Master the art of solving a Rubik's cube, a 3D combination puzzle invented in 1974
Finish a challenging 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle
Successfully solve puzzles and escape from a themed escape room within the time limit.
Complete the classic adventure game The Secret of Monkey Island
Complete the puzzle-platform video game Braid, known for its time manipulation mechanics and artistic design.
A book with something real hidden behind it - Kit Williams buried a golden hare and painted the directions into Masquerade; people are still digging for later ones.
An escape room you can do at the kitchen table: riddles that unlock the next page, and an answer key you are not supposed to open. Journal 29 and the EXIT books are the usual way in.
Cover to cover, not the two you do on a train: a book of nonograms, sudoku, kakuro or logic grids, finished to the last page.
Amanita Design's three point-and-click shorts, from a 2003 school project to nine painted worlds.
Two puzzle games and the best writing Valve ever shipped.
Complete the critically acclaimed puzzle-platformer Portal 2.
Mind-bending physics puzzles with a dark wit (2007).
The timeless falling-blocks puzzle (1984).
Complete the critically acclaimed puzzle-platform video game Limbo, known for its atmospheric black-and-white visuals and challenging physics-based puzzles.
Complete the INSIDE video game, a critically acclaimed atmospheric puzzle-platformer.
Cut the playing field into pieces without letting the bouncing balls touch your line; four kilobytes of it.
The open-source Elasto Mania: a motorbike, gravity, and levels the community has been drawing since 2005.
An Atari puzzle game about a robot pushing crates and dodging lasers, still being remade forty years on.
One hundred and forty-nine tile puzzles with a fixed camera and a chip count; the Windows Entertainment Pack in one game.
Dig for diamonds, keep the boulders above you where they are, and get out before the wall closes.
Draw a line, watch a sledge ride it, and lose an evening building a track that lands the jump.
One murder, a grid of suspects, weapons and locations, and just enough clues to eliminate everything but the answer. There are hundreds, in books and one a day online.
The same idea drawn rather than written - panels connected by tubes and arrows that send you across the page or back three pages. Jason Shiga’s Meanwhile is the one everybody means.
A book you play: numbered paragraphs, a choice at the end of each, a pencil for your inventory and dice if it has them. Start with The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Lone Wolf or any Choose Your Own Adventure.
A furry black blob and the cherry taken from him, fought over across dozens of slapstick screens.
Every character you meet becomes a card, and the puzzle is working out where to play them.
A puzzle-platformer where the furniture turns into monsters the moment the light goes out.
Felix the garbage collector against a dictator who rules by loudspeaker, in a city built from folded paper.
Five tree creatures hunt for the last seed of their dying tree, through a world drawn as insects and fungi.
A boy walks through his own nightmare; the studio's only horror game, bright colours over something wrong.
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