Collection

puzzle

Puzzles, from one-mechanic toys to full systems. 29 finds so far.

Think Up House
A puzzle about drawing the best floor plan you can, from csklimowski; room layout as a scoring problem is a…
itch.io
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Witstep – daily math and logic puzzle game (Free No Sign-up)
A daily math-and-logic puzzle with no sign-up, a Wordle-shaped habit for people who would rather do…
via Hacker News
qr maze
Type any URL and it becomes a 3D hedge maze: the QR code's dark modules are walls, and a path is carved…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
matrameru
Piṅgala's ancient Sanskrit metre-counting (the prosody that produced Fibonacci's numbers centuries early)…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
Dungeon.md
The pitch is a README that runs: you write a dungeon in plain Markdown — headings, lists, links — and the…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
Zeitgeist Game – guess the date of a HN front page
Shown an old Hacker News front page, guess the date — a guessing game where the only clues are what the…
via Hacker News
A daily word game where you cut a sentence to five of its words
Daily word game with a real constraint: take a sentence and cut it down to just five of its words that still…
via Hacker News
Game to see if you're over-/under-confident in your own knowledge
A calibration game that scores how over- or under-confident you are about what you know — the interesting…
via Hacker News
tenpai de go
A Japanese mahjong trainer that drills exactly one skill: recognizing when your hand is one tile from ready.
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
OrbitMechanics
A browser puzzle game that commits to actual orbital mechanics — Verlet integration, real Newtonian two-body…
0★ · found on Vercel
bullet reclaimer
Freeze time and design the ricochet path of a single bullet; a Phaser action game built on one idea, with a…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
Commandment
A hypertext puzzle staged inside a great court complex: you open as a sinner who must have blasphemed, and…
itch.io
deep blue
A browser game about recreational scuba where the dive computer is the antagonist: every meter down buys you…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
Draw.city – geography game where you circle the target population [US]
Draw a circle on the US map big enough to enclose a target population — a genuinely different way to find out…
via Hacker News
Pulse
A PuzzleScript grid puzzler openly modelled on SOLAS 128, which sets a high bar for its own switch-and-signal…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
haiku yugishu
Three haiku games in one page — rearrange them, borrow lines and rebuild, then memorize and cut — a wordplay…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
Detonova
A 3D maze where every bomb is on a timer and blasts chain into each other, so corridors become fuses you have…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
lwy
A narrative puzzle staged inside a dead Windows XP machine — you poke through files, folders and mail on a…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
the cart game
A grocery puzzle where the list is a set of rules that fight each other, so filling the cart is a…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
立方体チャレンジ / Cube Challenge
In Japanese: you're shown one face of a cube and have to draw the remaining edges in correct perspective — a…
itch.io
GitHub Pages
carboxylic organic game
IUPAC nomenclature drills dressed as a cyberpunk hacking game — an odd thing to build, and odd is the point.
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
Crack Attack game vibe-ported to run in browser
Crack Attack — the early-2000s open-source Tetris Attack clone — ported from C++ to run in the browser, a…
via Hacker News
Minato
Minesweeper rebuilt as a roguelike — a mashup that gives the world's most-bundled puzzle actual stakes…
itch.io
escaperoom
A browser escape-room labyrinth with no asset files at all — every Myst-style scene is hand-coded SVG and the…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages
driftlings
A 2.5D Lemmings-like whose levels are generated backwards from a known solution and then verified by a solver…
1★ · found on GitHub Pages
Chroma
First-person paint-by-numbers built as a shooter: same aiming and trigger discipline, but the target is a…
1★ · found on GitHub Pages
cold storage
First-person office stealth with one very specific objective — steal the intern's lunch — instead of another…
1★ · found on GitHub Pages
Maze v2
A canvas maze built on seeded determinism — same seed, same run — with fog, patrolling Wardens, and Echoes to…
0★ · found on Vercel
wobble stack
A one-thumb physics toy about keeping five creatures balanced while the wind worsens; tiny scope, but the…
0★ · found on GitHub Pages

experimental · 110 arcade · 64 sim · 62 strategy · 43 zero-assets · 34 incremental · 26 roguelike · 21 multiplayer · 15 horror · 10 jam · 9 platformer · 4