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There are so many existing chess variants that it's hard to find something that really catches your attention at a single glance. However, we’ve found a chess game that might fit your need for something both familiar yet welcomingly foreign—Gravity Grid.

It’s a chess-based puzzle game that has the added gimmick of weight to it. If the concept seems ridiculous to you, trust us, it gets as fun and wacky as Zach Gage’s Really Bad Chess!

Five game insights we think will pique your interest!

Trillium is a simple-to-grasp word game that revolves around swapping letters to form three 4-letter words. Sounds easy, but it can be tricky to get the right results without swapping too much. The main challenge lies there, in the swapping and the formation of the words.

PlinkIdle is the game you need when you just want to relax your brain and just keep on clicking your mouse. While clicker games aren’t new, especially with notable ones like Frank Lantz’s Universal Paperclips, not many have the ASMR-like effect of the pinballs of this game in particular.

Undertoe is a tic-tac-toe game with a fun mechanic and appealing graphics. Easy to pick up and enjoy, it’s definitely a good casual puzzle game to give a try, especially if you’re just looking for something short and sweet.

Boxy Beasts is what happens when Sokoban meets modern video game aesthetics. Like all Sokoban games, you just need to put the boxes in the right spots via maneuvering them in the right sequence. The difference is, this one is just too cute not to finish!

Puzzle games aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but for those who do like them, they find that there’s no other gaming genre and gameplay that both engages and calms them at the same time. You initially play the puzzle to solve it, but find that the solving process is what’s most enjoyable, and that’s one of the many magics of puzzle games!

Interestingly, we have a quote from Richard Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist and science communicator, that perfectly sums that feeling up:

“The solution often turns out more beautiful than the puzzle.”

We’ve recently added account creation to Crosswordle, which now allows you to save and track your stats as you would in your account in Mathler. If you haven’t, come check it out now!

If you want to learn more about what we’re up to at Hey, Good Game, you can find out more about us here.

That’s all for this week. See you next Friday!

The Hey, Good Game Team