You're totally right about the similarity between Deductoid and Sherlock of course.

But the world needs a few variants on the same theme eh? Otherwise we'd all still be only playing one version of Tetris, Breakout, Doom, writing in WordStar, Bill Gates would be poor... and I for one would be out of a day job since I work on software which looks and works in a very similar fashion as other vendors' in the same industry. Only ours is better  ;)

I actually wrote my game from scratch based around yet another similar game from the old C-64 days, originally just to see if I could, since I program for a hobby as well during the working day as to pay for my Trotanoy. Then a few friends played it and made suggestions which clearly steered me in a better direction. I believe the phrase is "standing on the shoulders of giants"

Interesting what you say about cryptic crosswords - I do them too. Next project might be a cryptic crossword generator. In Delphi of course!  :Thmbsup:

Thanks for your comments.

timns

Great hopping horny toads! I hadn't seen those before. I'll take a look at what it might entail, this weekend.

Thanks for the suggestion.