Puzzle games

About puzzle games

Puzzle games here are made to be played calmly, a few minutes at a time, on a phone or a computer. You will find logic puzzles, word games, card games and match-3, and most of them have levels that slowly add one new idea at a time, so you are never thrown in the deep end.

If you like logic, Quilt Cats asks you to place sleepy cats so none share a row or column or touch, and Loopsmith is about freeing tangled hoops in the right order. Word fans can try Letter Loom, which has a Daily word, 300 anagram levels and a timed word hunt. Solitaire Grove has four kinds of solitaire, including Klondike and FreeCell, and Block Bloom is a calm block-fitting game where full lines burst into petals. For something you can turn in your hands, Scatterbox is a 3D box of arrow blocks to tap out one by one.

Good places to start

• Quilt Cats

  A calm logic puzzle with no timer on the main quilts. The boards grow slowly from 5×5 to 10×10.

• Letter Loom

  Four word games in one: the Daily, endless rounds, 300 Twist levels and a quick Word Hunt.

• Solitaire Grove

  Klondike, Spider, FreeCell and TriPeaks, with daily goals and stats for wins, times and streaks.

• Loopsmith

  Spin hoops until each gap lines up, then watch the knot fall apart. The thinking is in the order.