Simon Tatham's Puzzles User Reviews

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Absolutely Phenomenal

This is truly a service to all humankind. Thank you Simon Tatham. I’ve been a puzzler for many years and it was a delight to learn so many more. I use this constantly. Thank you!

Great but better on Android

Thank you for these games. I love playing them and learning new ways to work the problems. I just wish the interface was as good as the android version. There is no way to delete/clear a cell in some of the games(Keen), no way to favorite games, no zoom in “inertia”, etc.
I really do love the games and thank you.
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Hidden Gem

Quality puzzle games with no ads, charity work like this is awesome.

Lovely game

Free, fun and excellent very of games

The best puzzles

Simon Tatham’s puzzle games are so good because there’s many different games, easy ones like flood and some more challenging ones. There’s no ads, and it’s free. Easy to pick up at any time like when waiting for something and wanting to pass the time.

Ground breakingly simple

Awesome collection of puzzles, some well known others new to me. All challenging in their own way with options to increase the challenge. So simple, NO ADs! No fee.

One of the best puzzle collections

Simon Tatham's puzzle page has always stood out among its peers for its smooth implementations and sophisticated puzzle generation algorithms.There are few Minesweeper implementations out there that eliminate guesswork, for example.

This app is a good port with fairly intuitive controls, the only issue I've found is that it's not possible to copy the game IDs or puzzle strings, long tap does nothing. Something else to note is there haven't been updates in 5 years, so certain newer puzzles in the collection are not present here, but it doesn't detract from the quality of what we do have.
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Bien mais

Les jeux sont bien mais les explications sont lourde et parfois peu explicites, la prise en main peut être complexe, une petite vidéo ou un petit tutoriel aurais été appréciable

I love y’all

Thank you

Free, no ads, no tricks, amazing classic puzzles

I initially found these games on Linux through KDE Plasma's Discover and I regret nothing. It's an incredibly small software package while managing to fit in so many classic offline games. There are no ads or microtransactions and it's literally just the puzzles which is what I love about this. One of the small nitpicks that I have though is the player controls for minesweeper, as holding a tile down to flag it is kinda awkward for fast-pace gameplay. Something like an arrowpad or a flag modifier button at the bottom or side could help with this. This would also probably apply to some of the other puzzles since this appears to be a port of the desktop Linux version but it's still pretty functional. Overall, I would highly recommend this to anyone looking for lightweight classic puzzle games that get straight to the point.
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Phenomenal unobtrusive minimalist puzzle app

This is a perfect app for when you need to kill a few minutes, but don’t want to get hit with saturated colors, animations, or ads. No tracking or telemetry as far as I can tell. Puzzles are generated on your device, so you don’t need an internet connection. Great for avoiding worse distractions while testing code changes at work, having something to do on the bus, and I’ve even used it for several hours at a time on flights.
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the greatest

this app is fantastic! it has so many varieties of puzzle games and so many settings to tweak to make them just as easy or hard and big or small as you want them to be!! my only (minor) gripe is the lack of a zoom functionality, but even without that, it's a magnificent collection of puzzle games that everyone should have installed!
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No add, no music, just logic

Thanks to the devs who took time to share these logical puzzles with us.

Brilliant

I don’t usually bother writing reviews for apps but I have to shout out this one for: Not having ads or in-app purchases, not having daily goals or stats or check-ins. Just delightful, inventive puzzles to solve for the fun of it. It feels weird to not be rewarded with points and dings and a sense of progression, and to have to let the satisfaction of solving a puzzle be enough. It is JUST what I need. Would gladly buy the creator a coffee.
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true to word

simple offline puzzles with no ads. exactly as advertised 👌

Excellent, no ads, best puzzle app

Couldn’t recommend any more highly

One of the best puzzle collections

Simon Tatham's puzzle page has always stood out among its peers for its smooth implementations and sophisticated puzzle generation algorithms.There are few Minesweeper implementations out there that eliminate guesswork, for example.

This app is a good port with fairly intuitive controls, the only downside to me is that you have to long-press to "right click", and it becomes annoying on puzzles that require a lot of that, such as Keen, Light Up and Solo. Not sure how else this could be solved, it may just be a limitation of mobile inputs. A toggle between "digit mode" and "candidate mode" may help. Something else to note is there haven't been updates in 4 years, so certain newer puzzles in the collection are not present here, but it doesn't detract from the quality of what we do have.
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Very good puzzle! The only things i would add…

The puzzles are great and unique. I would recommend making the introduction easier with an example or a video for non native speakers. I would also like to have a optional timer in the app.
Great App! Thanks for sharing

Everything you could ask for

This game comes with SO MANY types of puzzles to play, and I absolutely adore it. While I’m used to some of the puzzles (like Galaxies and Pattern as they’re named here) creating a pretty picture by solving them in other apps, I’m totally fine with sacrificing that artistic function in favor of being able to generate as many of the puzzles as I want with no in-App purchases. Not to mention, on my big iPad screen, the custom puzzles I can make it generate are HUGE and so, so satisfying to complete!
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Specific seed broken

This is by far one of the best time killer we have, it can be as challenging as you want.
One drawback since some time I can’t enter specific seeds for games. I used to compete with friends in this, can’t do it anymore. I do not remove a single star for this, it’s minor.