Puzzles

Puzzles

Two puzzles so far, and a bench of ideas for what comes next.

Today

The ones that exist.

XI Nine

Boggle, but the dice are memories. Nine at once, against the clock.

Timed
Play

Set Pyramid

Two objects at the base decide the one on top. Work out what it has to be — then watch it get drawn.

Open ended
Play

On the bench

Ideas for the rest of the page — nothing here is built yet.

Possible Worlds

Twelve worlds, each one a paradox with its own rules — beauty and ugliness, nature and technology, real and imaginary. When something doesn't make sense you have to find the logical extension that makes it make sense. Using a diagram to explain a different concept is one game inside it.

Yours, from 2018

Pretend Land

You watch what somebody did and guess the intention behind it. Theory of mind as a daily puzzle — the answer is never in the action itself.

Yours

Groups

Sixteen of your drawings, four secret categories. Connections, but the tiles are pictures — so the category can be a mood, a line quality, a time of day.

Closest to what you have

Literal / Metaphor

Your movie formula as a puzzle. You get the literal panel, you pick which of four is its metaphor. Nobody else has this one.

Most yours

Chronology

Five things in the wrong order — put them back. You already have a chronology engine in this repo, so this is the cheapest one to build.

Cheapest to build

Odd One Out

Four drawings, one doesn't belong — and you have to say why, not just which. The saying-why is the game.

Quick

Zoom Out

Starts on a tiny crop of one picture. Every wrong guess pulls the camera back a little. Six guesses before you can see the whole thing.

Most addictive

Strand

A themed word search where the words wander. Your version could hide the words inside one of your scanned pages.

Familiar

The Tiny

A 5×5 crossword you can finish standing up. Clues in your voice is the whole point — the grid is the easy half.

Most work

Rebus

A drawn visual pun that spells a phrase. Pure illustration — it plays entirely to what you already make.

Pure drawing