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• list of puzzle-based computer and video games
• list of game topics.

• Acrostic
• Anagram
• Burr puzzle
• Chess problem
• Chess puzzle
• Computer puzzle game
• Cross sums
• Crossword puzzle
• Cryptic crossword
• Cryptogram
• Cube puzzle
• Daughter in the box
• Disentanglement puzzle
• Egg of Columbus
• Eight queens puzzle
• Einstein's Puzzle
• Eternity puzzle
• Euler's triangular combinatorics puzzle
• Fifteen puzzle
• Graeco-Latin square
• Gry
• Jigsaw puzzle
• Knights and knaves
• Knight's Tour
• Lateral thinking
• Latin square
• Letter bank
• Lock puzzle
• Logic puzzle
• Magic square
• Mahjong solitaire
• Matchstick puzzle
• Mathematical puzzle
• Maze
• Mechanical puzzle
• Merkle's Puzzles
• N-puzzle
• National Puzzlers' League
• Nikoli
• Nurikabe
• Packing problem
• Paint by numbers
• Pair-up puzzle
• Peg solitaire
• Plate-and-ring puzzle
• Polysquare puzzle
• Polycube puzzle
• Prisoners and hats puzzle
• Problem solving
• Rattle puzzle
• Rearrangement mechanical puzzle
• Rebus
• Rubik's Cube
  • Speedcubing
  • Pocket Cube
• Rubik's Magic
• Rubik's Revenge
• Shuffling puzzle
• Situation puzzle
• Sliding puzzle
• Sokoban
• Solitaire-type puzzle
• Soma cube
• Stick puzzle
• Sudoku
• Tangram
• Tiling puzzle
• Tour puzzle
• Tower of Hanoi
• Transport puzzle
• Tsumego
• Tsumeshogi
• Verbal arithmetic
• Wire puzzle
• Wire-and-string puzzle
• XYZZY Award for Best Individual Puzzle

This is a partial list of puzzle-based computer games and video games, sorted by general category. ... This page aims to list articles related to games. ... Wikipedians Instill Knowledge about Interesting and Pertinent topics, waxing Eloquent Developing Information Abundance Acrostic poems are related to crossword puzzles in that they can be read in multiple directions. ... An anagram (Greek ana- = back or again, and graphein = to write) is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or words to produce other words using all the original letters exactly once. ... A burr puzzle in unsolved form The same puzzle, solved Historically, burr puzzles were made from wooden pieces but are now usually made from plastic. ... Excelsior by Sam Loyd. ... The longstanding popularity of chess has paved the way for a rich tradition of chess-related puzzles and composed problems. ... Computer puzzle game is a genre of computer games that emphasize puzzle solving. ... Cross Sums are the mathematical equivalent of crosswords. ... Crossword Puzzle was the second to last album made by The Partridge Family, and was not one of the most popular albums. ... 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. ... A cryptogram is a type of word puzzle popularly printed in some newspapers and magazines. ... The daughter in the box wood puzzle depicts an innocent young girl, who knows nothing of the world trapped in a building. ... A ball-in-cage puzzle in unsolved form The same puzzle in solved form Disentanglement puzzles usually have two different tasks to be solved, namely first to disassemble the puzzle and then to put it together again. ... The Egg of Columbus is a story about Christopher Columbus that takes place at a dinner which a Spanish gentleman had given in his honor. ... One of the 12 unique solutions The eight queens puzzle is the problem of putting eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard such that none of them is able to capture any other using the standard chess queens moves. ... Einsteins puzzle is a logic puzzle that involves various attributes which must be correlated through a series of incomplete statements. ... The eternity puzzle was a geometric puzzle with a million-pound prize, created by Christopher Monckton, who put up half the money himself, the other half being put up by underwriters Gaebel Watkins & Taylor of London. ... The n-puzzle is known in various versions, including the 8 puzzle, the 15 puzzle, and with various names. ... An n×n Graeco-Latin square is a table, each cell of which contains a pair of symbols, composed of a symbol from each of two sets of n elements. ... Gry is an obsolete unit of measurement, equal to one tenth of a line, which is in turn one twelfth of an inch. ... A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly-shaped, interlocking pieces. ... Knights and knaves are a type of logic puzzle devised by Raymond Smullyan. ... A knights tour of a chessboard The Knights Tour is a mathematical problem involving a knight on a chessboard. ... Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono. ... A Latin square is an n × n table filled with n different symbols in such a way that each symbol occurs exactly once in each row and exactly once in each column. ... A letter bank is a type of anagram where all the letters of one word (the bank) can be used as many times as desired (minimum of once each) to make a new word or phrase. ... A lock puzzles is a type of mechanical puzzle. ... A logic puzzle is a puzzle deriving from the mathematics field of deduction. ... In mathematics, a magic square (幻方) of order n is an arrangement of n² numbers in a square, such that the n numbers in all rows, all columns, and both diagonals sum to the same constant. ... A Shanghai solitaire in Dragon formation. The same solitaire, with free tiles highlighted Mahjong solitaire, also known as Shanghai solitaire, electronic or computerized mahjong, MahJong solitaire, solitaire Mahjong and, erroneously, as mahjong, is a solitaire matching game that uses a set of Mahjong tiles rather than cards. ... Matchstick puzzles are rearrangement puzzles in which a number of matchsticks are arranged as squares, rectangles or triangles. ... Mathematical games include many topics which are a part of recreational mathematics, but can also cover topics such as the mathematics of games, and playing games with mathematics. ... A small maze. ... This article is one of many subjected to edits by User:Karlscherer3 (who uses IPs User:210. ... In cryptography, Merkles Puzzles is an early construction for a public-key cryptosystem, a protocol devised by Ralph Merkle in 1974 and published in 1978. ... The n-puzzle is known in various versions, including the 8 puzzle, the 15 puzzle, and with various names. ... The National Puzzlers League (NPL) is a nonprofit organization focused on puzzling, primarily in the realm of word play and word games. ... Nikoli is also a village on the island of Lefkada, see Nikoli, Greece Nikoli (ニコリ) is a Japanese publisher that specializes in puzzles and is also the nickname of the quarterly magazine issued by the company (the full name being Puzzle Communication Nikoli). ... Moderately difficult Nurikabe puzzle (solution) Nurikabe is a binary determination puzzle. ... Packing problems are one area where mathematics meets puzzles (recreational mathematics). ... An example of a Paint by Numbers puzzle. ... English peg solitaire board European peg solitaire board Peg Solitaire is a game for one player involving movement of pegs on a board with holes. ... A plate-and-ring puzzle usually consists of two pieces: one plate or similar displaying many holes and/or indentations a closed or nearly closed ring or a similar item. ... The prisoners and hats puzzle is a logic puzzle that involves reasoning about the actions of other people, drawing in aspects of Game theory. ... Problem solving forms part of thinking. ... Rare nowadays, the rattler puzzles were very much in fashion around 1900. ... A rebus is a kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to represent words or parts of words, for example: H + picture of ear = Hear. ... Rubiks Cube in solved state. ... Speedcubing is the art of solving a Rubiks Cube as fast as possible. ... The pocket cube is the 2×2×2 equivalent of a Rubiks cube. ... Rubiks Magic Rubiks Magic, like Rubiks Cube, is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture ErnÅ‘ Rubik and first manufactured by Matchbox in the mid-1980s. ... Rubiks Revenge in solved state Rubiks Revenge in scrambled state Rubiks Revenge with a tilted side Rubiks Revenge is the 4x4x4 version of Rubiks Cube. ... Situation puzzles are also known as lateral thinking puzzles or simply yes/no puzzles. ... Sliding puzzles or sliding block puzzles challenge a player to slide usually flat pieces along certain routes (usually on a board) to establish a certain end-configuration. ... KSokoban, an implementation of Sokoban for GNU/Linux Level 1 of the PC version of Sokoban Sokoban (倉庫番, Japanese for warehouse keeper) is a puzzle in which the player pushes boxes around a maze, viewed from above, and tries to put them in designated locations. ... The pieces of a Soma cube (with extra coloring) The same puzzle, assembled into a cube The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle created by Piet Hein during a lecture on quantum mechanics by Werner Heisenberg. ... Stick puzzles use sets of polysticks which have to be assembled into two- or three-dimensional configurations. ... A Sudoku puzzle (image hyperlinked to solution) Sudoku (Japanese: 数独, sÅ«doku), sometimes spelled Su Doku, is a placement puzzle, also known as Number Place in the United States. ... A typical tangram construction Tangram (七巧板; Hanyu Pinyin: qÄ« qiÇŽo bÇŽn; Cantonese: chi chae pan; literally Seven-Board of Cunning) is a Chinese puzzle. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... In tour puzzles the player makes a trip around a (not necessarily two-dimensional) board using a token which represents a traveller. ... A model set of the Towers of Hanoi The Tower of Hanoi (also called Towers of Hanoi) is a mathematical game or puzzle. ... Transport puzzles are logistical puzzles, which represent real-life transport problems. ... Tsumego is the Japanese term for a go problem based on life-and-death. ... Tsumeshogi (Japanese:詰将棋) is a Japanese shogi puzzle that looks alike to the chess problem. ... Verbal arithmetic, also known as cryptarithmetic, crypt-arithmetic, or cryptarithm, is a type of mathematical game consisting of a mathematical equation among unknown numbers, whose digits are represented by letters. ... A wire puzzle in unsolved form The same puzzle in solved form Wire puzzles consist of two or more entangled pieces of more or less stiff wire. ... Wire-and-string puzzles usually consist of: one piece of string, ribbon or similar, which may form a closed loop or which may have other pieces like balls fixed to its end. ... The XYZZY Award for Best Individual Puzzle is one of the annual awards given by XYZZYnews to works of interactive fiction. ...

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• Martin Gardner
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• Stephen Sondheim
• Kit Williams
• Jerry Slocum
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