, also known as Bust-a-Move, is a 1994 tile-matching arcade puzzle video game for one or two players created by Taito Corporation.

In popular culture, this puzzle was the Puzzle No. 142 in Professor Layton and Pandora's Box as one of the hardest solving puzzles in the game, which needed to be unlocked by solving other puzzles first.

* Archer Maclean's Mercury, a puzzle game for the PlayStation Portable

Ubisoft has since released three new projects using the Might and Magic brand — a fifth installment of the Heroes series, developed by Nival Interactive, an action-style game called Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, developed by Arkane Studios and a puzzle RPG called Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes, developed by Capybara Games.

Released in late 1983, the game was marketed via the announcement of a cash prize for the first person to solve the puzzle.

* Prism: Light the Way, a two-dimensional puzzle video game

As of January 2009, 350 million cubes had been sold worldwide making it the world's top-selling puzzle game.

* Peg solitaire ( more of a puzzle than a game, since, once it is solved, it is repeatable )

is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally released under the name Chain Shot!

Although many action games and adventure games involve puzzles such as obtaining inaccessible objects, a true puzzle game focuses on puzzle solving as the primary gameplay activity.

Minesweeper ( video game ) | Minesweeper, a popular computer puzzle game found on many machines.

Others present a preset game board or pieces and challenge the player to solve the puzzle by achieving a goal ( Bomberman, The Incredible Machine ).

Another type of puzzle game requires the player to build systems out of supplied parts.

An action puzzle or arcade puzzle requires that the player manipulates game pieces in a real-time environment, often on a single screen and with a time limit, to solve the puzzle or clear the level.

This is a broad term that has been used to describe several subsets of puzzle game.

This can cross-over with other action genres: a platform game which requires a novel mechanic to complete levels might be a " puzzle platformer ", such as manipulating time in Braid.

A hidden object game ( sometimes called hidden picture ) is a genre of puzzle video game in which the player must find items from a list that are hidden within a picture.

A reveal the picture game is a type of puzzle game that features piece-by-piece revealing of a photo or picture.

A physics game is a type of puzzle video game wherein the player must use the game's physics to complete each puzzle.

Originally called the " Magic Cube ", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 via German businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer, and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year.

Rubik's Magic, like Rubik's Cube, is a mechanical puzzle invented by the Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik and first manufactured by Matchbox in the mid-1980s.

In 1987, Rubik's Magic: Master Edition was published by Matchbox ; it consisted of 12 silver tiles arranged in a 2 × 6 rectangle, showing 5 interlinked rings that had to be unlinked by transforming the puzzle into a shape reminiscent of a W. Around the same time, Matchbox also produced Rubik's Magic Create the Cube, a " Level Two " version of Rubik's Magic, in which the puzzle is solved when folded into a cube with a base of two tiles, and the tile colors match at the corners of the cube.

Dynamites features included " Magic Wanda ," a how-to guide to selected magic tricks ; " Bummers ," a focus of kids ' one-line woes, which would begin with the words: " Don't you hate it when ..."; " And Now a Word from Our Sponsor " a commercial parody in comic form ; the puzzle pages of the ghoulish Count Morbida ; " Hot Stuff ," a section featuring gags and new items in stores ; the birth and growth of a horse called Foxy Fiddler ; reprinted origin stories on Marvel and DC superheroes ( and later the comic superheroes the " Dynamite Duo "); and " Good Vibrations ," an advice column.

Magic Jewelry is a tile-matching puzzle video game for the Famicom.

* TC-018 Magic CubeA puzzle game.

Strategy and puzzle games include Scrabble, Magic 4 and Mine Mania.

Magic Christian has developed books of magic and magic sets for Piatnik, Austria ’ s renowned playing card, board game and puzzle manufacturer.

Only afterwards did an act like that become meaningless, so that he would puzzle over it for days, whereas at the time it had seemed quite real.

Although modern scholars have expressed surprise that `` the simple magic square of three '', a mere `` mathematical puzzle '', was able to exert a considerable influence on the minds and imaginations of the cultured Chinese for so many centuries, they could have found most of the answers right within the square itself.

* another name for Nintendo tumbler puzzle

Many of the most popular books of the Golden Age were written by Agatha Christie, who produced a long series of books featuring her detectives Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, amongst others, and usually including a complex puzzle for the reader to try to unravel.

Independently, these two trends show the form becoming highly artificial — more like a puzzle to solve than a medium for personal poetic expression.

This letter is a puzzle to readers for several reasons.

The eight queens puzzle is an example of the more general n-queens problem of placing n queens on an n × n chessboard, where solutions exist for all natural numbers n with the exception of 2 and 3.

Generating the permutations that are solutions of the eight rooks puzzle and then checking for diagonal attacks further reduces the possibilities to just 40, 320 ( that is, 8 !).

Advancements for this and other toy problems are the development and application of heuristics ( rules of thumb ) that yield solutions to the n queens puzzle at a small fraction of the computational requirements.

N is 8 for eight queens puzzle.

Moore is also remembered for drawing attention to the peculiar inconsistency involved in uttering a sentence such as " It is raining but I do not believe it is raining "-- a puzzle which is now commonly called " Moore's paradox.

" The puzzle arises because it seems impossible for anyone to consistently assert such a sentence ; but there doesn't seem to be any logical contradiction between " It will rain " and " I don't believe that it will rain.

The Gry Puzzle is a popular puzzle that asks for the third English word, other than " angry " and " hungry ," that ends with the letters "- gry.

By typing " HINT " twice the player would open up a screen of possible topics where they could then reveal one hint at a time for each puzzle, just like the books.

Programmers may deliberately obfuscate code to conceal its purpose ( security through obscurity ) or its logic, in order to prevent tampering, deter reverse engineering, or as a puzzle or recreational challenge for someone reading the source code.

In the New York Times crossword puzzle for June 27, 2012, the clue for an 11-letter word at 37 across was " Complete set of 12 shapes formed by this puzzle's black squares.

* Quagmire, a 1993 shareware puzzle platformer for Mac designed by Tony Small

Loyd claimed from 1891 until his death in 1911 that he invented the fifteen puzzle, for example writing in the Cyclopedia of Puzzles ( published 1914 ), p. 235:

Loyd first claimed in 1891 that he invented the puzzle, and he continued until his death a 20 year campaign to falsely take credit for the puzzle.