Games that play in your browser — phone or desktop.

Games tagged “puzzle”

304 hand-picked web games, playable right here — no downloads, no accounts, no ads. Most work on a phone; the ones marked Desktop want a keyboard and mouse. Everything older than the touchscreen lives in the Flash archive.

Show: All 304 · Plays on a phone (273) · Needs a keyboard (31)

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Catculus Drag across adjacent tiles that add up to the target. Black cats keep sitting on the numbers you needed.
CheaterMind A Mastermind variant where the computer never actually commits to a secret code until it has to — an adversarial twist confirmed working cleanly through a tap-native color-picker UI.
Chrono RobotDesktop Move a small time-travelling robot through 20 puzzle-platformer levels, retrieving a Chrono Crystal for a time machine - confirmed genuinely working via real held-key movement and a real mid-air jump.
Complements A bubble shooter with a twist: gems clear when they touch their complementary color, not an identical one, and holding a shot grows the gem before you fire.
Couch 2048 2048 reimagined as a soft-body physics puzzle. Drag cushions together to merge them.
Counterfeit Monkey Remove one letter and a pear becomes a pea. You are two spies sharing one body, on the run with a letter-remover.
Crayon Contraptions Draw the missing piece of a crayon Rube Goldberg machine, press GO, and watch the whole chain go off.
Daily Puzzle A new small logic puzzle every day, and a different kind of puzzle for each day of the week.
Do Not Make 13 Draw one line across the screen so that nothing on either side adds up to 13. Easy, until the plus signs join in.
Dragonsweeper Minesweeper, except the numbers are monster hit points and clicking one starts a fight. A viral, critically loved twist on a 35-year-old genre.
Emoji Crush Drag to swap emoji, hit each level's fruit-collection objective before you run out of moves.
Forever Wonder Colour A one-screen Sokoban where time itself is a puzzle piece. Discover the secret of the Wonder Colour to leave the cave.
FOURFOLD by Mohammed Saud
FreeCell Solitaire A clean, correctly-rules FreeCell built on the same drag-and-drop card foundation as this developer's other card games.
Get sword, kill dragon, save princess A one-room Bitsy puzzle jam game whose title is also its entire plot — except the level keeps repeating, and the real puzzle is figuring out why.
GhostedDesktop A box-pushing puzzle where you have exactly 13 steps before you turn into a ghost, and only ghosts can collect the coins.
Go A real 9x9 Go with capture rules, territory scoring and an AI opponent, built for touch.
Hexahedral Tap an adjacent cube to slide it and reach the goal tile before you run out of moves — 30 levels across three difficulties.
Hexle Guess the hidden 16-bit hex number in six tries, with a daily logic hint to help.
Hextris Tetris folded around a hexagon. Spin the middle to catch falling blocks and match three.
InversionDesktop A twin black/white puzzle-platformer where two characters must move (and invert) together - confirmed genuinely playable via real keyboard input: movement, jumping, and the signature invert mechanic all verified working.
Jewelsback A traditional match-3 puzzle whose drag-to-swap mechanic runs through the identical code for a finger as for a mouse — confirmed by triggering a real match through the exact functions a touch gesture invokes.
Kittens United Guide a mother cat back to her scattered kittens on a move-limited grid, dodging obstacles and grabbing yarn balls along the way — built for js13k's 13-kilobyte competition.
KleptoKitty Swipe the cat through the mansion: find the key, grab the diamonds, get out before dawn and the guards.
Letter Guess Guess the hidden 5-letter word using colour clues after each guess.
MACHINE DISCO Sneak into the robots-only disco in a bad disguise: watch how the robots dance, crack the pattern, then dance like a machine without getting caught.
Match Three Swap adjacent gems to line up 3 or more. Cascades, combos, and a high score chase.
Merlin vs Alfonso A Monument Valley-styled isometric puzzler — drag golden objects with telekinesis and outwit chess-piece enemies moving by real medieval rules.
Mine Sweeper A clean single-file Minesweeper. Easy mode fits a phone screen perfectly; Medium and Hard do not.
MineSweepear Island A Ludum Dare 32 hex-grid twist on Minesweeper — drag a finger across the board to draw a scoring path against a 60-second clock, with spatialised audio hinting at nearby mines.
Mnimi Watch the growing colour sequence, repeat it back correctly, go one round further.
Non-Mewtonian Cat Is it a solid? Is it a liquid? It's a cat. It stretches, it pours, it fits in the gap.
Number Knight Tap the smaller number to kill it, absorb its power, and out-think the elemental twist that turns this fake-ad gimmick into a real puzzle.
Pegball A polished Peggle-style peg-clearing shooter -- aim your cannon, launch the ball, and chase escalating combo multipliers to knock out every orange peg. Confirmed a real physics-driven bounce chain on both touch and mouse.
Picreact A React-built Nonogram/Picross. Tap a cell to cycle it through fill, cross, and clear.
Pixel Puzzle A clean nonogram/picross with three board sizes and a genuinely touch-friendly tap-to-fill, long-press-to-mark-empty control scheme.
PROXX Minesweeper's black-hole reskin — the puzzle hasn't changed since 1990, but a Clear/Flag switch finally makes it work with a thumb.
Push Back Drag across the water to create real fluid currents and steer stranded boats home — a js13k 2019 Mobile category winner built on a genuine physics simulation.
Road Blocks Drag road tiles from a queue to connect one edge of the grid to the other, then unlock a free-build sandbox town.
Robo Dance A rhythm-meets-tactics puzzle: plan your little robot's moves beat by beat, then hit Execute and watch everything on the board dance at once.
Shape Clear Swap adjacent shapes to clear rows in four selectable modes: timed, moves-limited, holed boards, and easy.
Sokoban Push every crate onto its target. No pulling, full undo, seven hand-built levels.
Sudoku A clean, modern Sudoku with notes, hints and auto-solve — tap an empty cell, tap a number, done.
TetrisweeperDesktop by Kertis Jones
Tile Collector Drag from a cell to both place a tile and pick its colour by direction, in this Ludum Dare 58 tile-placement puzzle with tutorial levels, daily challenges, and a sandbox mode.
Tiny Yurts A 13-kilobyte Mini Motorways reskin: drag footpaths between yurts and farms before a neglected farm's demand boils over and ends the run.
VidiMahjong A genuinely polished mahjong solitaire with provably solvable boards, hand-drawn tile faces, and a thoughtful mobile layout that scrolls rather than crushing tiles — confirmed to actually match tiles correctly on both phone and desktop.
Water Sort Puzzle Pour liquid between tubes until each one holds a single color. Nine levels, three difficulty tiers.