I can remember seeing this optical illusion at an indoor golf course that I used to go to.  They had optical illusions all over the walls.  I would spend all my time, in between hitting the golf ball, looking at them and wondering how they would make them.  This one has an added twist to it though.  There is an extra face.  So just how many do you see?

For more optical illusions like this go to eyetricks.com.

Happy puzzling.

Category: All Puzzles, Optical Illusions

Cogs is a game for Android phone as well as for iPhone and is available on the desktop for Windows, Mac and Linux.  Here are the links to either the Demo or the Full Game.  If you are the kind of person that can remember The 15 Puzzle, or are playing it even now, you will like this game.  Even if you haven’t played The 15 Puzzle, chances are good that you will like this game.  I have played The 15 Puzzle game and remembered absolutely despising it as a kid.  I would [Read More...]

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

What can I say about this game other then its absolutely brilliant and refreshing.  This game has versions for Pc, Linux, Mac, Android and iOS.  Machinarium is not your typical adventure game at all.  I have been playing adventure games since 1992 and out of all the great games that I have played this one is in the top 3.  I would only put the first time I played Myst and Pandora Directive as better games.  Those are older games though.  Welcome to the new, out of the box thinking of adventure games from Indie projects.

Ok [Read More...]

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

When I was younger I never really liked or understood how the Rubik’s Cube worked. I guess I still don’t understand it at all, but anyways. I now have an appreciation for the rotational puzzles. Looking at so many of them and seeing how they are made has given me an appreciation for them. I have even been able to solve the 3x3x3 and the 5x5x5. Of course it took me a long time but I still solved it.

This is something completely different.  The gear cube rotates on gears.  There is no internal mechanism that has pieces attached to [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Rotational / Twisty Puzzles

This is a well know optical illusion created by L. Hermann. It has black squares, gray lines and white dots. What our eyes see is something different. They see the white dots turn to black or gray dots and appear to blink as you move your eyes around. The picture never changes or blinks at all. Letting your field of vision get wider you will see that they are all white dots. This is somewhat tricky to do without moving your eyes but can be done.

Optical illusions like this are easy to make but cause us to think of [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Optical Illusions

Botanicula is a computer game that can be played on PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.  It is one of those puzzle games that you would never think is a puzzle game.  In a nutshell it is 5 characters exploring their surroundings.  They try to survive and save the environment around them as it is being over run by evil black creatures.  You will have to solve many a puzzle to get through this game, some which do not seem like puzzles at all but just a continuation of the storyline.

The graphics in this game are absolutely stunning.  [Read More...]

Category: All Puzzles, Computer Games