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There is a a second limited giveaway available today for the 3D action RPG Zack 2: Celestine's Map by Smart Olive Games (who has previously gave away both A.D.M(Angels,Demons And Men) and ADM 2 (WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE) a number of times over the last few years as well as the beta version of Zack 2 last September 2020. You'll find todays giveaway page for Zack 2 HERE; you can also check the game out via the Steam page HERE. There will be 500 keys available for the game next week when all the winners will be announced.

Ultimate Puzzles Dogs:

In Brief:
Ultimate Puzzles Dogs is a simple 16 square piece's jigsaw puzzle with seven images (the most images in one of these games so far) and no lugs.

Introduction:
Ultimate Puzzles Dogs is a new collection of puzzles that is dedicated to different dogs. Choose the puzzle and put it forward. Each puzzle is 4x4 in size, but the complication is that the puzzles need to be rotated in the right direction.

Reference accessed HERE 18th August 2021

The Game:
Ultimate Puzzles Dogs is another of those jigsaw puzzles from UniDen with square shaped puzzle pieces that have no lugs. We get seven images to solve. The theme is dogs.

We've had several of these types of puzzle games previously from the developer UniDen including Cats, Cars 1, 2 & 3 as well as America, Countries, France, Nature, Nature 2, Animals 1, 2, 3 & 4, Marine Life 1 & 2, China and Japan. Uniden have also given us a few other non jigsaw games such as Knight's Tetris, Rockcar, Super Checkers, Rubix's Adventure and Legend of the Fallen Castle 1 & 2.

Each of the puzzles is made up of 16 square pieces. which are placed on a 4 x 4 grid i.e. 16 pieces. Most of the pieces are not oriented correctly, so you will need to change their orientation by clicking on the piece with the left mouse button. Each click turns the piece clockwise 90 degrees. To place a piece on the board use the left mouse button, grab then move to the grid section you think it belongs on. If it is correct it will lock in place; if it's the wrong place it will move to a random place on the periphery of the jigsaws grid. The addition of rotating the pieces and also placing them in different places each time you attempt to complete the puzzle adds to the difficulty slightly. Also, some pieces will overlap at the start of each attempt and in some cases totally obscure one or more pieces. You can restart any of the puzzles at any time by clicking on the back arrow.

All the puzzles are relatively simple. An adult could easily complete the whole game in around 10 to 15 minutes at the very least. I think the developer is asking far too much over on Itch.io for a jigsaw with only five puzzle images and with only a small 4 x 4 grid at $5 per game. If all of the series were to be combined, it would seem a fairer price. That said, there are free jigsaw programs available online that in my opinion are far better than today's jigsaw puzzle; (okay it's free today).

The giveaway team gave away a jigsaw puzzle called Infinite Jigsaw Puzzle on Feb 13th 2008 which allowed your own images to be added to the game; plus, it had several jigsaw shapes from complex lugged shapes to various geometric shapes (though no squares) and you could adjust the difficulty from around 25 pieces to over a thousand. You could also create categories to place your image as well. I've still got that puzzle and sometimes dip into it, with several hundred images added over the years since I've had it. I'd buy it from the original developer if I could find them (Media Research Group); basically as a thank you for such a great jigsaw game that I received for free and have had many hours of enjoyment from it over the intervening thirteen years.

Notes on Security
I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game and it found zero hits from 58 antimalware engines. The downloaded executable may include some low level adware that only opens your browser to Falcoware's home page after the game has installed and places four shortcuts onto your desktop (which can be safely deleted once the game has installed). The installation does not inject any malware into your system. When your browser is opened to Falcoware's home page when the game has been installed, it earns Falcoware games some money, part of which is given to the developer of the game for allowing the game to be given away free. You can see the results of the scan via the following link:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/64b84b962b8ab027cef7ac202272488f4209b58c74a992e26f46cd96f2d7a58e/detection