Games tagged “puzzle”

125 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 125 · Plays on a phone (110) · Needs a keyboard (15)

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2048 Slide tiles to combine matching numbers and reach the 2048 tile.

asdfDesktop Repeat the growing sequence of colours using the A, S, D, and F keys - a Keyboard-Only-Game by its own admission.

Black Hole Square Eighteen tiny grid puzzles built for a 13-kilobyte competition: tap a piece to delete it or push it, swipe to move between levels.

Boxed In Wall off empty sections of the board to trap bouncing balls before an unfinished wall gets struck — a from-scratch rebuild of a classic 90s area-denial puzzle, with dedicated touch controls.

Bytle Guess the hidden 8-bit binary number, entered in decimal, in six tries.

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.

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.

F 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.

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.

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.

Letter Guess Guess the hidden 5-letter word using colour clues after each guess.

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.

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.

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.

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.

T 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.

Water Sort Puzzle Pour liquid between tubes until each one holds a single color. Nine levels, three difficulty tiers.

Word Groups Find four groups of four words that share a hidden connection, with only three mistakes allowed.

Wordly Guess the 5-letter word in 6 tries. Daily puzzle or unlimited random rounds.

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