Good "Brain Teaser" like puzzles?

[Chekhonte]

I used to love visual brain teaser like puzzles when I was a teen and want to pick up a few however I can't seem to find a good resource that separates the wheat from the chaff. Are any of you into puzzles? Can you recommend some of your favorites?

[Fungi]

I like the Japanese company Nikoli's puzzles; they're actually not computer generated so it's a lot of fun actually doing them.

My personal favorite type is Nonogram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Which has a DS game, Picross DS. Good fun.

[Chekhonte]

yeah I like Picross a lot too. Thanks for the heads up on the company, i'll see what else they've done. I remember seeing somewhere that they are releasing a 3d picross sometime in the near future.

[GlendaleViper]

If you like logic puzzles, MIND TRAP is an excellent collection of brain stumpers.

[Dreadhead]

These can be good:

Car Talk | Puzzler

[Spiug31]

I enjoy the wentworth wooden jigsaws with whimsies, we inherited a collection and have added a few since. It does require thought but while the 1000 to 2000 peice normal jigsaws were too easy or dull, the wooden ones take me 4-8 hours for a 250 peice puzzle (good for christmas ). ebay often has several being sold.

I prefer puzzles I can move physically move, for me these are brain teasers.

[luvdunhill]

I like the Japanese company Nikoli's puzzles; they're actually not computer generated so it's a lot of fun actually doing them.

My personal favorite type is Nonogram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Which has a DS game, Picross DS. Good fun.

hm, I always assumed they were of Russian design, as I see a lot of people there working them on the metro and what not.

[Asr]

I wake up to NPR's Weekend Edition Puzzler with Will Shortz every Sunday morning: Sunday Puzzle : NPR

Though I never bother to actually solve the week's puzzle, I just kinda think about it for 5 minutes and then move on.

[acidbasement]

Bloxorz is a good, free, online spatial puzzle game. I'd give you a link, but the website is blocked by my employers' IT crew.

[Dusty Chalk]

What about that one where you had to arrange mirrors and refractors to get light beams to their destination? I loved that one (though you can only play it once).

Anyone remember what the name of that one was? I need to go replay it, to see if having done it once several months ago, I can do it again without getting stumped this time.

Edited April 23, 2009 by Dusty Chalk

[luvdunhill]

What about that one where you had to arrange mirrors and refractors to get light beams to their destination? I loved that one (though you can only play it once).

dude, there is a board game version of that now, check Target, etc.

[Dusty Chalk]

! Will do...thanks...

[jinp6301]

Portal?

[luvdunhill]

[Chekhonte]

yeah portal was fantastic. I really wish it was a longer game though. I can't play any of the mods out there since my computer is an ancient dell 2.6ghz with only 1 gig of ddr ram max.

I also played boxorz which is pretty good. I got stumped on puzzle 16 and has to put it down for a while to do some homework.

Thanks for all the suggestions though. I'm thoroughly enjoying them.

EDIT: I also have played the computer version of the laser refracting game. It really threw my brain for a loop once the puzzles became complex. I'm usually exceptional at visual games but I couldn't wrap my mind around some of them.

[Dusty Chalk]

I also have played the computer version of the laser refracting game. It really threw my brain for a loop once the puzzles became complex. I'm usually exceptional at visual games but I couldn't wrap my mind around some of them.

Yeah, some of them were stumpers, and I had to put it away to get some work done. I did get all of the ones that I got, eventually, don't remember if I finished it or not. I think I was up to like #34 or something...? I did start dreaming it, and LOL'd when Google made their logo like it for the day.