The quickest way to play puzzle games online is to open a puzzle page in your browser and start, and on Mayavoo that is all it takes. Its puzzle and logic shelf holds sudoku, nonograms, minesweeper, jigsaws and stranger ideas from independent creators, free, with nothing to install and no account.
Below is a tour of that shelf by the kind of thinking each game asks for, so you can go straight to the one that fits your mood.
How playing works on Mayavoo
Every game runs in a browser tab. You pick one, press play, and the game loads inside the page. Signing in with Google or GitHub is optional and only matters if you want to like a game or leave a comment.
Before any game is published, the Mayavoo team plays it and checks its files and how it behaves on the network. Games then run in a sandboxed frame, kept apart from your account. The site pays for itself with ads: a short Google ad can appear before a game starts and when you leave, and nothing interrupts you mid-puzzle.
Number and grid puzzles
These are the classics, rebuilt with care.
- Ninebox is a quiet sudoku. Each grid has a single solution and was graded by a solver, from Easy to Expert. Notes clean themselves up, undo reaches all the way back, and the three-mistake rule can be switched off.
- Hive Plots asks you to place one hive in every row, column and flower field without two hives touching. A friendly bee explains the next deduction in a single sentence when you are stuck.
- Pixel Riddle is a nonogram: row and column clues tell you which squares to fill, and the finished grid turns into a pixel picture.
- Fuse Field turns minesweeper into a garden. Your first dig is always safe, and a long press plants a flag on a phone.
Route and flow puzzles
Here the goal is to get something from one place to another.
| Game | What you move | The twist |
|---|---|---|
| Pipe Patch | Pipe pieces you rotate | Water must reach every drain with no leaks |
| Prism post | Crystal mirrors | Two colours of beam, each to its own receiver |
| Canal Knot | Barges and punts | Lock gates open and shut on a clock |
| Pebble Dig | Sand you dig through | Marbles must reach the cart of their colour and shape |
Physics and order puzzles
Two games mix logic with a little motion. In Paper Flock you tap origami birds that fly straight ahead, and the trick is finding an order where none of them collide. Scribble Shield gives you one crayon line to protect a napping animal from a swarm of cartoon bees.
A jigsaw with no pressure
Snug Pieces is a jigsaw where pieces snap into place, there is a daily puzzle, and you can build one from your own photo, which stays on your device. There is no way to lose and no timer unless you turn one on.
Getting more out of a puzzle session
A few habits make online logic puzzles more fun. Read the instructions panel first, since several games hide useful shortcuts there, such as keyboard keys for notes, undo and hints. Use the hint when you are truly stuck rather than guessing, because a guess in a one-solution grid tends to cost more time later. And if a game offers a relaxed mode, like Pixel Riddle's or Ninebox's switch for the mistake limit, try it first and turn the pressure back on once the rules feel familiar.
When another site is the better fit
If you want a very large catalogue in one place, a big portal such as CrazyGames has a long puzzle category. Mayavoo is the pick when you want hand-made games with clear rules, controls listed on every page, and support for desktop, phone and tablet.