Winter Mood:

In Brief:
Today's jigsaw puzzle has a winter theme to it and is a 12 x 60 piece jig saw puzzle similar to the Street Art and Fantastic Puzzles we received September 30th and October 20th. These GameREA puzzles are more professionally presented and more challenging than most of the previous puzzles we've been given because of the number of puzzle pieces. Instead of the measly 16 that we've previously been given, in today's game, we have 12 separate puzzles, each with 60 pieces. Although the puzzle pieces are square, each of the twelve puzzles can still be quite challenging.

You can see a video of game play HERE.

Introduction:
Winter puzzles. Each level consists of 60 elements that will have to be rotated to match all the elements. The game contains 12 levels of medium difficulty. The game has a choice of levels and you can start guessing at once any puzzle of your choice. The faster you finish the game, the more points you get, which will be included in the list of records. If you did not have time to finish the game, you can save it and continue playing at any time, each level will be saved separately. With each level, the pictures become a little more complicated. If you are at a loss, then click the icon with a question mark and the game will tell you where to put the desired element. In the game, you can flip through the levels without going through them if they caused difficulty in passing, just press the right arrow. The game will delight you with nice graphics and calm music.

Reference accessed HERE 20th October 2021.

The Game:
Winter puzzles was released two weeks ago, and is similar to the Street Art and Fantastic Puzzles that we received on the Sept 30th and 20th October. It is a 60 piece square jigsaw puzzle with twelve wintery images to solve. Along the bottom of the puzzle grid are seven buttons, the first allows you to see what the image is; to cancel it press the X in the bottom left of the screen. The second and third buttons are to save and access saves, the fourth button turns music on (if it's off), the fifth button restarts the puzzle from the beginning; when this is done, all the pieces of the puzzle are shuffled and reoriented differently. The puzzle pieces are located to the right and left (30 on each side) of the 10 x 6 grid. When placing pieces in the correct position they are not locked like previous jigsaw puzzles we've received from a different developer. Also, if you place a piece wrongly it does not jump back to the periphery like some of the BD Games puzzles we've had recently, you have to put them back manually. This puzzle looks more professional and is very similar to the puzzles we received recently for example Grim Puzzles, Oil Paintings, Oil Canvases 1, 2 & 3, Street Art Puzzles, Fantastic, Autumn Moods and Statue Puzzles by the same developer i.e. GameREA.

There is a level map that allows you to start at whichever image you wish to solve first. When you've completed a puzzle, within a few seconds it will automatically move onto the next puzzle in the level map or if you want to move to a new puzzle press the seventh button at the bottom of the image; this will scroll through each of the puzzles in turn until you've found the one you want to play. There's no back button. Whenever you start the game from the beginning without choosing a level, it always starts with the first puzzle in the set. When you have completed all 12 puzzles you are taken back to the main menu, where you can start again. Each restart of the puzzle you'll find all the puzzle pieces in a different location. Puzzle pieces are orientated in different ways, so you may need to turn the puzzle piece to get it to match up by right clicking on the piece.

You can also see the different mouse and keyboard commands via the second button in the main menu. To close the game use the Esc key.

Progress can supposedly be be saved via the second button, but I tried saving my progress and a completed puzzle before it moved on to the next puzzle, but both the save and the folder buttons (where saves would be saved) buttons seem to be locked. Completed puzzles will revert to unsolved once completed. When you reach and complete the last puzzle the game closes.

There is no timer, just a countdown from 5000. When you complete the puzzle, what's left from the 5000 is placed in a high score table. (I haven't checked this function).

Conclusion:
Winter Mood is one of the best jigsaw puzzles we've received over the past year, with more puzzle pieces to complete, this is likely to take you a good several hours to complete all of the puzzles; that is, so long as you don't use the cheat function that allows you to see what the completed puzzle will look like (pressing the question mark button along the bottom of the grid..

Notes on Security

I scanned a zipped copy of the installed game using Virus Total and it found 2 hits (Dr Web & Jiangmin) from 57 antimalware engines. These two are amongst only several antimalware suites that often tag Falcoware Games compared to most better known and more reliable antimalware engines; so, it's very likely to be a false positive.

The downloaded executable 'may' include some low level adware that only opens your browser once to Falcoware's home page after the game has installed and also 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 following the games installation, 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. Once you've installed the game, there are no more browser redirections. This is because Falcoware removed their installer over a year ago (that installer would show an advert for a game and then open your browser each time you played and then closed the game down.)

You can see the results of the scan via the following link:

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6bba6368466e01edfe9a54f77106145877566aeb659ef487bc049bcb249b7316?nocache=1