Mystery P.I.: The Lottery Ticket

by PopCap Games

Product Features

• Investigate 20 locations
• Find over 2,100 hidden objects
• Solve 20 Make-A-Match puzzles
• Play two addictive game modes: Find the Ticket and Unlimited Seek and Find
• Play two addictive modes: Find the Ticket and Unlimited Seek & Find

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001231II2
• Item Weight: 12 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: January 15, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,522 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #14 in Video Games > PC Games > Puzzle

Product Description

You’re a world-famous P.I., and you’ve been hired by Grandma Rose to find her $488 million dollar winning lottery ticket! Retrace Grandma’s steps through the city on your search for more than 2,100 cleverly hidden objects, then solve Make-A-Match memory puzzles to collect clues. Search 20 city locales, find secret keys to unlock a bonus location, and piece clues together to crack the case. Go for Perfect Investigations and Speed Bonuses to become a Master P.I. But, hurry, you only have 12 hours to find the ticket!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mystery P. I., March 29, 2008

By 

Hanford Rose (Hanford, CA USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Mystery P.I.: The Lottery Ticket (CD-ROM)

Good game, entertaining and suitable for both adults and kids.

As with many of the hidden items type games, the clues become easier to find. That's when, you may need to leave it alone for a month or more to forget the locations and bring back the challenge of the hunt.

The artwork is excellent, and the puzzles add variety.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Eh...it's okay, January 22, 2009

By 

Laika (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Mystery P.I.: The Lottery Ticket (CD-ROM)

Having recently discovered the hidden object genre, I was looking for a new challenge and saw the good reviews for "Mystery P.I.: The Lottery Ticket." So I gave it a try, and discovered a really, really average game.

Like most hidden object games, you search a series of still scenes for a list of objects. In between each level, you have a small mini-game to play. The problem with "The Lottery Ticket," though, is that there's no storyline to speak of, and absolutely no sense of progression. Ostensibly you're searching for (yes) a lottery ticket, but you never find any clues, talk to people, investigate anything: you just search and search and search, and at the end of each level you're rewarded with a puzzle piece that won't mean a darned thing until the end of the game. The locations are also pretty limited, and you don't have to do anything to unlock new ones. Early on in the game, I'd explored each location, and then I just kept going back to each one, over and over again. Similarly, the mini-game is always a variation on Concentration, and it didn't seem to get any harder (or more interesting) as I progressed.

As a bonus, each scene contains a hidden key; collect all the keys, and you unlock a non-timed mode in which you can search for every single object in the game. It's an interesting idea, and I might check it out eventually, but for now I'm pretty darned tired of those scenes. Plus, I collected all the keys early on in the game, which ended that fun pretty quickly.

Overall, I don't think this game was bad, really; it was just dull, with no progression at all. If you're new to the genre, I'd recommend the "Mystery Case Files" series to see how these games should be done.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Mystery PI The Lottery Ticket, August 8, 2008

By 

Lisa Gatts (Maine) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Mystery P.I.: The Lottery Ticket (CD-ROM)

This game is soooooooooo fun.It's one of those Hidden Objects games but with lots of different scenes and mini-games.There are over 2000 different items to find,and if you unlock the Bonus game (by finding keys in each level),when you complete the game you can find all 2000 items at your own pace.
Not that finding the items is difficult when you are timed but it is challenging.I love it!Definately worth the $.
I also love the sequel which is The Vegas Heist,At the end of both games you have to solve a lil Mystery.Nothing too hard,maybe 10 minutes or less,but I just love this game!