Cocoon is a stellar puzzle game that encourages the player in subtle but effective ways. Its game designer spoke to Polygon about creating the game’s puzzles.

In Garden Grove, Calif., they loaded up a cargo van with 58 boxes from Marti Reis, who donated her collection of folksy punning puzzles by the designer RGee Watkins, such as Diamond Ring, a dime ...

You want when somebody solves a puzzle or will accept a hint for a puzzle that they go, ‘Oh, I should’ve thought of that.’ You don’t want them to go, ‘I never would have thought of that.’ ...

Slick puzzle design finds itself at odds with the creativity of organising that A Little to the Left wants to evoke. The act of organising is a powerful one. It allows us to make sense of chaos ...

Daily Puzzle is a three-a-day puzzle game from the mind of expert puzzle designer Scott Kim. Every day, Glu will download three new puzzles into your handset -- one of each type: Logic, Spatial ...

GamesBeat: [Putting down the controller] It feels a bit like Out of this World, aka Another World. I’m not sure if that was any kind of influence, where you have side-scrolling puzzles and a ...

If it’s too large, it’s bad,” puzzle designer George Miller says. “You want something that fits in your hand.” At 3 inches by 3 inches, Rubik’s Cube sits right in that sweet spot.

Although, as he put it, the ultimate object in puzzle design is amusement. In between lectures, the audience was invited up to play with the various puzzles on display at the front of the room.