Freeware: Computer Puzzle

	CryptoPics  License: Freeware
	CryptoPics (also known as Nonograms or Griddlers) are logic puzzles originating in Japan, in which the aim is to reveal a hidden picture by looking at the number clues. With this software you can play pre-made picture puzzles and puzzles created from image files. It includes a tutorial on how to solve the puzzles and a built-in Puzzle Editor, allowing you to make your own. Additional puzzles to play with this software are available on-line. Author: Yariv Hastilow| Date: 26-04-2004 | Size: 583 KB
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	Eastern Mahjong  License: Freeware
	Are you a puzzle gourmet, looking for some delicious entertainment? Lucky you! Get Cherry Cook and feed your hunger for succulent, fun and engaging games. Cherry Cook simple rules, intuitive gameplay and rockin' sound track! Your objective is to groups all fruits into sets of three. Then they'll go right into Rockin' Chef's juicer and you'll get points. The game gets progressively more and more difficult as you advance. Cherry Cook is an amazingly engaging game. Chances are you will launch it "just for fifteen minutes" get unglued from your computer screen only two hours later (that, by the way is an overly optimistic scenario). There are other side effects, like office skirmishes and family quarrels about who gets to play first. You friends and family members can enjoy this pizzazz puzzle too. Simply try it 100% free, and you are guaranteed to become a Cherry Cook aficionado in no time. Author: FreeGames4Rest| Date: 14-09-2005 | Size: 4983 KB
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	Super Switch  License: Freeware
	Super Switch is one of those games that you can learn to play in seconds but mastering it will take forever! The goal of the game is to swap adjacent objects to make a set of 3 or more. Click on an object to highlight it and then click on a second object that you want to swap. Swaps can only be made horizontally and vertically. When a combination of 3 or more is achieved they are removed from the board and more objects fall down to replace them. Making larger matches of 4 or 5 will give you extra points as well as destroying surrounding objects. Each time a match is made the timer bar at the bottom of the screen will increase. To move onto the next level you need to fill the bar up completely. Each new level will be harder and faster so you’ll need all your speed and skill to compete with the best Super Switch players. Author: ikoncity| Date: 01-11-2006 | Size: 1792 KB
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	SGCE  License: Freeware
	SameGame Competition Edition (SGCE) is a version of the classic block-puzzle which offers 3D graphics and sounds to 'spice up the fun' :) It also features an on-line high-score system to challenge players to the max! Author: John Peat| Date: 02-02-2003 | Size: 1512 KB
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	Ziggle  License: Freeware
	Ziggle is a simple and intuitive yet infinitely replayable and challenging free arcade strategy puzzle game for the PC. Use your Mouse, Keyboard, Joypad or PC Dance Mat to keep as many of the randomly spawning Blobs on the world map for as long as you can and at the fastest speed. Get more points, extra lives or more time by picking up the Star Bonus with a Blob. The timing of a pick up can make all the difference and choosing whether to go for a particular Star Bonus pick up may turn out to be critical ! Use the outer Golden bumpers to help you keep the Blobs on the map. Watch the Blobs when they hit a Bumper because you never know in what direction they may bounce ! The Mouse, Keyboard and Joypad controls are all enabled within every game, so you can play with one specific device or any combination of devices. Switch control over to your PC Dance Mat (by Logic3 and available from www.dancemat.com) and Ziggle away with your feet ! You can reset any of your Top Ten scores simply by clicking on one at anytime. With a download filesize of less than 1 megabyte you will be playing within minutes. Author: Red Games| Date: 01-10-2004 | Size: 911 KB
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	Photoscramble  License: Freeware
	New and improved version of Photoscramble, a shuffle puzzle with custom picture (any *.BMP or *.JPG), any grid size, with optional tilenumbers, grid, border, time and moves display and a zoom function. Author: BdR| Date: 10-06-2004 | Size: 261 KB
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	Royal Sudoku  License: Freeware
	Royal Sudoku is complicated version of sudoku game destined for real puzzle kings. Game is based on Japan puzzler also known as Suduko, Sudoko, Su do ku, Sodoku, Suduku. In it you must to compare numbers on game board to make them according the rules. Lets repeat history of this puzzle. The game refers to a number placement puzzle also known as Number Place in USA. First Japanese title of this puzzle was "Suuji wa dokushin ni kagiru". It's means that number is limited only single (unmarried). But this title is too long, then it was abbreviated as "Sudoku". So "SU" means number, "DOKU" means single. It seems to have first been published in the USA before being noticed and then popularised in Japan. And has the following simple rules. Each row, column and subgrid inibox comprises the numbers 1 through 16 or letters A through P or anything else. The attraction of the puzzle is that the completion rules are so simple and yet the overall task can be difficult. Sudoku is recommended by some teachers as an exercise in logical reasoning. This game also can be used as Sudoku solver. It is easy to solve your sudoku puzzles and try to find right solutions for any game combinations. It is very simple to learn, requires no calculations, and provides a surprisingly wide variety of logic situations. From children to old can enjoy it for a pass-time. Author: FreeGames4Rest| Date: 06-11-2005 | Size: 1415 KB
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	Gem Quest  License: Freeware
	Addictive gem swapping puzzle game. Easy to learn. Play the untimed casual mode or the timed arcade mode. Enjoy varied level themes as the multiple gem types challenge your progress. Author: Drake Games| Date: 20-02-2006 | Size: 5120 KB
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	Leonardo Da Vinci Free Puzzle Game  License: Freeware
	Good looking game with lots of Leonardo`s paintigs and lots of fun. You can play and marvel at images of ohn the Baptist, Madonna Litta, Mona Lisa, Raring Horse, The Musician and more. Game is very easy to use, you can control everything only with mouse. Leonardo Da Vinci Free Puzzle Game is running on every PC with Windows and contains no viruses or adware. What is the best on this game? Its completely free - so dont wait and download it right now! Author: Spidla Data Processing Inc.| Date: 04-08-2006 | Size: 1292 KB
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	Advanced Sudoku  License: Freeware
	Advanced Sudoku is a logic-based placement puzzle. It is complex version of Traditional Sudoku. AvexLab Advanced Sudoku is game for experienced players. The object is to fill the grid so that every column, every row and every 4x4 box contains the digits 1 to 16. The game field 16x16 is used. There is photo background now. Author: AvexLab| Date: 27-01-2007 | Size: 766 KB
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	Arithmogriph  License: Freeware
	Arithmogriph is a free brainteaser game. It generates mathematical puzzles in which the digits are replaced by symbols. You are able to print both puzzle and solution. Author: Thomas Freissler Software & Solutions| Date: 17-07-2003 | Size: 4371 KB
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	Jigsaw Blocks  License: Freeware
	Jigsaw Blocks is simple to learn yet challenging. Slide rows and columns to reconstruct various images. Increase the number of blocks and increase the challenge. Author: Blue Dojo Studios| Date: 12-03-2003 | Size: 816 KB
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	Alive! Jigsaw Free  License: Freeware
	A virtual jigsaw puzzle game with animated images, great 3D appearance and smooth movements. This game allows you to create and play jigsaw puzzles with your own videos and pictures. Alive! Jigsaw has options that make it suitable for kids and those who prefer less challenge. Features: fully rotatable 3D style pieces, customizable number of pieces, load and save the game, easy to use, helpers including autosolve. Author: Yavsoft| Date: 15-02-2002 | Size: 3560 KB
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	Logic wheels  License: Freeware
	Play logic wheels puzzle and fune online Author: Flash games| Date: 05-12-2005 | Size: 10 KB
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	Arithmetiles  License: Freeware
	Discover the secrets of Arithmetiles. Create as many Arithmetile combinations as possible before time runs out. Beat the clock and advance to an entirely different puzzle. Power Players can choose between Timed and Untimed games and play over 100 puzzle levels. Author: Free Web Games| Date: 10-01-2005 | Size: 560 KB
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	Jigsaw Puzzle Component for Flash  License: Freeware
	You can build your own jigsaw puzzles using this component for Macromedia Flash. Ulike most other jigsaw puzzle applications for Flash, Jigsaw Puzzle v2.1 recognizes the neighbour pieces put near in right direction and then groups them. This makes the game more real and more fascinating. With this easy to use and customisible tool you can build your own puzzles that can be published for on-line web gaming or compiled as desktop application. JigsawPuzzle v2.0 is developed with ActionScript 2.0 and extends Macromedia Flash MX's IUComponent class. The component renders any symbol in the library marked as Export for Actionscript accessing the symbol with its Linkage Identifier. So preparing jigsaw puzzles is as easy as providing the component with the Linkage Identifier of the picture symbol. You can also adjust the piece division (4 up to 144) and rotation ability of pieces by seting parameters using Flash's Properties inspector or Component Inspector panels. Methods, properties and events supported by JigsawPuzzle component alow advanced Flash users adjust all of the paremetes even at runtime. You can check the samples and documentation to see if application meets your needs. The licence is developer licence and includes unlimited uses for unlimited sites built by the developer plus free updates and upgrates on the product. A full functional demo with a small "a gig by somefrogs.com" version is avaiable. Any use of the demo is accepted while the notice remains intact. Author: someFrogs| Date: 26-01-2005 | Size: 1312 KB
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	Cognizance  License: Freeware
	Cognizance is a 2D horizontal shooter game that combines a traditional shooter with puzzle and RPG elements. In the first phase, you build up your stats by killing enemies to fill up empty blocks at the top of the screen. These blocks can contain stats, the amount of stat increases depends on the number that was on the enemy. In the second phase, blast the enemies that have misspelled words! Be careful though, killing an enemy with a correctly spelled word will cause it to counterattack! The final phase is a boss, there are certain elemental tiles you can stand on to aid you in defeating it. Features:  3 styles of gameplay  multiple difficulty levels  high score saving  educational value: learn some commonly misspelled words!  simple control scheme  Download Author: Z2 Games| Date: 27-03-2006 | Size: 4875 KB
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	Secret Chamber FREE  License: Freeware
	30 challenging levels of FREE play! Unlock the great King's concealed treasures hidden deep in the Secret Chamber. The King protected his treasures with a complex series of jeweled locks and mechanical scarab servants. Solve these ancient puzzles and discover the King's wonders! Save games and return later for more fun. In exchange for free access to games, users are shown 2-3 Websites while browsing online. Zango may collect anonymous data about sites visited, but no personally identifiable information is collected. Zango is easily uninstalled via the Add/Remove Program on your PC. Author: Zango Games| Date: 01-08-2004 | Size: 5876 KB
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	Magic Reversi  License: Freeware
	It is by no means a coincidence that we call this game "magic". The graphics developed specially for this game is of magical, unforgettable nature. The game has such features as skins and game complexity settings. It is also possible to play on the net or with a partner sitting at the same computer terminal. And just the main feature... this little program really knows how to play Reversi! Author: Alawar Entertainment| Date: 16-03-2002 | Size: 1221 KB
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	Christmas Bound  License: Freeware
	A free game for the christmas holidays. The Bugs have stolen all christmas parcels from Santa Claus. Yello the little bouncing tennis ball tries to bring them back. This addicting game has elements of Arkanoid (the brick busting game) but combined with puzzle solving and more hands on arcade action. Christmas Bound requires both dexterity and logical thinking. Your mission is to explore the Bugs' land and find all christmas gifts which are hidden in 32 rooms. Break blocks and outwit your enemies to get access to presents, which seem unreachable at first sight. Beware! The game may start easy but later levels are pretty tricky. Author: Blueskied| Date: 16-11-2004 | Size: 894 KB
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	m9P Games Collection  License: Freeware
	m9P Games Collection is a collection of 6 entertaining desktop games: Line Up (Guessing game), Area 52 (Pac-Man-like game), Breakout, Super Jigsaw Puzzle, F1 Racer, and Drum Machine. Author: mental9Production| Date: 01-09-2004 | Size: 6612 KB
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	Classic Tetris  License: Freeware
	Classic Tetris is a very popular falling blocks puzzle game. A sequence of tetrominoes - shapes composed of four circle blocks each - fall down the playing field. The object of the game is to manipulate these tetrominoes, by moving each one sideways and rotating it by 90 degree units, with the aim of creating a horizontal line of blocks without gaps. When such a line is created, it disappears, and the blocks above (if any) fall. As the game progresses, the tetrominoes fall faster, and the game ends when the player "tops out", that is, when the stack of tetrominoes reaches the top of the playing field and no new tetrominoes are able to enter. Features: Retro style, Boss key(!), Good-looking interface, Photo background, Nine difficult levels. Author: AvexLab| Date: 21-07-2007 | Size: 1322 KB
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	Scrambled Eggs  License: Freeware
	Scrambled eggs is an action-puzzle game emulating a popular style of hex-grid color matching arcade games. To play, aim the egg-launcher left and right with the arrow keys or joystick, and press spacebar or a joystick button to launch the egg. Try to match three or more of the same color to hatch the eggs. Periodically the eggs will drop down and if they reach the line before you can hatch them you lose. Two-player side-by-side play is available. If you have a joystick, the left-hand player will use it, and the right-hand player will use the keyboard. If you do not have a joystick the left-hand player uses Q and W to aim and S to fire Author: James Paige| Date: 31-05-2001 | Size: 122 KB
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	Hightailed  License: Freeware
	Hightailed is a puzzle game where the aim is to force your opponent into a position where they cannot move or "Hightail it out of there". You win by either blocking your opponent or avoiding capture yourself for a specified number of rounds. To advance levels you must play as each opposing side, if you win then you may move on. The goal of the game: The red creatures try to block at least one green creature, green creature tries to survive (or even block one of the red creatures so that it can't move). You must move all of your creatures to complete a turn. If the opponent can not move after you have completed your turn then you are the winner. If red creatures fails to block green creature after defined amount of turns then red will loose the game. When you have played each of the opposing sides and have won you will be able to proceed to the next level. Rules in brief: You must move all your creatures on every turn. If you can't move then you lose. There are four different difficulty modes. Simple, Easy, Normal and Tough to really give you a challenge. In Simple and Normal modes the game will indicate the order in which Author: Polycount Productions| Date: 07-02-2007 | Size: 7266 KB
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	ClickTris  License: Freeware
	This game is very simple to play, anyone can enjoy this game. ClickTris is the game for everyone. And this game can be played on old or new computers, it does not needs new computer. It is a classical tetris game. Rules are very simple. During all game many pieces fall from top of window. Piece falls until landing on another piece or bottom of window. When pieces form horizontal line, this line erases and all pieces above fall down. You earn 10 points for every vanished line and extra 10 points if you vanish more lines. Game ends if there are no place for new pieces. You can move pieces when they fall. Author: SoftAKGames| Date: 02-07-2008 | Size: 1100 KB
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	Spin Around  License: Freeware
	Spin Around is a variation of the classical align three coloured balls. You have a board of 9 rows x 9 columns, filled with random coloured balls. There are 7 different colors in total. Slide any row of the board left or right trying to align them, or if you're stuck, try to rotate it! With this simple but powerful innovation, new gameplay possibilities open up to you! Three different gameplay modes: Time Attack, Top Score and Puzzle! Author: Winter Wolves| Date: 01-04-2007 | Size: 3200 KB
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	Jigsaw Palace Guard  License: Freeware
	Race against the clock and other internet puzzle masters as you try to put together a picture of the Palace Guards as quickly as possible. Author: Free Web Games| Date: 10-01-2005 | Size: 560 KB
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	Sudoku Countdown  License: Freeware
	How good are you at Sudoku? You can find out on this time based version without turning over an hour glass. If you have not played Sudoku before, you must be start playing. It’s very simple and highly addictive. Place the numbers 1 to 9 in the grids so they only appear once in each row, column and 3X3 domain. No mathematics. Just use logic. Sudoku Countdown is Sudoku with a clock counting down your score. You start with 10,000 points which runs down like a timer once the game begins. The faster you solve the puzzle, the higher your score. If you cannot solve the puzzle in the allocated time, then you score zero points. Fair enough. Overall, these puzzles are fairly easy so it should not be a problem to solve them before time runs out. With the element of time-based points, Sudoku Countdown adds a subtle undercurrent of calm electricity to a game which is fast gaining in popularity all over the world. Test yourself. Play Sudoku Countdown to see how good a Sudoku player you are, under pressure. Challenge your friends and family. What’s your score? The countdown begins... Author: Justgames.ch| Date: 09-12-2006 | Size: 1956 KB
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	2004 Backgammon  License: Freeware
	This backgammon game has OpenGL-compatible 3D graphics. You can view the board from any angle. You can play against the computer, with your friends or over a network. It provides various game modes and a chat box for network games. Backgammon is the most ancient game of fortune and skill. The game's history began more than five thousand years ago. It is very popular in Near East and in Central Asia. The object of the game is to be the first player to remove all your pieces from the board by moving all your pieces to your home board and then bear them off. You move your pieces counter-clockwise to the bottom right quadrant of the board which is his home board. Your opponent moves pieces clockwise to the top right quadrant respectively. Author: Rightdown Software| Date: 31-05-2005 | Size: 293 KB
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	EnLight  License: Freeware
	Very cool puzzle game where you must turn off all lights on the gamefield! When you click on a light, the one you selected and the 4 adjacent will invert status. You should try to turn off all lights but be aware! You have limited moves for each level! Cool graphic and sound More than 50 levels.Finish all levels and collect full stars rank! THIS GAME IS FREE! What can you ask more? Author: Feejo Soft| Date: 28-01-2007 | Size: 267 KB
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