In essence you have an assembly line and you can only move cakes forward and backwards on that line. Above each station is a machine. It can eject a cake, add on icing, add on decorations, and so on. You have to put the cake you're working on beneath the right station to get it to be worked on.
You can't just build ANY cake though - you are getting orders in from customers. Maybe somebody wants a three tier cake where the bottom level is strawberry, the middle level is chocolate and the top level is vanilla. This means you have to slide the cake forward and backwards to get each of those items done.
It's not that challenging when you're working on just one cake - but once you get several cakes all on the conveyor belt at once, the challenge begins!
So if you look at this screen -
An order is for a three tier cake with a shamrock, as shown in the top left. I have made that cake. I started by putting the cake beneath the 'circular pan' spot and clicking. Then I moved the cake over to the 'pink batter' spot and clicking. By moving the cake left and right, and selecting the appropriate frosting and decoration, the cake got made.
The trick comes when you have multiple cakes going on the same conveyor belt. You have to try to move the cakes left and right and work on them all at the appropriate time without getting things confused!
This is a great logic puzzle for all ages, and builds real world figuring-out skills. Plus, it comes free with Windows Vista, which is a great price!
This is the advanced level of the game - you start out much easier :) So you work your way up to the challenge.
Highly recommended as a daily exercise to keep those grey cells active.
NOTE: I do not think you can buy this game separately. It comes free with Vista, so if you're interested in this game, it might be time to upgrade to Vista!
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Related ArticlesPurble Place Windows series. Level Leaderboard View all Purble Pairs Comfy Cakes Purble Shop. Full-game Leaderboard Guides Discord Streams Resources Forum Statistics Sub-games. Moderated by: Saradoc Saradoc, K y l o v i c K y l o v i c, hyperkiraa96 hyperkiraa96. Purble Place was publicly introduced in Windows Vista build 5219 along with Chess Titans and Mahjong Titans. Games in Purble Place. The collection has a single home screen that offers three packs of games: Purble Pairs, Comfy Cakes, and Purble Shop. Purble Pairs is a pattern recognition and memory game similar to Pelmanism. The object is to.
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| Purble Place | |
|---|---|
Screenshot of Purble Shop under Purble Place on Windows 7 | |
| Developer(s) | Oberon Games |
| Platform(s) | Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10 |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | action, mysteries |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Purble Place is a suite of three computer games.[1] Developed by Oberon Games for Microsoft, it was introduced in Windows Vista and also is included in Windows 7.
History[edit]
Purble Place was publicly introduced in Windows Vista build 5219[2][3] along with Chess Titans and Mahjong Titans.
Games in Purble Place[edit]
The collection has a single home screen that offers three packs of games: Purble Pairs, Comfy Cakes, and Purble Shop.[4]
Purble Pairs is a pattern recognition and memory game similar to Pelmanism. The object is to clear the tableau in the fewest turns. As the skill level progresses, the game becomes timed, the grid size increases, and more similar pictures are used. The Beginner level has one 5x5 grid, Intermediate has two 6x6 grids, and Advanced has four 8x8 grids to solve per game. In addition to a joker that automatically finds another match of an exposed card, numerous special pairs are present in the higher levels: such as a card of the batter machine in Comfy Cakes that shuffles the board when paired, a clock that adds more time to the timer, and a Master Chef that automatically finds and matches pairs of cards containing cakes. A sneak peek coin bonus allows the player to expose all remaining cards for a couple of seconds, but every card exposed in this way is counted as a turn.
Comfy Cakes is a hand-eye coordination game. The object is to fill orders in a bakery by assembling a cake to match a given specification, by controlling a conveyor belt that brings the cake to various stations. Elements of the cake include shapes (square, circular or heart-shaped), flavor of batter (strawberry, chocolate or vanilla), optional icing (flavors as used in the batter) and other decorations (e.g. sugar may be sprinkled on top of the cake, and in rarer cases, flames are applied to iced cakes to create a smooth glaze). If the cake does not match the specification, the player is penalized and the cake gets thrown in the trash. If the player sends three incorrect orders, the game is over. After a certain number of correct orders are shipped, the player wins the game, and the score is tabulated. The final score depends upon the number of cakes baked, the number of incorrect orders sent and the efficiency of the player in baking. At higher levels the specifications become more complex and multiple cakes must be manufactured in parallel on a single conveyor belt. The player makes about 5 or 6 cakes in one of the difficulty levels.
Purble Shop is a code-breaker game. The computer decides the color of up to five features (hat, eyes, nose, mouth and clothes) that are concealed from the player. you can choose from a assortment of colors, and a color can be used once, several times or not used at all. The player then attempts to deduce or guess the correct feature colors in a limited number of moves. There are three difficulty levels: Beginner with three features in three possible colors for 33 = 27 different possible solutions, Intermediate with 44 = 256 solutions, and Advanced with 55 = 3125 solutions. The beginner and intermediate levels are guessing games where after each move the computer tells the player which items were correct, so there is little scope for deduction. At the advanced level the computer doesn't tell the player which specific items were correct, reporting only the count of picks in the correct color and position, and the count of picks in the correct color but the wrong position. This level is similar to the colored peg game Mastermind where success requires logical reasoning (although, there is a small chance of succeeding through lucky guesses).
References[edit]
- ^'Purble Place - Microsoft Windows Vista Games, Page 2'. Windows.about.com. 2013-06-24. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-30.
- ^Clyman, John (13 September 2005). 'Inside Windows Vista Build 5219'. PC Magazine. Ziff Davis. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
- ^Paul Thurrott (2010-10-06). 'Microsoft Windows Vista Build 5219 (Community Technical Preview 1) Review | Product Review content from Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows'. Winsupersite.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-04. Retrieved 2013-06-29.
- ^James Yu (July 24, 2006). 'A Look at Windows Vista Installed Games, Page 3'. GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. Retrieved 2013-06-30.