Tag: PUZZLER

If you're like me, it takes a little while to shake loose the weekend cobwebs from your brain and get it back into fighting shape on Mondays. What better way to wake it up and shake off the crud than with a puzzling little Time Waster? Grayscale is incredibly simple to figure out. See the white orb with the halo? That's you. Drag yourself around the pathways using your mouse (or move with the ...

Go Home Ball calls itself a physics game, but is really more of a time-based puzzler. Your job in the game is to get the red ball from the top of the screen, where it rolls out of an opening in a tree, to the bottom of the screen where an opening in the top of a tree trunk awaits, ensuring to collect all the gold stars along the way. Your tools to move the ball along vary across the levels, but ...

Adobe's Dave McAllister called me evil for killing his productivity when I suggested Assembler 3 as a Time Waster a while back. To exact his revenge, Dave offered Chroma Circuit to me. It looks simple enough. Click on the ships to rotate them and align the colors in the correct order. Do that, and you'll complete the circuit and pass the level. How hard can it be? Triangles only have three sides. ...

In Closure, if you can see it, you can walk on it. The trick is to illuminate your path all the way to a door through which you exit each level. The sketchy, hand-drawn imagery is incredibly cool. It's not as easy as picking up a light and walking around with it. You'll have to figure out where and when to place lights to navigate safely through each trial. Certain objects mirror your light ...