If the sign of an innovative game is that it all makes sense when you play it, Explode! could well be something really different. Because to be quite honest, we’re not quite sure from the press release and screen shots how it works at all.

That’s the problem with new ideas, of course. Cynics say stuff like, “A bulb of light, Mr Edison? Who in the world needs that when they can simply light a candle?” And indeed, until we play Explode! we won’t know if it’s the best new thing since 7 Wonders, or the worst thing since the [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Physics-Based Puzzlers

Have you ever solved a Rubik’s Cube puzzle? Thought not. Bet you know someone who has, though, right? Everybody seems to when you mention the Rubik’s Cube, the cultural gimmick / icon of the 1980′s.

Thankfully it’s not an issue that you’re likely to encounter with Rubik’s Bloxx Twister, which bears a closer resemblance to classic puzzlers like Tetris or Lumines than it does its cuboid forebear.

Set in what is now a familiar collection of screen furniture, the playing area slowly fills with colored blocks. But rather than dropping in from the top of the screen, a la Tetris, [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Rubik's Cube

3D Soma Puzzle is a three-dimensional logic puzzle game that challenges you to assemble various figures with colored irregular 3D blocks.

The puzzle seems to be simple but great variety of solutions for each shape (the simplest figure – cube can be solved by 240 essentially different methods) makes it really challenging. 3D Soma puzzle game will keep you entranced and busy for hours (or even days). It can provide you lots of fun and exploration as well as help develop the ability to visualize spatial relationships.

3D Soma Puzzle features fully rotatable three-dimensional blocks, ability to create your [Read More...]

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Yatec Games starts 2007 with the release of Enchanted Gardens, an addictive new garden-themed puzzle game for PC.

You can collect custom garden upgrades as you play through garden mode, arranges tiles to match the patterns in Puzzle Mode, or kick back and enjoy endless game-play in Relax Mode. With 30 trophies to earn and hundreds of levels to discover, Enchanted Gardens lets you create the gardens of your dreams without getting your hands dirty.

With dazzling visuals and unique-yet-familiar game play, Enchanted Gardens appeals to seasoned puzzle gamers and gardening enthusiasts alike. Enchanted Gardens is now [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles

In Europe it’s not a real winter so we have to pretend it is cold with Frozen Bubble.

A variant of Taito’s world famous Puzzle Bubble. More about the history and the game Puzzle Bubble you can find in a previous post about Puzzle Bubble Flash Game.

But if you are more in a summer mood and you want to play Puzzle Bubble please take a look at another variant called Flower Power.

Same rules, but now with different kind and colors of lovely flowers. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Puzzle Game

Category: All Puzzles

Slitherlink is still one of my favorite puzzles. Now you can also solve slitherlink puzzles on you Nintendo DS Handheld and will cost you around US$ 30.

If you want to learn how to solve Slitherlink puzzle please check out our Strategy for Slitherlink puzzles webpage. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Puzzle | Nintendo DS

Category: All Puzzles

If you got a Rubik’s Cube for Christmas and you want to solve it, you can find online a lot of Rubik’s Cube Solvers. But more satisfying and more impressive is if you can solve it yourself. At YouTube there are four instruction video’s which explain you step by step all the techniques needed to solve Rubik’s Cube layer by layer. At this moment I think these video’s are the best available video’s on the internet on how to solve Rubik’s Cube. Watch them all and solve your Rubik’s Cube in front of your friends to impress them. Happy Cubing.

Category: All Puzzles, Rubik's Cube