Pandora's Box · 1999
Yes, if you still have the CD and an older version of Windows, or a virtual machine running one. On a modern PC the disc usually won't start. Here's why, and what you can do.
Usually not. The CD versions of Pandora's Box use SafeDisc, a copy-protection system that relied on a Windows driver. Microsoft removed support for that driver from Windows 10 in 2015 for security reasons, and Windows 11 doesn't have it either. The installer may run, but the game won't start.
Not as far as we know. Microsoft has never re-released it, so second-hand CDs are the only legal copies. Look for the original 1999 release or the Puzzle Game of the Year Edition, which adds 50 puzzles.
Old doesn't mean free. The game is still Microsoft's copyright, even though it's no longer sold, so we don't link to downloads. If you have your own disc, making an image of it for a virtual machine is the tidy way to keep it playing.
Microsoft never made one. That's partly why we made Pandora's Puzzle Box, a new puzzle game inspired by it.
The game it inspired
A world tour of picture puzzles, seven tricksters to catch, and original music. It runs on an iPhone and in any modern browser. No disc and no old PC needed.
Pandora's Puzzle Box is an independent game, not affiliated with Microsoft or Alexey Pajitnov.
