TriJinx: A Kristine Kross Mystery™

TriJinx game develops in a past time, year 1935 in New York city to be precise. The protagonist is Kristine Kross, a puzzle editor who works at the New York Daily World.

In the introduction to the game she receives a letter telling her that her father is in danger and she should come to Cairo as soon as possible. Her father is trapped inside an ancient tomb (the triclops tomb) and she needs to find a way in to save him. That’s the story beneath this game. Needless to say, you will be helping Kristine to find that way out. So how do you do that? Let’s take a deeper look to the game.
The game itself is basically a puzzle game. A triangular board composed of triangular pieces is displayed. The pieces come in different colors and you have to create matches (or groups) of 3 or more pieces in order to clear them from the board. There are three urns on the top of the screen (one per triangle color) that you have to fill with the triangles you clear from the board. But you have to fill them sequentially, meaning you have to fill the blue urn first, then the red one and finally the green. When you fill all three urns you will pass the level. If you can’t find groups you can rotate the board and the triangles inside will rearrange. The first time you play the game a tutorial will show you, step-by-step what you need to know to play it.
The game offers three modes to play it:
- Adventure: the game develops according to the story told in the introduction.
- Arcade: no story going on. You just play each level trying to get the most points.
- Puzzle: a variation of the former.
When you enter the game, you’ll see the welcome screen with the following options:
- Change Player: the first time there’s no existing player. After you create one or more, they’ll be saved. When you enter into this submenu, you’ll be asked for a name as a new player. It’s possible to have a list of different players and record their performance. This way, you can play home tournaments with family and friends.
- Adventure: this option leads you to the comic-style introduction to the game. When it’s done you’ll be seeing the tutorial when it’s the first time you play (you can skip it at any time).
- Arcade and Puzzle options: to play this optional modes of the game.
- Options: this is the menu from which you can set some game options like: sound effects volume, music volume, mute sounds (on/off), and full screen (on/off).
- High Scores and Quit: no further explanation required.
Once you are playing, you can press the PAUSE button on the screen to pause the game, go to the options menu, get back to the game, access help information, go to the game map, or go back to the main menu.
You can try this game for 60 minutes before you buy the licensed version. If you like it, you can buy this game for only 19.95 dollars, right from the Oberon Media Game Center, on the Web.
About the systems requirements, here you have a list to check out:
- Windows 98, 2000, ME, or XP
- Pentium III 700 MHz or faster processor
- 128 MB of RAM
- 12 MB of available disk space