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Musaic Box, a puzzle for your ears
Does Sudoku seem boring? Is it too black and white, with nothing but numbers and logic? What about crossword puzzles? Are they too difficult and uninviting to non-trivia-buffs?For the music lovers...
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Puzzle series 4: how to solve Magnets
Care to guess the arrangement of the next puzzle in this series? It’s surely a square grid of cells, right? In the case of Magnets, not exactly: instead, it looks more like a pattern of dominos. Each...
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Fiendishly difficult die-cast puzzles by Hanayama
The Japanese company Hanayama Toys has released quite a number of metal puzzles to tinker with. Each is of excellent quality and most are fun to play around with. Some few of them can be exceedingly...
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Puzzle series 5: how to solve Light Up
Bored with the current selection of puzzles? Brighten your logic skills by giving Light Up a try!The square grid in a Light Up puzzle is inhabited by empty cells and walls. Solving the puzzle is done...
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Antichamber, the 4d puzzle world
Antichamber is a rich, complex puzzle game. Any puzzle lover would be remiss not to give it a chance to melt their brain, which it will gladly do.Set in a closed off environment of pristine white...
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Exercise your brain during summer vacation
Summer vacation – for the nerds among us, this phrase often brings to mind long hours at the computer, engaged in our favorite video game. For others, perhaps simple relaxation is more...
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Sliding block puzzles, from klotski to rush hour
Studying the history of a puzzle from its inception to its modern variants is often just as interesting as solving one. One such puzzle is known simply as the sliding block puzzle.While its original...
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Pixel Defenders review: a retro match-3 puzzle
It is always hard to introduce a game under the match three genre and make it sound appealing to serious gamers, yet that is the task at hand. Pixel Defenders Puzzle is a puzzle game currently...
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Puzzle series 6: how to solve Bridges
Bridges, known more verbosely as Hashiwokakero, is a logic puzzle. Like many great logic puzzles, it was invented by Nikoli and published in Nikoli magazine (another similarity being the long,...
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Puzzle series 7: how to solve Pearls
Another great Nikoli puzzle is Masyu, also known as Pearls. It consists of a square grid of cells, occupied only by white and black circles known as pearls. These are your only clues.The solution is a...
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Puzzle series 2: how to solve Straights (Str8ts)
Another little-known, yet excellent puzzle is named Str8ts, or rather, straights. The name says it all: the puzzle is all about straights, or ranges of numbers. The main rule is that each segment,...
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Mobile puzzles for any device
Frustrated by puzzles that are always for a different tablet or phone? Can’t find the most popular or really intriguing ones for your preferred device? If any of these problems sound familiar, this...
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Spheroku review: the 3D Sudoku puzzle
Literally putting a new spin on Sudoku puzzles, Spheroku is a color Sudoku in sphere form. It can be rotated and gives a fresh new visual appeal to a puzzle that many might consider boring. For those...
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Threes review: a small but satisfying puzzle
Threes is simple yet elegant, pensive but action-packed, polished while free of fluff. It is an excellent new puzzle for the thrifty among us, and not just in terms of price: the game accomplishes...
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Puzzle series 8: how to solve Tents
Tents proves just how simple and yet fun logic puzzles can be. Rather than a boring grid of numbers, tents involves just two items: trees, and tents.In a square grid filled only with trees, solving...
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Grid Puzzle, a fresh take on nonograms
The Grid Puzzle app for iOS and Android essentially offers nonogram puzzles. Nonograms are grid-based puzzles with clues along the edges. The task is to determine which cells are filled in, and which...
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2048: A unique matching puzzle
With the release of the fantastic game Threes, recently covered here, a new genre of matching games was born. Those unfamiliar with gameplay details should probably consult said article first.One...
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Dynetzzle review: die maps meet Sudoku
If a die map doesn’t seem like an interesting idea for a puzzle, think again. With crisp, clean graphics and a minimalist feel and sounds, Dynetzzle removes all distractions and places the puzzle...
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Threes strategy goes deeper than face value
The purpose of this article is to share some findings on the subject of strategy in the marvelous Threes puzzle. It is a wonderful yet simple game available for iOS and Android, previously reviewed...
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Sokobond: Chemistry meets puzzles in a fabulous way
With a name as clever as the puzzles themselves, Sokobond promises much, and is able to deliver. Don’t dismiss it simply because science is involved – those lacking chemical knowledge may actually get...
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