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The best rule-discovery games

  • Lessons on Strange Symbols
    Web
    Use strange archaic symbols to learn a new numbers system and do some basic math.
  • Showy Homes
    Web
    Enter words to play a Wordle-style game, with something more going on...
  • 🟥🟧🟨🟩🟦🟪⬛
    Web
    A wordless puzzle hunt based on colored cells in a spreadsheet.
  • IFO
    Windows
    MacOS
    Discover the cryptic rules of a simulated alien device.
  • Tunnels
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Discover the rules of each glyph in this instructionless puzzle challenge with serpentine tunnels.
  • Draw a Loop!
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Try uncovering the rules that will constrain these paper puzzles to a unique solution.
  • Counterfill
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Follow the rules to solve some paper puzzles — except the rules are covered with paint.
  • Gridspech
    Web
    Figure out how to validate each symbol in increasingly complex logic puzzles.
  • A Rule Explorer's Adventure
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Discover the rules of an instructionless set in which puzzles have exactly two solutions.
  • Gestalt_OS
    Web
    Decipher cryptic symbols and their unique powers to form intricate patterns.
  • Cipher Zero
    Windows
    MacOS
    Experiment with grid-shading logic puzzles and discover the rules of the cryptic glyphs.
  • Workworkwork
    Pen & Paper
    Construct the universe with path-finding and shape-packing logic puzzles.
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