Games, Puzzles & IQ Tests

At long last, Broken Mouse is back. I first released a version of this mind game almost 4 years ago, but eventually removed it because it was buggy. This new verison is considerably different but still presents the same mind-boggling challenge. Frustrating yet strangely addictive, the goal is to work your way through the various [...]

This is a fun and frenetic typing game in which you need to type the falling words before they crash into the ground. Words will fall from the sky and you need to clear them with speedy typing or else they will hit the ground and raise it towards the sky, making the game even more challenging.

Quadrants is a tetris-style game in that you need to strategically place the falling blocks, and prevent the pieces from building up to the top of the playing board. However, in this game, the pieces are all shaped the same – as squares, so you are not trying to fit them in spatially. Instead, you are trying to match their colors, as each piece has 4 colors (one per side).

This is similar to the classic Memory game except that you need to keep track of what the cards look like rather than where they are located. Each time you flip two cards and reveal their contents, the board will shuffle so you need to associate the letter beneath to the patterns on the back of the cards.

In this typing game, the goal is to type the nonsense sentences as quickly as possible. You will have only a limited time to type each sentence correctly and if you are unable to do so, you will move further away from passing the round. Conversely, if you do successfully type the word within the allotted time, you will move closer to passing.

This is a great little logic puzzle – in my estimation one of the more interesting games I’ve made. The goal is to remove all the pieces from the board according to simple rules of association. The game starts off relatively easily but gets considerably more interesting and challenging as the rounds progress.

Pokler is a logic/strategy game involving poker hands. Arrange the 5×5 grid of cards so that the vertical and horizontal hands make up as many power-hands as possible.

This is a pretty straight-forward math game. You need to build equations with the numbers and operators given such that they equal the target numbers. The challenge is in using the numbers wisely so you are able to build all the equations in each round.

Keyboarding is really more of an anti-typing game in that you need to type words with a reassigned keyboard layout. Each round you are given a list of words and a randomly generated keyboard arrangement and you need to successfully type 5 words before your time expires.

This game is similar to the game Minesweeper, only a little more involved. The game board consists of a grid of concealed pieces. One by one you need to flip them and use the information they provide – distance to bomb and density of bombs – to deduce the location of all the hidden bombs.

Broken Words in an fun online word puzzle in which you need to assemble English words from broken-up segments. Each round you will be given a number of letter chunks (such as ‘ch’, ‘ap’, ‘st’) and you need to properly group them to rebuild the original words.

This is a math version of the Chinese tile game mahjonng. The goal is to eliminate all the tiles in groups of three that are mathematically-related (via sum, GCD, product etc). Play the tiles carefully and you may be able to clear them all.

The object of this word jumble game is to unscramble the jumbled words before they hit the bottom of the screen. Words will begin at the top and slowly fall towards the bottom so you have a limited amount of time to decipher each word.

In Number Crunch, you need to eliminate all the pieces from the game board by clicking on the numbers in numerical order. As you do so, the pieces will crunch down towards the bottom until you have removed them all. The faster you can complete the task – and the fewer errors you make while doing so – the better your score.

Keyball is a fun typing game in which you need to try and capture balls with timely keystrokes. The gameboard consists of a a bunch of red and blue balls careening about within a keyboard layout. You need to pay close attention and press the appropriate key when a region contains only blue balls and no red balls.