🧩Puzzle Games

Puzzle games ask you to work something out rather than react to it. Nothing here is timed against you and nothing is lost by stopping to think — the difficulty comes from the board itself, not from how fast you can click.

The ones in this category split into three kinds. Pure deduction — sudoku and minesweeper — where every move follows from information already visible, and a guess means you missed something. Spatial packing — block puzzle and water sort — where the challenge is fitting things into a space that keeps shrinking. And number merging, where 2048 turns simple addition into a board-management problem.

Every puzzle we generate is checked to be solvable before you see it. That matters more than it sounds: a sudoku with two valid answers can be finished by guessing, which defeats the point of the genre.