Passion For Puzzles

Closed Sauna Escape is a point and click type escape the room game by Free2play. Although the text is in Japanese you will still be able to solve it without any knowledge of Japanese.

In this escape game you are locked in a sauna and you try to escape the sauna by finding items and solving puzzles. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Closed Sauna Escape | Puzzle Game

Tunable Maze has been made possible by Oskar van Deventer and is based on a fractal called the Dragons's Curve.

Object is to manoeuvre the red dot from the bottom row to the right-most column. The controls enable you to increase or reduce the difficulty level of the maze while you are solving it. The applet keeps track of the play level. You can peek at other levels without penalty. However, if you make a move at a lower level, the applet changes the play level to that lower level. You can only reset the play level by going all the way back to the start. Try to solve the maze at a play level as high as possible. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Tunable Maze | Puzzle Game

Switch is an addictive and yet really simple skill/puzzle game based on the premise of collecting balls.

Object is to collect the same colour of balls, otherwise you'll lose all your balls, and your life. Simply click the mouse to switch colours. Switch starts off quite easily as the first four levels are used as a tutorial, you can choose to skip these and start directly at level five if you like, but it's worthwhile going through the ground rules. Level 13 red aliens are introduced who will help you along by trading your balls for power ups. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Switch | Puzzle Game

Telefunguses is a 2D overhead online puzzle game created by Varpi Divke and very addicting.

Object of Telefunguses is to take control of Red and Blue to finish the 30 levels with the use of portals. Put out fires and more to reach the end of the levels. It was made for a competition with co-op as the theme, but the game is 100% single player with great graphics and nice sounds. Happy Puzzling !

Tags: Telefunguses | Puzzle+game

Link Five is a nice little puzzle game based upon connect four by 9mine.com

Object is to outsmart the computer by connecting five pieces in a straight line first (horizontally, vertically or diagonally). Watch out, you are facing a very formidable opponent. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Link Five | Puzzle Game

The talented Grabarchuk family have produced a tantalizing collection of highly original puzzles, each with its own set of rules (or rules you have to find yourself). Often geometrical in character, these puzzles are always entertaining and sometimes fiendishly difficult.

This collection of more than one hundred original and highly sophisticated puzzles presents challenges that require creative, outside of the box thinking. Many different types of puzzles are included, such as word, number, logical, visual, spatial, dissection, dividing, dot-connecting, matchstick, coin, and more. Each aesthetically appealing puzzle is designed to improve problem solving skills; train geometric, combinatorial, and spatial imagination; bolster visual perception and logical reasoning; and foster the development of a perseverant and self-confident approach to challenges.

The Simple Book of Not-So-Simple Puzzles is available via Amazon.

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Prism: Light the Way is a highly addictive light-based Flash puzzle game, that will keep you hooked for hours.

Object is to bounce, split and deflect the light using Mirrors, Splitters, Filter Blocks, Prisms etc. Only having every piece in exactly the correct place, will filter and direct the light and solve the puzzles. Featuring 130 set puzzles, multi-player plus never-ending infinity mode. There are several downloadable version with many more levels available at Prism-Game.com. Happy Puzzling!

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Vexus Puzzle is a web site that features two new and original logic puzzles. The two puzzle available are Navigrid and Isolate.

Navigrid is a logic puzzle in the style of Sudoku and Kakuro. It's a puzzle that requires you to fill a sequence of numbers into a grid. The trick is that there are only a set number of moves that can be made between two consecutive numbers. These moves are listed below the grid and each can only be used once.

Isolate is a logic puzzle in the style of popular Japanese puzzles such as Slitherlink and Masyu where solvers are required to fill a grid with lines to fulfil a given criteria. It requires you to divide a grid into sections of different sizes which are listed below the grid. Each section must contain exactly two squares with blocks in them and each internal point in the grid must have at least two line segments connected to it. [via Puzzlinks] Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Vexus Puzzle | Isolate | Navigrid

Zengaku is a blend between Sudoku and Kakuro puzzles and this form of puzzle was featured in the 2004 World Puzzle Federation Qualifiers.

The rules are simple:
- Each empty box needs to be filled with a digit from 1 to 9
- Each digit will occur only ONCE in each row and each column
- Boxes that have a circle between them have consecutive digits
- Likewise, boxes that do NOT have a circle between them do NOT have consecutive digits
- Columns must total the number above them, while rows must total the number on their left

There is a daily puzzle available on the Zengaku website and there is also a trial version of Zengaku available that includes 30 Zengaku puzzles. For a US$ 15 you can have the full version with unlimited puzzles.

In the software version it is really handy to keep track of what numbers are possible solutions for a box. Then by process of elimination you can slowly reduce the possibilities until you are left with the answer. There is no guessing if don't want to. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Zengaku | Sudoku | Kakuro

Cryptos is a puzzle game creation of Derek So and John Clarke of Vancouver, Canada.

In Crytos you will need to use your brain to decipher the cryptic clues given to you, in order to solve the mystery of the stolen painting Cryptos. Sometimes the clue will take the form of a code; at other times Internet research will be necessary. Google will help you solve this type of clue; the information you need will usually be at the top of the search page. Happy Puzzling!

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At the website The Griddle you can find a lot of differt kind of Sudoku. The ones I love most are Curve-doku and Multi-doku, both Sudoku variants of Sum-Doku and Greater Than Sudoku.

About Curve-doku : This puzzles is Sudoku but with curved sections. This one has difference markers and greater-than symbols for clues.

About Multi-doku : This sudoku variation contains two 6 by 6 cell grids which overlap in a 2 by 3 region. Each grid contains different clues, which include greater-than symbols and even digit markers.

Happy Puzzling !

Tags: Curve-doku | Multi-doku | Sudoku

The classic note-book doodle puzzle game Dot & Dash is back and can be played at Cafe.com.

Object is to place dashes to create as many closed squares as possible. Gain extra points by controlling higher valued spaces. There is also a more extended version of Dot And Dash available called Town Square Dot and Dashes. Here you start with a complete empty game grid. Happy Puzzling!

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Mozaniac is a brand new, expandable picture-puzzle system in which the same flat, modular puzzle pieces can make four or more pictures.

Everything depends on how the pieces go over and under each other, revealing and hiding part of what is printed on them. Each completed picture holds itself together as an integral unit until it is taken apart to form the next picture. Mozaniac presents new visual and physical challenges of a very high order. The first series of puzzles make four different pictures with the same six pieces.

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Cirplosion is an online skill/puzzle game in Flash where you create circles in the gaps between moving orbs. You have limited time and explosions on each of the twenty levels. Complete the challenges to unlock Cirvival mode.

Game instructions:
1. Hold down the mouse button to expand a circle
2. Release mouse button before circle touches orange orbs or the edges
3. Position transparent circle over orbs and click to destroy!

Happy Puzzling !

Tags: Cirplosion | Puzzle Game

Shot is yet another Flash puzzle game from Japan by GameDesign.jp.

Object is to clear the game grid leaving only one ball on the game grid. Drag and move the ball, so it hits another ball and knock the off the game grid. Best thing about shot is that every time you play it's different, so every level will be different every time you play Shot. Happy Puzzling!

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Grid is a simple yet addictive puzzlearcade game played on a warping grid by BusyBeeArcade.com

Object is to shoot one orb between the other two and try and force your opponent into an error. It looks a bit like snooker with three balls. Grid has five levels, from very easy to very hard. Happy Puzzling!

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Bobblebrook just launched a new puzzle game, a 3d action-puzzler called Coign of Vantage. They are also known from the puzzle game Twizzle.

Object Coign Of Vantage is to put your spatial perception into perspective with this 3d puzzle game. Assemble as many images from an abstract cloud as you can before time runs out. How to play:
- Rotate the playing field with your mouse until the pixel-cloud matches the icon in the upper right.
- Only upright versions of icons count - upside-down versions don't.
- Reproduce as many icons as you can before time runs out. Each icon gives you a bit of extra time.

Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Coign Of Vantage | Puzzle Game

Skidtirs is a Tetris variant kind of online puzzle game.

Object is to get three of the same colored blocks together to make them disappear. Especially the grey blocks mode is a lot of fun. Make chains of blocks of the same color for combo points. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Skidtris | Puzzle Game | Tetris

Blocs 2 is a nice online Flash puzzle game by FlashNinjaClan.com and Cloud9Design.

Object of Blocs 2 is to slide the same colored blocks next to each other and get groups of the same colored blocks together to made them explode. Don't leave the odd one hanging though. If you get stuck on a level, please reset the level. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Blocs 2 | Puzzle Game

Thanks to a colleague three original wooden puzzles from Japan are added to my puzzle collection.
1. Wooden Barrel Puzzle
2. Wooden Ball Puzzle
3. Wooden Puzzle (name unknown - tips welcome)
For sure my colleague took good care of the puzzle as they even included the solution on a very thin piece of paper after more than 30 years.

Tags: Japanese | Wooden Puzzle

Tower To The Moon is a small online Flash Puzzle Game where you need a lot of skills and some puzzling.

Object of Tower To The Moon is to stack blocks to a certain level until you manage to reach a specific limit (dotted line). You have also to keep the structure stable for at least 5 seconds before you can continue. Use your mouse to click an drag objects you will obtain along the levels. You can always reset levels if you lose some pieces or get stuck by pressing the RESET button. Happy Puzzling!

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The World Hardest Game 2 is a the sequel of the very difficult puzzle game by SnubbyLand.

Object is to reach with the red square the green beacon. You are the red square. Avoid the blue circles and collect the yellow circles. Once you have collected all of the yellow circles, move to the green beacon to complete the level. Some levels consist of more than one beacon; the intermediary beacons act as check points. You must complete all 50 levels in order to submit your score. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: The World Hardest Game | Puzzle Game

Globs is a nice relaxing Flash puzzle game to play by JackSmack.com

Globs plays like a typical match three puzzle game but it isn't. Try and make all of the Globs the same color by pressing the buttons gradually. Controls: The aim of Globs is to switch the colors using the buttons along top, make them all the same color in less than 25 presses. Happy Puzzling!

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Finally Shift 3 is there and continues where the first two versions of Shift and Shift 2 ended. If you don't know the puzzle game Shift yet please play the first version Shift before you start with Shift 2 or 3.

Shift 3 is here, and it's unlike any Shifting experience you've had before. An adventure mode takes you to the roots of the Shift experiment, tonnes of achievements to earn and even an unlockable Celebrity secret character. And if that isn't your cup of tea, there is a selection of 18 Classic style levels from Shift players around the globe to battle your way through, and highscore boards all around. Happy Puzzling!

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LoopyManiak is the Slitherlink (also known as 'Loopy') logic puzzle game invented by Nikoli (aka 'Sli-Lin' by Japanese fans) where you've to draw one single unbroken loop from dot to dot within the grid. The numbers indicate how many lines surround each number, while empty cells may be surrounded by any number of lines.

Play on your iPod an unlimited number of Slitherlink puzzles (generated on the fly) over six levels of difficulty and 'Bonus Feature', like in all other PuzzleManiak games, challenge other players by downloading everyday an unique puzzle and compare your score to other ones. Features :
- Puzzles are generated on the fly, so you'll never play twice the same.
- 6 levels of difficulty
- Save / restore current game automatically
- 10 best scores of each level saved locally
- Web Challenge: challenge all other players everyday

LoopyManiak: A PuzzleManiak game will cost you US$ 0.99/Euro 0,79. And don't forget, LoopyManiak: It's Demoniac! [via iPodTouchFans]

Tags: iPhone | Slitherlink

Duck : Think Outside The Flock is an original Online Flash Puzzle Game by Bart Bonte, or do we have to call it a Train your Brain game?

Either way, there are twenty five challenging levels to solve for which you need your brain and puzzle skills to solve. Each level involve one or more yellow duck and for you to find out how to make them disappear to the right side of the screen. Some levels will look familiar like Lights-Out and Tic Tac Toe. Happy Puzzling! ... kwek kwek for who solved all 25 levels ;-)

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Evito Ball is a funny and addicting Flash puzzle game created by Kabomb for Not Doppler.

In Evito Ball, you try to collect the coins and guide your ball to the exit in each level while dodging enemy attacks from guns, flamethrowers and other dangerous weapons. Happy Puzzling!

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Meta-form : Logic Builder is a puzzle board game by Michel & Lyons and the latest addition to my puzzle collection.

The object of the game is to succeed in placing 9 wooden shapes onto a 3 x 3 grid using a given set of clues. The game begins with simple puzzles that allow children as young as 4-5 years old to start playing and to understand the underlying logic principles. As the game progresses, new logic concepts are introduced requiring the players to use more sophisticated reasoning skills. The gradual progression of the puzzles allows each player to advance at their own pace. It is astonishing how natural it is for young minds to grasp the fundamental rules of logic and develop advanced reasoning skills in problem solving. It should be noted that, in the advanced levels of the game, the puzzles represent a challenge for most adults who, like younger players, will enjoy the satisfaction of solving them.

A month ago I already wrote about an online version of Meta-form called GridWorks which can be found at Puzzles.com

Meta-form : Logic Builder puzzle board game is also available via Amazon.com. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Meta-form | Puzzle Game

Tom And Jerry - Mouse About The House is a nice online Flash Puzzle Game.

Object is to avoid the dangerous obstructions by dragging and dropping the object in the right order to help Jerry get through each of the rooms in the house. Don't forget to collect as much cheese you can along the way for bonus points. Happy Puzzling !

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Cubox, Cubox 2 and Cubox 3 are three nice little online puzzle game by NickelArcade.com

Object of Cubox is to rearrange your Cubox to make your room look like the finished room on the left top. If you exceed the expected amount of moves, you will lose 1 life block for each additional move. If you press the reset button, you also will lose 1 life block. Your game will end once your life blocks have been exhausted. Later in the game some additional items will be added like bumpers, sensors, transformers, teleporters and much more. The help function (?) will explain you all in a few slides. In each Cubox version there are six levels in total (A-F) with each 8 puzzles to solve in Cubox. Happy Puzzling

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Blokus 3D is something to look forward to for the year 2010. However, via GameBoard I found out Blokus 3D is already available in Australia.

Blokus 3D looks a lot like puzzle game Rumis. Rumis comes with additional starting maps for different initial piece placement. This is the game that Educational Insights, makers of Blokus, will integrate into their Blokus line and call it Blokus 3D. Educational Insights is already publishing their version of Rumis and one can expect the game play to be about the same but they will redesign the look.

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