There is a wide variety of board games available today which involve elimination of cards, tiles, pegs etc. from the board of the game in a time bound manner. In such games, these elements are eliminated by matching, pairing, shooting or by other means. Generally these kind of games involve a challenge in completing the task within a pre-set duration, and are often found to be very interesting short games for young to elder people. The games can be based on memory, attention, speed and accuracy in any combination. Due to their immense popularity, they are often found in portable devices along with a number of games available for PCs too. One such games is the Pix Clix version 3.

Pix Clix by Falco Software Company is a freeware game in which the player has a number of chips or tiles which he has to eliminate. The layout and interface of the game is 2D with multicolored monochrome chips in various square cells in a big square grid. When you start the game, the board is full of chips. The scenario of the game is that the player is stuck in a dream where he sees everything in the shades of black and grey. The player eliminates the chips from anywhere on the screen and the cells get empty when you clear the chips. These empty spaces are automatically filled with the chips that lie above these empty cells. The elimination takes place towards the left i.e. the last chips are left in the bottom left corner of the screen. In this game, you have to retain a certain minimum number of chips at the end of each level.

To sum up, Pix Clix v.1.3 is a nice game which can be a good time killing exercise along with being a good entertainer. Hence, it receives a score of three on the scale of five for its overall entertainment value.