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...
Swap
DOS1992 tile-matching
Safe Opening Simulator
DOS1993 math puzzle
Nanotank
Windows 3.x1993 action puzzle
Snood
DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996freeware tile-matching
Tetris (Academysoft)
DOS1996 falling blocks
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye
Windows 3.xMac OS1990 tile-matching, board game
Helter Skelter
DOS1989 action puzzle, physics puzzle
The Price is Right
DOS1990 trivia / quiz
Classic Concentration
DOS1988 board game
Kwik Snax Dizzy
DOS1993 sokoban
Gapper
DOS1986 action puzzle
Wordtris
DOSMac OS1991 word puzzle
Sink or Swim
DOS1993 action puzzle