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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The $100,000 pyramid
DOS1988 trivia / quiz
Ever wanted to be on a game show without leaving your CRT-lit basement? The $100,000 Pyramid brings you that chance. You guess words. Your partner gives clues. Sometimes you wonder if your partner is helping or having a keyboard-r...
The all new Family Feud
DOS1989 word puzzle
The Astronomy Quiz
DOS1988 trivia / quiz
The Fool's Errand
DOS1989freeware word puzzle
The Fool's Errand is a puzzle-adventure computer game created by Cliff Johnson and released in 1987 for Macintosh and later for MS-DOS. The game follows the journey of a nameless fool through a magical land inspired by Tarot ...
The Game of Harmony
DOS1990 action puzzle, physics puzzle
The Humans
DOS1993protected action puzzle, platform
The Incredible Machine
DOS1993 physics puzzle
The Incredible Machine (part of The Incredible Machine series) is a single-player peculiar DOS physics-puzzle game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993. The goal of the game is to buil...
The Incredible Machine 2
DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/951994 physics puzzle
The Incredible Toon Machine
Windows 3.x1994 physics puzzle
The Incredible Toon Machine is a puzzle video game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line in 1994. It serves as the successor to the game Sid & Al's Incredible Toons and is part of the The Incred...
The Light Corridor
DOS1990 action puzzle
The Price is Right
DOS1990 trivia / quiz
The Sentinel
DOS1989
Tiny Skweeks
DOS1992 action puzzle
Troika
DOS1991
Weird Dreams
DOS1988 action puzzle
Weird Dreams is an abandoned action - puzzle game developed and released by Rainbird Software in 1988 for DOS, but also published for Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64. Weird Dreams is a surreal action game in which you have to take p...
Welltris
DOS1989 falling blocks
Welltris is a puzzle video game designed by Alexey Pajitnov, the creator of Tetris. Released in 1989, Welltris offers a fresh take on the block-dropping mechanics of Tetris, expanding the gameplay into a 3D environment. Simil...
Wheel of Fortune
DOS1987 word puzzle
Wheel of Fortune New Second Edition
DOS1988 word puzzle
Win, Lose or Draw
DOS1988 trivia / quiz
Wordtris
DOSMac OS1991 word puzzle
X-Tetris
Windows XP/98/951996NSFW falling blocks
Xixit
DOS1995 falling blocks
Xmas Lemmings
DOS1992freeware action puzzle
Zoom!
DOS1988 action puzzle
Zoom! is a puzzle game that desperately wants to be cool. You're a sunglasses-wearing smiley face cruising down psychedelic gridlines while dodging blobs and filling in tiles like Tron on a budget. It’s fast, weird, and occa...
Zoop
DOS1995 action puzzle
Imagine if Tetris, Columns, and a pack of highlighters had a baby. That’s Zoop. You’re in the center of the screen, and colorful shapes are marching toward you from all sides like angry abstract art. Your job? Blast th...
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...