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Puzzle games online: 4 to play in your browser

Puzzle games you can play right in your browser, nothing to install: block placing, a toy-car traffic jam, pickaxe merging and fruit in a blender.

By Polarzinho ·

Polarzinho putting together a colorful jigsaw puzzle on the rug, surrounded by blocks, a toy car, a pickaxe and a smiling peach

Puzzle games are my favorite, because they do not depend on panda reflexes. They depend on thinking, and I think very well, especially while eating bamboo.

Here are 4 Polar Games puzzles that run right in your browser, each with a different kind of challenge, plus a few tips to go further.

Play Gridspark Play Beep Out! Play Deepforge Play Plop! Fruit Merge

Types of puzzle games

  • Block placing: find the right spot for each piece and clear lines.
  • Order logic: work out the right sequence to clear the way.
  • Merge: combine matching pieces to make a bigger one.
  • Physics: predict how pieces will bounce and fall.

Gridspark: block placing

An 8 × 8 board and one question every turn: where does this piece fit? Complete rows and columns to clear space and score, collect sparks to charge ZAP, and when it is ready, blast a whole cross off the board.

A whole column of blocks exploding in Gridspark with Combo x6 and +350, a full lightning meter and three ZAP charges stored

PolarzinhoSaving ZAP for the tight spot is the difference between a record and "one more try".

Gridspark: a whole column clears in a combo.

Beep Out!: toy-car traffic jam

A parking lot full of toy cars, each pointing in a direction. Free each one through an open lane in the right order. Later, passengers line up by color and spots are limited, so every car you send out has to be the right one.

Level 2, After You: the yellow car is hovered and a strip of chevrons shows its road, blocked by a red car pointing up

PolarzinhoI am great at traffic jams. In real life I just cause them.

Beep Out!: the chevrons show each car's road.

Deepforge: physics pickaxe merging

Merge matching pickaxes on the workbench, choose their positions and send your team into a physics-driven mine, bouncing through rock, ore and crystal. There are 16 pickaxe levels, 30 chambers and six biomes.

The NEW PICK banner in Deepforge announcing a Blue Steel Pick after two Iron Picks merged, with one pick on the bench, 44 coins and the BUY and DIG buttons

PolarzinhoMerging two picks and watching the new one appear is my kind of magic.

Deepforge: two matching picks become a better one.

Plop! Fruit Merge: fruit in a blender

Every fruit you drop changes the pile. Join two of the same fruit to make a bigger one, chain merges into combos and fill the juice meter. When the blender is about to overflow, press BLEND to crush the smaller fruits and buy one more round.

A merge creating a mango in Plop! Fruit Merge, with a mission complete banner at the top of the screen

PolarzinhoI asked Plop for a bamboo fruit. There is none. I made a mango instead.

Plop!: two matching fruits become a bigger one.

Puzzle tips

  1. Look at the next piece before placing the current one.
  2. Keep open space: a full board is a lost board.
  3. In merge games, keep small pieces on one side.
  4. Save special powers for tight spots.
  5. Stuck? Take a break. The answer often shows up afterwards.

FAQ

Do I need to install anything?

No. All four open right in your browser.

Which one is easiest to start with?

Plop! Fruit Merge: just drop the fruits and join the matching ones.

Which one takes the most strategy?

Deepforge, because you plan your pickaxe team before every expedition.

Time to think

Blocks, cars, pickaxes or fruit: pick one and start below.

Play Gridspark Play Beep Out! Play Deepforge Play Plop! Fruit Merge