> An apprentice magician must lift the evil spell that haunts a cursed
> valley, using the spells found in the handbook.
>
> The Magician's Handbook: Cursed Valley is a hidden object game with
> a sorcery theme and hand-painted backgrounds. The game has thirteen
> chapters, each with several locations to explore. The main objective
> is to find and click with a wand-shaped cursor on all the items from
> a list at the left side of the screen, on places filled with
> assorted paraphernalia within a time limit.
>
> A crystal ball sitting below the list shows the two available
> spells. The Reveal Spell serves as the hint system, stored as a
> series of eye icons on the ball. When clicked, the icon disappear
> and shows the exact position of one of the required objects. The
> Repel Spell removes distractions from the screen, like flying books
> and spiders, and illuminates darkened rooms. It takes some time to
> recharge after use.
>
> Two mini-games appear between chapters. In the potion mixing game,
> the screen shows a grid with ingredient tiles, and the goal is to
> keep connecting three or more tiles horizontally, vertically or
> diagonally until the potion jar is full. In the magical chant game,
> the screen shows word parts of varying color, size and font that
> keep moving around, and the goal is to spell the chant at the bottom
> scroll with a limited number of them.
>
> The player's performance is graded at the end of each chapter.
> Finding items fast and not relying on spells give better grades,
> increasing the number of hints available at the start of the next
> chapter.
? MobyGames
This is the GameHouse version of the game which they no longer sell.
MacGameStore still sell their own version.
Download #1 is the official GameHouse dmg containing the game
Download #2 contains a DRM-free copy of the game which was extracted
from the official GameHouse copy.
