Xploding Puzzle comes from http://www.plungeinteractive.com/news.php.  The object is to eliminate all the squares.  Tap on a red square – which is always numbered with a  1, and it will explode and then send red missiles in each direction.  The blue squares need to be hit twice.  Other squares need to be hit 3 times.

Last year I saw at least 3 or 4 of these types of puzzles. I believe that those grid sizes were all uniform: 7×9 maybe?  Xploding Puzzle: the grid configurations are more creative. And the red arrows that represent the missiles are nice.

There are some [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, iPhone/iPad Puzzle Games

In 1990, American psychologist Roger Shepard published a book entitled Mind Sights.  The book featured many different optical illusions as well as explanations of the illusions themselves.  Here is one of them.

For more optical illusions, please visit An Optical Illusion.

Category: All Puzzles, Optical Illusions

This is a very titillating puzzle. It’s actually quite small, and easily carried around in one’s pocket. It’s 1 3/4 X1 1/4 X 1 3/4 inches and is fairly heavy and sturdy, A pretty little puzzle in appearance and guaranteed to interest anyone who sees it laying around. Some puzzles require a lot of manipulation and sometimes quite a bit of remembering how to solve it. Some puzzles are very simple once you know how to solve them, but can be very challenging until you know its “secret”.This is definitely one of those types. I love the name “Alcatraz” given [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Physics-Based Puzzlers

Twisty Puzzling has got an unboxing and review of the Cross Cube.  The cube is quite different from other traditional cubes.  Mixing it up is easy but seeing the solution to it is quite tricky.

You can purchase the Cross Cube at Puzzle Master.

Thank you Twisty Puzzling for allowing us to use your videos.  If you would like to see more of his videos, go to Twisty Puzzling`s Youtube Channel.

Copyright (c) 2013, Twisty Puzzling

Category: All Puzzles, Rotational / Twisty Puzzles, Video Blogs

Dusted

A highly addictive but simple collect style game. Collect the dust particles don’t let them hit the bottom of the screen, Lots of cool bonuses to collect to help you get further.

This game gets very hard after a while and anything over 8000 is an excellent score, but then sometimes you might get lucky with the bonuses. Collect the dust particles don’t let them hit the bottom of the screen.

Category: Online Games 2, Puzzles

Cast Devil is an excellent puzzle. It has been made by many companies and is still one of the most common puzzles around. To be blunt, it is a classic. It has a difficulty of 4 out of 10.It is made of heavy metal, so it is almost impossible to break. It is a puzzle that most people could solve with a little perseverance. It is a puzzle that will get passed around when a few friends are socializing. It looks much simpler than it is, and since it doesn’t look intimidating, once one person solves it, someone else [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Metal Puzzles

This challenging new version of Move the Box by Otizito is one of the best games available for IPhone and Android on the market. While the game itself has very simple rules, the puzzles can be anything but. In fact, you may find yourself engrossed for hours on end as you attempt to make your way through each new challenge gaining in trickery as it goes.

You begin with a series of boxes on your screen and the goal is simple: move the boxes around to clear the dock as quickly as possible. The catch is that your number [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Android Puzzle Games, iPhone/iPad Puzzle Games