Types of Puzzles

What is a Puzzle?

Often definition is:" A puzzle is a qoute or enigma that challenges ingenuity." In a basic type of puzzle you piece together objects in a logical way in order to come up with some shape, photo or solution.

Puzzles

Puzzle games never seem to age, specially today with computer, Www and online games. Most puzzle games are basic in graphics but are very addictive, sometimes leaving you playing for hours.

There are many types of puzzles. Some of them are very popular, and some are not. Puzzles that have been created until now can be divided into some main categories.

Jigsaw puzzles are a well known and favorite type of puzzle. A jigsaw puzzle is a puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small pieces, and each piece has a small part of a photo on it. When all pieces are complete, a jigsaw puzzle produces a perfect picture. There are two dimensional, three dimensional (Puzz-3D is the brand name of three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles), and recently online Jigsaw puzzles have appeared.

Word puzzles like Crosswords and Anagrams are the most favorite type. A crossword is a word puzzle that takes the form of a quadrilateral or rectangular grid of black and white squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words by solving some type of quiz, or clues which lead to the answers. The black squares are used to cut off the words or phrases. An Anagram is a type of word play puzzle, and by rearranging the letters of a word or phrase, you yield a new word or phrase by using all the customary letters only once.

Logic puzzles include many distinct types of puzzles. Logic puzzles are math-based, like the well known and favorite puzzle, Sudoku. Also Sudoku, other logic-based estimate placement puzzles include Nonograms (or Pixel Puzzles), Kakuro, Impossible Puzzle, and The Tower of Hanoi.

Combination puzzles are a range of mechanical puzzles that consist of a estimate of pieces which can be manipulated into distinct combinations by a group of operations. The most famed of these puzzles are the customary Rubik's Cube, and the Tangram puzzle, where the objective is to form a definite shape with all seven pieces.

Tiling puzzles are puzzles which involve two-dimensional packing problems where a estimate of flat shapes have to be assembled into a larger shape without overlaps. In some tiling puzzles you must first dissect a given shape, and then rearrange the pieces into an additional one shape, or dissect a given shape while fulfilling safe bet conditions. Types of tiling puzzles include Conway puzzle, Domino tiling, and Puzz-3D.

Construction puzzles are solved by assembling any puzzle from a given set of pieces in a safe bet way. This main class includes any of the stick puzzles, many tiling puzzles, and also some mechanical puzzles. In online games puzzles representative of this type are Bridge Builder, The incredible Machine, and Pipe Dream.

Transport puzzles are puzzles in which the player pushes boxes nearby and tries to accomplish the aim of the game. The most favorite representative for this type of puzzle is the Sokoban puzzle. Other examples of this type of puzzle are cube puzzles and sliding puzzles.

Picture puzzles are favorite with children, and include Connect-the-Dots and Spot the unlikeness where two versions of an image are shown side by side, and you must spot the difference.

Sliding puzzles are solved by sliding blocks without lifting any of the pieces of off the board. Most habitancy are well-known with N-puzzle (or. Fifteen puzzle), where you slide flat pieces along a board to form a safe bet end-configuration.

Tour puzzles are puzzles where players make a trip nearby some type of game board. The most favorite tour puzzles are Knight's Tour, Mazes (or labyrinths), Mizmazes and Logic mazes.

Mechanical puzzles include the Rubik's Cube, disassembly puzzles, interlocking puzzles, and impossible objects (like Ship in a Bottle).

Types of Puzzles