| Back in the old days when computers were still in | | | | There are also many other puzzle games like |
| their infancy, games were simple and not too | | | | Mahjongg, Crab Jigsaw and many other games |
| many. The concept of internet was still to come | | | | which are addictive to the next degree of insanity |
| and games were mainly standalone. They were | | | | and fun. The puzzle games are not only fun to |
| being played on simple black and white screens | | | | play but also sharpen up the aptitude and the |
| and were falling short in terms of entertainment | | | | reasoning power of the player. There are also |
| levels. These puzzle games were too simple, but | | | | some games which other than sharpening up the |
| were very enjoyable. | | | | aptitude increase the decision making skills of the |
| The world today has the internet at its threshold | | | | gamer. |
| and games have gone online. They are being | | | | For mathematicians there has existed a game |
| played by many players all over the world. The | | | | which is a logic-based number replacement puzzle. |
| concept of the online game may be a unknown | | | | This game known as Sudoku has the major |
| phenomenon to many. For them the online game | | | | objective to fill up a 9 x 9 grid so that each row |
| is thus defined as a game that is being played | | | | as well as each column and each 3 x 3 box has |
| simultaneously by many players all over the world. | | | | digits from 1 to 9. This though sounds very simple |
| Hence online games are a world-wide craze. | | | | is actually very complex as the digits must not be |
| The genre of online puzzle games is very | | | | repeated in each of the boxes. The genre of |
| interesting. There are many games that have | | | | online puzzle games has the online version of this |
| gained major popularity in terms of the maximum | | | | game and therefore the 'Online Sudoku' is very |
| number of times they get played. Games like | | | | famous and popular. There are different Sudoku |
| Handy's Car involve assembling a car from the | | | | puzzles like ' Auway Sudoku' and 3D Sudoku |
| given parts by putting the parts in correct order. | | | | which have a large number of players playing |
| Then there is also another fantastic game called | | | | them. |
| Rome Puzzle. The game involves clicking two | | | | Puzzles are always very interesting to solve and |
| squares in order to swap them and the major | | | | online puzzle games make a lot of gamers |
| objective is to collect the maximum number of | | | | hooked up to their computers in their homes or |
| gems by lining up 3 gems in order to collect them. | | | | on PC's in the cyber cafes for hours and hours. |