Centron introduces "Puzzle Power" for Mac

New software enables Macintosh users to create multimedia brain teasers,
includes New York Times crosswords as bonus

PINEHURST, N.C., July 24, 1995 -- What 11-letter, 2-word CDROM software
title gives Macintosh users the power to make their own brain teasers,
complete with sound, video and pictures?

PUZZLE POWER MULTIMEDIA CD-ROM FOR MACINTOSH is available immediately from
Centron Software Technologies Inc. Centron introduced PUZZLE POWER for
Windows users in April 1995.

PUZZLE POWER is a complete kit for building five types of multimedia
puzzles:

* Crossword grids up to 25x25 squares large.

* Word Search grids that look like rows of random letters but hide words
across, down and diagonally -- from simple enigmas to puzzles that include
only clues to the words -- and even more difficult "fill in the blank"
puzzles that supply just a paragraph or sentence with words found in the
puzzle.

* Kriss kross puzzles, built from a word list and a blank puzzle structure,
ranging from easy to hard, depending on the size of the puzzle and the
number of words that are the same length

* Quote falls that scramble the letters of a quotation, with the scrambled
letters arranged in columns. Users type in a quote and the software
automatically converts it into a puzzle.

* Cryptos, including cryptograms, where quotations are hidden in code, and
cryptoquizzes, comprised of a list of words or short phrases, usually
related to a topic or theme. PUZZLE POWER encodes text automatically using
computer-created codes, or codes entered by the user.

As a special bonus, for users that want to solve, not build, puzzles -- or
learn by studying examples -- PUZZLE POWER includes 500 classic crossword
puzzles from the New York Times.

Get a clue! PUZZLE POWER also includes Roget's Electronic Thesaurus for
help in finding words, definitions and synonyms that solve puzzles -- and
for use in coming up with clues when building puzzles.

In application, PUZZLE POWER saves and prints puzzles for fans and fanatics
unable to go without a Sunday-morning coffee, croissant and challenge to
the imagination.

In other applications, educators may build and print puzzles that help
teach word recognition, vocabulary skills and logic. Corporate training
departments may reinforce job skills. Publishers may build and print
puzzles for newsletters, magazines and newspapers.

Features

Puzzle Power includes over 600 pre-designed puzzles, and tutorials for each
type of puzzle.

Users may create puzzles and clues from word lists, definitions and
synonyms supplied by PUZZLE POWER and its built-in edition of Roget's
Thesaurus, and from a collection of quotations.

Alternatively, users may also build and import custom word lists,
dictionaries and quotations.

The Thesaurus allows wild-card searches and definitions.

PUZZLE POWER analyzes puzzle construction. This helps users create a
"tight" puzzle with a minimum number of unused crossword squares, for
example, to help balance the proportion of long and short words.

Users may also select puzzle colors, fonts and sizes.

PUZZLE POWER prints puzzles and solutions to dot-matrix, ink jet and laser
printers. Users may also export puzzles to desktop publishing software.

Users may build multimedia puzzles with sound, movies and pictures.

Multimedia

PUZZLE POWER includes a library of video, audio and picture files -- and
users may import from other multimedia sources. Sound files must be in
System 7 format. Picture files must be in the PICT format. Movie files
must be in Quick Time format.

Requirements, pricing

PUZZLE POWER requires System 7 or later, 2MB of available internal memory,
Quick Time to access videos, a CD-ROM drive and a 12-inch or larger color
monitor.

The software is available immediately for $59.95 SRP.

Centron products are widely available from retailers Software Etc. and
Babbages, among others, and from mail-order vendors Micro Warehouse,
Multiple Zones, Mac Mall, PC Connection and Tiger Software. They are
distributed by Abco, American Software, Ingram Canada and Josha, among
others.

Users may also call 1-800-848-2424 for ordering information.

Centron Software Technologies Inc.
300 American Legion Lane #4
Pinehurst, NC 28374
910-215-5708,  Fax: 910-295-8908
Ordering information: 800-848-2424
America Online: Centsw
 
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