Puzzle categories
Every game on Vzzle is filed under exactly one of six categories, so you always know what kind of thinking you are signing up for. Each category page includes a written introduction to the format and answers to the questions people ask about it.
Hidden Object
3 games
Search densely illustrated scenes for the items on your list. No timers, no failure states, and no download: just you and a picture that is hiding more than it first appears.
Mahjong & Tiles
3 games
Match tile pairs and clear the board. Three takes on the format: classic stacked solitaire, flat connect puzzles, and endlessly generated boards with four difficulty modes.
Match & Sort
4 games
Group, stack and organise until everything is where it belongs. These are the games where the satisfaction comes from turning visible disorder into visible order.
Word & Number
4 games
Crosswords, word grids, Sudoku and colour by number: the quieter, more methodical end of the catalogue, where the pace is entirely yours.
Blocks & Merge
3 games
Drop, combine and chain. Merge games are the planning end of casual puzzling: every move spends board space to buy progress, and space is what you eventually run out of.
Logic & Classics
3 games
Jigsaws, solitaire and pure deduction. The formats that were good before computers and remain good on one, plus a brain teaser with no decoration at all.
How we categorise puzzle games
“Puzzle” covers a lot of ground. A Sudoku grid and a hidden object scene are both puzzles, but they ask for completely different things, one is sustained logical deduction, the other is visual search. Grouping them together is not useful to anyone trying to decide what to play.
So each game here sits in exactly one category, chosen by what the game actually asks you to do rather than by its theme. A merge game set in a café is still a merge game. Every category has at least three titles, which means each page is a real collection rather than a placeholder.
If you would rather see everything at once and filter it yourself, the all games page has search and category filters. For strategy by genre, the puzzle guides go considerably deeper than a category introduction can.