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Booly is yet another (another!) abstract puzzle game - there seems to be no end to these things. This one, despite the awful meaningless packaging and dull look, is actually rather diverting - not a puzzling classic of Tetris or even Loopz proportions, but a darn sight better than the Quadrels of this world. There is actually a workable - if slightly odd - game in here.

The idea is that you are faced with a group of coloured tiles, all linked together in ways you only discover by clicking on them. Click on one tile, which turns it to another colour, and tiles connected to it will similarly flip colours - your task is to get all the tiles the same colour within a time limit, which takes some frantic experimental clicking, a bit of logic, a good deal of memory testing and a fair amount of luck.

Indeed, it's the sort of thing that many people - myself included - will be tempted to play on some sort of blind luck/intuition basis rather than having any truck with cold logic at all, and it's to its credit that it works as a game this way too.

And that's it really. There are variations on the theme of course - some levels feature flipping angels and devils rather than grey-or-coloured tiles, and are all the prettier for it - and occasionally it gets frustrating to the point of almost impossibility, but really little else to say. If you like abstract puzzlers it's a perfectly acceptable if a little uninspired one, and happily comes in at a mid-range sub £20 price point. You could easily do worse.

Dull looking, but in actual fact reasonably diverting, second division puzzler. Not good or bad, just okay.