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).

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1. ^'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.
2. ^Clyman, John (13 September 2005). 'Inside Windows Vista Build 5219'. PC Magazine. Ziff Davis. Retrieved 4 May 2014.
3. ^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.
4. ^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.

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Reddit’s April Fool’s Day always includes a quirk, prank, or interesting experiment, and this year was no different. The front page of the internet embarked on a grand social experiment called r/place, a custom subreddit that allowed users to create a massive crowdsourced art project over the course of 72 hours, which has been distilled into one mesmerizing timelapse video.

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The rules of /r/place were simple: Each user could change the color of one pixel on the board every five minutes, anywhere they wanted, and as many times as they wanted. The subreddit’s sidebar — a place where rules and instructions are located — reads, “There is an empty canvas. You may place a tile upon it, but you must wait to place another. Individually, you can create something. Together you can create something more.” It’s a nice message, and a challenge that many couldn’t ignore.

The subreddit began on March 31 and went nonstop until its completion. In the short amount of time since then, it has amassed over 218,000 subscribers. The final result was a digital tapestry full of references to movies and video games, plugs for other subreddits, logos, and more memes that you’d care to count.

After it was over, participants and fans of the project sought ways to bring it into the real world.

One user printed out the final product and made it into a poster.

Another made a cleaned up version of the final image, removing stray and renegade pixels so the final images can be seen with more clarity.

Finally, a time-lapse of r/place’s entire lifespan was created so everyone — especially those who missed out on the action in real-time — could see how things unfolded. The resulting four-and-a-half-minute video is a saga of conflict and collaboration. Images appear all over, vying for a chunk of the limited space and overlapping one another. r/place’s users began coordinating to create more and more complex artworks, nailing famous images like the Beatles’s yellow submarine with impressive accuracy.

One of the most compelling moments of the experiment was a battle that took place over the American flag image that made up the center of the project and remained there for most of the 72 hours. At one point, it becomes completely eclipsed by an intrusion of colors and shapes, only to be restored by others coming to its rescue. It was captured in a .gif.

Is it a metaphor? Probably not, but it sure is fun to watch.

r/place now joins the long lineage of Reddit’s strange and compelling Aprils Fools’ Day celebrations. Most notably, it stands right up there with “The Button”, a long running game that demanded users work together to keep pushing a button before a timer ran out.

Following up r/place on next year’s April 1 will be a tall order, but until then, it’s worth spending some time poking around in the final r/place image. Chances are something you love is hiding away in there.

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