Puzzles!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I love puzzles! And other DW users do, too. Here are some that have been suggested and/or recommended (in no order):

1. Exit game puzzle

2. Jigsaw puzzles

Physical puzzle brands: Re-marks, Cavallini, Galison with art by Michael Storrings, White Mountain and Ravensburger
Online jigsaw puzzles: https://thejigsawpuzzles.com/

3. Sudoku

Variant sudoku and rat maze sudoku as described on the Cracking the Cryptic Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@CrackingTheCryptic

jigsaw sudokus (with tricky shapes)

3doku

4. The Simon Tatham collection of puzzles, 40 different puzzle games, including a nonogram game
[nonogram=picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the edges of the grid to reveal a hidden picture]called "Pattern", which contains randomly-generated nonogram puzzles from any size that the player wants.

5. Yeardle for history buffs.

6. Waffle, a word game

7. kenken= an arthimatic and logic puzzle where the objective is to fill a grid with digits so that no digit appears more than once in any row or any column. KenKen grids are divided into heavily outlined groups of cells –– often called “cages” –– and the numbers in the cells of each cage must produce a certain “target” number when combined using a specified mathematical operation (one of addition, subtraction, multiplication or division).

8. Logic puzzles at Griddlers net: https://www.griddlers.net/home

9. Quordle

10. Squaredle

11. Quad nerdle

12. Connections, which is part of the NYTimes family of games: https://www.nytimes.com/crosswords

13: the AARP also has a collection of games: https://www.aarp.org/games/category/all-games/

14. Octordle

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Sharing another site, AARP has a bunch of free games available: https://www.aarp.org/games/category/all-games/

Some require membership but lots are free and range from arcade games to crosswords to trivia and word games.

[write_out]

Oh, I am TERRIBLE at Connections but I love playing it. I lose more than I win, but hopefully I'll eventually get better. I am pretty good at getting at least two groups, but then fall apart with the trickier ones (and then when I see the results, it's almost always me shouting out DUH!). I am much better at Spelling Bee and Wordle, also NYT games.

I've not gotten the hang of Sudoku yet, but then I've only tried a handful of times.

Nothing beats a good jigsaw puzzle though. :)

[garonne]

What an excellent list, thank you! Loads of new-to-me links.

Regarding wordle-type games, my favourite is Octordle.

I love the Simon Tatham collection! I have it on my phone and play one or two of them pretty much every day. Ad-free and so much variety.