MathDoku is yet another interesting Sudoku variant.

The games at MathDoku are is loosely similar to killer Sudoku and based on the same rules of Kenken, an educational puzzle invented by Tetsuya Miyamoto in Japan. MathDoku games go by a number of names including KenKen, KenDoKu, kenduko, cancan, square wisdom, minuplu, calcudoku, Math Sudoku and latincalc. It is also slightly similar to a crossword or jigsaw puzzle since it requires trial and error to solve.

MathDoku features games in 4×4, 6×6, and 8×8 tables and each have difficulties ranging from easy, medium, hard, and no-op [Read More...]

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Play BubbleQuod puzzle game and try to free yourself from the bubble quod.

Complete all 50 puzzle levels by bouncing off sharp inanimate objects to pop the bubble and break free. Every tenth level is the bonus (special) one. The Platform Game task is to free yourself from the bubble in which you are imprisoned. The bubble can be pierced by a nail which is situated in the window.

Logical thinking, skills and clearness of purpose will help you. Happy Puzzling?

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Cracking computer security for fun, that’s what puzzle game Exploit is all about.

The idea is to fire packets of data from the ports around the edge of the play area and hit the root node in the centre. Except the direct path to the root node is blocked by various buffers, dividers, overflows and other sly nods to nerd-dom. What starts out simple will soon make your brain hurt, just like any good puzzle game should. Happy Puzzling!

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Carrie sent me an email about Colorific, a new color blending puzzle strategy game for the iPhone.

The goal of Colorific is to create Cyan, Magenta and Yellow hexagons by overlapping Red, Green and Blue triangles. For each completed hexagon you receive additional triangles and points. You can see a timelapse video of Colorific at AppTheater. Happy Puzzling!

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Aqua Energizer is yet another block moving puzzle game by Miniclip.

Object is to help Aqua solve the underwater puzzles by pushing the red flashing balls into energizer. Use your mouse or arrow keys to move the Aqua on the game grid. Happy Puzzling!

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In graduate school, I spent time procrastinating by solving a 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. The pieces lived on my dining room table for about a year, taking up almost the entire surface area. Whenever people came by, they insisted on trying to fit in pieces, choosing heaven or hell according to their desires (someone wanted desperately to complete the pig nun).

Of course, the German puzzle company made every piece incredibly nuanced, so that anyone who had completed a regular jigsaw puzzle was not actually classified to fit two pieces together.

Eventually, I [Read More...]

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RoboZZLe is a nice social puzzle game by Igor Ostrovsky, in which you need some programming skills.

RoboZZle challenges players to program a robot to pick up all stars on a game board. The game mechanics are simple, yet allow for a wide variety of challenges that call for very different solution approaches.

The best feature of this game is that you win by programming. And there’s already a whole community surrounding RobboZZle, complete with a forum. The ability to create your own games, a ranking system, it’s own RobboZZle weblog and much more. Happy puzzling!

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