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Stones

Stones is a game developed by Michael C. Miller and released in 1991 as part of Microsoft's Windows Entertainment Pack. The object is to place 90 tiles, or "stones", on a board. A tile can only be placed if it…

31 December 1991

Stones is a puzzle developed by Microsoft, released 31 December 1991 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Stones is

Stones is a puzzle game developed by Microsoft and released in 1991. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Stones is a game developed by Michael C. Miller and released in 1991 as part of Microsoft's Windows Entertainment Pack. The object is to place 90 tiles, or "stones", on a board. A tile can only be placed if it shares two of three attributes - background color, character color, or character shape - with every adjacent tile. Wild tiles may be placed anywhere regardless of attributes. The game is won when all tiles are placed or when there are no valid spaces to place the next tile.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Stones launched on 31 December 1991, within three weeks of Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Baseball Stars 2 and Commander Keen in Keen Dreams.

Released around the same time: Micro Machines, Alien Breed, Baseball Stars 2, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams.

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When did Stones come out?
Stones was released on 31 December 1991 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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