Abandonware puzzle games sorted by release date
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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Hollywood Squares
DOS19894.1/5 trivia / quiz
Magnetic Crane
DOS19892.9/5 tile-matching
Never mind
DOS19892.8/5 action puzzle
Pipe Dream
DOSWindows 3.x19894.3/5 tile-matching
Pipe Mania (also known as Pipe Dream is a tile-matching (sort of) puzzle game about flowing liquids developed by The Assembly Line in 1989. You must build a path made of pipe pieces to let a green liquid (sewer goo?) flow. It's simple, original and addicting, that's why Pipe Mania was cloned a number of times.
Remote Control
DOS19893/5 trivia / quiz
Rock 'n Roll
DOS19893.3/5 action puzzle, maze
The all new Family Feud
DOS19893.3/5 word puzzle
The Fool's Errand
DOS1989freeware4.1/5 word puzzle
The Sentinel
DOS19894.1/5
Welltris
DOS19893.9/5 falling blocks
At the Carnival
DOS1990freeware3/5 word puzzle
Atomix
DOS19904.1/5 tile-matching
Boggle
DOS19903.5/5 word puzzle
Cascade
DOS19904.1/5 word puzzle
Chagunitzu
DOS19904.1/5 action puzzle, sokoban
Cloud Kingdoms
DOS19903.6/5 action puzzle
Faces Tris 3
DOS19903/5 falling blocks
Frac
DOS19903.5/5 falling blocks
Future Classics Collection
DOS19902.8/5 maze, action puzzle, falling blocks
Ishido: The Way of the Stones
DOSMac OS19903.8/5 tile-matching, board game
Klax
DOS19903.8/5 falling blocks
Kurtan
DOS19903.4/5 sokoban
Logo
DOS1990NSFW3.8/5 tile-matching
Loopz
DOS19903.8/5 tile-matching
Night Shift
DOS19904.2/5 action puzzle, platform
Number Munchers
DOS19903.6/5 math puzzle
Penthouse electric jigsaw
DOS1990NSFW3.7/5 tile-matching, reveal the picture
Pick 'n Pile
DOS19903.5/5 tile-matching
Puzznic
DOS19904.2/5 tile-matching
Shanghai II: Dragon's Eye
Windows 3.xMac OS19903/5 tile-matching, board game