Hasbro and the Yankee Candle Company, two American companies based in New England with long-standing traditions of creating high quality family products, are coming together for the first time to create an exciting new innovation in family entertainment.

New Yankee candle scented jigsaw puzzles combine America’s Best Loved Candle scents with America’s favorite name in family games and puzzles. Puzzlers of all abilities will be “wowed” by the subtle pleasant scents of classic Yankee Candle fragrances such as MacIntosh Apple, Clean Cotton and MidSummer’s Night while piecing together the three new jigsaw puzzles.

The puzzles make a perfect [Read More...]

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Sudoku’s everywhere these days, and winning millions of converts worldwide. And why not? It’s irresistibly good brainteasing entertainment, the rules are simple (even when the particular game isn’t), and it requires no math skills…just logic.

Sterling has a book for everyone eager to get in on the game, no matter what level. There are puzzle collections to keep Sudoku lovers occupied for hours, guides to strategy for the perplexed, series that take solvers from novice to expert, and compilations packaged in fun shapes.

Black Belt Sudoku (Martial Arts Sudoku) is available from Amazon.com. [Read More...]

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Brilliant Blocks is a fun block dropping online puzzle game with an interesting twist by Mark Klocek (thanks for the tip Mark!).

Think quick and drop the blocks to match either numbers or colors in this fun puzzle game with an interesting twist. Use the mouse to drop blocks. Clear blocks by matching lines of 3 or more numbers or colors either vertically, horizontally or diagonally.

Clear the blocks until they are under the white line to receive more blocks, more time and higher scores. Happy Puzzling!

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Puzzle This is a 3D-ish puzzle game by AaronOfTomorrow.

Although there are just three levels it’s a nice little 3D brain trainer. Try to get all the blocks into the 3D frame provided. More levels would be welcome, but as the 3D frames should get larger this is not really possible. Other problem I have is that the handling of the blocks into the 3D wire frame is not always as I expect to react. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Puzzle | Puzzle

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Some of the joy of a puzzle is determining an effective strategy for solving it. However the Preposterous Puzzle makes us want to claim impossibility. At first glance you see a square completely filled with wooden pieces. then you are asked to insert a smaller square into the middle without removing any pieces.

Obviously there is just not enough space, but apparently no-one told the folks making this puzzle that it’s inherently flawed and unsolvable. But is it?

Put this on your desk and watch as your friends and co-workers cry foul on the Preposterous Puzzle. It [Read More...]

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Fat Slice is a nice and addictive little puzzle game by Aaron Neugebauer.

Object of Fat Slice is to slice up shapes by dragging your mouse through them. Beat levels by slicing them down to a certain size. Avoid being hit by the balls bouncing around inside the shapes while slicing. Happy Puzzling

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Akinai Games, the downloadable games division of leading video game publisher YUKE’S Company of America, today released NEVES Plus on Nintendo’s WiiWare game service.

Dressed up with a new, fun Egyptian theme, the updated version of the classic Nintendo DS tangram-style puzzle game now includes four new modes, including Speed, Versus, Lucky Number and Party Trivia. More than 500 challenging puzzles await Wii owners, who can download the game now for 600 Wii Points.

“Thanks to WiiWare, we have the opportunity to introduce NEVES to a whole new group of game players that enjoy fun, casual puzzle [Read More...]

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