Free puzzle games
Brain teasers for a coffee break or a long evening: Sudoku, 2048, Minesweeper, Nonogram, Sokoban, word games and logic puzzles. Some of them come with an AI helper whose hints are mostly wrong, which is a puzzle of its own.
- Memory GameFlip cards, find the pairs, and train your short-term memory. Simple, calming, and surprisingly competitive.
- MinesweeperClear the minefield using only the numbers. Pure logic with a little bit of nerve.
- 2048Slide and merge tiles to build the 2048 tile. Easy to start, devilish to finish.
- Simon SaysWatch the pattern of lights, then repeat it. Each round adds one more step.
- SokobanThe original box-pushing puzzle. Think before you shove: boxes only go forward.
- Minesweeper (Lying AI)Minesweeper where the numbers cannot be trusted. Use logic, then doubt your logic.
- Simon Says (Hallucinations)Simon Says with a hallucinating AI that sometimes flashes buttons that were never in the pattern.
- Hangman (Cheating AI)Hangman, except the AI is suspected of changing the secret word while you are not looking.
- Wordle (Bad Hints)A five-letter word puzzle where the AI offers hints. Its hints are right roughly 2% of the time.
- SudokuClassic 9×9 Sudoku with notes and mistake tracking. Fill every row, column and box with 1–9.
- Sudoku (Helpful AI)Sudoku with a "helpful" AI that fills in numbers for you. Most of them are wrong, and you pay for them.
- Crossword (AI Clues)A crossword whose clues were written by an AI. They sound plausible. They are not.
- Maze Runner (GPS AI)Find the exit with an AI GPS that is happy to lead you in circles.
- AI Math Tutor (Unreliable)A quick mental-maths game with a catch: after every answer an AI tutor grades you, and you have to decide whether to trust it or dispute the grade.
- Color FloodA Flood-It style puzzle: you own the top-left corner of a colourful grid and each move repaints it, swallowing every touching cell of the new colour. Make the whole board one colour within the move limit.
- Daily Fact Check (AI)A new daily puzzle: ten statements, the same for everyone, each with a confident verdict from an AI that is right only about two times in three. Call each one TRUE or HALLUCINATION and see if you can beat the machine.
- GPS Navigator (Overconfident)A small maze-driving game where the GPS tells you where to turn. You can see the whole map, so you can tell when it is leading you into a wall.
- Lights OutA 5×5 grid of lights where every press flips a light and its four neighbours. Clear the board before the clock runs out, then do it again on a harder level.
- Code Breaker (Lying Codemaster)A Mastermind-style code-breaking game: guess the hidden 4-peg code from 6 symbol colours in 10 tries, using black and white feedback pegs from a smug AI codemaster.
- Gem SwapA classic match-3 puzzle on an 8×8 board of six gem shapes. Swap neighbouring gems to line up three or more, trigger cascades for multipliers and race a 60-second clock.
- NonogramNonogram, also called picture cross or Picross, is a logic puzzle where the numbers beside each row and column tell you which cells to fill. Solve a short campaign of pictures from 5×5 up to 10×10.
- Number MemoryA chimp-test style memory game: numbered tiles appear at random spots, and once you tap the first one the rest are hidden. Remember where each number was and tap them in order.
- Peg SolitaireThe classic 33-hole peg solitaire board. Jump one peg over another into an empty hole to remove it, and try to finish with a single peg in the centre.
- Pipe ConnectA rotate-the-pipes puzzle on a grid that grows from 5×5 to 7×7. Straights, elbows, T-junctions and end caps are scrambled; connect them all to the water source.
- Robot Vacuum (Independent)A tidy little puzzle about a robot vacuum with opinions. Steer it over every crumb in the room before its battery dies, avoiding the stairs.
- Slide Puzzle (Helpful AI)The classic sliding-tile puzzle on a 3×3 or 4×4 board. Put the numbers in order, and fewer moves and less time mean a higher score.
- Tower of HanoiThe classic three-peg Tower of Hanoi puzzle with 3 to 8 colourful discs. Move the whole stack to the right peg without ever placing a big disc on a small one, then take on a taller tower.
- Word SearchA timed word search. Find every word hidden in the letter grid; each puzzle you clear gives a bigger grid with words running diagonally and backwards.