that was broken up to slices horizontally; the player must rotate the pieces and rebuild the object in the correct order. Towards the end of the game, as the difficulty ramps up, some puzzles get combined into being stages of one larger puzzle, e.g. the player must first solve a Rotascope puzzle, where the result of that puzzle is actually a Focus Point puzzle. Reception Pandora's Box won GameSpots "Puzzles and Classics Game of the Year" award. The editors wrote that it "proved that he [Pajitnov] was more than just the king of the simple game." It was a runner-up for Computer Games Strategy Pluss 1999 "Classic Game of the Year" award and Computer Gaming Worlds 1999 "Puzzle/Classics Game of the Year" award. The Electric Playground named it the best computer puzzle game of 1999. As a result, the game was re-released in a "Puzzle Game of the Year Edition", containing an additional 50 puzzles. It was PC Data's top-selling puzzle game for six weeks. References External links 1999 video games Puzzle video games Alexey Pajitnov games Discontinued Microsoft software Single-player video games Video games developed in the United States Windows games Windows-only games