Puzzle game

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Puzzle video games are a genre of video games that emphasize puzzle and problem solving. The types of puzzles can test many problem-solving skills including logic, pattern recognition, sequence solving and word completion. The player may have unlimited time or attempts to solve a puzzle, or there may be simple puzzles made difficult by having to complete them in real-time, as is the case with Tetris. There are six subgenres of puzzle games: action/arcade, hidden object, reveal the picture, physics, tile-matching and traditional/mathematical.

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