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Well, this is rather original, I must say. As a farmer you have lost your sheep, and as an adventurer you must cope with a number of rather unusual puzzles in an attempt to find them.

You don't get much help from the inlay, which really doesn't tell you a lot more than the paragraph above, but throughout the game there are helpful "hints" for the asking. I found myself asking for them quite a bit to start with, when I found myself in a field full of "prombles".

A "promble" is a creature a bit like a sheep with a "weird tail" and, try as I might, I simply couldn't make any progress - I attacked the prombles, I waved at the prombles, I talked to the prombles, I did just about everything to the b****y prombles. Nothing doing. Finally, I ate one and was rewarded with a couple of bones. These I stuck together to make a spade, and my travels began.

This game is text only and presents itself a little old-fashioned, but there are a number of nice touches, and it's certainly very original in tone. At the top of a mountain, "You are surrounded by a Bad Attitude" - I'll say you are. And elsewhere you may even glimpse "Holiness itself".

Central Computing can be reached at 61 Beech Road, Gillway, Tamworth, Staffs B79 8QQ - but they didn't tell me how much the game was. One of the reviews quoted on the inlay refers to a price of four pounds. If this is the case, I'd suggest it's marginally overpriced, but still worth checking out if you're fed up with dragons and other more traditional fare.