Following a previous post about the Perplex City Boardgame and Cards this time some more about Perplex City itself.

Perplex City is a cross between a treasure hunt, puzzle game and a story. The first player to solve all the clues and track down the buried treasure will win £100,000. The method of distributing clues are the mysterious silver packs of cards with puzzles on them. The solutions to these give clues as to where the treasure is hidden. This page on Firebox explains the Perplex City in a little more detail.

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Do you still remember the Rubik’s cube? elogIQ’s Cmetrick Puzzle looks much like Rubik’s Clock.

Cmetrick is a puzzle that has nine colored balls in a 3×3 square. As you move the columns or rows of balls, the colored faces get scrambled! The goal is to develop an algorithm for bringing the puzzle from any scrambled configuration to its “Initial Configuration” (IC), in which all spheres are positioned in the same orientation. In the IC, the same color shows on top, right, left, front, back, and bottom of all spheres. [Read More...]

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Well to be honest Plastic Balls is not really a puzzle game, put in my opinion you at least need to figure out how to get to the next level.

Plastic Martians developed Plastic Balls and can be seen as a circlular version of Arkanoid. Do you still remember that one? I still have the list for each level on which side to exit to have a less difficult level. You can play five levels of Plastic Balls for free online.

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Via Macworld I found the following press release. Big Fish Games on Friday announced the release of Atlantis Sky Patrol, a sequel to last year’s action puzzle game. Atlantis Sky Patrol costs $19.99 and a downloadable demo is available.

Taking a page from the “Zuma” and “Luxor” style of “marble popping” games, you must complete each puzzle by matching marble colors in sets of three. You’re knocking out doomsday devices on each of 100 levels in the game. Atlantis Sky Patrol introduces new game mechanics, such as the need to destroy static orbs that [Read More...]

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Courage, Taste, a Brain, a Heart, a Home. If you know the odd one out of this classic grouping then perhaps you should be playing the brand new game based on the enigmatic world of Perplex City.

Gameplay involves players (or teams) answering a range of questions against the clock, including anagrams, potluck, number trivia, word play and visual puzzles. The object of the game is to collect six colored glass stones scattered across the “city”. Opposing teams can then challenge opponents and relieve them of their stones. The first team to collect all six wins.

Fun and challenging, the [Read More...]

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According to Phaidon Rubik’s Cube is one of the 999 selected design classics. You can find all 999 design classics in chronological order in a book called Design Classics.

A ‘design classic’ is defined as an industrially manufactured object with timeless aesthetic value. It serves as a standard of its kind and, despite the year in which it was designed, is still up to date.

The ‘design classics’ collection presented in three volumes with in total 3300 pages has been put together by a group of experts following the above criteria.

Buy Phaidon Design Classics (3 Volume Set) (Pts. 1, 2 & 3) at Amazon.com. Happy Puzzling!

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Mobile game maker I-play has announced its mobile games line-up for the next three months. One of upcoming mobile games is 24: Agent Down.

24: Agent Down is the follow-up to last year’s well-received 24: The Mobile Game. This time the plot involves CTU Headquarters being under siege, with you playing Jack, Curtis and Chloe as they try to escape, keep the terrorists out, and win the day – all without ever going to the loo.

The game features the same blend of puzzles and action missions as its predecessor, including code-breaking, baddie-chasing and [Read More...]

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