Directory of Sliding Tile Puzzles Resources

Puzzles where fifteen pieces are scrambled in a grid with one empty space and you have to rearrange them. And variations upon the theme.

Resources in This Category

9 Piece Puzzle

http://scv.bu.edu/~aarondf/java/puzzle9.html
Put together the Boston University logo (Java).
Absolute Lines

http://gameknot.com/lines.html
Challenging online puzzle game on a checkerboard.
Boxcar Blockade

http://www.rhymezone.com/games/bb/
A sliding box puzzle game with hundreds of challenging computer-generated levels.
kibuR's Fifteen

http://www.dotsphinx.com/games/rubik/fifteen/
Double sided sliding puzzle. You cannot slide individual squares. Instead, you move squares by sliding rows and columns of squares at the same time.
Moving Grid

http://www.suss.me/
Hover your mouse over the cells of a non-uniform grid to try and reveal the quote underneath the tiles.
Nick Baxter's Sliding Block Puzzles

http://www.puzzleworld.org/SlidingBlockPuzzles/
Offers photos and a Java applet to play rare and collectable sliding block puzzle designs online.
OmniSlide

http://www.sapello.com/slidepuzzle/
Online slide puzzle which has no empty space. Instead, the pieces wrap around when the entire row or column is moved. Also available for download and placement on web pages.
Sliding Piece Puzzles

http://www.pro.or.jp/~fuji/java/puzzle/slide/index-eng.html
Different sizes of pieces make these puzzles much more difficult than regular sliding puzzles.

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