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* A variation in ''VideoGame/Safecracker'' has no open space, but instead allows sets of four adjacent pieces to be rotated around their point of intersection. Also, the picture you need to reconstruct is shown only [[spoiler:on the game's menu page]].

* A variation in ''Safecracker'' has no open space, but instead allows sets of four adjacent pieces to be rotated around their point of intersection. Also, the picture you need to reconstruct is shown only [[spoiler:on the game's menu page]].

** There's a safe which plays this straight in the original ''Safecracker'' from DayDream Entertainment. The strategy guide even gives you a cheat to have the game solve it for you. And let's not forget that you have only 12 hours to beat the game proper.

* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' has an optional minigame that you can get as part of the "Trioptimum Fun Pack Entertainment Module", with pictures of Edward Diego, Abe Ghiron, and SHODAN that you must reassemble. It's not that hard, though, since you get to see the pieces scramble automatically and just do the process backwards.

* Sierra's ''Lighthouse: The Dark Being'' included a puzzle that plays this straight inside a cube with a puzzle inside each face. Dr. Jeremiah Krick managed to solve the first two puzzles before being unable to solve this. But the game is kind enough to give you a "Solve It?" button by backing out and zooming in 4 times.

* ''SystemShock'' has an optional minigame that you can get as part of the "Trioptimum Fun Pack Entertainment Module", with pictures of Edward Diego, Abe Ghiron, and SHODAN that you must reassemble. It's not that hard, though, since you get to see the pieces scramble automatically and just do the process backwards.

* Some level 3 clues in ''RuneScape'' require the player to solve a 5x5 sliding puzzle to advance the quest.

* The SegaGenesis version of ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}'' has this.

* Appears as a minigame in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker''. Link is explicitly told that solving it gives no reward beyond MoneyForNothing, so that saves some wasted time.
*** Aha, but that's what the doorman ''wants'' you to think...

* One shows up in ''VideoGame/TheNightOfTheRabbit'', though the player can't make Jeremy do any specific moves (clicking on the puzzle just has him cycle through positions, and the player can't even see the puzzle clearly). To solve the puzzle [[spoiler: [[CuttingTheKnot Jeremy must cast a spell on it, blowing it up.]]

The puzzle traces back at least to Noyes Palmer Chapman in 1874; later on, Sam Loyd claimed to have invented it.

* ''SystemShock'' has an optional minigame that you can get as part of the "Trioptimum Fun Pack Entertainment Module", with pictures of Edward Diego and Abe Ghiron that you must reassemble. Diego's image moves, making that version a bit trickier.

** There's a safe which plays this straight in the original ''Safecracker'' from DayDream Entertainment. The strategy guide even gives you a cheat to hae the game solve it for you. And let's not forget that you havw only 12 hours to beat the game proper.

* There's one in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'', but you don't really have to "solve" it; instead, each piece represents a room in a 16-square area, and arranging the pieces into a path allows you to traverse it. Each room can only be reached in one to three directions depending on the piece.

* The ''Dream Park'' novel ''The California Voodoo Game'' throws out one of these in a timed situation. The trick is that it's a word-version and there are two R's: "RATE, YOUR, MIND, PAL". Put them in the wrong place and the puzzle is uncrackable.

* One of them is part of the security that LupinIII must get past to retrieve one of the statues in ''ThePursuitOfHarimaosTreasure''.

* Found in ''BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'' for a very cheap reward.

* There's one in ''{{Castlevania}}: Dawn of Sorrow'', but you don't really have to "solve" it; instead, each piece represents a room in a 16-square area, and arranging the pieces into a path allows you to traverse it. Each room can only be reached in one to three directions depending on the piece.
* ''Franchise/SilentHill'' adores these things. ''SilentHillHomecoming'' has a fiendishly difficult one with ''irregularly sized'' blocks.

* The indie game VideoGame/{{Cogs}} is this TurnedUpToEleven.

* Also a mini-game in ''TheSimpsons: Bart vs. the World'', where pictures of the Simpsons cast were shown, and you would have to slide the puzzle around to make it look normal.

* ''Beyond the Beyond'' had a smaller sliding puzzle, which one had to complete to gain access to a church early in the game.

* The PC game ''Secrets of Da Vinci: The Forbidden Manuscript'' has one of these; after you've sketched a copy of the ''Mona Lisa'', you have to slide the different parts of the drawing around until they are in the correct placement. In terms of the story, this is the most illogical puzzle in the entire game, as there is no plausible reason why you would have drawn it that way in the first place. (It's also one of the most difficult puzzles in the entire game, and many players have taken advantage of a glitch which forces the game to solve it for you.)

* ''Castle of Doctor Brain'' has one of these in the Maths hallway early in the game. Depending on the difficulty it will be 3×3 or 4×4 with numbers or 5×5 with an image.

** Aha, but that's what the doorman ''wants'' you to think...

* The computer game ''Viaje al Centro de la Tierra'' by Topo Soft begins with a puzzle of this type, fitting eleven pieces of a TreasureMap into their proper positions.