Recent Puzzle Finds
They’re always asking me “do you have games on your phone” but they’re never asking me “HOW are the games on your phone”!! The answer: it’s puzzles all the way down. Aside from NYT games, ken-ken’s, and zachtronics solitaire, I’ve found some other fun puzzles lately that I wanted to share!
MINESWEEPER PLUS
Another fun minesweeper variant! It’s pay what you want on itch.io and very scalable in difficulty. The boss fights with the 9 and 10 mine squares are very creative. The stages themselves are also pretty creative in design too- as you get up in difficulty, the board becomes all different sorts of non-quadrilateral shapes. This does mean there it becomes more RNG based, as you may have to guess a lot on the segmented stages.
Unfortunately, I can’t play this (frequently) anymore because the boss fights throw me into an IRL rage.
Cryptic Sudokus
Recommended to me by Michael! The two British (?) guys behind “Cracking the Cryptic” Youtube channel are so unbelivably cracked and they kind of do anything from crosswords to crazy puzzles. The sudoku variants are the main focus here- . We played so much of this around the holidays- they can range from easy to insanely hard but they’re so addicting to do. Here are some of my favorite puzzles:
Full Circle Friday
For anyone who enjoys doing the NYT connections- it’s that but crazier! 6 words, every word is connected to two other words via two different categories, and you have to find the “circle” of connections. Then once you get that, there’s a super special secret word (the omnigram) that fits every category. Granted, because each “category” only has 2 words, sometimes it’s quite a stretch. Nonetheless, still super fun and VERY creative
catfishing
Guessing wikipedia articles by tags! I love this concept but I am too dumb to play it frequently- I think my all-time best is like a 4/10 :’)
cryptickle
Another game recommended to me by Michael. Mini Cryptics for beginners! This has been pretty fun as I’m still learning the indicators and intricacies of cryptics.
orbits
Reverse minesweeper from the same guy who made cryptickle! Pretty easy but a fun thing to do to pass the time.
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