I have Laytons mystery journey but I haven't been able to get into it like the original series. A!so, the story takes too long or maybe I am getting old! 😁

Wow Cat, Professor Layton is one of my favorite series! That is so cool to hear! Every puzzle has an answer

Love board games or at least those that require skill. Scrabble, chess, blockus, perquacky (similar to boggle). I wasn't a video game fan but did borrow my kids Nintendo ds XL to play all the professor Layton games and safecracker. I also love jigsaw puzzles. I did a 500 piece one that was all pretzels. Took me awhile but I finished it with help from my cat who was always sitting in the middle of the pieces.

It is so nice not to be alone in this parking lot of life! Well if it helps if you’re ever in my neck of the woods, come walk with me. If you’re anything like me, I do get lost, but I’m actually pretty decent at getting un lost a lot of the time.

@alien no I haven’t played any of those games, but I’ll keep these in mind. I generally limit my dose of gaming to 1 or 2 a year or 0 in busier seasons of life, but I’m always down to figure out some new strategy games, so long as no dice are involved.

A lot of my turn based RPGs are simply Nintendo, but I’ve enjoyed Square Enix games. Chrono Trigger and the next Pokémon game are on my list. I’m a lifelong Pokemon fan and among their many titles, the first few Mystery Dungeon games were my favorite for their soundtrack and some of the exploits that I found before I had access to the internet.

Silver and I already had a conversation about getting lost in parking lots. I am totally with you, 2k:-) I lack an inner compass too. When I was a child, I used to get lost in ware houses. When I got my driver's license, I thought I would be free to explore the world. But nope. Most of the time I was st(r)anding at the side of the road in the middle of nowhere, facing a veritable panic attack. It has never left me. This fear of getting lost prevented me from driving to places I didn't know. Which is a real shame, because I would love to take a road trip through the US. Oh, and don't think that navigation systems are helpful for me. They confuse me because my understanding of 300 metres differs from that of the system...I always wonder if dysgeographica is correlated with a lack of logical thinking. Which I definitely lack!

@2k

Right?? the cars. they all look the same (and they move and change like an enchanted labyrinth). I seem to lack an internal compass entirely (have to manually puzzle out which way I went, ergo which way I am facing)--Is that why you got lost also? I'm told people normally have a brain-compass... my off-the-cuff guess would be the dysgeographica thing is correlated with autism somehow, though I could be wrong.

My husband's very into deck builders too, he likes making Magic pauper decks especially. I like looking at the pretty pictures and comprehending very little of the gameflow because I bluescreen instantly trying to calculate how the stats will resolve against each other. 😳

Sometimes a well-placed spoon is all you need! :D

You ever play Brigandine or Spiderweb Software games 2k?

Hey Silver, I’m also pretty terrible at physical object puzzles. I also got lost in a parking lot for almost an hour once.

I don’t have a ton of puzzle hobbies. I might be giving away my birth year but I like turn-based RPGs and deck building games such as Magic the Gathering. While my plays are never competitive, I do like to get into the strategy and tactics to optimize the fun. Sometimes that is winning the multiplayer battle by throwing a mountain at them. Other times it is flying by the seat of my pants to kill the end game boss with a spoon.

"I did crosswords, but largely because they were the most readily physically available" seems to be a common thread here. I did that too.

@Limequat I imagine it would be a great time if all of the Boojum Crew-jum got together to do an escape room. :D

To me, the Boojumble is kind of the same brain-vein as sudoku somehow... yeah, wordle doesn't quite scratch the itch for me either. I did like the matchstick one Limes shared more, because it had another layer of complexity.

I love packing things/shapes into spaces, that's probably my very favorite one because it's so satisfying to make stuff fit perfectly in a space that I've been told is not large enough. (For Tetris specifically though, I don't care for the timing aspect. I want to putter about with it making everything maximum density for maximum enjoyment.)

Object-application puzzles are more of a real-life game for me, I like to repair broken objects with unconventional bits (e.g. reinforcing a broken connector piece on a modular clothing rack with the plastic ring from a scotch tape roll, using an orphaned boardgame token as a replacement foot for a wobbly toaster). It's not "hoarding trash" if you can actually use (some of) your stash of random crap (eventually), right? 😅

Hidden object games also click very nicely with my brain, I was always that kid that would spot a rabbit or a cat 100 feet away under some bushes out the car window in under 2 seconds.

Anagrams are a 'stim' I do when I'm stuck somewhere trying to listen to someone speak (that's just not enough for my brain to chew on at once... it's also my least favorite way to try to absorb information and it's not nearly as effective as if I could just read the words 10000x faster). I'll write a random long word in my journal, and rapidly rearrange the letters to make as many other words as possible. Usually I skip plurals and 3-letter words because those get repetitive and boring.

Scrabble is good! I usually won that game, but to be fair I wasn't playing against you word-obsessed freaks (meant affectionately ofc). Fight me! :D

I suck at physical puzzle objects like interlocking rings, can't really envision rotated objects in my head I guess. Not the best at sudoku either but that one feels like a good 'stretch.'

I love a good point and click game. I played all of the Broken Sword games.

I used to do crosswords and sudoku, but that was way back when I was a Guardian reader and there were not alternatives. Word search was a last resort.

Never was into tetris.

Hate spot the difference and hidden object games are just annoying.

Wordle is fine, but is a baby game to me. It is a low challenge level.

I like clever riddles that I can't solve, more to understand the solution.

Ohhh, also the Boojumbles. I like those. Sometimes I wanna punch them in the face but they don’t have faces, so I just glare at them instead.

Dunno if I’ve said this before, but I used to play Wordle. Then the variations of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 words at once - plus the Octordle variations (3 different types), plus the Shakespeare one, rude word one, French one, Norwegian one. Possibly others, can’t remember. Was a bit dull though. Not much of a challenge is it.

I started playing them at 15 minutes to midnight, when the puzzles reset, so it was more “exciting”. I’d leave my favourite ones (Octordles) to last, so that if I didn’t do it in time, I’d miss out. This motivated me to do the boring ones fast.

Stopped doing them and started playing boggle again.

I like making lists. Sometimes I make lists of lists. I have lots of lists of words.

I like Scrabble.

I love general knowledge quizzes and especially logic/IQ type tests. Especially if they’re timed.

Love Tetris. Blokus is good if you can find victims. Digital escape rooms can be fun. Would love to do a proper one.

I will revisit this when I remember something obvious I’ve left off.

What about you?

I love crossword puzzles, spot-the-difference and word search. Before I came to Boogle and later Boojum those games had to be physical. I never played any games online. But once when I was visiting my parents, I ran out of crossword puzzles in my mum's magazines and newspapers. So I went online and here we are!