# Puzzle games

> Free online puzzle games: Sudoku, 2048, Minesweeper, Mahjong, block puzzles, word puzzles and merge physics. Play in your browser on any device.

Puzzles that fit a short break and still reward a plan. Solve Sudoku and Minesweeper, match tiles in Mahjong Solitaire, slide to 2048, fill and clear lines in Bloom Blocks, merge worlds in Cosmic Merge Drop, sort words in Word Links, or test your eyes and memory with Color Panic, Focus Test, Memory Flip, Number Rush and Speed Sort.

## Games

- [Word Beacon](https://taprusharcade.com/games/word-beacon.md): Word Beacon is a daily five-letter word game. You have six guesses to find the hidden word; after each guess, green tiles mark letters in the right place, yellow tiles mark letters that belong elsewhere and gray tiles mark letters that are not in the word.
- [Word Links](https://taprusharcade.com/games/word-links.md): Word Links is a daily word puzzle. Sixteen words hide four groups of four that share a connection, and you sort them into their groups before you make four mistakes. A new puzzle arrives every day, the same for everyone.
- [Sudoku](https://taprusharcade.com/games/sudoku.md): Sudoku is a logic puzzle played on a 9×9 grid divided into nine 3×3 boxes. The goal is to fill every empty cell with a number from 1 to 9 so that each row, each column and each box contains every number exactly once. No arithmetic is needed, only reasoning.
- [Cosmic Merge Drop](https://taprusharcade.com/games/cosmic-merge-drop.md): Cosmic Merge Drop is a free physics merge puzzle. You drop worlds into a tall jar, and when two identical worlds touch they merge into a bigger one, all the way up to a black hole. The round ends when the stack overflows the danger line, and everyone gets the same drop order each day.
- [Bloom Blocks](https://taprusharcade.com/games/bloom-blocks.md): Bloom Blocks is a free block puzzle on an 8×8 board. You place shapes from a tray of three, clear any row or column you fill, and keep going until no shape fits. Shapes can be rotated, and Undo and Reroll help you out of tight spots.
- [Minesweeper](https://taprusharcade.com/games/minesweeper.md): Minesweeper is a single-player logic game played on a grid of hidden squares. Some squares hide mines, and every safe square you reveal shows how many mines touch it. You use those numbers to flag the mines and uncover every safe square without setting one off.
- [Mahjong Solitaire](https://taprusharcade.com/games/mahjong-solitaire.md): Mahjong Solitaire is a single-player tile-matching game played with mahjong tiles stacked in layers. You remove matching pairs of free tiles, meaning tiles with nothing on top and an open left or right side, until the whole stack is cleared. It uses the tiles of the four-player game Mahjong but none of its rules.
- [2048](https://taprusharcade.com/games/2048.md): 2048 is a sliding number puzzle on a 4×4 grid. Each move slides every tile in one direction, and two tiles with the same number merge into one tile with their sum. The goal is to build a tile worth 2048, then keep going for a higher score.
- [Memory Flip](https://taprusharcade.com/games/memory-flip.md): Memory Flip is a free card-matching memory game. You turn over two cards at a time to find matching emoji pairs and clear three boards of 6, 8 and 10 pairs within 90 seconds. Play today’s shared boards or a random set.
- [Number Rush](https://taprusharcade.com/games/number-rush.md): Number Rush is a free number-scanning speed game. You tap 16 numbers on a 4×4 grid in order, then in reverse, then odds before evens, across three boards in 45 seconds, racing a ghost of your best run.
- [Color Panic](https://taprusharcade.com/games/color-panic.md): Color Panic is a free visual perception game. You find the one tile that looks different, either a slightly lighter shade or a different stripe direction, as the grid grows from 3×3 to 5×5 within 30 seconds.
- [Speed Sort](https://taprusharcade.com/games/speed-sort.md): Speed Sort is a free rule-switching reaction game. For 30 seconds you sort circles, squares and triangles left or right while the rule changes after every five correct answers.
- [Focus Test](https://taprusharcade.com/games/focus-test.md): Focus Test is a free attention game. You watch the card marked with a star, follow it through a series of swaps and pick it out when the cards stop. Rounds add more and faster swaps over 40 seconds.

**Where to start:** For calm, untimed play, try Bloom Blocks, 2048, Cosmic Merge Drop or the word puzzles. For pure logic, Sudoku and Minesweeper. To test your memory and attention, Memory Flip, Focus Test, Number Rush, Color Panic and Speed Sort take 30 to 90 seconds.

## Questions and answers

### Which puzzle games have no time limit?

Bloom Blocks, Cosmic Merge Drop, 2048, Word Beacon and Word Links have no clock at all. Sudoku, Minesweeper and Mahjong Solitaire show a stopwatch but never run out of time.

### Which games are good for memory and attention?

Memory Flip trains short-term memory, Focus Test visual tracking, Number Rush visual search, Color Panic perception and Speed Sort quick rule switching.

### Do puzzle games save my progress?

Your best score for each game is saved in this browser. A game in progress restarts if you leave the page.

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