Anyone else get a ....video driver problem....says to reboot....Messes up your display resolution and colors?!

I thought this was a great game until this run time error!

:P

CATHERINE,
all the software delivered by Giveaway of the Day must be installed activated on the same day, so you get the full version of the software without trial limitation.
Please carefully read the instructions which you can find in readme.txt file. This readme.txt file is enclosed with all our downloads.

YES I SEEM TO HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM WITH THE GAME AFTER INSTALLING IT I MYSELF DID SEE THE 60 MINUTE TIME LIMIT BUT THOUGHT SINCE I DOWNLOADED IT FROM YOUR SITE AND WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS A FREE GAME IT DIDN'T SAY DEMO...I REALLY LOVED THE GAME BUT WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED WHEN I COULDN'T PLAY AFTER THE SIXTY MINUTES SO I DELETED AND UNINSTALLED THE GAME....I KNOW YOU ONLY GET 24 HOURS TO DOWNLOAD , BUT PLEASE COULD I STILL GET THE FULL FREE VERSION....I WOULD GTEATLY APPRECIATE IT...THANX, CATHERINE....PEACE

Thanks, I like this game. I have a job leaving it, now if I only had more words..........

Thanks for the info re: error, Game Seeker. Unfortunately, that didn't fix it. :(

Any other suggestions? The error screen shows MANY items.

Game Seeker, thanks for the tip about unchecking the 3D acceleration. My newer computer has a good graphics card and everything works fine on it, but my old computer doesn't have a 3D graphics card so I can't play a lot of games on it. I thought this one might work, but like the other two people it kept crashing when I spelled a bonus word. I'll try your tip. Thanks again!

Re: #73 Roy L & #90 Sids:
Open the game, go into Options and uncheck 3D acceleration to shut it off, click OK. Close the game and then reopen it. Try spelling one of the words in the bottom and see if that corrects the problem.

Spelling one of the bonus words on the bottom starts 3D acceleration to create the exploding letters effect. If your graphics card does not have a 3D accelerator you will not get the exploding letters, instead it will crash the game and an error message will display. Graphics cards not meant specifically for gaming usually don't have 3D accelerators.

I have encountered the same problem as # 73 - As soon as one of the three ‘bonus’ words listed at the bottom of the screen is spelled, the game shuts down and a fatal error message is given. It happened more than twice with me, can someone suggest how to fix this problem.

I love word games and this is one of the better word games I have run across. It is a lot of fun! I am a retired lady and live in Finland and I tell you, I enjoy your games very much. Thank you GGAOTD! The things that keep me busy is computer games and crocheting. So again, Thank you.

This game is soo cool!

I downloaded the game keywords and when going to play it , ot said that I had a 50 min trial thought maybe heck since not having a problem before downloading games here maybe it would by pass it well playing for 15 mins it took the mins away...What did I do wrong and is it to late to fix it now to get the full version as I REALLY LIKE IT.

great game - many thanks

I love this game. Thanks so much. You guys are great!!!

Had to return and reply to #58's insuation about raising kids by proxy. We live deep in the Missouri woods, with trees so thing, we have to have sunshine trucked in ..well, almost...

Our hometown is so small, we do not even have a stoplight. There are very few activities for the kids, especially during the winter months. The young'ns here cannot go outdoors very often during the winter months. The past few weeks, for example, have been at or below freezing and included one major ice storm and several snow storms.

Weather permitting, I have the grandkids and a passel of their friends outdoors, exploring the Missouri River or one of the hundreds of local creeks and streams. We look for fossils (palentology lesson), admire unusual rock formations (geology lesson), pick wildflowers to take home and identify (a little biology) and watch the wild life, which includes everything from snakes and skunks to deer and bison. We go fishing, and every child has their own pole and tackle. We join the Missouri Stream Teams and clean up streams and rivers (an environmental lesson).

So, forgive us country folk if we happen to appreciate an activity to occupy, educate and entertain the house-bound, active young minds in our midst.

By the way, I am in complete agreement with you; parents should be treating child-rearing as a hands-on, 100% participation activity. Grandparents should be in on the fun, too!

Giveaway Team, thanks again for a wonderful gift. Meridian: good job on the software and graphics!

This Game Is Pretty Good,It Is Better Than Some That Has Been Offered On GAOTD,But Not As Good As Others.I Guess It All Depends On What You Like.I'd Rate This Game As A 6.

I downloaded...scanned w/ norton corporate...no virus found...Installed per instructions to the T...no virus found....My son and I played and had a blast...He's 6 and one of the first words he spelled was dinosaur...from there he was hooked...tomorrow he and i are going bike riding in the park...seems like everyone wants to complain about something. In our household we have a globe...several books...see my blog on book reviews...i think someone got their PANTALOONs in a bind without knowing reality. When it comes to education even school system use computer games. When someone makes the comment that this will help spelling or geography...it means they found one tool...I hope someone here doesn't keep only one screwdriver in their tool box and think they can fix everything...jeez what morons.

it wort dunlode an aredy impruve me vocabalrie. tanks givem!

Re: #58 pantaloon: You seem to enjoy the idea of direct education rather than anyone sending you off to look things up yourself. So let's begin some direct education, shall we? :) You have a bit of a problem with misquoting. When phrases are enclosed in quotes it is called an ATTRIBUTION, which when properly done is exactly what someone else said.

This is what you attributed to others:

“This screensaver will teach my kids all about geography”
“This game will sure help with my six-year-old daughter’s spelling homework.”

However no other poster said either statement, those were solely YOUR words. Using your own words to convey what someone else said is called PARAPHRASING. However, it is never proper to attribute your own paraphrasing as direct quotes from others! That's known as MISREPRESENTATION.

Now the following are actually direct quotes:

"It’ll definitely help my kids with learning geography!"

"This may help my 6 year old daughter enjoy her spelling homework each week; I hope, and in a fun way too."

"Delightful spelling game that the grandkids will undoubtedly enjoy."

"Our children and grandchildren deserve every educational tool we can offer."

"My wife and family will love this."

"My son and I played this..."

"My son said, let’s try it and now we are glad we did."

"We homeschool so it’s both entertaining and educational."

"It is a game you can actually enjoy playing with them."

As you can see, the statements above clearly show a completely different meaning than your most unfortunate paraphrases. This is why we must never misrepresent our own paraphrasing as attributions. Hope you and your children enjoy playing today's word game together, as the posters above have clearly done already. Have a wonderful day!

Comment #58 Pantaloon; How you can make such a judgemental assumption that we "rely" on computers to raise our children from just a few comments is beyond me? Both my wife and I are teachers and work very hard to educate our children using a multitude of strategies. For example, they are taken on regular holidays, not sitting on the beach and sunning yourself type holidays, but informative and exciting holidays where they learn about different cultures and languages, exploring cave systems and volcanoes, taking trips in submarines and glass bottomed boats, watching dolphins and sharks, or developing skills such as skiing. My children, aged 6 and 8 are better skiers than me now. Each week my children go to a variety of clubs and sporting events such as cubs/rainbows, dance, gymnastics and swimming as well as music, art and language (French) lessons. Callum is learning to play the alto saxophone at the moment. They also regularly visit friends, all of which contribute towards educating my children, with the aim of developing well rounded personalities that will give them a good start in life. We have regular family gatherings where we communicate with distant relatives who live in Poland and Australia via one of the messenger services, we haven’t set up a web cam yet but intend to soon as the visuals will enhance the experience further. My children read every night, as well as contribute towards family discussions. We try to play board games on a regular basis to encourage group participation and the development of social skills. We prioritise homework before the children are allowed to watch TV or have some time on the computer for fun, which if used judiciously can be a very satisfying and useful way of learning, even when they are playing games. Would you really have your children learning to read, and or spell using only the "old fashioned" and flawed methods of yesteryear? Just check on the “www” for figures of adult illiteracy and innumeracy and you will see that there are an appalling number of adults (from pre computer times) who can't read, write or count properly. Using visual and audio cue’s, such as colour, sound and animation’s; as in the game offered today, together with the incentives the game has for achieving more complex words, makes for a much more powerful learning tool than more traditional methods of teaching.

I noted your comment over on the Giveaway site, in which you said that "the day you find your kids entranced by a screensaver is the day the computer goes out on the curb".............I could very well make some assumptions about your poor children with respect to that appalling comment, but I wont as I wouldn't be so presumptuous. You obviously have your children’s welfare at heart, which is one of the most important thing a parent could wish for; so unless you know for certain that children were just plonked in front of a monitor and allowed to do as they wished. I would suggest you keep those sorts of opinions to yourself, because they are out dated, judgemental, and down right rude.

Have you never been transfixed by something. My 8 year old son just so happens to have a flourishing interest in Astronomy. I've already bought him a refractive telescope, and we make a point of noting interesting astronomical events such as the total eclipse of the moon last week. He'd just completed a piece of homework about the planets and solar system when the solar system screensaver was given away several weeks ago and because he actually knew some of the information that was shown on the screen, he did become transfixed. Now what's so unusual about that? It shows a deep interest in what he was looking at, which can only be a good thing; in my professional opinion. By the way, my son has a reading age well above that of his peers and has been given a "statement" as a gifted child, which enables him to have ‘one to one’ teaching for specific lessons at school.

From a concerned parent who thinks computers are a very useful tool to educate their children.

I'm having trouble activating this one. i click on activate.exe, the popup box comes up and says it's connecting, but then it just sits there. Any ideas?

Follow-up information from comment #69:

Exception: Access Violation (code 0xc0000005) at address 004AD596 in thread 180
Module: KeyWords.exe
Logical Address: 0001:000AC596

0012F164 004AD596 0001:000AC596 KeyWords.exe
Params: 01780790 00000026 44104E36 0012F1D0

0012F1F0 004629EC 0001:000619EC KeyWords.exe
Params: 0012F2AC 032C9DB8 0012F2AC 01FBF7B0

0012F290 00461380 0001:00060380 KeyWords.exe
Params: 0012F410 0012F2AC 00B4A2C8 05ACB6A0

0012F310 004D2209 0001:000D1209 KeyWords.exe
Params: 016AAEC8 0012F3C4 76B44E5B 0012F924

0012F434 004D0B6F 0001:000CFB6F KeyWords.exe
Params: 00000000 0012F500 0012F924 0012F478

0012F4A4 004BDB49 0001:000BCB49 KeyWords.exe
Params: 0000072F 0012F924 0012F51B 00000000

0012F4D4 004BC394 0001:000BB394 KeyWords.exe
Params: 00000001 0012F924 0012F924 00000000

0012F508 004BEF98 0001:000BDF98 KeyWords.exe
Params: 0012F51B 0012F924 0012F924 0012F684

0012F51C 004BA6B5 0001:000B96B5 KeyWords.exe
Params: 0012F924 004833F2 08347FE0 0012F924

0012F684 0052A2E8 0001:001292E8 KeyWords.exe
Params: 7FFDE000 7C80B529 00000000 00000000

0012FFC0 0048C573 0001:0008B573 KeyWords.exe
Params: 00340031 00350030 7FFDE000 8054A938

0012FFF0 7C816D4F RegisterWaitForInputIdle+49
Params: 006358D0 00000000 78746341 00000020

StackWalk failed (error 0)

EAX:063A1EC8 EBX:01780790 ECX:0019D5FA EDX:063A1090 ESI:00C9B106 EDI:000026D7
EIP:004AD596 ESP:0012F094 EBP:0012F164
CS:001B SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:003B GS:0000
Flags:00010202

Windows Ver: NT 5.1 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
DDraw Ver: 5.03.2600.2180
DSound Ver: 5.3.2600.2180

Product: Product
Version:
Time Loaded: 00:00:59
Fullscreen: Yes
Primary ThreadId: 180

If people can't say anything about the game - or anything nice to OTHERS maybe they shouldn't be allowed to post! (ie # 58)

I thought this was all about being glad that we get offered FREE games!

Just my thoughts.

Fatal error?

I keep getting the Exception: Access Violation. Really is a shame since I enjoy the first minute of the game before it crashes. I've uninstalled and reinstalled the program. Oh well, maybe the next time. Back to the air hockey!

As soon as one of the three 'bonus' words listed at the bottom of the screen is spelled, the game shuts down and a fatal error message is given. Had it happen twice, will delete game unless someone knows how to fix.

had to use mirror site but no problems for download and activation time to start a new word game addiction

Can anybody tell me if this game is fun for adults, or only young kids? Thanks.

Thank you #5!! Seeing as there are too many people reporting a virus i cant take the chance! I just cant believe these other people did!!

I (foolishly) did as recommended and ignored the many flags my AV sent up when I tried to install it. Then my system froze, and I rebooted. The system worked just fine until I opened the Keywords folder on the start menu, then it froze again. I had to reboot into safe mode to remove the program from my computer.

To everyone having trouble activating the game: READ THE README.TXT FILE FIRST.

Thanks.

Janto2, you have to click the Activate key to activate this game. When you extract the files from the zipped folder, there is an Activate key, setup, and a readme. First, click the Activate, a window should pop up saying successfully activated, then the Gamegiveaway site usually comes up. Then you can click setup and install the game and your game will be a full version.
Sometimes the activation key is included in the setup, sometimes it's separate, and once in a while there is a registration code that you have to cut and paste. Each game is different.
This game is pretty good, the graphics remind me of Zuma Deluxe.
Thanks GOTD for another nice giveaway!

Great word game! Colorful graphics, good game play and nice sound track. Spelling certain common words makes sounds, like "dog" (barks), "cat" (meows), "pig" (snorts), "gong" (gongs), "cow" (moos), coin (coin drops), etc. Spelling "rain" makes the sound of rain and pours droplets down the screen. There's a "common words" directory in the game's folders that shows what words include sounds. Tried adding ogg files to that directory for more sounds on spelled words but it didn't work, guess it only works with the included ogg files.

To keep it interesting there's bonuses, award medals, a 'trophy room' and a map that progresses with each level completed. There's also three words to match, green tiles located right under where it says "Player Info" on the bottom right. Match any of those three for extra points, words are replaced as they are matched so there's always three. Supports multiple player profiles and games are saved by profile for finishing later. Options for changing sound and music volume, fullscreen or windowed, 3D acclereration on/off, custom cursor option.

People unable to run previous Robin games should be able to run this one, minimum 600 MHz as opposed to 1 GHz. Anyone still getting crashes, etc., try shutting the 3D acceleration off in Options.

Re: #29 Margie, & #49 Linda: Run activate.exe (double click on it) to get the full registered version. The file activate.exe is in the zip file downloaded from the site.

Re: #32 sk: readme.txt is in the zip file. There's three files there, activate.exe, readme.txt, and setup.exe

Re: #38 Ian: You can't get the mini golf game for free anymore. Games have to be activated within the 24 hrs. they are posted.

Re: #55 Vonnie: False positive, there's no trojan.

The screen shots don't do justice to the game. Much nicer...
Again for those haveing trouble activating the games & software. The games here ARE full versions with NO time limits if installed today. Un-zip, install and READ the 'readme.txt' file for instructions to complete the process. (Just another suggestion: Scan & read these fourms to see solutions that others have found.) All games & software provided by GOTD are tested to be safe from any spy/adware, viruses or trojans Etc.. You may on occasion get a "False-positive' from your anti-virus or firewall. Take note of the experience of others. Most people are successfully using this site. If others are NOT having problems, consider that the problem is yours and not GOTD....
"Thumbs-up" from me for todays game.

What a great disappointment to find a virus in this game! This is the kind of game I love best but once my system spotted the virus I cancelled the install and deleted all files. :-(

I thought all these games were supposed to be certified clean?

I am hesitant to buy the game from the developer since it looks like the virus comes from them.

Hesitate to install until someone from the "giveaway" site can verify whether a Trojan is present in this game.......

no tips, but my Antivir produced the same finding during installation. I don't know if it's a false detection, but I do not want to take the risk, although the game raised my attention.

what did i do wrong? keeps going to page saying i have 25 minutes left of play time. downloaded as usual....need help is someone knows a solution or was this just for demo?

Fantastic, thanks guys! Very addictive, cleverly designed and I'm enjoying this one. Thanks Giveawayoftheday! :)

ITS GAME VERY NIIICE!

While I have only good things to say about today's game, I can't help noticing a disturbing trend in the comments almost every day. That's the number of parents who seem to rely on computers to help raise their children. Both of today's giveaways are nice, but there are a lot of people saying things like "This screensaver will teach my kids all about geography" or "This game will sure help with my six-year-old daughter's spelling homework."
Here's a revolutionary idea: Instead of sitting around all day waiting like pigeons in the park for your daily hand-out, buy a board game and spend some time with your kids. Get a globe and help them with their geography. Sit down with them and actually show an interest! Computers are wonderful tools and completely necessary in today's world, and they can be a lot of fun, but I don't expect them to raise my kids any more than my parents expected television to raise theirs.
You can disagree all you want, but when your children are pasty-faced, atrophied parents themselves with the same utter disregard for spelling and grammar that is displayed in these comments sections, you'll think back on the days when you fobbed them off with a free game or dismissed them with "look it up on the internet."

Maybe hl2 tomarrow?

Not that great.. Sorry.

Anyone have any tips about the Trojan that Anti Vir finds?

Trojan Horse alert when trying to install. Cancelled installation.

great game always has been would be nice to have a stratergy game on here thanks tho

I was hesistant to download this wordgame for once because the screenshots on the web page look a bit gloomy. One word game that we love, but that is not running good on XP is Lexicon. My son said, let's try it and now we are glad we did. It is great for working on his English spelling. If you have kids in school, go and download it. It is a game you can actually enjoy playing with them.

I cannot find the keycode to turn on most games. Where do I find it? Most of the games lately only have a 60 minute playtime. Am I downloading wrong or what???

have dowloaded,exacted all files,activated,then setup,still can't open the game,keep getting a popup telling me that it didn't italize and needs to be termanated,have installed three times and keep getting the same thing,first time having any problems with any of the games,really like this kind of games and would like to try it.any help would be apperiated,thanks.

this is a demo..what's the key

I really enjoyed what I got to play of this game but unfortunately keep getting a fatal error as well.