Puzzle games

Alpha Blitz is a word game designed by Mike Selinker and published by Wizards of the Coast. Alpha Blitz is based on the concept of a letter bank, as players make words using the letter cards on the table as many times as they like (e.g., LENS can become SENSELESSNESS). The game contains 98 letter cards and 10 "blitzes" (lightning bolt cards) that destroy letters and bring the game toward conclusion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alpha Blitz"

The American Cryptogram Association is an American non-profit organization devoted to the hobby of cryptography, with an emphasis on types of codes, ciphers, and cryptograms that can be solved either with pencil and paper, or with computers, but not computer-only systems. ...more on Wikipedia about "American Cryptogram Association"

Aqua Aqua, also called Wetrix 2 is a video game for the PlayStation 2 and is the sequel to game Wetrix. It offers less features than Wetrix, but it features improved graphics and a new story mode. The aim of the story mode is to travel through four eras and survive attacks from monsters from each one. To survive the attacks simply get enough points to power up your shield. There is also an unlockable world if the player gets enough points. The game also offers a two player vs mode and a single player puzzle mode. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aqua Aqua"

Blocktrix is a free, online, multiplayer, puzzle game based on TetriNET and was created in 2000 by strikelight. It was deveopled as an update to the official TetriNET 1.13 client after the original creator, St0rmCat, created a new version to the game entitled TetriNET 2, which included major changes to the TetriNET client such as not allowing private servers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blocktrix"

Chibi Robo ( Japanese: チビロボ！, Little Robo) is a video game about a tiny robot that does housework. The goal of the game is to be the highest ranked Chibi Robo in the household. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chibi Robo"

Connect the dots, also known as dot to dots is a kind of a paper puzzle containing a sequence of numbered dots. The puzzle is completed by drawing lines between the dots in order of the numbers, starting with a line between the dot next to the number one and the number two, and continuing on until the last number is reached. The drawn lines reveal hidden picture. ...more on Wikipedia about "Connect the dots"

In a construction puzzle you have to built (assemble) a technical contraption. This may be a static object (like a bridge) or a mechanical object (like a machine). ...more on Wikipedia about "Construction puzzle"

The crossword is the most common variety of word puzzle in the world. Modern crosswords normally take the form of a square grid of black and white squares; the aim is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words (or word phrases) reading across and down, by solving clues which yield the words. The black squares (commonly called "blanks") have no letters, and are used to separate words (all contiguous blocks of white squares spell words or phrases). Squares in which answers begin are numbered, left to right, top to bottom. The clues are then referred to by these numbers (ambiguities are resolved by the common practice of referring to clues by both number and direction – for example, "1-Across" or "17-Down"); at the end of the clue the total number of letters is sometimes given for the convenience of the solver, although in many widely distributed American crosswords such as the New York Times and Dell Magazines this is often omitted. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crossword"

Cryptic crosswords are a particular type of crossword which have become widely popular in the UK, and several other Commonwealth nations such as Australia, New Zealand and India. They are also popular in Israel in a Hebrew form. Each individual clue is a word puzzle in and of itself (often involving anagrams). ...more on Wikipedia about "Cryptic crossword"

Dad's Puzzle or Dad's Puzzler is a traditional 4×5 sliding puzzle where the objective is to slide the largest piece to the lower left corner of the puzzle board. It dates back to the early 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dad's Puzzle"

The daughter in the box wood puzzle depicts an "innocent young girl, who knows nothing of the world" trapped in a building. The object of the puzzle game is to slide the pieces around so that the largest piece (the "daughter") can be removed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Daughter in the box"

Einstein's puzzle is a well-known logic puzzle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Einstein's Puzzle"

Fill-It-In is a word puzzle similar to the crossword except it gives you the words and you have to use logic to figure out where the words go. For instance, if it is a four-letter word that you know starts with a s and ends with d, but the word bank has both slid and sand, you have to figure out more letters to fill the letters in. The puzzles normally come in easy, medium, and hard. You start out with a word already filled in for you (unless you get a special one). You then have to find a word that can fit in there that fits the requirements of the letters and does not have another word that fits the same requirements. There are normally 2-letter words, 3-letter words, 4-letter words, 5-letter words, 6-letter words, sometimes 7-letter words, sometimes 8-letter words and up to even 11-letter words (this happens rarely). ...more on Wikipedia about "Fill-It-In"

Flavor text is the name given to text on a playing card or within the pages of a role-playing game's rulebook which, while appropriate to the card's or game's story concept, usually has no effect on the mechanics of the game. Flavor text is often the last text on a card and is usually printed in italics to distinguish it from game-affecting text. ...more on Wikipedia about "Flavor text"

Many variations exist of the three objects (eg. wolf, goat and cabbage or fox, duck and sack of corn), but the central logic remains the same, being A eats B and B eats C. They are all part of the generic category of river crossing puzzles where the object is to move a set of pieces across a river subject to various restrictions. The answer in one lateral thinking variant has the goose swim across the river. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fox, goose and bag of beans puzzle"

Gridlock is a board game where you have to fit various sized pieces on a grid with various shaped pegs, matching pegs to holes and filling the rectangular grid with the prescribed pieces. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gridlock (board game)"

A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly-shaped, interlocking pieces. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jigsaw puzzle"

Jumble is the name of a word puzzle where you are given a set of letters which, when arranged in the correct order, give the un-jumbled word. A simple example would be the set of letters "lbujme," which can then be ordered to spell "jumble". These puzzles are often found in newspapers, and have four base jumbles. Once these base jumbles are solved, you can use certain letters of each base jumble to obtain a new set of letters. This set of letters will then complete a phrase or sentence. The correct answer usually involves some sort of visual or verbal pun, relating to an illustration and its caption published with the puzzle. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jumble"

In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth was an elaborate maze-like structure constructed for King Minos of Crete and designed by the legendary artificer Daedalus to hold the Minotaur, a creature that was half man and half bull and was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus. Theseus was aided by Ariadne, who provided him with a fateful thread to wind his way back again. ...more on Wikipedia about "Labyrinth"

Lemmings Revolution is a puzzle computer game released in 2000. Like previous games in the Lemmings series, the object of the game is to guide the lemmings characters to an exit by giving them specific skills. The game is displayed in 3D, yet plays much more like the 2D games. This was probably done to avoid some of the complication in 3D Lemmings, while allowing more "modern" graphics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lemmings Revolution"

Lights Out is an electronic puzzle game, originally created by Hasbro. The game is a 5x5 grid of lights, and when the game starts, a sequence of these lights (random, or one of a set of stored puzzle patterns) are switched on. Pressing one of the lights will toggle it and the four adjacent lights between on and off. The aim of the game is to switch all the lights off. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lights Out (game)"

A mechanical puzzle is a puzzle presented as a set of mechanically interlinked pieces. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mechanical puzzle"

Monuments of Mars is a third-person puzzle platform video game developed by Scenario Software and published by Apogee Software. The game consists of 4 20 level episodes, the first episode being shareware, the rest being commercial software. It uses the same CGA game engine as Arctic Adventures and Pharaoh's Tomb which Apogee released simultaneously. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monuments of Mars"

The n-puzzle is known in various versions, including the 8 puzzle, the 15 puzzle, and with various names. It is a sliding puzzle that consists of a grid of numbered squares with one square missing, and the labels on the squares jumbled up. If the grid is 3×3, the puzzle is called the 8-puzzle or 9-puzzle. If the grid is 4×4, the puzzle is called the 15-puzzle or 16-puzzle. The goal of the puzzle is to un-jumble the squares by only making moves which slide squares into the empty space, in turn revealing another empty space in the position of the moved piece. ...more on Wikipedia about "N-puzzle"

The National Puzzlers' League (NPL) is a nonprofit organization focused on puzzling, primarily in the realm of word play and word games. The group has three aims: to further the pastime of word puzzles, to raise the standard of puzzling to a higher intellectual level, and to establish and foster friendships among its widely scattered members. The National Puzzlers' League is the oldest continuously operating puzzle organization in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Puzzlers' League"

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