26 sheep, 10 goats & ship’s captain: Unsolvable math problem puzzles Chinese students

Students in southwestern China were confounded by a seemingly impossible math question involving sheep, goats, and the captain of a ship. Some of the top-notch answers they came up with appeared in the Chinese media. The question – posed to grade five pupils at a school in Nanchong, Sichuan province – asked the students to […]

Delete Gives Nonogram Puzzles A Rubik Twist

Between mobile offerings like Paint It Back and PC series like Hexcells, the nonogram/Picross-inspired style of logic puzzlers have had a steady flow of interesting games. Delete is the newest entry to the category, taking a unique perspective-based and level-twisting approach to the puzzles. Delete starts out simply, with single planes and small grids. As […]

Baba Is You Lets You Change Its Rules To Solve Puzzles

Quite a few puzzle games revolve around programming – from the abstracted forms seen in SpaceChem to the charming command creation of Human Resource Machine – and the appeal of creating your own solution within the expansive rulesets, refining and improving and optimizing, is a thrilling one. But Baba Is You isn’t about messing around […]

Uurnog Uurnlimited – Collect Cute Animals While Solving Puzzles Your Way

Uurnog Uurnlimited is about grabbing adorable animals. And puzzles. And sometimes accidentally blowing up everything you’ve worked to accomplish. But there’s also dogs you can take for a walk in co-op (assuming you don’t blow them up, too)! Uurnog Uurnlimited puts a hapless hero in a world made up of block-based creatures and items. All […]

“No One Can Put The Puzzles Together…Except Marilou”

Marilou Danley, the girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock, arrived back in the United States from the Philippines on Tuesday night. Investigators are hoping she can help answer questions about her live-in partner of many years, who killed himself after carrying out the worst mass shooting in recent US history. Danley, a 62-year-old Australian […]

Placement Promises Minimalist Chess-Based Puzzles

Careful placement has always been one of the most aspects of mastering chess, and in the upcoming puzzle game Placement, it’s quite literally the core of the game, taking the rules of chess and crafting tight logic-based challenges where placement of your pieces is the key to success. Each stage is a miniature chess grid, […]

Why Africa’s development model puzzles economists

IT IS easy to buy a rolex in Uganda—albeit not one that will tell the time. Sold at ubiquitous roadside stalls, the Ugandan rolex is a greasy snack, made from an omelette wrapped in a chapati (“roll eggs”). Sellers compete side-by-side for the same custom. So do the motorcycle-taxi drivers, hustling for rides; or the […]

Sorgina: A Tale Of Witches Brings Puzzles, Adventure, And Basque Folklore

Sorgina: A Tale of Witches is a game of a young witch using her magical powers against an evil force in her kingdom, doing so by solving puzzles on this charming, cute adventure game. Not only will you exercise your minds while helping out her people, you’ll also learn a little bit about Basque Country, […]