| At The Carnival | |
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| Developer(s) | Cliff Johnson |
| Platform(s) | Apple Macintosh, MS-DOS |
| Release date(s) | 1989 |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle game |
| Mode(s) | Single Player |
At The Carnival is a 1989 computer puzzle game by Cliff Johnson.
It was intended to be the first of a series of games called Puzzle Gallery; however, publisher Miles Computing went out of business before any further games could be made.
At The Carnival is a collection of games similar to some in The Fool's Errand, but with enhanced user interfaces. (For example, the word search puzzles have tools to highlight individual lines in all directions.) The endgame puzzle is simpler compared to Fool's Errand and 3 in Three, and consists merely of a crossword puzzle filled by key words found in other solved puzzles.
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The game has no overarching story as such; each puzzle shows a small section of Hazard Park, an amusement park with woeful disdain for its customers. Completing the puzzles in a particular section displays the fate of the unfortunate guests who rode a particular ride.
One puzzle in the game has Cliff Johnson describing the discovery of Elmer McCurdy.
The original version of the game was for Apple Macintosh; a port to MS-DOS was made, but it is not as visually appealing due to the lower resolution available to IBM PC-class machines at the time (320×200 VGA vs. 512×342 minimum on Macintoshes). Cliff Johnson strongly recommends playing the Macintosh version instead of the MS-DOS version, using an emulator such as Executor or Basilisk II if necessary.
Some of the major puzzle types in the games include: