Freeware

Wheel of Fortune
Developer: Jaeger Technologies
The file is called JT WOF, but trust me, it's Wheel of Fortune. A fun adaptation of the television show. A few misspellings in the code, and it's sometimes frustrating in recognizing the Graffiti letters you've selected as other characters, but that is wholly compensated for by the fact that a puzzle editor is available with it - you can make your own categorized databases of words. Two I downloaded were humor and trivia. Donations for continued development of the program are welcomed but not required.

Squaretris
Developer: Jose Manuel Guerra Chapa
Fun, if a tad basic. A grid and some blocks with patterns on them. You must move them to the board in threes, arranging them diagonally, horizontally or vertically, and may only remove the blocks that are three (or more) of a kind in a row. Deceptively simple, and the variety of blocks increases as the game progresses. I like Tetris better, but this is a good, challenging mind teaser.

Shareware

Backgammon
Developer: Stand Alone, Inc. $15.00
A very nice pdf manual accompanies it, but registration looks a bit involved: to do so you must enter your name exactly as you entered it when you first got your Palm Pilot. It's a little full of itself, too: when you start it for the first time, it pops up a little window saying "you are about to play the best backgammon game for the Palm OS." Other than that, an excellent adaptation of the classic game.

Triv
Developer: Robert Jen, $15.00
A truly nice trivia game for the Palm Pilot. Some similarities to Trivial Pursuit, but more options: choose from Trivia Pizza, Quick Quiz, Triv Grid and Triv Tac Toe. There's also a Triv module creator; the only, well, I won't say it's a downside, hooray for Mac users and all that, but the module creator is not available for Windows platforms. Nevertheless, there are plenty available for download, so you should still be able to keep yourself occupied for a while until you can borrow a friend's iMac. I'd like to see the graphics improved slightly, and a module editor made available for Windows, but even with those minor flaws, I highly recommend Triv for trivia fans.

Go to Jail!
Developer: Neil Pollard $15.00
A board game that's gotten some rather mixed reviews from purchasers. Apparently there's a problem with incompatibility on the most current versions of the Palm OS. It worked fine for me. It's rather like Monopoly. The demo version only allows human vs. human competition - you can't really play by yourself. The interface is fairly intuitive, though when entering your name it only allows seven letters - not good for someone whose first name is nine. There are also a few spelling errors, and it would be nice if it included a high score list, which it doesn't. Feedback from purchasers indicated that it hadn't been updated for a while, but the developer at least responded as recently as August of this year. Download it and be the judge. Personally, I enjoyed it, but would have rather seen at least one Pilot player enabled so I could test the AI for the purpose of the review. I hate crippleware - I strongly prefer timed demonstrations, or better yet, those that expire after a certain number of uses. I'd much rather be able to test the whole product. It seems a bit stingy to me - to really see the game at its best, all four Pilot players should be enabled. I probably wouldn't purchase it just because games take so long - but that's the nature of Monopoly, and it might be shorter with four AI players. Regardless, I have to take off big points for the demo not being designed to allow potential customers to fully test the product. That's the point of shareware, Mr. Pollard: try before you buy.