Remember crossword puzzles? Those delightful little grids of trivia fun that both validated your esoteric knowledge and made flight time pass quickly? Thanks to the ubiquity of iPods, and Amzon’s Kindle and in-flight WiFi, poor puzzles have withered into being an old man’s Sunday afternoon activity. But they’re back! Kind of!

On Wednesday June 24 2009, the Wifi-enabled fleet of Virgin America’s planes invite their passengers and those on the ground to whip out their critical thinking and put the credit cards away for a day of free puzzle challenges. It’s being called the “Day In the Cloud,” [Read More...]

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Dots is a great online puzzle game that looks like Reversi and Othello in which you play against the computer.

Object is simple: Connect the dots and try to make more boxes than the computer. Click two dots to make a line, and make boxes filled with your color.

Don’t let the computer create more boxes than you otherwise you will lose the game. Happy Puzzling!

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Mochi Media and Dictionary.com today announced that they are accepting submissions for the Word Play Flash Game Contest, a new word puzzle Flash game contest sponsored by the leading online dictionary, Dictionary.com. The top five games will be featured in the game section on Dictionary.com and the winning developers will be awarded total prizes of $15,000.

From now until Aug. 14, game developers can submit original word games for evaluation by a team of expert judges including Mochi Media and Dictionary.com employees. All games must incorporate Mochi Media’s advertising and leader board technology. Dictionary.com will provide a lexicon [Read More...]

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In 2008 we wrote about Picross for Wii, now at Passion For Puzzles we can offer you every week two new Nonogram puzzle thanks to Rasto from Griddlers.net. The two formats available are, Griddlers and large Griddlers.

Griddlers (aka Picross, Hanjie and Nonograms) are logic puzzles that use number clues around a grid to create an image. Each clue indicates a group [Read More...]

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Isora is back with Isora 3. After Isora 1  it’s time again for 60 more levels.

Object of Isora is still the same: clear the map by stepping on every tile and returning to the red one before time runs out. Control your block with the arrow keys, press the space bar to return to the menu or R to restart the level. There are also purple tiles (pushable) and green tiles (warp tiles which take you to the other green warp tile). Happy puzzling !

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The social networking service Twitter is becoming a popular method of connecting with people and tracking events. Could it become a popular medium for puzzles, as well? Puzzazz, the puzzle site from Seattle entrepreneur Roy Leban, is venturing into that space.

Puzzazz this week extended its reach by launching new “successive reveal” puzzles on Twitter. People who follow the @puzzazz Twitter account will see clues for each puzzle in a series of tweets. The first person to figure it out and tweet the solution will get public credit in [Read More...]

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Squzzle is an exciting online logic puzzle game by BusyBeeArcade.

This logic puzzle game will have you at the edge of your seat frantically trying to place pieces as the game progresses. Fill the rectangles with Tetris like shapes. With the space-bar you can rotate the pieces and with the mouse you can please them in one of the four squares. How far can you go before you get Squzzled? Happy Puzzling!

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