Passion For Puzzles

Blockdude is a remake of an old TI-83 puzzle game called Blockdude, the original game was written by Brandon Sterner.

The objective of the game is to get to the exit, the door. The problem is that you can only move one step up at the time. So you need to move blocks in order to get there. There are eleven levels from the original game plus three bonus levels from another Windows remake. Use your arrow keys to move around (more instructions can be found at the website. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Blockdude | Puzzle Game

Tetris, the world's most popular video game, is now available as a 3D Tetris Cube.

Object is to take the Tetris cube apart and put it back together again. Sound simple? This addictive new puzzle craze is sure to drive you wild! There are over 14,000 solutions. The "mini" Tetris cube size (2.8 x 2.8 x 2.8 inches / approx. 7x7x7 cm) lets you bring your new obsession with you wherever you go! For one or more brave players, ages 8+.

Tags: Tetris | Cube

AquaCubes is a nice Flash Puzzle Game by MoFunZone.

Object is to help your submarine form groups of the same colored squares to get fuel. You can do this by group four or more blocks of the same color. You can do this by sliding columns or rows with your mouse. By sliding the correct row or column you can also create more groups of four of the same color at the same time this is called Super Combo's. Enjoy AquaCubes !

Tags: AquaCubes | Puzzle Game

Zebra Puzzle is the latest addition to my puzzle collection and one of the three safari puzzles by Lagoon Puzzles. The other two are Tiger and Leopard.

Object is to arrange all 72 tiles to make a perfect square. You must match all heads and tails of the zebras on all tiles. All colors on the edge of the tiles must also match the adjacent tiles.

Via Give Me A Clue you can find two clues and the the complete solution.

Tags: Zebra | Tile Puzzle

Bunch is a nice Flash puzzle game by DevLabs Ltd.

The basic idea of Bunch is to create bunches of balls of the same color. This can be achieved by swapping adjacent balls with each other (horizontal or vertical only). The bigger the bunch the more points that a bunch is worth. However not every ball can be swapped with the one next to it. A valid swap is achieved when at least one of the two swapped balls have a ball of the same color next to it in its new position. Happy Puzzling !

Tags: Bunch | Puzzle Game

Finally the demo of Trism is available via Demiforce.

Trism is a kind of Bejeweld for the iPhone, The object of Trism is to get three consecutive triangles of the same color along with the blocks falling according to the way your iPhone/iPod Touch is tilted. You can watch a video of the demo of Trism on the iPhone to see how it all works at youtube.

More information about trism (including screenshots) can be found at the Demiforce website.

Tags: Trism | iPhone

Via Puzzlinks I found a nice version of a maze puzzle game. The combination between the maze and the real life is in my opinion very thought through.

The object of Migration is to move a gnu to an oasis across a field of varied terrain. Gnus can only move to a zone of the appropriate season, as denoted by sky color. Seasons go Spring (green) -> Summer (yellow) -> Autumn (red) -> Winter (blue) -> Spring. Each time the gnu moves, the season progresses.

In the beginning it’s a simple maze but it gets a bit more challenging at the 10th level when you have to control more than one gnu. Now you can move either gnu as you choose and moving either will advance the season for both. Click on a zone to move an adjacent gnu there. Click on a gnu to give it movement priority. Gnus can only move to a zone of the appropriate season, as denoted by sky color. Seasons go Spring (green) -> Summer (yellow) -> Autumn (red) -> Winter (blue) -> Spring. The level is beaten when one gnu is on each oasis. Arrows change level. U-turn arrow undoes last movement. Circular arrow restarts. Happy Puzzling

Tags: Migration | Maze | Puzzle Game

If you like Bloxorz and have an iPhone you can now play Loocube. At the WeiPhone.com website you can find the release for this very addictive puzzle game variant of Bloxorz. The goal of Loocube (also called Loo) is to get your block in the little hole, just as in Bloxorz. The game is also exactly the same as Cubicman but has much nicer graphics.

You can download Loocube from WeiPhone (Chineese website)after you downloaded the installer. Happy Puzzling !

Tags: Bloxorz | Loocube | iPhone

At Bonuslevel.org you can find several kind of puzzles games. One of them is BLockoban. BonusLevel is started as a project by Wouter Visser (Wouter), Tõnu Paldra (tonypa) and Jean-Philippe Sarda (JP) and now relying on its community to add new levels and new games.

Gameplay of BLockoban is easy: move the colored tiles to the corresponding targets of the same color. Hold down the mouse button over a colored tile, choose the direction and release the button. In total there are 66 levels of BLockoban to Solve.

Beside playing games in BonusLevel, you are invited to give your own contribution too since all the games are provided with a level editor and you can design your own levels to any game. Once they are accepted, your levels can be played and rated by everyone.

Happy Puzzling!

Tags: BLockoban | Puzzle Game

Dr. Membrain - Sliderama is a nice little Flash based Flash puzzle game developed by Reflexive.

Game play is easy: grab and move groups of balls by clicking and holding down the left mouse button while you move the mouse. The goal is to match the colored balls with target locations of the same color. There are in total ten different kind of levels to solve. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Dr. Membrain | Sliderama | Puzzle Game

At the end of last year I wrote about Perplex and suggested the designer of Perplex to make an online version in Flash as it is much more accessible. Today I recieved an email from Mike the Perplex designer that he made a Flash version of Perplex, this time the puzzle game is called Bomboozle.

BomBoozle game play is the same as in Perplex. Find a group of three or more blobs of the same color and draw (a line with the pencil) connecting them by clicking and dragging with the mouse. Then let the mouse button go (or click again) to make the selected blobs explode and those above drop down. Groups of six or more blobs are rewarded with a bomb (click on it for maximum carnage). The multi colored wildcard blobs will match any color, so use them wisely. The game will end when there are no more groups or bombs on the game board. So plan each move with care. You can play BomBoozle in three different game modes: Infinite, Timed and Skull.

Thanks to David for turning my request into reality. Happy Puzzling !!

Tags: Bomboozle | Puzzle Game

Can't believe it's not a real chocolate! Looks so sweet, but puzzle is a bit difficult and makes you annoyed.
There is no answer sheet! Give it try and solve the puzzle by yourself! Scramble chocolate pieces. Can you recreate a chocolate bar? There are 2,339 ways to solve the puzzle. Chocolate never melt away, so you don't have to rush.
White Chocolate is easy, Milk Chocolate is for a Beginner and Black Chocolate is for an Expert! Available via Strapya-world.com. Have a sweet and bitter time!

Tags: Chocolate | Tetris

KenKen Puzzles are created by Japanese educator Tetsuya Miyamoto set to be the successor to Sudoku.

KenKen puzzles can be solved by combining the four main mathematical functions of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. To train the brain the puzzles are offered without any instruction. There are important keys to be found but no fixed starting place and no method of progression that can be learnt as a strategy. The brain is forced to dart between competing theories. It's impossible to solve KenKen puzzles without the scientific process of trial and error and that's the rational behind KenKen puzzles.

More information about KenKen puzzles (including KenKen puzzles) can be found TimesOnline.co.uk. KenKen is a trademark of Nextoy, LLC. Happy Puzzling !

Tags: KenKen | Sudoku

Abominaball Snow Maze is a nice Flash Puzzle Game at Fizzy.com

Game description: You are stuck in an ice maze with some crazed Yetis, cold, lost and scared. Steer your ball through the maze before your time runs out and avoid those holes (which make you start the at the beginning of the level again) and Yetis at all costs. Icy, furry fun of the abominable kind is just seconds away. Happy Puzzling !

Tags: Abominaball Snow | Maze | Puzzle Game

The 3rd World Sudoku Puzzle Championship (WSC) is happening as we type in Goa, India.

There are links http://wsc2008.com/ on the WSC webpage to the Sudoku puzzles used for the Finals. The whole page has the same address so go to Downloads in the sidebar). In the last link 'all rounds' from the finals, note the time limits (6 regular Sudoku's of increasing difficulty and 5 mini Sudoku's in 35 minutes; 7 Sudoku variations and 5 mini's Sudoku's in 40 minutes). Thanks to Leigh Anne for this great puzzle tip !

Tags: Sudoku | WSC

Hexcite is a nice puzzle game. It's simple to play as you have only seven different shaped tiles that you place on a hexagonal game board. A great number of players have found the game thoroughly addicting and highly stimulating and mentally challenging. Hexcite has taken Japan by storm with an actual board game version. You can download a free trial or buy the complete puzzle game.

You can also play the same kind of puzzle games for free. Just try Patchworkz or Frescoz.

Tags: Hexcite | Puzzle Game

Crazy Boxes is a puzzle game clone of Lights Out. Only this time there is no pattern, the way the lights are switched on or off.

Click the red boxes and try and to turn the entire square red. If you run into trouble you can use the solution button. This sounds easy but its more difficult than you think. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Crazy Boxes | Puzzle Game

"Blokus Portable: Steambot Championship" is an electronic version of the four-player board game and its two-player travel edition for Sony's PSP.

Two to four players take turns laying down odd-shaped pieces on a grid. The object is to lay down as many pieces as possible before running out of room to place any more. Pieces can be placed only if they match corners with a like-colored piece and don't touch it otherwise, and if they don't overlap any other pieces.

The "Steambot Championship" element comes from the cast of player and computer characters, which are taken from the action-RPG "Steambot Chronicles." The Steambot crowd hangs around the Lobster Inn, a place that seems to serve no purpose other than hosting a variety of Blokus matches. [via dailypress].

The original Blokus Classics Game is available via Amazon.com. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Blokus | Steambot

After playing PuzzoBombs I went loooking for more of this kind of block moving puzzle games. Finally I ended up with a puzzle game called Vexed at the Janko website.

Object is to move blocks from the same color together (with same letter - for people who suffer from color blindness) so they disappear. You can move block only to the left or right (you can't move blocks up or down, they only fall down when there is an open space below them. But be aware no single block can be left behind.

Although the website is in German you can just select one of the 14 different kind of games of Vexed to select (original levels form James A. McCombe and levels sorted on difficulty). In total there are 838 (!) levels to solve. Enjoy Vexed.

Tags: Vexed | Puzzle Game

The most famous and 'best looking' Rubik's Cube solver is still Rubot II, but there is a now a new very good looking Rubik's Cube robot called Tilted Twister. It's completely made of Lego (of course using Lego Mindstorms NXT) and is great to look at due to its simplicity. I think almost a minimum of Lego bricks are used.

Tilted Twister this has been designed by Hans Andersson. At YouTube you can find a video of Tilted Twister showing how the robot scans the colors of each side first. Later it calculates the solution and finally it executes it. The best thing of Tilted Twister, is that his designer has created a Tilted Twister website with all the information with the Lego building instructions, as well as with the program for Lego Mindstorms NXT, so you can build your own Tilted Twister. [Via Su.doku.es]

Tags: Tilted Twister | Rubik | Lego | Mindstorms

If you like Sudoku puzzles, the current star in the world of puzzles, go to Sudoku Craving to get your fix. Every day Sudoku Craving will feature a new Sudoku game, which for registered members will be sent directly to them via email. There is also a large archive of Sudoku games, so you won't have to limit your Sudoky solving techniques to one game a day. Registered members will also have their scores and times saved and ranked, so they can compare themselves to other Sudoku players and track their overall progress. Sudoku Craving promises to be eternally free to players [via KillerStartUps.com].

Tags: Sudoku

Switch is a nice and interesting Flash based puzzle game that need your puzzle skills.

Object is to manoever a ball through a maze. Your ball can only pass over these colored walls if it has the same color as those walls. Hit the appropriate switch to change the color of your ball and find your way out of the maze. Plan your moves out if necessary, as you’ll end up getting blocked in later levels if you don’t. When you reach the purple tile you will move to the next level. Happy puzzling !

Tags: Switch | Puzzle Game

If you like Bloxorz you will also like Ice Princess which is a Bloxorz look-a-like puzzle game with as an extra a story line.

Game Description : The beautiful princess Mariebelle has been kidnapped by a magician who keeps her in an ice palace. She must be freed or her heart will turn to ice and she'll lose her feelings of love and kindness. A bold prince must find his way through mazelike paths to reach her. Use ice surfaces, various switches, bridges and teleports in correct order to pave the way. If the prince can find Mariebelle in time, their love will kill the cold and break the curse in this mind-bending puzzler.
- Charming puzzle game.
- Enchanting levels.

Ice Princess works with Windows 2000/XP/Vista - CPU: 600 Mhz - RAM: 128 MB - DirectX: 8.0 - Hard Drive: 36 MB. You can download this game for a 60 minutes trail or buy it online for less than US$ 7.00.

You can watch a video of Ice Princess at YouTube. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Ice Princess | Bloxorz

Katrin Sonnleitner created this extremely modular jigsaw type flooring. It's a Persian carpet called PuzzlePerser, made out of 1225 individual jigsaw puzzle pieces per square meter. The jigsaw puzzle pieces are made of recyclable mixture of sythetic and natural rubber. More information via the Katrin Sonnleitner website [click on Project, then PuzzlePerser].

Tags: puzzle | Persian Rug

Numbers is a nice puzzle game to test your number adding skills.

Object of Numbers is to add up numbers by picking a combination of numbered blocks, from a grid that would add up to equal the number on the right-hand side of the game screen.

But the real challenge is to pick all the blocks before the timer reaches zero. The next value to be picked is shown on the panel to the right and the timer on top of it. If you fail to deduce the number within the time interval the game wil end. All failed combos will result is -100 points.

You'll win the game if there are no numbered blocks left on the board. Left Click on the blocks to select them and try to finish the game as quickly as possible. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Numbers | Puzzle Game

Puzzobomb is a remake of the original block moving game Puzznix and PC puzzle game Brix. Thanks to Jayenkai who made this all work for the PC.

Jay has managed to grab all the levels from the Amstrad CPC game "Puzznix" and the PC game "Brix". The, now much bigger, game includes 72 of Fraggle's Puzznix levels, 112 of Michael Riedel’s Brix levels, and a pitiful 18 of Jay himself.

Object is to move blocks from the same color together (with same symbol - for people who suffer from color blindness) so they disappear. But be aware no single block can be left behind.

As often the original is most of the time the best and even though Puzzobomb looks basic, this is all you need to enjoy a lovely puzzle game. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Puzzobomb | Puzznix

Space Station Tokio is another Escape The Room type of puzzle game. Originally it's in Japanese but has some built in English subtitles added.

Story: In the third space station "Tokio", where 2000 employees work, you are probably a cook of Spanish restaurant "Casablanca". You are working on the night shift, but fell asleep, woke up and where locked in (reminds me a bit of a movie about a cook [Steven Segal] trapped on navy ship). Your object is (of course) to escape. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Space Station Tokio | Escape The Room

Sling-Do-Ku is the combination of a slot machine mechanic and the traditional Sudoku Puzzle. The game is played on a traditional Sudoku puzzle board, with the addition of a slot reel for each column. Underneath each column with empty spaces is a reel mechanic where numbers are spun like a traditional slot reel and are entered into play. The player can choose to place the number on the board or pass on placing it for that spin. At the end of the turn the player's number placements are submitted. Each player receives a score based on several factors dependent on how well they played. Each score gets converted to Slingo Coins that a registered member can use to enter $50, $200 or $1000 sweepstakes on slingo.com. One ticket for a sweepstakes entry will cost a player 5,000 Slingo Coins.

Tags: Sling-Do-Ku | Sudoku

Next to Puzzle Freak there is now also the beta version of Puzzle Freak 2 which FreeWorldGroup is now testing.

The competition of the brains is on again to test how big your brain is. Your challenge in this puzzle game is to go around the playing board as quickly as possible by completing various type of puzzles. The faster you complete a puzzle, the more IQ points you get. IQ points are also affected by the relative difficulty of a puzzle.

There are 4 types of puzzle squares you can land on, ranging from easy to very hard. There are also chance squares on the board, which may help you on your journey to the finish line. Happy Puzzling!

Tag: Puzzle Game

At Puzzles.com you can a lot of puzzle games, as well printable puzzles but also online puzzle games.

An interesting one is Square Table Top. The puzzle game is described as follows: A cabinetmaker has already fitted seven pieces into the 6x6 square table top as shown at the game grid. Unfortunately, the final one shown at right bottom can't be fitted in because of the shape variance. Object is to rearrange all pieces by dragging and dropping them on and from the game grid. Click on a piece to rotate it clockwise by 90 degrees. Happy puzzling !

Tags: Square Table Top | Puzzle Game