Puzzle Game Index

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This page is an attempt to create a list of online games that can be used to test your rationality, your problem-solving skills, etc. Unfortunately very few of these games directly test bayesianBayesian reasoning, and the puzzles tend to be unrealistic, which means that they test how good you are at puzzle games, rather than how good you are at real-world rationality. Still, creating this list seemed like it would be worth a try.

Project Euler

Difficulty: Advanced

Description: "Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical insights to solve."

Skills required: Programming in any language.

Factory Balls 3

light-Blocks With Letters On

More Blocks With Letters On

Difficulty: Advanced

Description: Anagrams + block-sliding puzzle = fun :)

Skills required: Anagrams. Block-sliding-puzzle skills. General logic skills.

Light-Bot

Light-Bot 2.0

Description: A series of puzzles, each of which has a deliberately counterintuitive, and often malevolent, solution. Don't worry if you can't solve all of them, some of the solutions require specific computer hardware or softwaesoftware to win.

Skills required: Programming. Optimizing code for limited computing resources. Understanding wikipedia:spaghetti code.

3D Logic 2: Stronghold of Sage

Karoshi : Suicide Salaryman

Super Karoshi

Difficulty: Medium

Description: An innovative platform puzzler. The objective is to find a way to kill your character. Harder than it sounds.

Skills required: Intermediate platform-puzzle skills. Outside-the-box thinking.

Introduction

Anyway, here are the games:

Unless someone thinks this page should be removed from the wiki, I plan to continue adding more games to the list. There are hundreds of free puzzle games like these on the internet. --PeerInfinity 18:58, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

(Another motivation for creating this page was an attempt to extract at least some value from the countless hours that Peer Infinity has spent playing these games.)

Super Stacker

Super Stacker 2

Difficulty: Medium

Description: Place the shapes so that they don't fall off the screen.

Skills required: Physics-based puzzle-solving skills. Some levels require quick reflexes and precise timing.

Splitter

Splitter 2

Difficulty: Medium

Description: Guide the ball to the destination by cutting objects.

Skills required: Physics-based puzzle-solving skills. Some levels require quick reflexes and precise timing.

Fantastic Contraption

Difficulty: Advanced

Description: Construct complex machines to navigate from the start area to the destination area, or accomplish other tasks.

Skills required: Physics-based puzzle-solving skills. Constructing machines with many interacting parts.

Logic-based puzzles

light-Bot

Difficulty: Advanced

Description: Use a small set of instructions to program a robot to light a specific pattern of tiles.

Skills required: Programming. Optimizing code for limited computing resources. Understanding wikipedia:spaghetti code.

3D Logic

Difficulty: Advanced

Description: Create paths between nodes of the same colour, without the paths overlapping.

Skills required: Visual-spatial logic skills. General logic skills.

Portal: The Flash Version

Difficulty: Hard

Description: Create portals to solve puzzles and reach the exit. Based on the original game by Valve.

Skills required: Advanced platform-puzzle skills. Understanding how portals work and using them effectively.

Introduction

This page was inspired by Better thinking through experiential games, and some of the comments on this post.

This page is an attempt to create a list of online games that can be used to test your rationality, your problem-solving skills, etc. Unfortunately very few of these games directly test bayesian reasoning, and the puzzles tend to be unrealistic, which means that they test how good you are at puzzle games, rather than how good you are at real-world rationality. Still, creating this list seemed like it would be worth a try.

(Another motivation for creating this page was an attempt to extract at least some value from the countless hours that Peer Infinity has spent playing these games.)

Most of the game links are from Kongregate.com. If you sign up for a kongregate.com account, the site will keep track of your achievements in the games. You can then link to your badges page to show off which badges you've collected.

But be warned: THIS CAN BE EXTREMELY ADDICTIVE!

Anyway, here are the games:

Collections of random puzzles

Duck, think outside the flock

Difficulty: Medium

Description: A series of duck-themed puzzles, each of which has different rules.

Skills required: Basic puzzle-solving skills.

me and the key

Difficulty: Medium

Description: A series of key-themed puzzles, each of which has different rules.

Skills required: Basic puzzle-solving skills.

Casual Gameplay Escape

Difficulty: Hard!

Description: A series of puzzles, connected by other puzzles, each of which have different rules, and most of which have a counterintuitive solution. Hints about the solutions are cleverly hidden in the game.

Skills required: Advanced puzzle-solving skills, finding and interpreting cleverly hidden clues.

Hint: Gur cevagfperra ohggba vf lbhe sevraq. (rot13'd)

Take Something Literally

Difficulty: Hard

Description: A series of puzzles, each of which has a deliberately counterintuitive, and often malevolent, solution. Don't worry if you can't solve all of them, some of the solutions require specific computer hardware or softwae to win.

Skills required: Interpreting deliberately counterintuitive clues. Guessing what the game designer could possibly have meant. Some of the puzzles require specific computer hardware or software to solve.

The Impossible Quiz

The Impossible Quiz 2

Difficulty: Almost Impossible

Description: A series of quiz questions and other challenges that have deliberately counterintuitive solutions.

Skills required: Some questions require trivia knowledge. Some questions require logic skills. Some questions require "thinking outside the box". Some of the questions are solvable only by trial and error. Some of the challenges require extremely fast reflexes. Many of the puzzles are blatantly evil. Do not expect to win this. You have been warned.

Physics-based puzzles

Factory Balls

Factory Balls 2

Difficulty: Easy

Description: Given a plain white ball, a few tools, and a picture, change the ball to make it match the picture.

Skills required: Figuring out what the tools do, and how to use them in to achieve the goal.

Electric Box

Difficulty: Medium

Description: Given a few parts,...

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