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itch.ioThinkyCon Jam 2026A game jam from 2026-10-28 to 2026-11-09 hosted by Thinky Games. Our annual digital conference ThinkyCon is all about experienced designers, developers and puzzle enthusiasts sharing their knowledge and insights on...

It's time to start brainstorming for ThinkyCon Jam 2026! After another day of great talks, there's a lot to take inspiration from!

youtu.beTwelve Escape Room Board Games you should play with your kids!YouTube video by Board Game Blitz

This is a great list! An escape room advent calendar is an especially neat idea!

Board Game Blitz@boardgameblitz.bsky.social

Over the past year I’ve played tons of escape room board games with my kids, so I decided to make a video with some of the ones we’ve played and liked! youtu.be/rFUQvk8rPWw

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Joe got a sneak peek at Deductopia, which comes out tomorrow!

thinkygames.comThinkyCon 2026 · Thinky GamesPuzzle design, art, development, production — learn about every aspect of crafting thinky games.

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Tune in for day two of ThinkyCon, starting now!

thinkygames.comDay 2 of ThinkyCon 2026 · Thinky GamesPuzzle design, art, development, production — learn about every aspect of crafting thinky games.

That’s a wrap on day one of ThinkyCon! Tomorrow we have some more exciting talks!

Matthew Stein will discuss the core tenets of the Japanese puzzle culture!

On day two we’ll also have two back-to-back talks about narrative puzzle games: one from Gwen C. Katz and another from Guillaume Rincel!

thinkygames.comDay 2 of ThinkyCon 2026 · Thinky GamesPuzzle design, art, development, production — learn about every aspect of crafting thinky games.

That’s a wrap on day one of ThinkyCon! Tomorrow we have some more exciting talks!

Ivan Koswara brings us the third in a series of talks about mathematical concepts that appear in puzzle games!

thinkygames.com20+ Intriguing looking thinky game demos featured in Steam Next Fest · Thinky GamesThe latest Steam Next Fest has brought us boatloads of new demos for upcoming games, and I've waded through slop and recommendations to find a batch of eye-catching titles.

Here's everything that caught Corey's eye in Steam's Next Fest!

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Gwen C. Katz

@gwenckatz.bsky.social

Puzzle devs, come catch my talk where I share my tips and tricks for changing the difficulty of your puzzles when they're story-based and "just make it bigger" isn't an option.

Thinky Games@thinkygames.com

ThinkyCon is tomorrow!! Check out the exciting 2-day lineup here!

thinkygames.comThinkyCon 2026 · Thinky GamesPuzzle design, art, development, production — learn about every aspect of crafting thinky games.

ThinkyCon is starting now!! 🎉 thinkygames.com/even...

thinkygames.comDay 1 of ThinkyCon 2026 · Thinky GamesPuzzle design, art, development, production — learn about every aspect of crafting thinky games.

We’ve got a great lineup of speakers today!

Finally, Hempuli’s talk is about taking a simple base concept and testing increasingly outlandish variations on it!

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Check out the schedule to see the other amazing talks we have lined up for today! thinkygames.com/events/think...

thinkygames.comDay 1 of ThinkyCon 2026 · Thinky GamesPuzzle design, art, development, production — learn about every aspect of crafting thinky games.

We’ve got a great lineup of speakers today!

Our first talk of the day is from Sven Neumann and is about his path to making a living with puzzle games!

Gentoo Rescue dev Jagriff will be talking about creating moments where players discover something they had access to all along!

thinkygames.comThinkyCon 2026 · Thinky GamesPuzzle design, art, development, production — learn about every aspect of crafting thinky games.

ThinkyCon is tomorrow!! Check out the exciting 2-day lineup here!

As a Greg fan, I'm very happy to see him make an appearance this season! -Cay

thinkygames.comPuzzle 4-21: Letters To The Editor · Thinky DailiesA Choco Banana puzzle designed by JinHoo Ahn for Thinky Dailies.

Input your solution to this Choco Banana puzzle (a genre that our rules writer Martin is very enthusiastic about) here:

thinkygames.comThinkyCon 2026 · Thinky GamesPuzzle design, art, development, production — learn about every aspect of crafting thinky games.

Our free online event where you can hear puzzle experts and enthusiasts give talks about your favorite games is in two days!

This cute, satisfying nesting doll game by @natefbx.bsky.social deserves some more hype!

thinkygames.comA tour of Bordeaux: musings on paper games & solitary play · Thinky GamesBordeaux is a recent "choose-and-write" tabletop game, a paper adaptation of the 2024 worker-placement hit Fromage. How does the experience compare to the original, or to other games played with pen and paper?

This spin-off of the popular boardgame Fromage trades cheese-making for French vineyards!

thinkygames.comDeduce criminal connections, solve retro-futuristic puzzles in co-op, or use tactical cardplay on a wintery adventure in these new releases · Thinky GamesDupery, We Were Here Tomorrow and Frosthaven all came out in the last week and have each caught my eye for a variety of reasons.

Check out these three super exciting new releases!

youtube.comSomeone turned nesting dolls into a puzzle gameI saw Nested came out and thought it had a neat concept, but it didn't get much attention so wasn't sure what to expect from it. Turns out, I'm really impressed. The nesting doll mechanic works great and there are some cool twists along the way. The only minor gripe I have at the moment is I'm not s

Joe was super impressed by this cute nesting doll game!

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Patrick Traynor

@cwpat.me

ThinkyCon 2026 is on Monday and Tuesday next week, the 26th and 27th! There's LOTS of intriguing looking puzzle talks lined up that I'm curious to see! Check out the schedule here! thinkygames.com/events/think...

thinkygames.comThinkyCon 2026 · Thinky GamesPuzzle design, art, development, production — learn about every aspect of crafting thinky games.

Thinky Games@thinkygames.com

ThinkyCon is in just one week!! 🎉 Tune in to hear a bunch of insightful talks about puzzle games at 3pm GMT / 8:00am PDT / 11:00am EDT / 4:00pm CET on YouTube! thinkygames.com/even...

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chaotic_iak • Ivan K

@chaoticiak.github.io

i'll be speaking at thinkycon again next week! more time for me to just yap about lovely logical deductions. find more info here: thinkygames.com/events/think...

@lucasimmanuel.bsky.social

If you want to speed through puzzles like Joe, you've gotta be soko-brained!

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Lucas Immanuel

I'll be talking at @thinkygames.com's Thinky Con 2026! I'll be discussing designing "The Remake of the End of the Greatest RPG of All Time" as a puzzle game that pretends it isn't a puzzle game... and all the challenges that resulted from that!

Oriane recently added a bunch of retro puzzle games to our database!

thinkygames.comLemmings · Thinky GamesAssign terrain-altering abilities to a crew of lemmings so they can make it to the exit.

Assign terrain-altering abilities to a crew of lemmings so they can make it to the exit in the clever automation game Lemmings.

thinkygames.comMole Mania · Thinky GamesNavigate underground tunnels, holes, and enemies, to throw a wrecking ball through each level exit.

Finally, did you know Shigeru Miyamoto produced a puzzle game in the 90s? In Mole Mania, you have to push and heave a wrecking ball across holes onto the exit!

Oriane recently added a bunch of retro puzzle games to our database!

thinkygames.comMicroban · Thinky GamesSolve small block-pushing puzzles that each illustrate a particular concept.

Another hugely influential sokoban game is Microban! You might recognize some of the levels (particularly Microban 1) from other popular sokoban games.

thinkygames.comThe Fool's Errand · Thinky GamesSeek lost treasure words in the land of Tarot among puzzle solutions and story clues.

One of the first video games to feature metapuzzles, The Fool's Errand, takes place in a fantastical world inspired by Tarot cards!

Oriane recently added a bunch of retro puzzle games to our database!

thinkygames.comSokoban · Thinky GamesThe very first block-pushing video game.

Sokoban, which inspired and named an entire genre that’s now a staple in the puzzle world, was the very first block-pushing video game!

Stream starting now! Watch here: twitch.tv/thinkygames

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Tomorrow Joe will be streaming Colorbound, Legion Was Here, Dupery and taking a sneak peak at Deductopia! Tune in at 2:00pm BST / 6:00am PDT / 9:00am EDT / 3:00pm CEST here: www.twitch.tv/thinky...

Tomorrow Joe will be streaming Colorbound, Legion Was Here, Dupery and taking a sneak peak at Deductopia! Tune in at 2:00pm BST / 6:00am PDT / 9:00am EDT / 3:00pm CEST here: www.twitch.tv/thinky...

In two weeks, you'll be able to nominate your favorite puzzle games for the Thinky Awards!!

thinkygames.comWoim · Thinky GamesPush rocks and eat apples as a wriggly worm.

Push rocks and eat apples as a cute, wriggly worm in the sokoban-snake (or, rather, worm) hybrid Woim!

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Cedar Studios

@cedarstudiosuk.bsky.social

Following on from our previous post... WOIM is out now on Steam! We had the best time creating the music and sound for this wibbly-wobbly puzzler. 🪱🎮 Go get 'em 🍎 store.steampowered.com/app/4272020/...

store.steampowered.comSave 15% on WOIM on SteamWOIM is a puzzle game where you play as a worm! Push blocks, flip switches, eat apples and... cut yourself in half! WOIM will push you to keep digging downwards, solving tricky puzzles, finding secret...

youtu.beThis snake game has some great puzzlesI played the demo of Would You Love Me If I Was a Snake just a few months ago and wasn't hugely grabbed by it, but now in the full game, I can see some of the cool directions it's taking and I've been even more impressed by the puzzles. Simple mechanics, nothing tooooo ground-breaking (at least so f

Joe checked out this snake game which has some challenging puzzles!

@totalmayhemgames.bsky.social

This Blue-Prince-like roguelike has the perfect spooky, cozy October vibes!

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Total Mayhem Games

📢 Today is the day, Explorers! We Were Here Tomorrow is OUT NOW! 🎉 Step into Norček Industries, grab your walkie-talkie, and see if you and your partner can solve the mysteries waiting inside. Get it with a 10% launch discount for two weeks! store.steampowered.com/app/2315050/...

thinkygames.comWe Were Here Tomorrow · Thinky GamesSolve asymmetrical puzzles with a friend inside a futuristic facility.

The sixth game in the classic co-op escape series We Were Here is out now! Solve asymmetrical puzzles with a friend inside a futuristic facility in We Were Here Tomorrow!

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Kylie

@kymira.ca

ThinkyCon was my favourite game con last year. Very excited for next week! Hopefully it doesn't give us too many new game ideas 🫣

Thinky Games@thinkygames.com

ThinkyCon is in just one week!! 🎉 Tune in to hear a bunch of insightful talks about puzzle games at 3pm GMT / 8:00am PDT / 11:00am EDT / 4:00pm CET on YouTube! thinkygames.com/even...

ThinkyCon is in just one week!! 🎉 Tune in to hear a bunch of insightful talks about puzzle games at 3pm GMT / 8:00am PDT / 11:00am EDT / 4:00pm CET on YouTube! thinkygames.com/even...

youtube.comInvading Earth with crazy robot synergiesOkay, maybe I didn't find a particularly wild synergy in this video, but having seen some other screenshots, clearly you can rack up some serious damage in Dicevaders. Even just getting the 5000 attack points felt extremely satisfying. Despite describing itself as a roguelike deckbuilder, Dicevaders

Joe found some satisfying synergies in Dicevaders!