Abandonware DOS title

The best 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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Mario Teaches Typing

DOSMac OS1992 word puzzle
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Oxyd

DOS1992 action puzzle
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Penthouse Hot Numbers

DOS1993NSFW tile-matching
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Robbo

DOS1993freeware action puzzle, sokoban
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Sexy Droids

DOS1992NSFW tile-matching, reveal the picture
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Super Solvers: Treasure Mountain!

DOS1990 word puzzle
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The Game of Harmony

DOS1990 action puzzle, physics puzzle
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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...
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Wheel of Fortune

DOS1987 word puzzle
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Xixit

DOS1995 falling blocks
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Xmas Lemmings

DOS1992freeware action puzzle
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3D Ultra Lionel Traintown

Windows XP/98/952000 action puzzle
If your childhood involved model trains and elaborate setups that your cat kept destroying, 3D Ultra Lionel Traintown is digital therapy. Released in 2000 for Windows XP, it mixes puzzles, deliveries, and train management in a wor...
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Late Night Sexy TV Show

DOS1994NSFW trivia / quiz
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Rodent's Revenge

Windows 3.x1991 action puzzle
Rodent's Revenge is a puzzle video game originally released in 1991 as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows. Developed by Christopher Lee Fraley, the game is simple, with gameplay revolving around a small mouse cha...
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Boston Bomb Club

DOS1991 tile-matching
Boston Bomb Club (1991, DOS) is a Rube Goldberg fever dream disguised as a puzzle game. Your mission: guide bombs (yes, bombs) along increasingly elaborate tracks using contraptions like rotating tiles, steam pipes, and sheer chao...
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Oh no! More Lemmings

DOS1991 action puzzle
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Super Solvers: Treasure Cove

DOS1992 math puzzle
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Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet

DOS1992 action puzzle
Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet is a video game based on the popular Beetlejuice franchise, which includes a 1988 film directed by Tim Burton and an animated television series that aired in the late 1980s and early 1990s.&nbs...
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Atomino

DOS1991 tile-matching
In Atomino (1991), you’re not blowing things up — you’re building atoms. That’s right: this puzzle game puts you in charge of creating molecular structures under pressure, which is exactly as stressful and ...
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M Labyrinth

DOS1993 tile-matching
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Centerfold Squares

DOS1988NSFW tile-matching
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Pushover

DOS1992 action puzzle
Pushover is a puzzle platformer video game developed by Red Rat Software and released by Ocean Software in 1992. It was initially available for the Commodore Amiga and later ported to various other platforms, including MS-DOS and ...
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Quarky & Quaysoo's Turbo Science

DOS1992 trivia / quiz
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Snood

DOSWindows XP/98/95Mac OS1996freeware tile-matching
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Airball

DOS1987 action puzzle, platform
In Airball (1987), you don’t play a knight, a space marine, or a plumber - you play a literal ball of air. Trapped in an isometric nightmare of spikes, fans, and poison gas, your squishy self must navigate hazards that clear...
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Gruntz

Windows XP/98/951999
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Logo

DOS1990NSFW tile-matching
loopz-3

Loopz

DOS1990 tile-matching