Barbee Doll Puzzles

Why We Picked Barbee Doll Puzzles

Barbee Doll Puzzles puts the board and the space left on it on one screen and then lets the board do the arguing. Difficulty arrives as a smaller margin rather than a faster clock, which makes a loss easy to trace. It rewards the second look far more than the first instinct. It has been played 738 times here — modest beside the arcade titles, and about right for a puzzle. For reference: 4.2 out of 5 from 13 ratings, and 117 of 172 on the puzzle shelf.

How to Play

The page documents very little, so these are the things worth knowing before you spend time on it:

• Close heavy tabs if the animation stutters; embedded games compete for the same graphics budget.
• Clear whatever the level asks you to clear, and count the space that the clear gives back.
• Count the empty cells before you place anything large.

Editor’s Note

A coffee-break game: one board, one sitting, nothing to keep up with between visits. Because the genre runs on rules rather than reflexes, a puzzle stays playable on a trackpad and an old browser.

Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.