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Gemsweeper – Addictive Computer Game

My latest computer game addiction is Gemsweeper. The concept is simple, it is much like the Minesweeper game that comes with Windows. Instead of just looking for bombs though, you are looking for sparkling gemstones and avoiding cursed tiles. If you know a tile is “cursed” you click on it with a hammer. For gemstones, you select them with the hand tool. Once you solve the puzzle you see a picture. The program starts off very easy. The tutorial walks you through the steps of logic necessary for figuring out which tiles must be cursed and which must be gems. … Continue reading →

Kakuro – Logic Puzzle Fun

If you’ve mastered Suduko, you might want to try the Japanese game Kakuro. The Kakuro game uses some of those same logic skills. Kakuro is different though in that it actually uses math, but it is still more a logic puzzle than a math exercise. It’s also called “cross sums” or “Kakro”. The Kakuro board looks much like a crossword puzzle. Some squares are blank, others are shaded, some have numbers instead of crossword clues that tell the player what the blank spaces add up to. The player fills in answers “across” and “down”. Only digits one through nine are … Continue reading →

Mastermind – fun and logic

Mastermind is a great game for introducing or encouraging logical reasoning. One player picks four colored pegs and hides them on the end of the board. The other players uses educated guesses to figure out “the code” of colored pegs. There are six colors to pick from. One the code breaker guesses, the code maker places tiny black and white pegs off to the side. A black peg means you have a correct color in the correct position. A white peg means you have a correct color in your guess, but it’s not in the correct position. Officially it’s a … Continue reading →

Family Fun Week in Review

We are in that weird transition time of the end of the summer and the beginning of fall and school. With that in mind, I’ve been including more educational and logic games on the blog the last few weeks to wake up those brains. If you have school age children you can try Bulls and Cows, or the addictive computer game of Gemsweeper. Both will get those logical brains thinking. Magnetic Poetry Fun offers your family a chance to leave messages, play with words, and discover their own poetic sides. Fuse Bead Fun encourages you to break out those Hama … Continue reading →