Free Games for Puzzle Fans
A puzzle worth playing gives you one rule and a problem you can't solve on reflex. These are the games on Zabzoo where getting better means thinking it through, not reacting faster.
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Hextris
Spin the hexagon to catch falling blocks in this fast-paced, minimalist puzzle game. Match three or more same-colored blocks along an edge to clear them and rack up combos — but let any stack pile past the rim and it's game over. Quick to learn, hard to put down, playable with keyboard or touch.
Score to beat: 54 points by Spinner
Opens in your browser — no download, no account needed.
What you get
The rule is the game
No tutorial to sit through. You learn what the game wants by playing one round of it badly, which is the point.
A number to beat
Where a puzzle here keeps score, that score is live on the Zabzoo leaderboards — so a good run is worth something after you close the tab.
Wider than one genre
The Puzzle category is the genre shelf. This page also picks up the block-stackers, word games and logic runs filed elsewhere.
Other ways in
Free Games for Casual Players
Chosen by what they don't ask of you: no upgrade trees, no build orders, no meta to read up on before you're any good.
Free Games for Competitive Players
Games that already have scores posted against them, plus those built to be played for a score — high-score chases, time attacks, head-to-head.