Puzzles

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 131. Chapters: Puzzle video game, Labyrinth, Anagram, Whodunit, Maze, Transport puzzle, Rubik's Cube, Water, gas, and electricity, Matchstick puzzle, Brain teaser, Gordian Knot, Locked room mystery, List of XYZZY Awards by category, Combination puzzle, Speedcubing, N-dimensional sequential move puzzle, Publius Enigma, Mechanical puzzle, Ostomachion, Seven Bridges of Königsberg, Rattleback, Ant on a rubber rope, Board puzzles with algebra of binary variables, Rubik's Revenge, Fifteen puzzle, Professor's Cube, Klotski, Smithy code, V-Cube 6, Thinking outside the box, V-Cube 7, Pyramorphix, Megaminx, Sleeping Beauty problem, Rubik's Magic, National Puzzlers' League, Secrets of the Alchemist Dar/Unsolved Puzzles, Dogic, Lemarchand's box, Helicopter Cube, Missing dollar riddle, Kavka's toxin puzzle, Pyraminx, Hat puzzle, Isis Adventure, Puzzle contest, Missing square puzzle, Situation puzzle, Rubik's Snake, Ditloid, Pocket Cube, Snake cube, Pyraminx Crystal, Happy Cube, Rush Hour, Impossiball, Notpron, Skewb Ultimate, Bongard problem, Pirate game, Crossed ladders problem, Rubik's Clock, Sliding puzzle, Picture maze, Equilibrium, World Sudoku Championship, Flavor text, Wine/water mixing problem, Rubik's Magic: Master Edition, Sudoku Cube, Rubik's 360, Feynman Long Division Puzzles, American Cryptogram Association, Perplexus, List of puzzle topics, Alexander's Star, Minus Cube, Spot the difference, Rubik's Brain Racker, Impossible Puzzle, Thirty-six officers problem, Skewb Diamond, Logo extraction puzzle, Back from the Klondike, 4D Cityscape, Ball-in-a-maze puzzle, Tentaizu, Rubik's Sudoku, Connect the dots, Snapper Puzzle, String girdling Earth, Rubik's Triamid, Walls & Lines, Missing Link, Pyramid puzzle, Dingbats, Balance, Three cups problem, Octacube, Construction puzzle, Pentalpha, Metagrobology, Yoshimoto Cube, Tour puzzle, String puzzle, Jumbly, Text Tiles, List of impossible puzzles, Japanese puzzle. Excerpt: This is a list of XYZZY Awards results, grouped by award rather than year. The XYZZY Awards are the annual awards given by the publication "XYZZYnews" to works of interactive fiction, serving a similar role to the Academy Awards for film. The awards were inaugurated in 1997, initially with eight categories: best game, best writing, best story, best setting, best puzzles, best individual puzzle, best NPCs (non-player characters) and best individual NPC. Two others (best individual player-character and best use of medium) were added the following year. Presented in early spring, any game released during the year prior to the award ceremony is eligible for nomination to receive an award. The decision process takes place in two stages: members of the interactive fiction community nominate works within specific categories and sufficiently supported nominations become finalists within those categories. Typically there are four or five finalists in each category. Community members then vote among the finalists, and the game receiving a plurality of votes is given the award in an online ceremony on ifMUD. Each entry below lists the winners of each award in each year, followed by other finalists for that year. Given since 1996, the award for Best Game recognizes the game which is the most enjoyable as a whole; other awards recognize merit in particular qualities. 2009: Blue Lacuna by Aaron A. Reed 2008: Violet by Jeremy Freese 2007: Lost Pig by Admiral Jota 2006: The Elysium Enigma by Eric Eve 2005: Vespers by Jas...