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Tile matching

Tile-matching video games are a type of puzzle video game where the player manipulates tiles in order to make them disappear according to a matching criterion. There are a great number of variations on this theme.

Falling block puzzles

Puzzle pieces advance into the play area from one or more edges, typically falling into the play area from above. Player must match or arrange individual pieces to achieve the particular objectives defined by each game. *'' Alien Hive'' *''

Baku Baku Animal ''Baku Baku'', released in Japan as is a falling block puzzle arcade game released by Sega in 1995. The game is dedicated as Sega's first ever Network Compatible PC Game. A Sega NetLink compatible version of the game was also announced, but ...

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Clockwiser ''Clockwiser'' is a video game, developed by Team Hoi for the Amiga, MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows. It was published in 1994 by Rasputin Software. There are over hundred levels, which consist of various arrangements of blocks. Each level is divi ...

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Columns A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member. ...

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Diminution In Western music and music theory, diminution (from Medieval Latin ''diminutio'', alteration of Latin ''deminutio'', decrease) has four distinct meanings. Diminution may be a form of embellishment in which a long note is divided into a series of ...

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Dr. Mario ''Dr. Mario'' is a 1990 puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Famicom, and Game Boy. It was produced by Gunpei Yokoi and designed by Takahiro Harada. The soundtrack was composed by Hirokazu ...

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Drop Mania ''Drop Mania'' is a falling-block puzzle video game, puzzle video game, developed by Ninai Games (as Detonium Interactive) and published by Hjem-IS, Suomen Kotijäätelö Oy 1999 in video gaming, in 1999 for Microsoft Windows, Windows. It was sold ...

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Faces The face is the front of an animal's head that features the eyes, nose and mouth, and through which animals express many of their emotions. The face is crucial for human identity, and damage such as scarring or developmental deformities may affe ...

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Lumines (pronounced as "Loo-min-ess") is a puzzle video game series developed by Q Entertainment. The core objective of the games is to survive by rotating and aligning 2×2 blocks varying between two colors to form 2×2 squares of a single color whic ...

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Meteos is a 2005 tile-matching video game developed by Q Entertainment and published by Bandai (Nintendo outside Japan) for the Nintendo DS. It was produced by Q Entertainment founder Tetsuya Mizuguchi and designed by Masahiro Sakurai. ''Meteos'' was ...

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Puyo Puyo ''Puyo Puyo'' (ぷよぷよ), previously known as ''Puyo Pop'' outside Japan, is a series of Tile-matching video game, tile-matching video games created by Compile (software company), Compile. Sega has owned the franchise since 1998, with games ...

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Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo ''Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo'', released in Japan as , is a tile-matching puzzle video game released in 1996 for the CP System II (CPS2) arcade board, by Capcom and its Capcom Coin-Op division. The game's title is a play on '' Super Street Fig ...

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Rampage Puzzle Attack ''Rampage Puzzle Attack'' is a puzzle game for Game Boy Advance, developed by Finland, Finnish development house Ninai Games and published by Midway Games. The game is a clone of the puzzle game ''Drop Mania'' and based on the ''Rampage (video gam ...

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Tecmo Stackers ''Tecmo Stackers'', known as in Japan, is a puzzle video game released first in 1995 by Tecmo to Arcades and ported to both the Sony PlayStation and the SEGA Saturn. Its gameplay is similar to '' Puyo Puyo''. Gameplay Players try to connect set ...

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Tetris ''Tetris'' (russian: link=no, Тетрис) is a puzzle video game created by Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984. It has been published by several companies for multiple platforms, most prominently during a dispute over the approp ...

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Trioncube ''Trioncube'', fully titled in Japan, is a puzzle video game developed by Bandai Namco Games and released for the Nintendo DS. Gameplay The game is a 'falling block' title, a la ''Tetris'', and features many similar blocks. The objective of the ...

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Uo Poko is an arcade puzzle game developed by Cave and distributed by Jaleco. Gameplay ''Puzzle Uo Poko'' is a visual matching game in which one player or two co-operative players (represented by cats) try to clear the screen of coloured bubbles in ...

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Wario's Woods ''Wario's Woods'' is a puzzle video game, puzzle video game developed by TEC and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in Japan and North America in 1994 and Europe in 1995. A spin-off of the ''Mario (franchi ...

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Welltris ''Welltris'' is a puzzle video game, developed by Doca and licensed to Bullet-Proof Software. It is an official game in the ''Tetris'' series. Adaptations were made by Sphere, Inc., for Spectrum HoloByte, and by Infogrames. It was released for M ...

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Wordtris ''Wordtris'' is a ''Tetris'' offshoot designed by Sergei Utkin, Vyacheslav Tsoy and Armen Sarkissian (who later became President of Armenia) and published by Spectrum HoloByte in 1991 for MS-DOS compatible operating systerms. A port to the Game ...

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Yoshi Yoshi is a fictional dinosaur who appears in video games published by Nintendo. Yoshi debuted in ''Super Mario World'' (1990) on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System as Mario and Luigi's sidekick. Yoshi is the title character of the List of Y ...

Advancing blocks puzzles

Block-shaped puzzle pieces advance onto the board from one or more edges (i.e. top, bottom, or sides). The player tries to prevent the blocks from reaching the opposite edge of the playing area. *'' Ball Fighter'' *''

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Frozen Bubble ''Frozen Bubble'' is a free software clone of ''Puzzle Bobble'' for a variety of home and mobile systems. Gameplay ''Frozen Bubble's'' protagonist is a penguin a la Tux, the mascot of Linux and popular feature in many free software/ open-sour ...

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Luxor Luxor ( ar, الأقصر, al-ʾuqṣur, lit=the palaces) is a modern city in Upper (southern) Egypt which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of ''Thebes''. Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open-a ...

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Luxor 2 ''Luxor 2'' is an action-oriented casual puzzle game developed by MumboJumbo. First released in 2006, it is the sequel to the original ''Luxor'', which was released in 2005. The title can be played online at several different sites, and can be p ...

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Luxor 3 ''Luxor 3'' is an action-puzzle computer game released by MumboJumbo. It is a sequel to ''Luxor'' and ''Luxor 2''. As with the other Luxor games, it maintains an Egyptian theme and revolves around Egyptian deities, with a main gameplay goal of r ...

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Magical Drop , sometimes referred to in Japanese as , is a series of computer puzzle game, puzzle games first released in the arcade, and later primarily for several platforms such as the Neo Geo (console), Neo Geo Arcade, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, ...

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Magnetica ''Magnetica'' (known in Japan as and in Europe as ''Actionloop'') is a puzzle video game for the Nintendo DS, released as part of the Touch! Generations series. The game was developed by Mitchell Corporation and published by Nintendo, and is base ...

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Money Puzzle Exchanger ''Money Puzzle Exchanger'' is a puzzle game created on January 17, 1997 by Japanese video game developer Face for the Neo Geo MVS arcade system. Athena Co. Ltd. ported it to the Game Boy on August 29, 1997, and the PlayStation on November 5, 1998 ...

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Panel de Pon ''Tetris Attack'', also known as in Japan, is a puzzle video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. A Game Boy version was released a year later. In the game, the player must ar ...

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Tetris Attack ''Tetris Attack'', also known as in Japan, is a Puzzle game, puzzle video game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. A Game Boy version was released a year later. In the game, the p ...

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Pokémon Puzzle League ''Pokémon Puzzle League'' is a puzzle video game in the ''Puzzle League'' series developed by Nintendo Software Technology and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. Released in North America on September 25, 2000, and in Europe on March 2, ...

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Planet Puzzle League ''Planet Puzzle League'', known as ''Puzzle League DS'' in Europe, and as in Japan, is a video game for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console in the Puzzle League ''Panel de Pon'' visual matching puzzle game series. In North America, '' ...

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Poker Smash ''Poker Smash'' is a Computer puzzle game, puzzle game developed by American independent software developer Void Star Creations for the Xbox 360, Xbox 360's Xbox Live Arcade service and iPhone OS. The title was officially announced during Microsof ...

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Puzzle Bobble internationally known as ''Bust-a-Move'', is a 1994 tile-matching puzzle arcade game developed and published by Taito. It is based on the 1986 arcade game ''Bubble Bobble'', featuring characters and themes from that game. Its characteristically ...

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Puzzle Link 2 ''Puzzle Link 2'' (Japanese: つなげてポンッ！2 Hepburn: ''Tsunagete Pon! 2'') is a 1999 Arcade-style puzzle video game for the Neo-Geo Pocket Color. Like 1998's '' Puzzle Link'', to which it is the direct sequel, ''Puzzle Link 2'' was ...

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Quarth , known as ''Block Hole'' outside Japan, is a hybrid puzzle/shoot 'em up game developed by Konami which was released in 1989 as an arcade game. Besides the arcade version, there were also ports of the game to the MSX2 (with a built-in SCC chip) ...

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Other matching puzzles

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Alchemy Alchemy (from Arabic: ''al-kīmiyā''; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, ''khumeía'') is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practiced in China, India, the Muslim world, ...

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Bejeweled ''Bejeweled'' (also referred as ''Bejeweled Deluxe'' in some releases) is a tile-matching puzzle video game by PopCap Games, developed for browsers in 2001. The first game developed by PopCap under their current name, ''Bejeweled'', involves l ...

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Godzilla is a fictional monster, or '' kaiju'', originating from a series of Japanese films. The character first appeared in the 1954 film ''Godzilla'' and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 32 films produc ...

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Gunpey , often written as ''Gun Pey'' or ''GunPey'', is a series of handheld puzzle games released by Bandai. It was originally released for the WonderSwan, and has been ported to WonderSwan Color, PlayStation, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable. Th ...

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Hexic ''Hexic'' is a 2003 Tile-matching video game, tile-matching Puzzle video game, puzzle video game developed by Carbonated Games for various platforms. In Hexic, the player tries to rotate hexagonal tiles to create certain patterns. The game is av ...

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HuniePop ''HuniePop'' is a tile-matching and dating sim adult video game created by American game designer Ryan Koons, under the alias of HuniePot. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux-based personal computers in January 2015, aft ...

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Loopz ''Loopz'' is a puzzle video game designed and programmed by Ian Upton for the Atari ST in 1989. He previously worked as head game designer for Audiogenic, who acquired exclusive rights to the game, then in 1990 arranged for Mindscape to publish ...

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Lumines II is a 2006 puzzle video game developed by Q Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable (PSP). It was released in November 2006 in Europe and North America by Buena Vista Games, and in February 2007 in Japan by Bandai Namco Games. The objective o ...

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Perception Perception () is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment. All perception involves signals that go through the nervous system ...

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Puzznic is a tile-matching puzzle video game developed and released by Taito for arcades in 1989. It was ported to the Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, PC Engine, Sharp X68000, Commodore Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, and ...

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SameGame is a tile-matching puzzle originally released under the name ''Chain Shot!'' in 1985 by Kuniaki Moribe (Morisuke). It has since been ported to numerous computer platforms, handheld devices, and even TiVo, with new versions as of 2016. History ...

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Sega Swirl ''Sega Swirl'' is a puzzle game that was created for the Dreamcast, Personal computer and Palm OS. The game was included in various demo discs released for the Dreamcast (through the ''Official Dreamcast Magazine (UK) and Official Dreamcast Maga ...

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Yoshi's Cookie ''Yoshi's Cookie'' is a 1992 tile-matching puzzle video game developed by Tose and published by Nintendo for the NES and Game Boy platforms in 1992. A Super NES version was released the following year, developed and published by Bullet-Proof Sof ...

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Zoop ''Zoop'' is a puzzle video game originally developed by Hookstone and published by Viacom New Media for many platforms in 1995. It has similarities to Taito's 1989 arcade game ''Plotting (video game), Plotting'' (known as ''Flipull'' in other t ...

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Logic puzzles

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Mario's Picross ''Mario's Picross'' is a 1995 puzzle video game for the Game Boy. Developed by Jupiter and Ape and published by Nintendo, it is a compilation of nonogram logic puzzles. The game stars Mario who chisels away at puzzle grids to form pictures. The ...

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Strimko ''Strimko'' is a logic number puzzle invented by the Grabarchuk Family in 2008. It is based on the idea of Latin squares described by the Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler in the 18th century. All Strimko puzzles are solvable wit ...

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Criminal Case Criminal law is the body of law that relates to crime. It prescribes conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of people inclusive of one's self. Most criminal law i ...

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Mystery Case Files ''Mystery Case Files'' is a video game series originally developed by the internal studios of Big Fish Games. Some installments were developed by Eipix Entertainment between 2015 and 2019 and Elephant Games who developed sequels from 2013 to 201 ...

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Minesweeper A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clear for safe shipping. History The earliest known usage of ...

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Obstacle course navigation

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Archer Maclean's Mercury ''Archer Maclean's Mercury'' is a 2005 puzzle-platform game for the PlayStation Portable developed by the eponymous British game programmer, Archer Maclean and Awesome Studios. In ''Mercury'', the goal is to guide a drop of mercury to its app ...

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Bomberman is a video game franchise originally developed by Hudson Soft and currently owned by Konami. The original game, also known as ''Bakudan Otoko'' (''爆弾男''), was released in Japan in July 1983 and has since spawned multiple sequels and sp ...

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ChuChu Rocket! is an action puzzle game developed by Sonic Team and published by Sega. Released for the Dreamcast in 1999, it was the first game for the system to support online console gaming. Players must place arrows on a board to lead mice into escape r ...

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Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum ''Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum'' is a platform game for the Nintendo Entertainment System, developed by Beam Software and published by Data East, released in 1990 exclusively in North America. Gameplay The player takes the role of Dash Galaxy, ...

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English Country Tune ''English Country Tune'' is a 2011 puzzle video game developed and published by Increpare Games, the studio of designer Stephen Lavelle. Gameplay The first few levels are much like Sokoban puzzles, in which objects are pushed around on a grid b ...

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Enigma Enigma may refer to: *Riddle, someone or something that is mysterious or puzzling Biology *ENIGMA, a class of gene in the LIM domain Computing and technology * Enigma (company), a New York-based data-technology startup * Enigma machine, a family ...

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Flamin' Finger Flamin' Finger is an arcade redemption game and merchandiser developed by American company Dell Electronics Labs and released by Namco, notable for its retro design and electronic soundtrack. Gameplay The game generates an LED maze behind a to ...

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Marble Drop ''Marble Drop'' is a puzzle video game published by Maxis on February 28, 1997. Gameplay Players are given an initial set of marbles that are divided evenly into six colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, with two more colors av ...

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Marble Madness ''Marble Madness'' is an arcade video game designed by Mark Cerny and published by Atari Games in 1984. It is a platform game in which the player must guide a marble through six courses, populated with obstacles and enemies, within a time limi ...

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Oxyd ''Oxyd'' is a 1990 puzzle video game developed for the Atari ST and ported to the Amiga, Macintosh, MS-DOS, and NeXT by Dongleware Verlags GmbH. It is a game of puzzles and tests to restart all the oxygen generators (called Oxyds) on the playe ...

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Polarium is a puzzle game developed by Mitchell Corporation for the Nintendo DS. It was a launch title in Japan, Europe and China. In the game, players use a stylus to draw lines on the DS's touch screen, flipping black and white tiles to clear puzzles. ...

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Pretentious Game ''Pretentious Game'' is a puzzle-platform game designed by independent Filipino studio Keybol. It is a satirical take on puzzle games in which poetic hints guide players to unite two lovers. The first chapter was written for Ludum Dare's 2012 gam ...

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Puzzle Dimension A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together ( or take them apart) in a logical way, in order to arrive at the correct or fun solution of the puzzle ...

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Rush Hour A rush hour (American English, British English) or peak hour (Australian English) is a part of the day during which traffic congestion on roads and crowding on public transport is at its highest. Normally, this happens twice every weekday: on ...

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Sokoban is a puzzle video game in which the player pushes boxes around in a warehouse, trying to get them to storage locations. The game was designed in 1981 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi, and first published in December 1982. Gameplay The game is played on a ...

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Switchball ''Switchball'' is a 3D action-puzzle game, made by the Swedish developer Atomic Elbow, which was released for Microsoft Windows on June 26, 2007, on Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 on November 7, 2007, and on PlayStation Network for the PlayStati ...

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Theseus and the Minotaur Theseus and the Minotaur is a type of logic maze designed by Robert Abbott. In this maze, the player acts as Theseus, the king of Athens who is attempting to escape the Labyrinth. The main difference between this and the standard type of labyrin ...

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XOR Exclusive or or exclusive disjunction is a logical operation that is true if and only if its arguments differ (one is true, the other is false). It is symbolized by the prefix operator J and by the infix operators XOR ( or ), EOR, EXOR, , ...

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Adventures of Lolo ''Adventures of Lolo'' is a puzzle video game released in 1989 by HAL Laboratory for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It is a compilation of puzzles from ''Eggerland: Meikyū no Fukkatsu'' and ''Eggerland: Sōzō he no Tabidachi''. It is the f ...

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Eggerland series The series consists of several puzzle games developed by HAL Laboratory. Its first release was in 1985 for MSX computer systems. Many titles were made in the series and the gameplay is almost exactly the same in every game as well. Only a few c ...

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Antichamber ''Antichamber'' is a first-person puzzle-platform game created by Australian developer Alexander "Demruth" Bruce. Many of the puzzles are based on phenomena that occur within impossible objects created by the game engine, such as passages that ...

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Banana A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa''. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", distinguis ...

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Bobby Carrot ''Bobby Carrot'' is a video game series developed and published by German company FDG Mobile Games. The series currently consists of five games, all originally developed for mobile phones. The fifth game was also released for iOS as well as a WiiW ...

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BoxBoy! is a series of puzzle-platform games developed by HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo. The series centres around Qbby, a square-shaped character who can produce a string of connected boxes. The boxes are used to overcome obstacles in stag ...

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Braid A braid (also referred to as a plait) is a complex structure or pattern formed by interlacing two or more strands of flexible material such as textile yarns, wire, or hair. The simplest and most common version is a flat, solid, three-strande ...

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Buster Bros. ''Pang '', originally released in Japan as and known in North America as ''Buster Bros.'', is a 1989 action game released by Mitchell Corporation for arcades in 1989. It was the tenth game released for Capcom's CP System arcade hardware. The ...

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Deadly Rooms of Death ''Deadly Rooms of Death'' (DROD) is a computer puzzle game. It was created by Erik Hermansen in 1996 and has been regularly extended since then. The original version of the game published by Webfoot Technologies is no longer available. In 2000 th ...

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Eets ''Eets'' (also known as ''Eets: Hunger. It's emotional.'') was a 2D puzzle game developed by Klei Entertainment and first released on March 27, 2006 for Microsoft Windows. It was later released for Mac OS X on December 9, 2010. Both the Windo ...

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Enigma Prison Enigma may refer to: *Riddle, someone or something that is mysterious or puzzling Biology *ENIGMA, a class of gene in the LIM domain Computing and technology *Enigma (company), a New York-based data-technology startup * Enigma machine, a family o ...

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Incredipede ''Incredipede'' is a physics-based puzzle video game by Canadian studio Northway Games. The game was released on 25 October 2012. Gameplay The gameplay of ''Incredipede'' focuses on the character Quozzle, an Incredipede with the ability to m ...

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Intelligent Qube , also known as ''Intelligent Qube'' in North America and ''Kurushi'' in Europe, is a puzzle video game for the PlayStation. In the game, the player controls a character who must run around a platform made of cubes, clearing certain cubes as they ...

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Interphase Interphase is the portion of the cell cycle that is not accompanied by visible changes under the microscope, and includes the G1, S and G2 phases. During interphase, the cell grows (G1), replicates its DNA (S) and prepares for mitosis (G2). A c ...

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Kickle Cubicle ''Kickle Cubicle'' is a puzzle game developed by Irem is a Japanese video game console developer and publisher, and formerly a developer and manufacturer of arcade games as well. The company has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo. The fu ...

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Krusty's Fun House ''Krusty's Fun House'' is a puzzle video game based on the animated sitcom ''The Simpsons''. Gameplay The player directs small rats to an extermination area through complicated maze-like levels. The player controls Krusty the Clown, who must nav ...

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Kwirk ''Kwirk'', known in Japan as , is a puzzle video game developed and published by Atlus in Japan on November 24, 1989, for the Game Boy. The game was later published in North America in March 1990 by Acclaim Entertainment. Plot Kwirk and his gir ...

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Limbo In Catholic theology, Limbo (Latin '' limbus'', edge or boundary, referring to the edge of Hell) is the afterlife condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned to the Hell of the Damned. Medieval theologians of Western Euro ...

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Lode Runner ''Lode Runner'' is a 2D puzzle-platform game, developed by Doug Smith and published by Broderbund in 1983. Its gameplay mechanics are similar to ''Space Panic'' from 1980. The player controls a character who must collect all the gold pieces in a ...

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Magical Puzzle Popils ''Popils'', known in Europe as ''Popils The Blockbusting Challenge'' and in Japan as , is a stage-based puzzle platform video game for the Sega Game Gear. It was released in the early 1990s by Tengen in Japan. It has the option of English or Jap ...

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Myst ''Myst'' is a graphic adventure/puzzle video game designed by the Miller brothers, Robyn and Rand. It was developed by Cyan, Inc., published by Broderbund, and initially released for the Macintosh in 1993. In the game, the player's character t ...

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Narbacular Drop ''Narbacular Drop'' is a 2005 puzzle-platform game developed by Nuclear Monkey Software. It was the senior game project of students attending DigiPen Institute of Technology. The gameplay consists of navigating a dungeon using an innovative port ...

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Oddworld ''Oddworld'' is a video game series and fictional universe, created by developers Oddworld Inhabitants under the direction of Lorne Lanning. The series has been released on various platforms such as PlayStation, Xbox, PlayStation 3, Game Boy, Wi ...

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Portal Portal often refers to: * Portal (architecture), an opening in a wall of a building, gate or fortification, or the extremities (ends) of a tunnel Portal may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Gaming * ''Portal'' (series), two video games ...

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Portal 2 ''Portal 2'' is a 2011 puzzle-platform video game developed by Valve Corporation, Valve for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The digital PC version is distributed online by Valve's Steam (service), Steam service, while al ...

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Pitman Pitman may refer to: * A coal miner, particularly in Northern England * Pitman (surname) * Pitman, New Jersey, United States * Pitman, Pennsylvania, United States * Pitman, Saskatchewan, Canada * Pitman Shorthand, a system of shorthand * Pitman ar ...

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Pushmo ''Pushmo'', known as ''Pullblox'' in Europe and Australia and in Japan, is a downloadable puzzle game developed by Intelligent Systems and published by Nintendo for its Nintendo 3DS handheld system, available on the Nintendo eShop. In the game, ...

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Quantum Conundrum ''Quantum Conundrum'' is a puzzle-platform game developed by Airtight Games and published by Square Enix. It was directed by Kim Swift, who formerly worked at Valve Corporation, Valve as a lead designer on ''Portal (video game), Portal''. The g ...

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Repton Repton is a village and civil parish in the South Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England, located on the edge of the River Trent floodplain, about north of Swadlincote. The population taken at the 2001 Census was 2,707, increasing to 2,8 ...

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Return of the Obra Dinn ''Return of the Obra Dinn'' is an adventure game, adventure and puzzle video game created by American video game designer Lucas Pope, and published by Japanese studio 3909. It was his second commercial game, following 2013's ''Papers, Please'', ...

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Scribblenauts ''Scribblenauts'' is a series of action puzzle video games primarily developed by 5th Cell. The series is owned and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The first game in the series was titled '' Scribblenauts'' and was first rel ...

'' *'' Sheep, Dog, 'n' Wolf'' *''

Solomon's Key is a puzzle game developed by Tecmo in 1986 for an arcade release on custom hardware based on the Z80 chipset. It was ported to multiple systems including the Nintendo Entertainment System and Commodore 64. The PC Engine version was known as ...

'' and its sequel, '' Fire 'n Ice'' *'' Stacking'' *'' Superliminal'' *'' Sutte Hakkun'' *''

The Swapper ''The Swapper'' is a puzzle-platform game for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux from Facepalm Games, an independent developer in Helsinki, Finland. Curve Studios later ported the game to PlayStation and Nintendo platforms in 2014. A scienc ...

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The Talos Principle ''The Talos Principle'' is a 2014 puzzle video game developed by Croteam and published by Devolver Digital. It was simultaneously released on Linux, OS X and Windows in December 2014. It was released for Android in May 2015, for PlayStation 4 ...

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The Turing Test (video game) ''The Turing Test'' is a first-person puzzle video game developed by Bulkhead Interactive and published by Square Enix Collective. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One in August 2016, for PlayStation 4 in January 2017, for ...

'' *'' The White Door'' *'' The Witness'' *'' Toki Tori'' *'' Unmechanical''

Multiple character control

*'' Dumb Little Creatures'' *''

Echochrome , is a 2008 puzzle game created by Sony's Japan Studio and Game Yarouze for PlayStation 3 from the PlayStation Store and for PlayStation Portable (PSP). The gameplay involves a mannequin figure traversing a rotatable world where physics and real ...

'', '' Echochrome 2'' *'' Gobliiins!'' *''

Pingus ''Pingus'' is an open-source video game programmed by German developer Ingo Ruhnke. It is a clone of ''Lemmings'' with penguins instead of lemmings. Gameplay Pingus has 55 levels, grouped into 5 level sets, as well as 21 winter-themed tuto ...

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The Brainies ''The Brainies'' is a puzzle game released on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System console and Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIgs, Macintosh, and Amstrad CPC computers. Even though its European title is ''Tiny Skweeks'', the connection to the popular ...

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The Lost Vikings ''The Lost Vikings'' is a puzzle-platform game developed by Silicon & Synapse (now Blizzard Entertainment) and published by Interplay. It was originally released for the Super NES in 1993, then subsequently released for the Amiga, Amiga CD32, MS ...

'' *'' Scarab Tales''

Lemmings series

*'' 3D Lemmings'' *'' All New World of Lemmings'' *''

Christmas Lemmings ''Lemmings'' is a puzzle–strategy video game originally developed by DMA Design and published by Psygnosis for the Amiga in 1991 and later ported for numerous other platforms. The game was programmed by Russell Kay, Mike Dailly and David ...

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Lemmings A lemming is a small rodent, usually found in or near the Arctic in tundra biomes. Lemmings form the subfamily Arvicolinae (also known as Microtinae) together with voles and muskrats, which form part of the superfamily Muroidea, which also include ...

'' *'' Lemmings 2: The Tribes'' *''

Lemmings Revolution ''Lemmings Revolution'' is a puzzle video game released in 2000. Like previous games in the ''Lemmings (video game), Lemmings'' series, the object of the game is to guide the lemmings characters to an exit by giving them specific skills. Each Le ...

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Oh No! More Lemmings ''Oh No! More Lemmings'' is an expansion pack to the puzzle video game ''Lemmings'' by DMA Design. It contains 100 unique single-player levels and six new music tracks. The Amiga version also includes 10 two-player levels. The game requires eit ...

Construction

*'' Armadillo Run'' *'' Amazing Alex'' *'' Bridge Craft Story'' *'' Bridge Constructor'' *''

Crazy Machines ''Crazy Machines'' is a puzzle video game, puzzle computer game created by German studio FAKT Software GmbH. Crazy Machines based many of its ideas on ''The Incredible Machine (game), The Incredible Machine'' series of games. The player is given a ...

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Crazy Machines 2 ''Crazy Machines 2'' is a puzzle video game developed by German studios Fakt Software and DTP Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, and iOS. It is the sequel to '' Crazy Machines''. Gameplay The goal in ''Crazy Machines 2'' is to ...

'' *'' Elefunk'' *'' Fantastic Contraption (2008 video game)'' *'' Fantastic Contraption (2016 video game)'' *''

Pipe Mania ''Pipe Mania'' is a puzzle video game developed by The Assembly Line for the Amiga and published in 1989. It was ported to several other platforms by Lucasfilm Games as ''Pipe Dream''; the company distributed the game in the US. The player must ...

'' *'' Poly Bridge'', '' Poly Bridge 2'' *'' The Incredible Machine'' *''

World of Goo ''World of Goo'' is a puzzle video game developed and published by independent game developer 2D Boy. The game was released on Microsoft Windows and Wii platforms on October 13, 2008, with releases on Nintendo Switch, Mac OS X, Linux, and various ...

Algorithmic

*'' 7 Billion Humans'' *''

Human Resource Machine ''Human Resource Machine'' is a visual programming language, visual programming-based Puzzle video game, puzzle video game developed by Tomorrow Corporation. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Wii U in October 2015, being addit ...

'' *'' KOHCTPYKTOP: Engineer of the People'' *'' Manufactoria'' *'' SpaceChem'' *'' The Codex of Alchemical Engineering''

Multiple puzzle types

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3 in Three ''3 in Three'' is a 1989 metapuzzle video game designed by Cliff Johnson (game designer), Cliff Johnson and published by Cinemaware and Inline Design. While bearing some similarities to his previous game, ''The Fool's Errand'', ''3 in Three'' took ...

'' *'' Azada'' *''

Big Brain Academy ''Big Brain Academy'' is a series of puzzle video games developed and published by Nintendo. Similar to the Brain Age series, each game features a number of activities designed to test, measure, and improve the player's mental skills. The first tw ...

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Blue Toad Murder Files ''Blue Toad Murder Files'' (full title, ''Blue Toad Murder Files: The Mysteries of Little Riddle'') is a murder mystery puzzle video game developed and published by the British video game developer Relentless Software. The game is episodic and th ...

'' *'' Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!'' *'' Castles (video game)'' *''Castle Breakout'' *'' Dr. Brain series'' *'' Faraway: Puzzle Escape'' *''

Machinarium ''Machinarium'' is a puzzle point-and-click adventure game developed by Amanita Design. It was released on 16 October 2009 for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, on 8 September 2011 for iPad 2 on the App Store, on 21 November 2011 for BlackBerr ...

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MILO Milo may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Milo'' (magazine), a strength sports magazine *'' Milo: Sticky Notes and Brain Freeze'', a 2011 children's novel by Alan Silberberg * ''Milo'' (video game), a first-person adventure-puzzle computer ga ...

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Professor Layton ''Professor Layton'' is a puzzle video game, puzzle adventure game, adventure video game series and transmedia franchise developed by Level-5 (company), Level-5. The property consists primarily of seven main video games, a mobile spin-off, an an ...

'' series *'' Puzzle Agent'', '' Puzzle Agent 2'' *'' Puzzle Panic'' *'' Safecracker: The Ultimate Puzzle Adventure'' *'' Smart Games Challenge'' series *''

The 7th Guest ''The 7th Guest'' is an interactive movie puzzle adventure game, produced by Trilobyte (company), Trilobyte and originally released by Virgin Interactive Entertainment in April 1993. It is one of the first computer video games to be released only ...

'' *'' The 11th Hour'' *''

The Daedalus Encounter ''The Daedalus Encounter'' is a 1995 interactive movie puzzle adventure game developed by Mechadeus and published by Virgin Interactive for Windows. The game was ported to the 3DO by Lifelike Productions and published by Panasonic. The premise ...

'' *'' The Dig'' *''

The Fool's Errand ''The Fool's Errand'' is a 1987 computer game by Cliff Johnson. It is a meta-puzzle game with storytelling, visual puzzles, and a cryptic treasure map. It is the tale of a wandering Fool who seeks his fortune in the Land of Tarot and braves ...

'' *'' WarioWare, Inc.'' *'' Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates''

Collections

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Microsoft Entertainment Pack ''Microsoft Entertainment Pack'' , also known as ''Windows Entertainment Pack'' or simply ''WEP'' , is a collection of 16-bit casual computer games for Windows. There were four Entertainment Packs released between 1990 and 1992. These games w ...

'' *'' Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection'' *''

Zillions of Games Zillions of GamesSearch-based Procedural Content Generation: A Taxonomy and Survey', Julian Togelius, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Kenneth O. Stanley, Cameron Browne, '' IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games'' 3(3):172 - 18 ...

Other

*'' Check Man'' *'' Chocolate Castle'' *''

Chromatron The Chromatron is a color television cathode ray tube design invented by Nobel prize-winner Ernest Lawrence and developed commercially by Paramount Pictures, Sony, Litton Industries and others. The Chromatron offered brighter images than convention ...

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CrossworDS A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangular grid of white- and black-shaded squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answ ...

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NDS NDS may stand for: * Low German ( nl, Nedersaksisch, links=no, german: Niederdeutsche Sprache, links=no, ISO 639-2 language code: nds), a West Germanic language native to Northern Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands * Lower Saxony (german: Niedersa ...

) *'' Cube Escape'' *'' Cube Loop'' *'' Cubicks'' *'' Cuyo (game)'' *''

Devil Dice ''Devil Dice'' (known in Japan as ''XI'', ) is a puzzle video game developed by Shift exclusively on PlayStation. It was released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan in 1998 and Europe in 1999, and by THQ in North America in 1998. The game is ...

'' *'' enDice'' *''

Every Extend Extra ''Every Extend'' is series of puzzle shoot 'em up video games primarily developed by Q Entertainment. The series began with a 2004 freeware game of the same name (also known as ''E2'') for Windows, which was a personal project by Kanta Matsuhisa ...

'' *'' Flow Free'' *'' Gemsweeper'' *'' Kula World'' *'' Logos Panic'' *'' Mr Driller'' *'' Photo Spot'' *'' Shanghai solitaire'' *'' UFO: A Day in the Life'' *'' Wheel of Fortune (video game)''

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Puzzle A puzzle is a game, Problem solving, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together (Disentanglement puzzle, or take them apart) in a logical way, in order to arrive at th ...