Games & Puzzles

Flip cards and find the matching pairs.

Slide the tiles and add them up to 2048.

Measure how fast you react, in milliseconds.

Repeat the colour and sound pattern as it grows.

Eat, grow and try not to bite yourself.

Clear the board without hitting a mine.

Fill the grid so every row, column and box has 1 to 9.

Six tries to find the five-letter word.

Three in a row, against a friend or the computer.

Tap the moles before they duck back down.

Race through a passage and find out your words per minute.

Drop discs and line up four in a row.

Bounce the ball and smash every brick.

Tap to fly through 25 gates without touching one.

Swap fruit to make rows of three before the moves run out.

Switch every light off in as few moves as you can.

Slide the tiles back into order before time runs out.

Move the whole stack across, one disc at a time.

Fill the whole board with one colour in limited moves.

Remember where the numbers were, then tap them in order.

Twenty sums, sixty seconds. Wrong answers cost you time.

Name the ink colour, not the word. Harder than it sounds.

Find every hidden word before the clock runs out.

Unscramble twelve words against the clock.

Find your way out before time runs out.

First to seven against the computer.

Push every crate onto its mark. Undo is free.

Flip the discs, hold the corners, beat the computer.

Use the numbers to work out the hidden picture.

Eat every dot without getting caught.

Blast five waves of drifting rocks.

Build all four suits from ace to king.

Clear the layout by matching free pairs.

Fire bubbles up and clear the board.

Get five frogs over the road and river.

Clear three waves before they land.

Bounce upward and reach 2000 metres.

Drop each block square and build twenty floors.

Sink their fleet before they sink yours.

Guess the word before you run out of lives.

Crack the hidden colour code in ten guesses.

Pour until every tube holds one colour.

Slide the cars aside and free the red one.

Rotate the pipes until the water flows.

Take the last stone to win.

Jump pegs until only one is left.

Complete more boxes than the computer.

Change one letter at a time to reach the target.

Hit thirty targets in thirty seconds.

Join matching tiles with a short path.

Hit the notes as they cross the line.

Get five in a line before the computer does.

Take every piece. Captures are compulsory.

Sow seeds and fill your store.

Nine small boards inside one big one.

Two colours, no three in a row, equal counts.

Join the dots and fill every square.

Fill the grid and satisfy every inequality.

Place the queens so none attacks another.

Crack the letter code and read the quotation.

Find 1 to 25 in order, fast.

First to ten against an opponent that reads you.

Cross sums with a single answer, every time.

How many buildings can you see from there?

A Latin square where every cage has a target.

Black out the repeats without splitting the grid.

Find the dominoes hidden in the numbers.

One tent per tree, and none of them touching.

Join every island without crossing a bridge.

Cut the grid into rectangles, one number each.

Draw cards to get as close to 21 as you can without going over.

Keep the cards you like, swap the rest, score the hand.

Thirteen rounds, three rolls, one target.

Push your luck against a computer that knows when to stop.

Every card face up. No luck left in it.

Pairs that add up to thirteen.

One above or one below, all the way down.

Connect your two sides. Draws are impossible.

Four hounds against one fox on a draughts board.

Three in a row takes one of theirs.

Land on every square exactly once.

Four numbers, four operations, one target.

Two bikes, solid walls, nobody can stop.

Down gently, upright, on the pad.

Six cities and a sky full of incoming.

Drag your mallet. First to seven.

One king running for the corner, eight attackers closing in.

Twenty goats that cannot fight, against four that can.

Was that square where it was two steps ago?

One tile is a slightly different shade. Find it.

Watch the blocks light up, then tap them back.

One move only: slide the spatula in and flip.

Wolf and goat, missionaries, jealous couples.

Six numbers, one target, four operations.

Three pegs, three balls, one arrangement to reach.

Which dominoes are magnets, and which way round?

Claim lines. Whoever makes a triangle loses.

Ten frames, real pin physics, real scoring.

Three darts a turn, and you must finish on a double.

A race to the far corner. Nothing is ever captured.

Shoot it and it splits in two.

Count the hand before the clock beats you.

Two five-card hands, one clock. Which one ranks higher?

Read the rhythm, not the dots.

Two packs, ten columns, eight suits to build.

One tap. Every ball you catch sets off another.

Aim wide. The planets do the steering.

Read the current. Spend thrust only on the turns.

Only the ring pops them. Find the circle they all sit on.

Flip the mirrors. Send red and blue to their own targets.

One wedge is not like the others. Tap it before the clock goes.

Hit the target colour. The pot is the average of what is in it.

Let go at the right moment. Nothing steers it after that.

Fill the gaps. Every gear you add reverses the one before it.

Hang the weights so every beam hangs level.

One coin is the wrong weight. The balance answers three ways.

All the same or all different, on every count.

Write the whole program first. Then watch it go wrong.

A 2×2 cube, unfolded flat. Undo the scramble.

A column addition with the digits hidden behind letters.

Walk 1 to the last square, touching every one on the way.

Put the missing numbers back so every line makes the same total.

Fill each block, and never let two of the same touch.

Draw to the button, or knock theirs out of the way.

Land them all. Keep them apart while you do it.

Close the flaps that add up to the roll. All of them, ideally.

Bumpers, drop targets and two flippers. Three balls.

Each run of white squares holds consecutive numbers, any order.

Each number says how many squares are in its own block.

Sets and runs. Get your deadwood down and knock.

Take as few points as you can. Mind the queen of spades.

Name the trump and take three. Mind the bowers.

Say how many tricks you will take, then take exactly that many.

Seven flat pieces, one silhouette. No gaps, no overlaps.

One closed loop through every pearl. White runs straight, black turns.

White to play. One move ends it — find which.

Race them home. Leave a blot and it goes back to the bar.

Span the gap. Triangles hold, squares fold.

One closed loop. Each number counts its own square’s sides.

Every number is an island. The rest is one connected sea.

Surround a stone and take it. Go, with only the capturing rule.

Sixteen pawns each. First one to the far row wins.

Race the computer to a hundred. Ladders up, snakes down.

Drop a ball through the pegs into the gold bin, which moves every turn.

A falling column of three gems. Match three in any direction.

Place bulbs to light every square, without dazzling each other.

Sudoku with cage sums instead of given digits.

Slide the blocks until the big square finds the exit.

Three pyramids of cards, cleared one rank at a time.

Match suit or rank, play a wild eight, empty your hand first.

Guess how many dice are hidden, or call the other player out.

Keep rolling to build your turn total, but a one wipes it.

Falling pairs of blobs. Four touching pop, and the chain doubles.

Hop across a pyramid of cubes and change every one.

Two guns, one hill, and the wind. Land a shell on the other one.

Shoot marbles into a crawling line and clear it in threes.

Nine holes of crazy golf, with bounces, sand and water.

Hawaiian checkers: jump, capture, and never run out of moves.

Shade dominoes so every room holds exactly two squares.

Pack the five-square shapes into the box with nothing left over.

Words fall, typing destroys them. Typing practice with a score.

Fan Tan: build each suit out from its seven, and block.

The draw game with a double-six set, against a computer that counts.

Move a queen, shoot an arrow, and shrink the board.

Race four tokens round the board and knock theirs back.

Stars in every row, column and region, never touching.

Pour water into tanks until every row and column adds up.

Move by the number of pieces on the line; gather yours into one group.

Upright against flat dominoes. Run out of room and you lose.

Capture by value or by total, and hunt the seven of coins.

Russian attack-and-defend. The last one holding cards is the fool.

One button, one cave, and walls that keep closing in.

Guns and mortars against waves that follow the road.

Klondike without the stock, and any card moves with its pile.

Numbers count the filled squares around them, and a picture appears.

Shade squares so every row and column reaches its total.

Sudoku whose boxes have been replaced by irregular shapes.

Shade squares under four rules, one of which limits corridors.

Capture by sending a piece around one of the board loops.

Madagascar’s national game — capture by approach or by withdrawal.

Take table cards that match your card or add up to it.

Blow up a brick maze and clear it of enemies.

Four in a row in a cube, through faces and corners alike.

Guess a hidden number from bulls and cows, with a live count of what is left.

Find words in the letter grid before three minutes run out.

Mix primaries into secondaries to claim the board against the computer.

Seed a grid so majority rule turns the whole board your colour.

Light one square so the fire burns exactly the number of cells asked for.

Flip mirrors so beams mix into the exact colour each target needs.

Shift each track so exactly one hit lands on every beat of the bar.

Spend your stones topping columns the computer cannot legally take back.

Pulse emitters to push and pull every particle onto its ring at once.

A maze where a rotating current moves you after every step you take.

Place heating elements so every pot reaches exactly the temperature it needs.

Set every crossing so the counts match and no thread floats over three in a row.

Place springs so every copper tile weathers to exactly the shade it needs.

Place stones so every marker is lit or shaded correctly at all three hours at once.

Steer a balloon by choosing which band of wind to ride.

Combine materials up a recipe tree to fill the order in as few steps as possible.

Rebuild a stack of cubes from its side view, front view and total.

Route falling water through chutes so every basin fills to exactly its mark.

Nudge planets on their rings so every one reaches the meridian in the same year.

A board that closes in as you play — be the one who can still place a stone.

Fill a grid so every pair of neighbours is opposite, adjacent or unlike on the colour wheel.

Drop pebbles so the ant’s shortest route is exactly the length you are asked for.

Set the junctions and send a train through track that turns behind it.

Find hidden wrecks from distance readings, in as few pings as you can.

Cross a causeway that floods and drains on a cycle.

Set tower delays so every lamp in the network lights at the same moment.

Cross a marsh where the soft ground sinks behind you.

Flip crossings until the tangle is provably not a knot at all.

Plant seedlings so a parity growth rule reproduces the outline exactly.

Shunt wagons into a new order using one dead-end siding.

Load a barge so no hold is over its limit and the trim comes out level.

A face-down duel where the rope moves by the difference between the cards.

Place clay so falling water settles into exactly the right squares.

Place beacons so every watchpost sees exactly the number it asks for.

Turn winches that move several platforms at once until all of them sit on their marks.

Rotate painted tiles so every joint matches, except the ones marked to differ.

Post sentries with lines of sight, taking what they see and avoiding what sees you.

Engage clutches and turn gears until every one sits on its mark.

Reorder a stack of sieves so each tray catches exactly the grains listed.

Fold a printed strip into a single pile in exactly the order asked for.

Colour a map in three colours so no two counties sharing a border match.

Take blocks from a rock face without letting anything above them fall.

Drop grains so a chain of topplings settles into the pattern asked for.

Darken squares so a two-rule beetle wanders its way to the gate.

Choose logic gates so the lamp matches every row of the truth table.

Walk every path exactly once — Euler’s bridges, as a puzzle.

Plan a delivery round where the tank empties as you drive and only depots refill it.

Mark creases mountain or valley so the sheet folds flat at every point.

Record one run, then work alongside a replay of yourself to open the gate.

Place burners so the sheet settles to exactly the temperatures asked for.

Arrange comparators into a machine that sorts every possible load.

A maze on a cylinder, Mobius band, torus or Klein bottle, where the edges join in odd ways.

Match every bird to a nest box it will accept, one bird per box.

Escape a maze while a chaser walks straight at you every turn.

Set populations so every animal in the food web gets exactly the food it needs.

A blind auction where the purse matters more than the lot.

Pick chord roots so every change shares a note and no root leaps too far.

Set a machine whose wheels each count in a different base, in as few pulls as you can.

Split a white beam into red, green and blue and land each colour on its own catcher.

Hammer a bar of metal into a given shape, moving metal sideways but never losing any.

Lay a single closed thread that winds round each peg exactly the number of times it asks for.

Press wrapping stamps that advance dials by one until the whole plate reads zero.

Ring the bells into a new order, swapping only neighbours and never repeating a row.

Sort a stack of pancakes by flipping the top few — which turns them over as well.

Find the cheapest set of pipes to block so no water reaches the sink.

Breed plants towards a target flower, choosing one seed from every cross.

Balance a real chemical equation by setting how many of each substance take part.

Pair boats with moorings so no boat and mooring would rather have each other.

Count round a ring of beads to lift every tarnished one for as little counting as possible.

Set code lengths so a message goes down the wire in as few bits as possible.

Build a fraction out of distinct unit fractions, in as few pieces as possible.

Site the wells so every cottage’s nearest one is the colour it is painted.

Find the false coin, and whether it is light or heavy, on a balance with no weights.

Draw equal, joined-up wards so a stated side wins a stated number of them.

Close roads until the average journey through the town is as short as it can be.

Design a coinage that pays every price exactly, using as few coins as possible.

Schedule boat-building stages across limited slipways to launch by the promised day.

Choose the fewest nets that between them catch every species in the survey.

Wind dials of different cycle lengths until all of them read zero at once.

Place two speakers so every listener sits in a loud band and every sleeper in a quiet one.

Build a full fixture list where every club plays every other exactly once.

Fit gearing so the winch can lift the load without running out of rope.

Lay the cheapest network of cable that connects every village.

Pack a quayside of goods into the fewest crates, with nothing split.

Take coins from one pile or the same number from both, and take the last one.

Draw officers up so no regiment, rank or combination ever repeats in a line.

Send nine walkers out in threes so every pair walks together exactly once.

Break the long loops in a misfiled cabinet so every clerk can find their docket.

Hire the best candidate when you see them one at a time and cannot go back.

Double what you commit or lose it, and reach the mark before your reserve runs out.

Choose which streets to walk twice so the postman’s round closes at least cost.

Post the fewest guards that between them overlook every corridor.

Brace a hall into triangles using the least length of timber.

Deal cards into piles so Bulgarian solitaire takes as long as it possibly can.

Mark every pair of guests friends or strangers while avoiding a monochrome threesome.

Ferry everything across a river without leaving two that quarrel alone together.

Choose the most valuable load a wagon of limited capacity can carry.

Choose how often to play each move so the worst reply is as good as possible.

Press a string of digits containing every possible code, in the fewest presses.

Order a line so no long run rises and no long run falls.

Design a repeating border with exactly the symmetries required and no others.

Find a hidden number by asking yes-or-no questions of a witness who may lie once.

Draw a diagonal in every square without ever closing a loop.

Split the grid into regions that are symmetric about their own dots.

Sudoku solved from dots between squares rather than given digits.

Connect your two edges with knight’s-move links that may not cross.

Two-player tricks where the ten outranks the king and marriages score.

Italian tricks where the ace and three carry most of the points.

Squeeze a row of fifty-two cards into as few piles as possible.

Patience where any face-up card moves with the whole pile on top of it.

Dig for gems and reach the exit before a boulder lands on you.