The most popular abandonware puzzle games

Puzzle games are about solving logical or strategic puzzles, jigsaws, mathematical brain teasers, and quizzes. The player can control one or more characters (as in Lemmings) or interact with static or moving objects (as in Tetris).

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Sentinel Returns

Windows XP/98/951998

Robbo

DOS1993freeware action puzzle, sokoban

Jeopardy! Junior Edition

DOS1989 word puzzle

15x15 Picture Puzzle

DOS1996freeware tile-matching, reveal the picture

This game is either a delightful brain teaser or a slow descent into madness, depending on how patient you are. 15x15 Picture Puzzle gives you a scrambled mess of tiny square tiles and challenges you to rearrange them into a beaut...

Magnetic Crane

DOS1989 tile-matching

Pick 'n Pile

DOS1990 tile-matching

Xmas Lemmings

DOS1992freeware action puzzle

Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science

DOS1992 trivia / quiz

Wheel of Fortune New Second Edition

DOS1988 word puzzle

Mario's Time Machine

DOS1993 action puzzle

Sarakon

DOS1991 tile-matching

Beyond Columns

DOS1989remake falling blocks

Beyond Columns is what happens when someone looks at Tetris and says, “What if we made it... slightly fancier?” This match-three puzzle game involves dropping shiny columns of gems and aligning them for points, all whi...

Future Classics Collection

DOS1990 maze, action puzzle, falling blocks

Diggers 2: Extractors

DOS1995 action puzzle

Mystery at the Museums

DOS1993 tile-matching, reveal the picture

Nyet

DOS1988freeware falling blocks

Zyconix

DOS1992protected falling blocks

Imagine Tetris went on a sugar binge and had an identity crisis. That’s Zyconix (1992, DOS) in a nutshell. It’s a tile-matching puzzle game where nothing quite behaves how you expect it to, and that’s half the fu...