A gameplay element that tests the ingenuity of the player. It can have one or more logically-concluded solutions.

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What makes puzzle games addictive?

I'm currently developing a puzzle game for Android that is sort of along the lines of Alchemy. I was wondering what makes games like Alchemy or Bejeweled so addicting? How do I keep players ...
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Determine position of a rotated element in Tetris

Tetris-Tiles are stored as a 4x4 boolean matrix. Each rotation step has it's own matrix, the representation of the T-Block would look like this: [ 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, ...