Passion For Puzzles

Puzzles can be a lot of fun to assemble, but after all the excitement of putting it together, the picture is always the same. Enter the Mirror Puzzle: Instead of an unchanging static image, the Mirror Puzzle displays an image of whatever happens to be reflected at the moment – use it as a centerpiece or experiment with thousands of other possibilities. Next to that I also think it is much more difficult to put this puzzle together because any reference is missing. Mirror Puzzle comes with a Lucite top (acrylic glass) and base, is designed by Tobias Wong and made in New York. Mirror Puzzle is available at UncommonGoods for US$ 200.00.

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Money Maze is one of the most infuriatingly addictive puzzles in history according to Fire Box. Money maze looks a bit like a transparent Borg starship and is a puzzle with a highly amusing twist. The idea is to put money, tickets, gift vouchers or any other paper-based pressie inside and laugh as recipients go nuts trying to get at their gift.
They are not telling you how to solve Money Maze but it involves manoeuvering a steel ball through a maze by tilting the cube. If you think that sounds easy, it is not.
Indeed, putting pressies inside Money Maze is infinitely more amusing than slipping a few notes in a birthday card.
Flummoxed recipients might be tempted to take the direct approach and smash Money Maze to smithereens with a heavy object. But then they'd be unable to use it again. And that would be a shame because as well as being a brilliant way to give money, tokens and tickets.
Via and available at Firebox and will cost you £11.95.

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At su.doku.es they wrote an article about a online Rube Goldberg Puzzle called Lunch Time. Rube is famous for his special designed machines and therefor they are also known as Rube Goldberg Machines. A Rube Goldberg machine or device is any exceedingly complex apparatus that performs a very simple task in a very indirect and convoluted way. Rube devised such pataphysical devices. The best examples of his machines have an anticipation factor: the fact that something so wacky is happening can only be topped by it happening in a suspenseful manner.
If you want to operate a Rube Goldberg Machine you can solve it online for free. Object of this Rube Goldberg Machine called Lunch Time is to take away the hamburger with Coke at the right bottom.

Tags: Blue Print | Flash Puzzle | Rube Goldberg | Rube Goldberg Machine

Splash Back is really a monster of a game. The rules are simple, you start with ten drops in your tank and use them to grow blobs until they burst. When they burst drops will be added to blobs around the burst blobs and this is how you can start a chain reaction. Happy puzzling with Splash Back and leave a comment to share the maximum number of levels you reached.

Tags: Splash Back | Flash Puzzle

Dror Vomberg made a pure paper cube fully functional Rubik's cube completely from paper, although it is not the first twisty puzzle build from paper a cardbox Dino cube by Robert Webb was the first twisty puzzle from paper. But a fully working paper Rubik's Cube is quite unique. Dror is a specialist in blindfolded solving the 3x3x3, 4x4x4 and 5x5x5 Rubik's cube, and he combined his hobby Rubik's cube and paper sculpturing to make this fully functional paper Rubik's cube. Via Flying-pig.

Tags: Rubik's Cube | Puzzle

A new flash puzzle game addiction has arrived and is called Bloktonik. It has already been available around the world as game for mobile phones. You can now play Bloktonik online for free in this new, deluxe version!

Blocks come raining in from 4 directions (north, east, south and west) and it is your job to land them on the central cluster, based on the direction they're falling in! Chain four same-colored blocks together to remove them and level-up. If you disconnect blocks from the central cluster you will get even more points. There are also various "Tech Bonuses" available in the game. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Puzzle Game | Flash Puzzle

Ouverture Facile (the French translation for Easy Opening) is a flash riddle game with a growing difficulty. Each level has to be solved to access the next one and what you learn in a riddle might be useful later in other levels. The game doesn't really end as new levels are added when the creator of this puzzle has new ideas. Ouverture Facile was already launched in June 2005 and features 92 French levels (November 2006), Puzzles are translating from French to English, so if you reach the "Work in progress" page, be patient because the next one is coming when it's done. The website also offers a Forum for some help and a tutorial for this sometimes difficult riddles. Happy Puzzling

Tags: Ouverture Facile | Puzzle | Riddles

At Passion for Puzzles Online Puzzles Page (which you you can find via the menu at the left side) you can play Lights Out. The object of Lights Out puzzle is to turn all lights on the board out. By clicking one light you will reverse the state for that light and every adjacent lights. You solved a level when all lights are turned off. But next to Lights Out there is also a variant (of course) called Lights On. You need to turn all lights on (off) from the field. When you on one lamp then other lamps off. when you off lamp then other lamp on. Use logic and math mind to solve this flash puzzle game.

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At Intellego Holzspiele you can now find some nice wooden versions of the trendy Sudoku puzzle game. It is now available in classic and precious design made of beech and maple wood. The wooden Sudoku puzzles have beautifully designed counters to replace paper, pencil and eraser. The sudoku board offers a clear overview and smooth exchange of the counters.
Each Sudoku game is manufactured from selected lumbers from Germany. With its matte painting and fine polishing, the smooth surface of the wooden board reflects the natural wild growth of the tree. Each wooden board is a unique item with its own particular, characteristic material. However, besides all the individuality, all wooden Sudoku's have one thing in common: Intellego Holzspiele only delivers games that meet our high quality and safety standards.

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Majesco Entertainment Company today announced Toon-Doku for the Nintendo DS. Developed by Dragon’s Den Unlimited, Toon-Doku will offer fun, cartoon picture-based puzzles in addition to traditional number-based Sudoku puzzles when it ships this April.

Toon-Doku is the answer for Sudoku fans looking for something different and younger players looking for a less intimidating puzzler. The combination of pictures and unique multi-player features adds several new dimensions to one of today’s most popular brain games. Of course, Toon-Doku also includes number-based play, so fans can enjoy ‘Doku’ the traditional way as well.

Toon-Doku features 250 different images gamers can place on the board to complete each puzzle. A deep Edit Mode lets budding artists create their own customized pieces for play or trade with friends. In addition to three multi-player modes, Toon-Doku includes a unique Distraction System that lets players block portions of their opponent's board to thwart their progress in competitive matches.

More information about Toon-Doku and Majesco's exciting line of products can be found online at Majesco Entertainment.

Tags: Sudoku | Nintendo DS

Also this year attendees of the Annual Rapid Manufacturing Event in North America are "challenged" to collect and assemble nine pieces that make up a puzzle model. This year the puzzle is Joel Roemhild's Orb puzzle after last years Cryptex puzzle. Joel won the Rapid Challenge Design Competition with his Orb Puzzle. Exhibitors are challenged to demonstrate their accuracy, material qualities, and finishes by producing a piece of the puzzle so that it fits properly in the final assembly. Lovely puzzle for all puzzle collectors. More at source.
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Eternity Puzzle is Back This Summer With a US$2 Million Prize for the First Person to Find a Solution. One of the fastest selling puzzles of all time is making its long awaited comeback on the 28th July 2007 with a fantastic US$2 million prize on offer to the first person who correctly completes the 256 piece puzzle. Eternity II will be launched at London Toy Fair on the 24th January by Neil and Christine Hamilton, the celebrity couple who were famously declared bankrupt in 2001. At the event, the computer containing a solution to Eternity II will be destroyed in front of the gathering crowds by the UK's finalist in World's Strongest Man competition.

Eternity II is the follow up to Eternity I which captured the imagination of thousands of people across Europe 8 years ago when it was launched. A cheque for GBP1 million was handed over to a student who successfully solved the puzzle in just eighteen months. Eternity II has been developed by the original inventor, Christopher Monckton, a previous aide to Margaret Thatcher.

Unlike most puzzles, which only have one correct way of completing the final solution, there are thousands of ways that Eternity II can be solved to win the US$2 million prize. The puzzle consists of 256 square pieces that are bordered by colored patterns which must be correctly aligned to find a solution.

Eternity II will appeal to males and females of all ages - from those that regularly enjoy the challenge of puzzle games to those that will be tempted to have a go and try to win the US$2million!

Christopher Monckton: "Anyone of any age or academic ability could solve Eternity II - it could be a 5 year old or a 90 year old grandmother."

Eternity II will be available as a range of products including the main puzzle with a guide retail price of GBP34.99 (256 pieces) and two further 'Clue' puzzles with guide retail prices of GBP19.99 (72 pieces) and GBP9.99 (36 pieces). Solving the Clue puzzles will reveal locations of key pieces in the main puzzle to help people take one step closer to winning the US$2million prize!

Christopher Monckton: "The buzz has already started amongst the thousands of people that tried their hand at Eternity I and are raring to go at Eternity II. I think we will see a lot of people using the internet to collaborate together to try and share the US$2 million!!"

The launch of Eternity II is set to be one of the biggest and most exciting consumer product launches of 2007 with lots of public events planned across the world. The sales are expected to blow away the first Eternity due to the huge existing fan base and the fun opportunity to try and make a fortune.

Check out http://www.EternityII.com to Register for all the Latest News (via PR News Wire)

Tags: Eternity II | Puzzle

Bring the pleasure of solving a puzzle and the learning together. Solve this 15 puzzle by lining up the tiles to match a section of the periodic table of the elements. Unfortunately there is just one puzzle and not more puzzles showing other parts of the periodic table.

Tags: Periodic Table | Flash Puzzle

Sudoku Song comes in different versions. As mentioned before in other Sudoku Song posts (read a previous post about a Sudoku Song) and the Sudoku Song for Kids by Rhett and Link there is now also a Sudoku Rap about the world famous Sudoku puzzles. If the rap song is not enough for you to understand the rules of Sudoku you can always have a look at our How to Solve Sudoku webpage, where you can find simple tips to solve all your Sudoku's.

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I think almost twenty years ago I got a wooden puzzle in which you had to move a metal ball from point a to b through a 2D maze. You could move the ball by controlling a frame by two axis. If you would like to solve such a puzzle online but now by controlling the frame by your mouse of arrow-keys. The object of Rolley Ball is to roll the ball off of the board. The ball can pass through walls of the same color, but some walls are deadly depending on the color of your ball. Avoid yellow walls when your ball is red, blue when your ball is yellow, and red when your ball is blue. Hit walls hard to explode the dots for points in your proximity. In bonus levels, try to get all of the dots before exiting the board. The game can be played with your mouse or arrow keys. Play Rolley Ball online at Dab On TV.

Tags: Rolley Ball | Arcade+Game | Flash Puzzle

Sudoku does not only keep people puzzling but it also inspires people to write songs about it (read a previous post about a Sudoku Song). Now comedians Rhett And Link wrote a short Sudoku song especially for the kids (57sec) and give Sudoku a new persective. You can find the Sudoku Song at YouTube. If you are still puzzled how to solve sudoku please read our How to Solve Sudoku webpage, where you can find simple tips to solve all your Sudoku's.

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Last week Kakuro Mini is released for Windows Mobile Devices, and the best thing is that it is for free.

So now you can keep playing. Kakuro is also known as Cross Sums, Kakuro is a logic puzzle game in the same genre as Sudoku (at Passion for Puzzles Strategy web page you can find tips to solve Kakuro). With Kakuro Mini you can generate puzzles in sizes from 6x6 to 9x9 and difficulties from easy to hard.

The build in assistant can help you with automatic markup, and revealing certain numbers, allowing you to focus on the fun parts. It offers also the option to save your puzzles for later use. You can download Kakuro Mini for free at MobileTopSoft dot com.

Tags: Puzzle | Windows Mobile

A few days ago someone added a link on the Puzzle Link page to Link The Seven. Every day on Spot The Seven a puzzle is added (feel free to add your favorite puzzle website). It consist of two pictures with (as the name says) has seven difference between the two pictures. That's easy, there are no extra rules for time or what so ever, just find the seven differences. Everey day two new pictures are added. Just visit Moe's Realm Spot The Seven website.

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Okay it's not really a puzzle, but the idea to lighten up an office environment, I think is just brilliant. This is an interactive seating based on the game Scrabble in a short break area for employees in the London offices of Bloomberg financial services. Employees can make words and leave a messages with the screen printed letter cushions. It is a collaboration with Alistair Willmott. The pictures are taken in an London office where Wordplay is installed in 2004.

Tags: Scrabble | Wordplay | Office Entertainment

The first mobile phone with integrated puzzle is designed by GMEA (Russian designer Dima Komissarov) and at GMEA they call it "the first ever real game phone". Instead of a normal keypad it has a keypad that mimics a sliding puzzle (also known as 15 puzzle). You can move each key around to arrange them however you like, although the right positions are marked underneath, so you can get them back into place if necessary. With this new designed mobile phone you can even play when the battery is empty. You can solve 15 Puzzle online at our Online Puzzles webpage. More at source PlusMinus Design

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Who will ever think about combining Rubik’s Cube and a MP3 Player, well Hee Yong did. The Rubik’s Cube MP3 player got all the functionalities of an MP3 player and a Rubik’s Cube. But first before you can operate the MP3 player, you have to turn and align it in certain ways and to turn it off you have to complete the puzzle. I think Speedcubing is essential in this case. Via Yanko Design

Tags: MP3 player | Rubik's Cube

Via su.doku.es I found another variant of the famous Sudoku puzzles. It's called Pandigital Sudoku. You have to fill in the Sudoku grid so that every row, every column, and every 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. These are the original Sudoku rules. Additional the rows form 9 correct arithmetic expressions reading from left to right. There is only one solution to complete Pandigital Sudoku.

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Game maker Compile Heart released some details on their upcoming Wii puzzle game called No-Kone Puzzle: Takoron. In this new game you use the Wii remote to move around a 2x2 cursor and place colored octopi inside them. When you press A the octopi rotate and you can move them around into the numbered nets. The goal is to move the same colored octopi in the net to clear them from the board. For instance if you bring five red octopi under the net numbered five you will erase them and all of the other red octopi touching the ones in the net. Takoron is a versus puzzle game similar to the game called Puyo Pop. When you clear a group of octopi on your screen black sea urchin-like creatures appear on your opponent's side to make life for them difficult. Compile Heart announced that No-Kone Puzzle: Takoron will be ready for a summer release in Japan. Via siliconera.

Tags: Wii | Takoron | Puzzle Game

When you want to share your passion for puzzles with your Valentine now you can order a customized Valentine Jigsaw Puzzle.

Your message of love and affection is revealed, piece-by-piece, as your Valentine solves this jigsaw puzzle! (11"H x 14"W = 28cm x 35cm). They will personalize the 140-piece puzzle with any message with a maximum of 60 characters. The puzzle is made of sturdy puzzle board, the pieces come in a red organza bag tied with a drawstring ribbon. An unforgettable way to get your feelings across for just $20. Please keep in mind it requires up to 4 days to personalize.

If you like to read more about jigsaw puzzle please read our jigsaw puzzle page. Happy Puzzling!

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Sagem Communication, which took over Philips Fax Business Unit in 2002 has unveiled its first Philips consumer fax machines in Australia – and they come with a Sudoku function.
The Philips Magic 5 series fax machines are designed with an emphasis on smaller, compact size. Features include ring tones which can be assigned to individual phone numbers, pre-defined fax forms in different languages, caller ID and one touch message retrieval. There is also an SMS function, allowing you to send and receive SMS via the landline. And for the many Sudoku addicts out there, Sagem has even packed in a Sudoku function which lets you print Sudoku grids of four different levels directly from the fax machine. Via Smarthouse News

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Learn all the continents of the world with this fun and educational flash puzzle game offered by Owl & Mouse Educational Software for free. The object is to move all parts as quickly as possible in the right place.
The heart of geography, and even the source of its name, is the map - a picture of the world which organizes our understanding of places. Manipulating a map, assembling it, is the best way to learn where the different countries are and what other countries they are near to or far way from. This forms a lasting image and understanding. It is hard to know much of a foreign place without knowing where it is. The map is a framework that brings other knowledge together and makes the world understandable.
You can play the Continental Map Puzzle online for free but you can also download the Continental Map Puzzle application for Windows XP, Me, 3.1, 95 or 98. Puzzles are available for United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, Canada, Middle East, South East Asia & Australia, South America, Central America and North America. I solved some puzzles and to be honest for me it was not as easy as expected ;-)

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Word search games make good learning and fun tools. If you are a fan of word search games, then you might enjoy this one, WordOMatic.It is a word search game with elements of puzzle and strategy. You are expected to rearrange letters to form words which are then replaced with fresh letters. To make it more interesting as letters grow old, they change color. The object of the game is to use all available letters before they become void. This is an original game belonging to the Word Search genre which includes games like Scrabble, Boggle, and Jumble as well as modern PC games like Bookworm and Text Twist.

WordOMatic is not only an easy game to play, it’s also a good way to learn. The game knows over forty thousand words from three to six letters. You get bonus points for using longer words, and for avoiding repeated words. Like I said it’s real cool way to learn and have fun at the same time. Yeah it is! It knows more than eight hundred words containing the letter X.

The only thing that might be an issue for you about this game is its price. It’s a shareware that costs $19.95. But you can check out the trial version and see if it is worth it. Check it out at Shoe Cake Games

Tags: WordOMatic | Puzzle

MumboJumbo a leading developer and publisher of premium casual games announced that it will publish Hexic Deluxe and Mozaki Blocks Deluxe. The two Microsoft puzzle titles are products of Alexey Pajitnov, Tetris' creator. MumboJumbo will distribute Hexic Deluxe and Mozaki Blocks Deluxe exclusively through its worldwide network of retailers.

Hexic Deluxe is a mind-boggling match-three puzzler that takes gamers on a fun and challenging journey. In this clever puzzler, gamers can enjoy enhanced graphics as they rotate hexagons and create clusters of same-colored tiles to clear the board. Mozaki Blocks Deluxe is a colorful block-matching puzzler where every move must be precisely calculated. With the goal of forming a bridge of color-connected geometric pieces from the exterior edges to the center of the screen, players will experience endless hours of entertainment and an exciting change of pace from the typical puzzle game.

"Bringing these popular titles to retail is a natural extension as we continue to deliver the strongest casual game titles across all platforms," said Chris Early, product unit manager for Microsoft Casual Games. "MumboJumbo's role as the leading publisher of retail casual games, combined with Pajitnov's skill and history in developing award-winning titles, makes for a exciting and winning combination."

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The World Rubik's Cube Championship 2007 will take place on October 5th, 6th and 7th of 2007 in Budapest, Hungary. More information will be published the coming weeks at the World Cube Association website (rate for competition hotel etc,). Registration will be on Friday and early Saturday morning.

Tags: Rubik's Cube | World Championship

At passion for puzzles I added another online puzzle you can play online for free. It's called Logix and has 10 levels. Object of the puzzle is to turn all squares into circles by moving your mouse over the squares. Starts very simple but the puzzle becomes a little bit more difficult when you got different colors. This means you have to move your mouse over them twice or not at all otherwise the level will be reset. This is unfortunately not a game for people who are color blind. If you don't have problems with contoling your mouse you should be able to solve all ten levels of Logix within five minutes.

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At vanishingpointgame.com Microsoft offers every week 12 puzzles. This to promote the release of Microsoft's Vista. Prizes include a trip into space and your name engraved on AMD chips. Each puzzle released has a piece hidden within a live event. You can find this hidden piece by attending the live event or watching footage via the Vanishing Point website. Upon registering for the sweepstakes on the website for each puzzle you solve you will get points. And you can earn 10 additional points for referring other visitors to register for the promotion. Each point is worth one ticket into the sweepstakes to win prizes. The more points you have the better chance you have to win. The sweepstakes will end January 30 2007.

Tags: Puzzle | Vista

Puzzle Quest challenges is a classic 'three-of-a-kind' puzzle action with a twist or two
for both DS and PSP. It's developed and published by D3Publisher and is a puzzle/role play/strategy game.
The game dynamic may indeed be rooted in tradition, but it also incorporates strategy and roleplaying elements to potentially give this effort considerably more depth, as well as a welcome distinguishing feature. As such, players are encouraged to create, customize and ultimately develop their hero's abilities, magical arsenal and creature companions in order to save the land of Etheria from the evil Lord Bane.
Progress is achieved through turn-based, head-to-head battles within a match-three game world, and your performance can be substantially boosted by using items received from completing quests or bought at the local friendly shop – something to call upon when facing powerful foes should you subsequently find yourself running low on strategic nous (though correctly using, say, magic potions at the appropriate time will still require a certain tactical approach, of course).
Three game modes are promised, ranging from a 150-quest single player option pitting you against the AI, an Instant Action alternative for those wishing to play continuous battles in order to level-up characters without having to embark on quests, and multi player wireless encounters.
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords is currently scheduled to appear on both PSP and DS on March 16th 2007. Full story at Pocket Gamer.

Tags: Puzzle Quest | PSP | DS

Super Collapse is simply a blast! Find rows and columns of three or more like-colored blocks; click them and they disappear, collapsing the rows and columns above. Easy, right? Watch out though, more lines are stacking up at the bottom (and speeding up), and as soon as any column reaches the top, it's game over! You can choose your preferred game mode: when the blocks of colored cubes grow like stalagmites or fall down like stalactites. Super addictive and great fun for the whole family! Download Pearl Puzzle and Play for Free!

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Su.doku.es pointed me to the Akari / Light Bulb puzzle available via Web Nikoli. Although Slitherlink is still my favorite Akari is worth looking at. The Akari / Light Bulb puzzle was developed by Nikoli in 2001. This puzzle has a very simple rule (like Slitherlink), but guide you a logical complex world. Light up all empty squares by placing light bulbs according to the following rules:
- A number indicates how may light bulbs are next to it, vertically and horizontally
- Each light bulb illuminates all unblocked squares in its row and column
- Every square must be illuminated
- One light bulb must never illuminate by another light bulb
- When all rooms are illuminated, it's finished

Akari Tutorial at Nikoli.

UPDATE : Nikoli's Akari puzzles are now also available for iPhone and iPod Touch.

Tags: Akari | Light Bulb | Nikoli

For Nintendo Brain Training scored very well, and now there is even Brain Training for other popular portable computers and can owners of a PSP become as smart as Nintendo owners. Mind Quiz consist of a view tests with speed an accuracy as extra element. With these elements Brain Training calculates you brain age. All tests looks alike and a bit of training will increase your brain age. There is only one limit, you can only do one test a day. If it is real science is the question but it is fun, especially when you use the multi player mode. The only downside is that at the Play Station O en X are normally used you the in the other way and that's where you make mistakes. Mind Quiz is available at Amazon.com

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If the sign of an innovative game is that it all makes sense when you play it, Explode! could well be something really different. Because to be quite honest, we're not quite sure from the press release and screen shots how it works at all.
That's the problem with new ideas, of course. Cynics say stuff like, "A bulb of light, Mr Edison? Who in the world needs that when they can simply light a candle?" And indeed, until we play Explode! we won't know if it's the best new thing since 7 Wonders, or the worst thing since the reinvention of stuck together bread.
From what we can work out, Explode! mixes up bubbles and explosions. In time-honored puzzle game fashion, you need to group similarly colored bubbles together, and then blow them up with a spinning laser beam.
Actually it doesn't sound too unfathomable when you put it like that, especially since we're promised simple one-thumb control.
But where does the 'great physics' that apparently enables you to predict bubble movement fit in? And how will the nine special unlockable bubbles mix things up?
Turning to more mundane matters, there are four modes promised – the 12-level Main mode, plus Puzzle, Time Attack and Freestyle modes – and also four graphical and musical themes to unlock. It's rare to see music mentioned at all in mobile game press releases, so lets hope Explode!'s multi-channel rock, jazz, chill-out, and drum'n'bass tunes hit the spot.

Developer Tequila Mobile assures us Explode! is due to be released by a major publisher soon, so keep an eye out for it on a portal near you – and let us know if you think it's a big bang, or a little whimper (via pocketgamer)

Tags: Explode | Mobile Puzzle

Have you ever solved a Rubik's Cube puzzle? Thought not. Bet you know someone who has, though, right? Everybody seems to when you mention the Rubik's Cube, the cultural gimmick / icon of the 1980's.
Thankfully it's not an issue that you're likely to encounter with Rubik's Bloxx Twister, which bears a closer resemblance to classic puzzlers like Tetris or Lumines than it does its cuboid forebear.
Set in what is now a familiar collection of screen furniture, the playing area slowly fills with coloured blocks. But rather than dropping in from the top of the screen, a la Tetris, or from the side like Lumines, they pop up from underneath.
The rate at which each new row emerges is determined by your progress through the game. The higher the level you reach, the faster they appear.
By now it'll no doubt be apparent to you that the object of the game is to clear all of these blocks. In Rubik's Bloxx Twister this involves making rows or columns of three blocks of the same colour.
This is achieved by positioning the yellow cursor – precisely two blocks wide – over two blocks of your choosing, and then flipping them. So, if a red block was on the left and a white one on the right of the cursor, their positions would be reversed.
It sounds like a simple concept, certainly no more complicated than any of the games it shares so many of its traits with. But in play it's a rather different experience, and it'll take you a good 15 minutes or so before you're completely at ease with it, which is quite some time for a mobile game.
Since you can only flip blocks horizontally – there's no way to make the cursor stand up on one end – you start off being flummoxed and the first level seems way too hard. The tutorial that takes you through the basic controls and rules of the game doesn't help at all, either. But once things fall into place, Rubik's Bloxx Twister takes off.
Scanning your collection of blocks for potential matches and looking for chain reactions, where the blocks disappearing from your first match act as the catalyst for another match, becomes a satisfying challenge.
Two power-ups add further interest. Matching three bomb blocks will cause them to detonate, taking the surrounding ordinary blocks with them. Special Rubik's blocks assist you even further. Contained within a coloured block, when matched with two other ordinary coloured blocks it'll make all the blocks of that colour in the playing area disappear, too.
Yet Rubik's Bloxx Twister still feels like a game that needs more substance. With only one playing mode, you just keep going through the levels until the blocks reach the top of the screen and it's game over. There are no new power-ups, no new colours to add to the existing collection and little, really, as a goal to work towards.
It's a shame because the game isn't bad to play and genuinely provides a different experience, at least early on. But once you've got the tactics down, there's not really enough to keep you coming back for more.
So while you might get the same answer when you ask someone if they've solved Rubik's Bloxx Twister as you would when you ask if they've finished the Rubik's Cube, you won't find anyone who knows someone who has. More information about Rubik's Bloxx Twister at source Mobile Review

Tags: Mobile Puzzle | Rubik's

Merj Puzzle Box is a point and click puzzle game. The object of Merj Puzzle Box is to get the yellow polygon down into the cube. To be able to do this you have to point and click to right directions to move blocks. Be aware, while loading the puzzle you can see some hints which helps you to solve this simple point and click puzzle game Merj Puzzle Box.

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3D Soma Puzzle is a three-dimensional logic puzzle game that challenges you to assemble various figures with colored irregular 3D blocks. The puzzle seems to be simple but great variety of solutions for each shape (the simplest figure - cube can be solved by 240 essentially different methods) makes it really challenging. 3D Soma puzzle game will keep you entranced and busy for hours (or even days). It can provide you lots of fun and exploration as well as help develop the ability to visualize spatial relationships.

3D Soma Puzzle features fully rotatable three-dimensional blocks, ability to create your own figures that can be shared with other players, two preview modes (wireframe and solid) and flexible controls system (you can assemble figures using mouse and/or keyboard). More information about 3D Soma puzzle at source

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Yatec Games starts 2007 with the release of Enchanted Gardens, an addictive new garden-themed puzzle game for PC. You can collect custom garden upgrades as you play through garden mode, arranges tiles to match the patterns in Puzzle Mode, or kick back and enjoy endless gameplay in Relax Mode. With 30 trophies to earn and hundreds of levels to discover, Enchanted Gardens lets you create the gardens of your dreams without getting your hands dirty. With dazzling visuals and unique-yet-familiar game play, Enchanted Gardens appeals to seasoned puzzle gamers and gardening enthusiasts alike. Enchanted Gardens is now available for Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/Vista.

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In Europe it's not a real winter so we have to pretend it is cold with Frozen Bubble. A variant of Taito's world famous Puzzle Bubble. More about the history and the game Puzzle Bubble you can find in a previous post about Puzzle Bubble Flash Game. But if you are more in a summer mood and you want to play Puzzle Bubble please take a look at another variant called Flower Power. Same rules, but now with different kind and colors of lovely flowers. Enjoy.

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Slitherlink is still one of my favorite puzzles. Now you can also solve slitherlink puzzles on you Nintendo DS Handheld and will cost you around US$ 30. If you want to learn how to solve Slitherlink puzzle please check out our Strategy for Slitherlink puzzles webpage.

Tags: Slitherlink | Nintendo DS

If you got a Rubik's Cube for Christmas and you want to solve it, you can find online a lot of Rubik's Cube Solvers. But more satisfying and more impressive is if you can solve it yourself. At YouTube there are four instruction video's which explain you step by step all the techniques needed to solve Rubik's Cube layer by layer. At this moment I think these video's are the best available video's on the internet on how to solve Rubik's Cube. Watch them all and solve your Rubik's Cube in front of your friends to impress them. Happy Cubing.

Solve Rubik's Cube Instruction Video part 1
Solve Rubik's Cube Instruction Video part 2
Solve Rubik's Cube Instruction Video part 3
Solve Rubik's Cube Instruction Video part 4

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To start the new year I found a simple point and click puzzle game called Gateway and is developed by Anders Gustafsson.

The object of this Flash Puzzle game is to escape from seven different rooms by solving simple puzzles. The first level turns out to be a tutorial though the game control is very easy to understand.

The graphics are just brilliant, but the puzzles are a bit to easy. Gateway can be found at Mousebreaker dot com. Happy puzzling!

Tags: Gateway | Flash Puzzle | Point and Click Game