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How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title, by John Ziegler
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Advent Door, by Andrew Plotkin
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A short puzzle, July 14, 2025

Not fully satisfying as a standalone game or story (which is to be expected), but fairly good for what it is, which is a short puzzle with one mechanic.

It has a very thin layer of fiction added on top for flavor, but it's really the text-game version of one of those simple tactile puzzles that requires you to move things around in a specific order to solve — remove all the screws! Slide the blocks around in the correct order to form an image! This is a type of puzzle which has become ubiquitous in a mobile game format. I found myself wanting it to have more "levels".

This game was well-served by its map-based nature, as I quite enjoyed having to map the puzzle out myself. I think that this is the main thing that the text-based format added to the puzzle experience.

I'm giving it 3/5 stars, but my main problem with it is that I wanted there to be more of it!

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Counterfeit Monkey, by Emily Short
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Gun Mute, by C.E.J. Pacian
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