Puzzle games & apps
Creations tagged puzzle on 8x — every one is playable in the browser and open to remix.
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Halftime
Write a marching band field show, then run it live. On an aerial drill chart you place each form and pick the counts for every transition; the game solves individual paths for two hundred marchers. The craft is making a beautiful morph marchable — nobody over the step rate, nobody colliding, intervals even. Then take the field and call the step-offs against a real brass-and-battery arrangement. Caption judges score music, visual and general effect. Eight nights escalate: curved forms, rotating blocks, a company front, a picture closer, a half band, a rain-slick field.
Elin180
SHIBORI
The Japanese art of indigo resist-dyeing, made playable. Fold the cloth, clamp the resist over each region, then plunge the whole cloth through the ai vat — deeper with every dip. Clamp on time and a region keeps its shade; miss the moment and the indigo drinks it darker. The fold IS the symmetry, so one clamp blooms a kaleidoscopic pattern across the opened cloth. A real fold-symmetry engine drives it — clamp-then-dip is both demo and regression test. Twelve cloths across three traditions — itajime, kumo, arashi — with a rin-bell score, a cloth gallery, and a free dye studio.
Alex180
CINNABAR
A fine-art Chinese papercut (jianzhi) puzzle. Fold a round sheet of vermilion paper, glide the scissors through the pale grounds and every symmetry fold snips at once, so the red silhouette blooms into a radial window-flower over warm lantern light; pierce the locked hearts with the awl for a flawless cut. Twelve window-flowers across three chapters — Spring Festival hearth-gold, Garden jade, and Celestial moon-silver — with a guzheng score, a papercut gallery of your finished work, and a deterministic engine whose title screen cuts itself. Portrait-first, pure JavaScript, no build.
Alex180
Spindle Loom Puzzle
A cozy **connect-the-threads logic puzzle** (Flow-style) with a weaving theme.
منظور ثنائي — Dual Perspective
لعبة ألغاز مبتكرة حيث تتحكم بشخصيتين في وقت واحد: شخصية النهار (☀️) وشخصية الليل (🌙). الأفعال في عالم النهار تغيّر تضاريس عالم الليل — المفاتيح تخلق جسوراً، والصناديق المدفوعة تصبح عوائق. اختر شخصية، حرّكها باللمس أو السحب، بدّل بين العالمين لحل 5 ألغاز متصاعدة. تصميم جوّال بالكامل مع مؤثرات بصرية وجسيمات.
STAIRWELL 13
The same service landing, thirteen times. If nothing is wrong, go on. If something is wrong, turn back. Twenty-six things can be wrong — a door on the other wall, one step too many, a notice reworded, somebody in the corner — and after the eighth landing the normal you are matching quietly changes. Get it wrong and the count is zero again, on the same landing.
Elin220
Wildgate: Skyforge
Lead ten animal heroes through 60 escalating arithmetic trials, favorite-cargo bridges, and touch-first skyforge runs.
robo220
Torque Toyworks
Rotate, unscrew, and sort your way through 120 tactile 3D toy builds with smart trays, workshop tools, daily challenges, and a clean arcade attract mode.
robo210
Bounce Basket Puzzle Remix
A bespoke bounce-shot basketball puzzle with solver-verified bank-shot levels.
MARBLEWORKS
A wooden construction set on a birch pegboard. Drag chutes, rails, bumpers, tuned chimes, paddle wheels and seesaws out of the drawer, screw them down, then pull the lever and watch a glass marble find its way to the bell. Fifteen builds and an unlimited workshop; every build in the book has a printed machine that provably works, so nothing here is a puzzle without an answer. Real gravity, real bounce, real rolling contact — the plank you see is the plank the marble hits.
Elin190
Topiary Trim
Swipe-slice overgrown hedges into elegant Art Nouveau topiary silhouettes across four gardens, then grow a persistent trophy gallery.
Elin190
Ribbon Loose
Gently pull tangled silk ribbons apart without yanking, freeing each color in turn.
Elin190
Luminary — Star Battle
A beautiful Star Battle logic puzzle set against a night sky. Place one star in every row, column, and coloured region — and no two stars may touch, not even diagonally. Every sky is uniquely solvable by pure deduction. Vector art, synth audio, standalone.
Tideglass Observatory
Set moon, pressure, wind and time on a brass orrery to forecast safe harbor tides.
Elin180
Moth Cabinet
Sort rare moths into museum drawers using shifting taxonomy rules and careful observation.
Elin180
Lotus Canal Rotate Puzzle
Mobile-first pipe rotation puzzle. Tap canal tiles to rotate waterways and connect a spring to the lotus pond.
Scarab Sands
Swap ancient relics to unseal the desert temples — 60 levels of mysterious match-3 puzzles across five sun-baked worlds.
km170
Reef Pop
Swap glossy sea gems to clear the coral reef — 60 levels of splashy match-3 puzzles across five sunlit worlds.
km170
Word Nova
A cosmic word-search puzzle where you swipe across a star-filled letter grid to find hidden themed words. Pick from six categories and Easy/Medium/Hard levels, earn points per word, and race the timer. Fully touch-first and playable in both portrait and landscape.
LUMINARA · Frequency Mill
Mill mirrored Fourier coefficients and watch exact inverse images reform across eight signal proofs.
Elin170
Riftfall Release Quarry
Drag paired double-pendulum breaker rigs through nine finite, solver-driven quarry studies.
Elin170
Zipshift Arcade
Read the overlaps, pull the top zipper, and untangle 72 handcrafted tactile puzzles.
robo170
Wagon-Lit
A courier is dead in Compartment Four of a 1960s sleeper express, the doctor has already called it a fall, and you have until the frontier at dawn. The whole world is one carriage: a corridor of numbered doors opening into compartments where passengers lie, evade and revise. Everything you learn becomes a card, and the game is really played on the corkboard — drag one statement onto another until a contradiction lights up and cracks open a question you could not previously ask. Name them with the file behind it, or they walk at the border.
Elin170
RINGFALL — Neon Core
Turn a cylindrical core, drop tetrominoes, and shatter complete 360-degree rings across 120 escalating challenges.
robo291