game - Teaches numbers.

THIS GAME IS NOW FREE Pizza Box - Baby Bear Edition - click here to get


PizzaGames - Mama Bear Edition


the Mama Bear edition contains 4 games for children age 4 - 7:

The Spelling Game - Teaches spelling
The Dictionary Game - Teaches definitions
The Numbers Plus Game - Teaches addition.
The Numbers minus Game - Teaches subtraction.

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