Milnes Jigsaws

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Each Milnes Jigsaw has the following features:

Each puzzle contains an image and the Milnes Player software for that image only.

The Milnes Player will not play any other puzzle or image.
The F11 key displays the completed puzzle image.

Is played off-line (ie you are not connected to the internet to play).

Has 10 Splash Screens that can contain your promotional messages.
Five screens are displayed Pre-puzzle and five are displayed Post-puzzle.
The first and last Splash Screens are used for Milnes use.

Has 9 Sorting Boxes for holding your pieces in.
Toggle them Open/Close by clicking on its icon at the bottom of the screen OR press the Function keys
ie F1 for Box 1, F2 for Box 2, F3 for Box 3 etc.
You can change the colours of the boxes.

The puzzle can be replayed repeatedly and at different degrees of challenge.

When a game is started you select one of the following 4 degrees of challenge which allows for players of different abilities:

	Name	Number of Pieces
	Easy30	30
	Medium130	130
	Harder450	450
	Hidden450	450

Hidden450 is the most challenging - it has several pieces locked in Box 10 which cannot be opened until the puzzle has been completed without these pieces. The number and the positions of the hidden pieces varies each time the game is started.

You pickup pieces with the right mouse click.
You drop the pieces with the left mouse click.
You can drop them into a sorting box - it doesn't have to be open.
You can also pickup the partially completed puzzle.

Rubber-band pickup - similar to above but hold the left mouse click and trace around a group of pieces. Release the mouse click to pick up all the pieces that have been selected.
Drop them as above.

Sort/Layout - click on the to automatically sort and arrange the single pieces - there is one for the Playing Board and one for each Box. This eliminates the tedious arranging of pieces at the start of each puzzle.
We've been told that this is a world first. This is how we sort the pieces.

Show all pieces.
Show edge pieces only.
Show centre pieces only.
Care: this also affects the pieces both on the playing board and the sorting boxes.

The puzzle can be saved throughout the game - it has a .pcp file extension (Partly Completed Puzzle).
To continue playing later just reopen the original puzzle again and load the .pcp file (File Open).