Figure 5 Four types of play, each built on the previous
For example, players can enjoy rotating and manipulating blocks in the action puzzle game Tetris even if
they don??™t understand the goal. The card game Solitaire is an interesting borderline case between game and
puzzle. We normally call Solitaire a single player game, but in fact it is a kind of puzzle because any given
deck has a de?¬? nite solution (or sometimes no solution). Shu?¬„ ing the cards is a way to randomly generate a
new puzzle. Other types of puzzles that walk the line on the issue of right answers include trivia questions
(which require knowledge of the world), dexterity puzzles (which could be classi?¬? ed with sports), puzzles
involving chance (in which the player does not completely control their own fate), and poll-based questions
(in which the rightness of an answer depends on what everyone else answers).
Designing Puzzles
Here are some tips for designing good puzzles.
First, there are two aspects of puzzle design. Level design, as it applies to puzzles, is cra ing a particular
puzzle con?¬? guration within a ?¬? xed set of rules.
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