Mac Games – reviews and game downloads

Brain fitness is a popular term used today in referencing techniques needed to improve one’s mental capacity and function. Jig Words is a Mac game that can help with stimulating the brain to adapt to quick changes. It will keep your brain on its’ toes by random letters appearing on the screen for you to figure out as many words, three letters and more, as quickly as possible.

There are two game modes in Jig Words. To play the Jig Words mode you click on letter tiles to find all possible combinations of words. By completing each word, you get pieces of the jigsaw puzzle to reveal the picture on the screen. You can even upload your own photos to be incorporated into the games. How fun is that? Also there is a bonus round to enhance and give you more incentive to continue your play. The Word Duel play has free words, tiles with points, and freezing blocker piece meters.

If the Jig Words mode is not enough of a challenge for you who are competitive by nature, go into the Letter Racing mode. With an active internet connection you compete with 3 other opponents online. This will raise your game to a whole new level.

Jig Words is fun and often times a challenging workout for your brain even when you are not competing with others. I don’t think it will increase your vocabulary because you really need to know the words in order to complete the puzzle, but it does make you use your brain in a fast and orderly manner. Your critical thinking skills will be tested to the fullest. Good luck!

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Who doesn’t love Where’s Waldo? Book after book I would search for Waldo in every scenario, time period and location, looking for the familiar cap and glasses in the midst of tangled humanity. Gotcha: Celebrity Secrets is reminiscent of those days of cartoon hidden objects, or in this case people, games.

The scenario for Gotcha: Celebrity Secrets is Gaby’s world of blogging about superstars before her competitor can even get a wisp of a clue. She must be at the right place at the right time in order to get her scoops. She gets tips from callers on her cell and she goes looking for certain informants who could help her with the latest gossip on the celebrities.

Instead of looking for 1 character you look for many kooky cartoons displayed at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes you’ll only have a description of the informant. After finding the people, you will be able to play many side mini games like taking the picture of a movie star onboard a yacht, finding money in the mall, find pieces of an wedding invitation or playing a memory game with postcards.

There’s so much to do in Gotcha: Celebrity Secrets that even though the hidden object play is simple, it’s still a lot of fun looking for those crazy characters. As the levels increased there are a lot of distractions to make your play more difficult. The tourist buses and cars moving across the scene took your mind off the search, but you can still spot your people eventually. The cartoons are funny, the music cute and the scenes are colorful. There are 40 screens, 1000 characters, 40 puzzles and mini games to keep you occupied for a long time.

I think the only thing that would make the game better is if the scenes had mini dramas among all the people. For instance, if someone was getting mugged, someone was slipping on a banana or some small comedy within this hidden object play, may have enhanced the fun factor. In any event, get working on leads and find your informants in Gotcha: Celebrity Secrets.

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Make your grandma proud as the family gets back into the ice cream business to take down the evil Big Co. After being run out of business by Big Co back in the day, grandma now thinks that you have what it takes to revive the ice cream business out of non-loving corporate hands. Players must network their business riding around in your tricked out ice truck and sell ice cream to all the strange individuals in town. Halloween freaks, detectives, clowns, nerds and skate punks all flock to your ice cream asking for all sorts of desserts to buy. All that’s left is for you to throw it together while keeping up with the demand.

Ice Cream Craze: Tycoon Takeover is another point and click restaurant/business game that follows the popular Diner Dash formula: click to make and serve. The concept is generic and has little difference to others of its genre. Even with the extra upgrades to the truck and serving equipment, Ice Cream Craze had me thinking it was impossible to get a five stars out of any customer unless I was psychic in preparing the ice cream. The pressure put on the game is tiring but that’s how most of these games are played. Maybe not the most unique game, but was not a let down in gameplay. I give Ice Cream Craze: Tycoon Takeover a 3.5 out of 5 stars.

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