Smileyville

This cheeful, unique puzzle game reverses the standard Lines-style concept by making you match up unlike objects. When you start playing Smileyville, you'll see a 16-unit wooden apartment building, with different types of smiley faces behind each door. Your goal is not to match up identical characters, but to select two that have unique facial features. For example, you cannot match a pair of smileys that have identically shaped blue eyes, and if you try to do so, you'll lose points. We appreciate Smileyville's good-looking and colorful graphic presentation, and the happy-go-lucky theme music is right in line with the game's subject matter. Notable features include the ability to play in windowed mode, a slider for adjusting the audio volume, and three game modes. Each of the game variations puts a slightly different spin on the basic theme, but the demo disables all but the first level for the Quest and Puzzle options. Smileyville certainly can be used to teach children basic recognition skills, but older kids and even some adults may enjoy it as well.