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Color Collision - Control a flying carpet and hit sun-like discs of matching colour. Bonuses are scored for hitting discs when they are smiling, "turned on", or about to explode, etc. depending on the level. Charmer - Charm snakes to a vine to make their pots disappear, without letting the lids fall and create another pot.
Perplexus, originally released as Superplexus, is a 3-D ball-in-a-maze puzzle or labyrinth game enclosed in a transparent plastic sphere. By twisting and turning it, players try to maneuver a small steel ball through a complex maze along narrow plastic tracks. The maze has many steps (varying across puzzles).
The gameplay is not fundamentally different from Pac-Man (players still have to navigate the entire maze to complete a level) but enough games have used the grid motif that it is a distinct style. One unique element is that it is possible to capture multiple rectangles simultaneously, usually for extra points.
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.
Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle (1985, Henry Holt and Company) is a puzzle book written and illustrated by Christopher Manson. The book was originally published as part of a contest to win $10,000. Unlike other puzzle books, each page is involved in solving the book's riddle.
This is a list of games in the 2017 version of British game show The Crystal Maze, sorted by zone. The coloured backgrounds denote the type of game: - Mental - Mystery - Physical - Skill ALIS - Automatic Lock-in Situation Aztec Zone Name of game Explanation Time ALIS Balancing scales Use a raft to retrieve sandbags and balance a set of scales to release the crystal 3:00 None Word wheel Turn ...
A combination puzzle, also known as a sequential move puzzle, is a puzzle which consists of a set of pieces which can be manipulated into different combinations by a group of operations. Many such puzzles are mechanical puzzles of polyhedral shape , consisting of multiple layers of pieces along each axis which can rotate independently of each ...
If the maze is on paper, the thread may well be a pencil. Logic problems of all natures may be resolved via Ariadne's thread, the maze being but an example. At present, it is most prominently applied to Sudoku puzzles, used to attempt values for as-yet-unsolved cells. The medium of the thread for puzzle-solving can vary widely, from a pencil to ...