S-Venn (Goram Eriksson) diagrams to drive you barmy
There are some variations in the games though, including Venn diagram puzzles Now, it’s been so long since I’ve done these so I was glad to have my wife (who’s a junior school teacher) by my side to tell me what on earth I had to do. Basically, the game begins with a few circles; let’s call them A, B, C. Each circle relates to something different, for example A may be a shape, B could be a musical instrument or maybe a food type, and C may be a colour; let’s say red.You’re then presented with a number of different objects which you then need to sort into the relevant circles. Now, this is where it gets slightly tricky, especially if you’re a bit slow like me. If you’re presented with a red trumpet you need to place it in the cross section between B and C, because it’s an instrument and it’s red, whereas a blue square would simply be placed in the A circle. Get it? To make it more difficult, there are sections in the game where the puzzles are timed or feature more than just three circles. These puzzles are actually quite good fun once you get into it, but once again they’re more suitable to school children who will be familiar with such odd ways of thinking.
For fear of really doing your heads in with this review, which is rapidly in danger of turning into a maths lesson -and a pretty poor one at that - I’m going to keep it short and sweet with my explanation of the other puzzles you’ll encounter.
There’s a memory match game (‘Simon Says’ with sounds) and a game called ‘Pop'n'drop’ (see screenshot above) which takes place on a Tetris style grid and involves you matching objects in rows based on their shape, colour and type. That’s it, that’s all the puzzles; and although they did keep me entertained for a couple of evenings I’d soon racked up the 10 tickets needed to play the exciting sounding ‘Prize Popper’. Click the drop-down box for the next page.