Experts suggest: Benefit your thinking with playing puzzle video games

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There is an opinion that nothing functional can’t be learned from playing video games and that they are only a waist of time. This opinion is supported with the claim that they make the people indolent (mentally and physically), without any flexibility and do not prepare them for the real life. Opposite of this claim, a group of experts note the fact it isn’t like that at all. Actually there are a lot of video games that could help people benefit their skills for solving problem. For the ones without experience in playing games they suggest puzzle video games, as a type of video games that will help them develop their logic and actuate their thinking, focusing on conceptual challenges.

In the basis of the puzzle video games is the puzzle solving. These types of games are focused on logical and conceptual challenges, usually combined with time - pressure or other type of action - elements. Solving of this kind of game includes logic, strategy, sequence solving, pattern recognition, and word completion. Point is that the player should directly or indirectly manipulate with colours, shapes or symbols, involved in the game, into a specific pattern and most of the times the puzzle game offers series of related puzzles, variation on a single theme. The player must reveal hidden indications, so he could achieve some of the victory conditions. That way he could get the allowance to go to the next level. Usually every next level is harder than the one before.


Exist a few types of the puzzle video games, based on the same principle - action games, hidden object games, reveal the picture games, physics games and classical type of puzzle games.

Action puzzle

Action (arcade) puzzle is a type of game that requires manipulating with game pieces in a real - time environment. Often the player should solve the puzzle or clear the level on a single screen, with a time limit. In this games are included falling-block puzzles such as Tetris, games with characters moving through an environment, controlled either directly…

Hidden object games

Hidden object games are largely visual games where the player is asked to discover a particular item from a list, in a screen full of objects. In this group are the games that include finding differences between two scenes and other similar types of visual puzzles. Recently hidden object games have been evolving to include famous "escape the room" type web games.

Reveal the picture game


This game features piece-by-piece revealing of a photo or picture.

Physics games

The player must use the game's physics to complete each puzzle. To make games more challenging, this games use realistic physics.

Traditional puzzles

Traditional puzzles are digital adaptations of traditional puzzle games, including solitaire and mahjong solitaire.

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