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Discover games you'll love to solve. 🧩 🔎 🗺️

We share new puzzly, problem-solving games.

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This is totally fine.

A visual representation of levels in the video game The Rise of the Golden Idol and the chronological timeline of those levels. A series of boxes, each representing a level, are laid out in a row, left-to-right, in the order that they appear in-game. The boxes have different colours indicating what chapter they are part of. There is a black arrow starting at one of the boxes, passing through all the other boxes, and ending at another box, indicating the chronological timeline, but this line is incredibly spaghetti-like, weaving in and out of the boxes and repeatedly jumping back-and-forth between the start and end of the row of boxes.

November 11, 2025 at 10:45 AM

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Sneaking past a big lizard in Chronoquartz!
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November 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM

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Iggy, one of the lead playtesters for Blue Prince, is in urgent need of a living kidney donor.

Please take a look at the information here and share it as widely as you can: www.iggyland.org/

The whole thinky community wishes the best for Iggy! 💛

Iggy has polycystic kidney disease and only has a few months to find a living kidney donor. Find more information at iggyland.org

November 8, 2025 at 12:46 AM

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Day 3 of ThinkyCon is live!

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ThinkyCon 2025, 5th-7th November 2025, Online event, youtube.com/@ThinkyGames There is a screenshot of the schedule for day 3, which can be found at the link in the post.

November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM

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Day 3 of ThinkyCon starts in just over an hour, and the first talk has an interactive section in which there are a few questions to think about. Here are those questions!

If you'd like to ask for help (or get some bonus questions), join us on Discord: thinkygames.com/disc...

Question 3

Lottery: 10 numbers are drawn from the numbers 1 to 40.

The prophecy says: if a number x is drawn and x is less than or equal to 39, then x+1 is also drawn. (This is true for every integer x)

How many tickets must we fill in to guarantee a full match (all 10 numbers correct)?

Question 2

We write down the powers of 3: 1, 3, 9, 27, 81, 243, 729, 2187, 6561, 19683, and so on.

We note the digit in the tens place of each of these numbers: 0, 0, 0, 2, 8, 4, 2, 8, 6, 8.

Is it true that this digit is always even?

Question 1

Eight people - A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H - are on trial for robbery. We know that 3 of them are guilty, and the rest are completely innocent. They make the following statements about each other:

A: B is innocent.
B: C is innocent.
C: D is innocent.
D: E is innocent.
E: F is innocent.
F: G is innocent.
G: H is innocent.

The innocent always tell the truth. The robbers may tell the truth or lie.

Who committed the robbery? Are there multiple possibilities or just one?

November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM

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The ThinkyCon Jam starts in 24 hours! If you're looking for people to collaborate with, there's a spreadsheet for that on our Discord!

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November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM

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Prerecorded movements make impossible platforming possible!

November 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM

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Day 2 of ThinkyCon is live!

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ThinkyCon 2025, 5th-7th November 2025, Online event, youtube.com/@ThinkyGames
There is a screenshot of the schedule for day 2, which can be found at the link in the post.

November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM

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We are live! 🎉

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November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM

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Joe is stumped by a platforming skeleton with a set course in Grooveyard!

November 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM

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ThinkyCon begins in just 24 hours! Find tomorrow's schedule here!

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November 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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Only 2 days until ThinkyCon! 🎉

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November 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM

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How do you make thinky games approachable? Sylvia Aguiñaga is a co-founder of Ánimo Games, who made Star Stuff, so has some insight on balancing charm and tough puzzles!

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November 2, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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How do you make music for a puzzle game? We've got Thomas Brunet, the composer for Chants Of Sennaar, to answer that question on the third day of ThinkyCon!

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November 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM

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These are just a few of the puzzle game developers speaking at ThinkyCon! Take a look at the full schedule here!
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"Composing Music for Chants Of Sennaar: The Soundtrack of Storytelling Puzzles" Thomas Brunet; "Testing Blue Prince" Tonda Ros, Dogubomb; "Art of Nurikabe World: Bringing a pen-and-paper classic to life without ruining it" Wiebke Spieker, Hemisquare; "The Programming of Patrick's Parabox" Patrick Traynor; "Adapting a Word Game: How Alphabirds Became Birdigo" John August and Corey Martin; "We Built for Grandparents First, Then Discovered We'd Built for Everyone" Anastasia Miliano, Inkwell Games

October 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM

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Tune in for Tonda Ros' talk about playtesting a game as unpredictable as Blue Prince on day 3 of ThinkyCon! Check out the schedule to see who else will be there!

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October 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM

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Filling in memory gaps to solve a mystery in Mind Diver!

October 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM

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Tomorrow we'll be streaming Grooveyard, MotionRec, Orbyss, and Spooky Express!

Join us at 12:30pm GMT / 8:30am EST / 1:30pm CET on Twitch: www.twitch.tv/thinky...

October 29, 2025 at 9:52 PM

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Announcing the line-up for ThinkyCon 2025! 🎉 Tune in for 3 days of amazing talks from the makers of your favorite puzzly games!
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