Passion For Puzzles

In Puzzing it's time to move some blocks again thanks to PlaysPal.

Click on the blocks and hold your mouse button to slide in order to remove all the stones. There is quite a challenge for your logic, nice graphics to please the eye and soft sound effects, but I prefer to mute the sound.

Puzzing's concept is very simple yet it enthralls. To score you need to move the matching game elements together and make them all disappear in all 15 levels. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Puzzing | Puzzle Game

Bolaris Domino a 3D sliding sphere puzzle by Diff Design OY from Finland and is the latest addition to my puzzle collection.

The frame of Bolaris Domina (and the two other versions called Harmaa and Vastaväri) consists of static (solid) rectangular corners and the grooves between them. The rectangles parts slide easily on the grooves, one part at a time.

First scramble all the pieces of this 3D puzzle with difficulty level 3 out of 4. After that you can slide the rectangular domino parts around until the rectangular pieces form a continuous chain of domino's over and around the ball, matching the point value with the adjacent domino piece.

This brand new puzzle invented and made in Finland has made the small but significant step from flat 2D-sliding puzzles to the third dimension. The one-part-at-a-time sliding system allows the player to see the individual parts and the surrounding ones to figure out which one needs to be moved, to which direction, and how to get it done.

Material: ABS-plastic and its coloring pigments, approved for use in food packaging and toys. Due to manufacturing methods the color tones are not absolutely correct. Size: Diameter of sphere 70mm. The solution for Bolaris Domino is not included.

Tags: Bolaris | Domino

Atomix is the remake of the original Atomix transport puzzles game from the 90's by MyLostGames.

The object of Atomix is to assemble molecules from compound atoms by sliding the atoms around. This has to be done in a set time limit for each level. The screen contains a small preview window showing what each molecule should look like. The tile-based playing field contains a number of atom blocks, as well as walls. You can move an atom around by selecting it, and moving it up, down, left, or right.

If you like Atomix you will probably also like Atome. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Atomix | Puzzle Game

Life's busy but there's alway time for a KenKen puzzle. This portable paperback collection by Will Shortz* contains 100 easy to hard puzzles that range in size from 3x3 warm up grids to challenging 9x9 size puzzles that really make you break a mental sweat.

Features:
- 100 all-new easy to hard KenKen puzzles
- Big grids for easy solving
- Introduction and instructions from puzzlemaster Will Shortz.

Will Shortz Presents KenKen to Go: 100 Easy to Hard Logic Puzzles That Make You Smarter is available via Amazon.com for US$ 7.99

* WILL SHORTZ has been crossword editor of The New York Times since 1993. He is also the puzzlemaster on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday.

Tags: KenKen | Will Shortz

Chromixa is a new and unique colour-blending puzzle game, designed specifically for the iPhone & iPod touch. Truly the first of its kind.

Arrange shapes of light to complete beautifully designed puzzles. Based on the colors found within white light, red, green and blue combine to create new colors as shapes overlap. Like a jigsaw of light, your goal is to arrange the shapes to fill an outline with a single color. As you complete puzzles, the points you earn can be used to unlock fun arcade-style mini games.

Like all good puzzle games, Chromixa has a simple concept which creates progressively harder puzzles. A fun and addictive mental challenge for all ages!

Chromixa is available via on the App Store. [via Chromixa.com]. Happy Puzzling!

Update : The developer's gameplay video for Chromixa on Youtube shows how the game is played.

Tags: Chromixa | iPhone | iPod

Blosics (Game Battle) is a new physics based puzzle game.

In Blosics you've to remove as many green blocks (not the red ones) of the stage as possible by flinging a ball, hold mouse button to let them grow and release. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Blosics | Puzzle Game

Are you seeking for Christmas crossword puzzles? Here are provided different types of Christmas crossword puzzles with online word searches to entertain the entire family during Christmas. Check out the list of websites provided below for a great collection of holiday crossword puzzles.

Solve Christmas crossword puzzles or download a puzzle, print puzzle games and solutions, all free of cost. Take pleasure in Christmas word searches and crossword puzzles of varying complexity. Christmas crossword puzzles not only focus on Christmas questions but it is also printed in fun holiday shapes such as Christmas trees, ornaments or gifts.

In 1913, the crossword puzzle was created by Arthur Wynne. It was shaped like a diamond and become visible in an American paper called New York World. The real crossword puzzle trend started after 1924, when a small publishing house called Simon & Schuster released the first book collection of crossword puzzles. After 1930s, the crossword puzzle crossed the ocean and set up attractiveness in Europe. Nowadays the crossword puzzle is called as one of the most accepted games in the world. Read more here.

List of websites that provide Christmas crossword puzzles:
- billybear4kids.com
- internetfamilyfun.com
- dltk-holidays.com
- holidays.kaboose.com
- crosswordpuzzlegames.com

Christmas Online word searches for Puzzle websites:
- best-free-word-search-puzzles.com
- thewordpuzzles.com
- lds.about.com

Via Ready2Beat. Merry Christmas and Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Crossword Puzzles | Christmas

Puzzaka is the world's largest online puzzle with 260 million mini-puzzles combine to forming the largest jigsaw puzzle ever built, made up of more than 20 billion pieces.

As many online puzzle fans like to solve online jigsaw puzzles, Puzzuka unites the world through a a fun online activity. Puzzaka challenges the World to solve it together:
- Win great prizes (but to take part you'll need to register)
- Challenge your friends
- It's Free
- Contribute simply by solving online jigsaw puzzles

Every puzzle solved contributes to Enfants du Monde's (Children of the World) education programmes. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Puzzaka | Jigsaw

Jigazo is a brand new universal jigsaw puzzle with a series of 300 completely compatible puzzle pieces, each represents a slightly different tone and is marked with a tiny icon.

You could take your favorite photo (approx. 600x800px and in jpg format) and send it by email to Jigazo, and Jigazo gives you return mail with a paint-by-numbers style icon map within 10 seconds. There is a special email address for iPhone users.

Position each piece in accordance to the map, and presto, you've got yourself a customized puzzle. As Jigazo is from Japan you would need an import via
The purchase would be an import, but we spotted the Jigazo on one retailer for about US $70.

As you can us any photo you like, Jigazo is an jigsaw puzzle you can use forever. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Jigazo | Jigsaw

Duendes in Christmas is a Christmas themed point and click adventure game created by Federico Rutenberg.

There are two objectives in "Duendes in Christmas". The first one is to light the Christmas tree and the second is to make it snow. "Duendes" is the Spanish word for gnomes or elves. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Duendes In Christmas | Puzzle Game

Power Vacuum is a fast paced action puzzle game.

You only have 60 seconds total to collect all 100 missing electrons from the different levels. Click once per level to attract the electrons. Lead the electrons to the atom with your mouse. Avoid the white energy walls.

You have 60 seconds to collect all 100 electrons. Best is that the game is not always the same. So every time you will see some different levels or in different order. Happy Puzzling!


Tags: Power Vacuum | Puzzle Game

The Treasure Tube is a puzzle contest and also the latest addition to my puzzle collection.

Each Treasure Tube consists of a set of maps inspired by the codes of pirates from long ago. The set of maps includes real size reproductions of two of Michel Becker's paintings and three tracing paper blue prints, delivered in a tube.

The objective of The Treasure Tube is to find three hidden clues on the paintings using the blue prints. Available via The Treasure Tube website for 87.10 Euro's (approx. US$ 125). The first to enter the correct codes on the Treasure Tube website will win a chateau in Dordogne (France) and an apartment in Paris to the total value of 1 million Euro's.

Every three weeks a video clue is posted on The Treasure Tube website to put people on the right track. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: The Treasure Tube | Puzzle Contest

Ice Breaker: The Gathering is the sequel to the famous first to parts called Ice Breaker and Ice Breaker: The Red Clan.

Object is still the same. Save the frozen Vikings by getting them all back to their longboat to complete each level. Also in this part of Ice Breaker there are in total 40 levels to solve with some new features which you need to save the frozen Vikings. Click and drag across the ice to slice through the ice, slice the bombs and they will explode. Happy Puzzling !

Tags: Ice Breaker | Puzzle Game

Gardening and puzzle enthusiasts will be happy to plow through 180 fun and stimulating word challenges and logic puzzles with gardening themes in the new collection Garden Lover's Puzzle & Quiz Book. All puzzles are horticulture-themed to challenge the keenest of gardeners.

Ask any gardener they will tell you they prefer variety. Garden Lover's Puzzle & Quiz Book, created by the Puzzle Society, has that and much more. It's packed with crosswords, word search, wordwheel, codewords, arrowords, kriss kross, pathfinder, and logic problems that grow on you. It's a way to put gardening knowledge to work when you're stuck indoors.

Buyers of the book also get a free 90-day trial subscription to the Puzzle Society website and its online puzzle trove. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Puzzle Book | Gardening

In Way Of The Tangram you have to help Yan Yan to save the spirit that is lost in the human world by finding all the tangrams. The aim of Way Of The Tangram is to form a shape with seven puzzle pieces.

Use the mouse to drag the pieces on the game board, then click on a piece to rotate it. Happy Puzzling!

PS. You can also by a real version of Tangram via Puzzle Master Inc.

Tags: Way Of The Tangram | Puzzle Game

This chair is just downright awesome. I can't decide if it looks like a puzzle piece or like it wants to give me a hug.

Either way it looks so comfortable, and I would love to put in my living room right across from my flat screen and spend a relaxing day. This armchair comes from YCAMI. [Via Six Different Ways]

Tags: Puzzle | Pasha | YCAMI

Civiballs: Xmas Levels is christmas seasonal physics puzzler.

Help Santa get the Civiballs into the right gift-boxes both At Home and Outdoors. Civiballs: Xmas Levels features two time 10 levels with snowboarding snowmen, a drunk Yeti, ski-lifts, the nut-cracker, and, of course, Santa Claus. Happy Puzzling!

Enjoy also Civiballs and Civiballs 2.

Tags: Civiballs | Puzzle Game

As it's almost Christmas why not solve a Christmas Sudoku Puzzle.

Normal Sudoku rules apply for Christmas Sudoku. Place the Christmas items in the cells such that each picture appears only once in each row, once in each column, and once in each 3x3 grid. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Sudoku | Christmas

Just six months after the release of Perfect Balance and New Trails for Perfect Balance it's time for Perfect Balance 2.

Object is to move, rotate and stack all the shapes in order to achieve perfect balance in this physics based puzzle. If you solved all 100 levels you'll have to wait for the New Trails for Perfect Balance 2. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Perfect Balance | Puzzle Game

Origami Bedlam Cube is a paper puzzle made with Origami techniques in Qiaochang's origami collection.

If you don't want to make an origami Bedlam Cube before you can solve it you can buy The Bedlam Cube via Puzzlemaster Inc. Happy Puzzling!

[Via Microsiervos]

Tags: Origami | Bedlam

Crossed Wires is yet another game where you'll have to switch out all lights just like in Lights Out.

The aim of this puzzle game is to switch off all the lights but as the wires are crossed and with a limited number of clicks, this will not be an easy task. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Crossed Wires | Puzzle Game

National Geographic Atlas Online Jigsaw Puzzles are 23 great looking online jigsaw puzzles of maps from different parts of the world.

Object is to assemble the jigsaw puzzle by dragging interlocking pieces together. You can also enable the "rotation of pieces" via the option menu, then pieces are randomly rotated when scattered. This means you'll need to manually rotate each jigsaw piece to its correct orientation to solve the jigsaw puzzle. You can rotate a jigsaw piece that is being dragged by pressing the space bar. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: National Geographic | Jigsaw Puzzle

Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH is a new 3D puzzle game with more than 70 challenging levels for Wii. Players need to guide Cubes to color coded exit points. Using the Wii intuitive Remote Controllers, players herd the colored coded cubes along by using Conveyors Belts, Warps, Stop Signs, Directional Signs and Splits

Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH Highlights:

• Original 3D puzzle solving game play
• More than 70 brain-busting levels
• Tailor-made Wii Remote control scheme
• Conveyor Belts, Warps, Stop Signs, Directional Signs, Splits, and more
• Stylish environments
• Classic Rubik's Cube in four sizes
• Tutorial on how to solve the original Rubik's Cube
• Unique score mode
• Online leader boards

RUSH also includes the original Rubik's Cube as a bonus. Players can attempt to solve one of the four different size Cubes alone or against a second player, or learn how to solve the classic Rubik's Cube.

Rubik’s Puzzle Galaxy: Rush, rated E for Everyone/PEGI 3+. RUSH for WiiWare will launch on December 11th 2009 in Europe and on the 14th 2009 in the US. Price will be 600 Wii Points. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Rubik | Wii

Flalls is a colorful arcade puzzle game with new enthralling gameplay and excellent graphics in which you help the two teams of Flalls get to the purposed game field.

While going through the event you will meet up with lots of kinds of amusing 'Fans' which will make the game more interesting, 90 fascinating levels, awards system.

To pass the level you need to let yellow balls get through the hole in the bar to yellow field and blue balls to blue field agreeably. When clicking on a Flall it changes its movement direction. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Flalls | Puzzle Game

Chaos Chamber* is yet another block removal game, but this time with a lot of twists.

Click two or more adjacent blocks of the same color. When you make a mistake the block will turn into a stone block. Columns that reach the top will also turn in stone blocks. Bombs and laser blocks can help you to remove stone blocks.

Level shifts will change the color of the blocks and also gravity will alter. Happy Puzzling!

* Chaos Chamber contains graphic effects that may trigger epileptic seizures in a small percentage of players.

Tag: Puzzle Game

In 25 Boxes you can put your peripheral vision to the test. Search for numbers, letters or symbols and point at the box where they fit.

25 Boxes consist of just 20 levels, level 12 to 20 are a bit harder because the input boxes are turned into mirrored. To get a good score, you have to be fast and make nor errors. For every error that you make you will lose points. If you don't manage to find the correct boxes before the time bar has disappeared you will get no points. At the end of the game you can submit to the high score list. Happy Puzzling!

Tag: Peripheral Vision

Are you looking for inspiration for Christmas presents? If you are this review should provide you with the inspiration. Today we are reviewing a personalised aerial map jigsaw that was sent to us by Elstead – the UKs personalised map jigsaw specialists.

There is something immensely satisfying with sitting around a log-fire with friends or family at Christmas whilst completing a jigsaw puzzle together. Jigsaw puzzles are often paintings or pictures of Christmas scenes. How much more fun would it be to spend time completing a jigsaw puzzle of an aerial photo of the locality you choose?

Elstead kindly sent us an aerial photo jigsaw puzzle of the area where we are based. The puzzle comes in a superb box and there is a choice of a 255 piece of 400 piece jigsaw. If you are an avid jigsaw puzzle fan, we would recommend the 400 piece jigsaw as the 255 piece jigsaw can be completed relatively quickly.

Here is a quick look at some of the features of the aerial photography map jigsaw puzzles:
- Define the postcode for your aerial photo
- Every puzzle comes with a gift box
- Choice of 255 pieces or 400 pieces
- A truly unique present
- Great value: £25.99 for a 255 piece puzzle or £28.99 for a 400 piece puzzle

Are you a regular walker? Would you like to have a jigsaw puzzle of an area in the countryside you go walking in? Would an older relative enjoy a jigsaw puzzle showing the map of what your local area looked like 100 years ago? Elstead have a number of different personalised jigsaw puzzle maps available, these include:
- Detailed Ordnance Survey Mapping Jigsaw Puzzles
- Basic Street Mapping Jigsaw Puzzles
- Colorful Detailed London Street Mapping Jigsaw Puzzles
- ‘As it was 100 Years Ago’ Map Jigsaw Puzzles

So if you're not convinced by the aerial photo map, one of the jigsaws above might be worth checking out.

If you give a personalised jigsaw puzzle this Christmas, we’re confident it will be a gift people won’t forget. The range of personalised puzzles you can buy from Elstead is amazing: a fantastic resource for present inspiration, so click here to visit the Elstead website today. Happy Puzzling! [via TechyZone]

Tag: Jigsaw

This pair of sterling silver jigsaw puzzle piece charms, which measure 1 by .5 each, hung on sterling silver french hook ear wires. The look is utter simplicity, but the puzzle lets them know you are actually quite complex!

These are sent with a shiny, smooth finish unless otherwise request. Let me know if you would like a hammered finish, a matte finish, or both. This is also the symbol of Autism Awareness. [via ArtFire]

Tags: Jigsaw | Earrings

Sudokoban brings the famous Sudoku puzzles and the puzzle classic Sokoban together.

Object of Sudokuban is to push crates (one at a time) into the grid in the center of the board to form a Sudoku solution. Push bomb crates into numbered crates to destroy them. Use arrows to move and push blocks. Happy Puzzling!

Tag: Sudoku

4 Piece Puzzle Cutting Board is a unique puzzle pieces cutting- and serving board made in the USA. This four wooden (maple and walnut) jigsaw puzzle pieces cutting- and serving board has a very stylish design and will look great in any kitchen or on any dinner table.

Because it is the single safest way to keep your food safe from cross contamination (such as bacteria from raw meat getting into your fresh vegetables), and of course protect your counters and knife blades. For that reason you should never use the same surface for different foods.

Ideally, use two boards, wash between uses, or at the very least minimum use the reverse side. Also, always start with fresh vegetables, and finish with by preparing the meat. Finally, as recommended by the Journal of Environmental Health, never place any kitchen items on the cutting board such as tin foil and plastic wrap boxes. Only the food and knife, making sure to keep all food pieces on the board so that you do not contaminate the counter.

This four piece puzzle cutting and serving board is available via CuttingBoardUSA dot com for US $56.95 and measures 22 Inches wide, 12 Inches tall and 3/4 Inch thick (approx 56cm x 30cm x 1,9cm). Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Cutting Board | Puzzle

Continuity is a student project for the Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University and created by Ragtime Games.

Continuity is a combination between the platform puzzle game (looks a bit like Shift) and a sliding puzzle game. Object is to get so you open the door the the next level, but each level consist of more blocks which looks like a sliding puzzle. Move also all blocks during each level in the right position to get to the key and the door.

Continuity is a brilliant combination of two puzzle games with 32 challenging levels. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Continuity | Platformer

Puzazzle is a nice little word game that combines a word puzzle with Scrabble and Jigsaw puzzles.

Object is to build the words as described on the bottom of the screen with the letters given at the top. Between the letters of the word you can put jigsaw puzzles with math symbols. Get the maximum score and race against the clock in Puzazzle. Happy Puzzling!

Tag: Word Puzzle

Savanna Blocks is another falling block puzzle game, this time with a Savanna theme.

Object is to connect to or more blocks of the same color to make them disappear. More blocks is more points and don't let them reach the top.

Best thing about this falling block type of puzzle is that you have to draw lines to connect the blocks, and with a little practice you can also draw diagonal lines. But be aware that you don't draw them when a new row of block is added. Happy Puzzling!

Tag: Puzzle Game

Paper Cannon is yet another addicting physics based puzzle games from Demonically.

Imagine that you have a simple paper cannon and you live in a paper world invaded by pink critters. Object is to shoot bombs with your cannon to clean the paper world of the critters. You have to save the world, the paper world in all 30 challenging levels. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Paper Cannon | Puzzle Game

Magic Factory a wonderful spot-the-differences game with jigsaw puzzle game elements.

Object is to find the differences and put puzzles together. This puzzle is wonderful due to the beautiful graphics and lovely music. Use the mouse to click on the puzzle differences and click on two jigsaw puzzle pieces to swap them.

For some the puzzles will be too easy, but just enjoy the beauty of Magic Factory. Happy Puzzling!

Tags: Jigsaw | Puzzle Game