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People – grab your wands and let the Hidden Object magic begin as you play The Magician’s Handbook 2: Blacklore!

After saving Cursed Valley and becoming a pupil of the wise Wizard in The Magician’s Handbook: Cursed Valley, our hero was looking forward to a life filled with adventure and mystery. Unfortunately the Magician’s Handbook became useless and our hero returned home to his unexciting life. Now, two years, later the Magician’s Handbook is starting to come alive again with the voice of Corrigan, the fairy helper to the wizard and he desperately needs our hero’s help!

 
It’s now your job to help free the captured magicians and trapped fairies by stripping the extremely powerful and evil magician pirate Blacklore from his powers.

However, as our hero wasn’t born with magical powers, his aim is to collect enchanted objects, which will allow him to cast spells. The brilliant thing about the game is that the hidden object lists in the various chapters are randomized, so if you play the game or chapter again you will most likely have a different selection of objects.

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Pahelika: Secret Legends is a hidden obejct game based on the magical story of a sleepy town in the mighty and peaceful kingdom of Magadha, which one day was attacked by demons led by the evil Asura.

Defeated, the King walked away and stayed in exile until he came across an ancient book called Pahelika, one of the most powerful magical artifacts in existence, and with its magic he managed to defeat the evil demons.

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Based on the Irish/Canadian television series, The Tudors is a hidden object game that fans of the genre would definitely want to check out.

Only two weeks after the execution of his former wife, its King’s Henry VIII’s wedding night. The festivities are over, and Elena Sedgrave and her father William are just about to call it a day when a strange noise is heard within the castle.

Apparently, one of the mansion dwellers has been poisoned, and after the protagonist Elena concocts an antidote and saves the day, King Henry decides to task her with escorting her father on a diplomatic mission to France, and act as his personal spy. Without much of a choice, Elena starts a journey full of deception and betrayal, towards Europe.

As is many most typical hidden object games, your main objective in The Tudors is to find the various objects scattered across the different screens. But The Tudors insist on more then just your average pixel hunting hidden object game. With minor elements of an adventure game, and different puzzles to solve such as jigsaw puzzles, finding differences between two pictures, lock picking puzzles etc, The Tudors gets a boost to its game play depth while staying loyal to the genre at all times.

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Good news for casual game lovers:  Now there’s scientific proof that playing casual games is more than just a fun pastime – turns out it’s actually good for us!

According to a recent study, Casual Games Make You Smarter, conducted by East Carolina University’s Psycho physiology Lab, playing certain types of casual games – such as sophisticated Match Three games, certain types of Puzzle and Arcade games and even Word games – may have a positive effect on cognition.

What is cognition?
Cognitive function refers to a person’s ability to process thoughts. Cognition primarily refers to things like memory, the ability to learn new information, speech, and reading comprehension.

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