Challenge 1:
Software Publisher's CODIE Excellence in Software Award
"A puzzle-meister's delight!"
- Computer Gaming World: Choice Award. 4.5 Stars rating.
"Infuriatingly addictive!" - Reuter's
Recommended. Family tested overall score rating 88. (rating before family testing 87)
- Family PC
"4 out of 4 Stars!" - New York Daily News
Top Ten Miscellaneous Games. #1 Smart Games Challenge 1.
- Computer Retail Week
Consumer Digest: Best Educational Software for Kids (November/December 1996)
Children's Software: Five Stars: All Star Software, (December 1996/January 1997) Holiday Buyer's Guide (top 15 games of the year)
Word Puzzles:
"Another winner from Smart Games."
- CGW 4 star rating
"Something for everyone"
"A fresh spin on classic word games."
- Family PC: Score 88
Children's Software Revue: Holiday Buyer's Guide 1996. (One of best fifteen games of the year). 4.5 stars.
"Word Puzzles inspires food for thought."
USA Today: Pick
(5/14/97)
StrataJams:
Working Mother Magazine: Best of 1997 Software: (December/January 1998)
"There's something for every brain speed."
- HOME PC
"Smart Games are to gaming what Baked Lays are to chips: hot-selling, less filling, and totally munchable. Their success attests to our desire for familiar puzzles on the desktop."
GameSpot: (July 21, 1990)
Challenge 2:
"Hundreds of hours of mind bending enjoyment." "The best bunch of brain busters ever."
CGW: 1998 Premiere Award: Puzzle Game of the Year
Children's Software Review: All Star Award
Family PC: Recommended. 90 Rating. #1 in Holiday Hot 100. One of Family PC's 1998 top ten products.
"The finest computer puzzle collection I've seen" - Burt Hochberg, Games Magazine
"The perfect gift for anyone who likes brainteasers and logic puzzles." "If you travel a lot for business, this is a great game to keep loaded on your laptop"PC Magazine: Great Gift Ideas
"These games are more habit-forming than Tetris and Solitaire combined, if also more rewarding."
Houston Chronicle
"Probably the best of the bunch comes from the folks at Smart Games."
Reuters: From an article entitled "New CD-Rom games are brain teasers."
"A vexing puzzle collection"
Entertainment Weekly: Holiday Gift Guide (high tech gift recommendations)
