The Brain Puzzles Blog

Two angles on the same wooden game: concrete strategies for solving sliding tile and block puzzles faster, and an honest look under the hood at how the game is built.

Guide

Free Puzzle Games Online: The Ones Worth Bookmarking

A guided tour of all eleven LK Forge puzzle games — Sudoku, 2048, Minesweeper, Connect 4, the 15-puzzle and block puzzles, mazes, memory and word search — grouped by the kind of thinking each one trains.

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Strategy

How to Solve Sliding & Block Puzzles

Solve the top rows then columns, handle the tricky last-two-tiles cycle, clear the exit lane in Block Puzzle, and plan backwards from the red block to find your next move.

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Engineering

How We Built Brain Puzzles

DOM and CSS wood material, solvable shuffles via random legal moves, pointer-drag collision using an occupancy grid, and a BFS solver that powers hints and computes par for every level.

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