History Main / GridPuzzle

SuperTrope of FifteenPuzzle, sliding numbered tiles in a 4×4 grid so they are arranged in ascending order; CrosswordPuzzle; MagicSquarePuzzle, a square array of integers that sum the same in each row, column, and main diagonal; MatchThreeGame, a game involving matching three objects that are similar in some way; and QueensPuzzle, put eight queens on a TabletopGame/{{chess}}board so they can't capture each other. Contrast BlockPuzzle, puzzles solved by arranging blocks to interact with the environment. Can be part of a {{Metapuzzle}}, a multi-layered puzzle of which the solution requires solving other individual puzzles first. Not to be confused with SetPiecePuzzle, a puzzle isolated in an object from the main game by gameplay mechanics.

SuperTrope of FifteenPuzzle, sliding numbered tiles in a 4×4 grid so they are arranged in ascending order; CrosswordPuzzle, MagicSquarePuzzle, MatchThreeGame, and QueensPuzzle. Contrast BlockPuzzle, puzzles solved by arranging blocks to interact with the environment. Can be part of a {{Metapuzzle}}, a multi-layered puzzle of which the solution requires solving other individual puzzles first.. Not to be confused with SetPiecePuzzle, a puzzle isolated in an object from the main game by gameplay mechanics.

SuperTrope of FifteenPuzzle, CrosswordPuzzle, MagicSquarePuzzle, MatchThreeGame, and QueensPuzzle. Contrast BlockPuzzle, puzzles solved by arranging blocks to interact with the environment. Can be part of a {{Metapuzzle}}, a multi-layered puzzle of which the solution requires solving other individual puzzles first.. Not to be confused with SetPiecePuzzle, a puzzle isolated in an object from the main game by gameplay mechanics.

SuperTrope of CrosswordPuzzle, MagicSquarePuzzle, MatchThreeGame, and QueensPuzzle. Contrast BlockPuzzle, puzzles solved by arranging blocks to interact with the environment. Can be part of a {{Metapuzzle}}, a multi-layered puzzle of which the solution requires solving other individual puzzles first.. Not to be confused with SetPiecePuzzle, a puzzle isolated in an object from the main game by gameplay mechanics.

SuperTrope of CrosswordPuzzle, MagicSquarePuzzle, MatchThreeGame, and QueensPuzzle. Contrast BlockPuzzle, puzzles solved by arranging blocks to interact with the environment. Can be part of a {{Metapuzzle}}, multi-layered puzzle of which the solution requires solving other individual puzzles first.. Not to be confused with SetPiecePuzzle, a puzzle isolated in an object from the main game by gameplay mechanics.

SuperTrope of CrosswordPuzzle, MagicSquarePuzzle, MatchThreeGame, and QueensPuzzle. Contrast BlockPuzzle, puzzles solved by arranging blocks to interact with the environment. Can be part of a {{Metapuzzle}}, multi-layered puzzles via other individual puzzles that require their involvements and/or solutions to be solved in turn. Not to be confused with SetPiecePuzzle, a puzzle isolated in an object from the main game by gameplay mechanics.

SuperTrope of CrosswordPuzzle, MagicSquarePuzzle, MatchThreeGame, and QueensPuzzle. Contrast BlockPuzzle, puzzles solved by arranging blocks to interact with the environment. Can be part of a {{Metapuzzle}}. Not to be confused with SetPiecePuzzle, a puzzle isolated in an object from the main game by gameplay mechanics.

SuperTrope of CrosswordPuzzle, MagicSquarePuzzle, MatchThreeGame, and QueensPuzzle. Contrast BlockPuzzle, puzzles solved by arranging blocks to interact with the environment. Not to be confused with SetPiecePuzzle, a puzzle isolated in an object from the main game by gameplay mechanics.

* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': Protecting the entrance to the dimension where Darkar and Dark Bloom are doing the ritual to open the Realix, there's a skewed grid of colored tiles. Nobody can figure out how to solve it until Stella tries her hand at it. Being a GeniusDitz when it comes to fashion, she color-coordinates the tiles; opening the portal as a result.

Unlike the sliding block puzzles (such as FifteenPuzzle and {{Klotski}}) and Rubik's Cube, there are no restrictions on the way elements can be repositioned, except for possibly a few cells fixed at the start. Once you think you have figured out a solution, you're free to put any available elements where you think they ought to be. (The selection and availability of elements is non-random, too.)

SuperTrope of CrosswordPuzzle, MagicSquarePuzzle, and QueensPuzzle. Contrast BlockPuzzle, puzzles solved by arranging blocks to interact with the environment. Not to be confused with SetPiecePuzzle, a puzzle isolated in an object from the main game by gameplay mechanics.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'': The nicknamed "sudoku" puzzles consist of placing glyphs on a grid until you figure out the right sequence. This requires you to think some moves ahead since certain combinations of glyphs become incompatible. The hardest one so far is found in the Elaaden vault.

SuperTrope of CrosswordPuzzle, MagicSquarePuzzle, and QueensPuzzle.

* Creator/CliffJohnson's games (''VideoGame/TheFoolsErrand'', ''VideoGame/AtTheCarnival'', ''VideoGame/ThreeInThree'') include several variations, such as unscrambling a picture, a map, or a crossword. Some used irregular grids.

* ''VideoGame/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'': In the video game adaptation, a simple marbles-in-the-holes puzzle is used to guard the ancient temple. The game then offers you a selection of more difficult puzzles that have nothing to do with the plot but hey, we designed the interface, might as well use it more than once.

* ''VideoGame/LastCallBBS'': Dungeons and Diagrams is a nonogram-style puzzle with a dungeon theme.

* ''VideoGame/{{Riven}}'': the Fire Marble Puzzle is one of these. You must deduce where to place the six colored spheres in a 25x25 grid. [[spoiler: Overlaps with EnterSolutionHere, since you're just re-creating a map. The trick is gathering the information to make the map, then figuring out the precise positioning through trial and error.]]
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': As it name indicates, ''Mario's Picross'' is based on solving nonograms. There are two modes --Mario mode, where the player's mistakes are corrected automatically and there's a time limit, and Wario mode, where the player is required to self-correct but there's no timer.
* ''VideoGame/{{Statik}}'': The first puzzle the players face is a variant on this idea. But before you can solve it you first must figure out the device to set all the pieces in place.

* ''Manga/{{Beelzebub}}'': Pillar Head Quetzalcoatl sets up a Sudoku puzzle that Oga or Tojo must beat along with other three puzzles hidden in the school in order to get through the door.

* ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'': The Irrational Cube is a giant Rubix-cube-like creature with a Sudoku puzzle on each of its sides whose particular nature causes almost every door in town to be locked by puzzles. This makes it a PuzzleBoss.

* ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'': Wizard's Sudoku is a {{Calvinball}} game that combines Sudoku with improbable stuff like jousting and TabletopGame/{{chess}}. PI [[ChessWithDeath plays it with Death]].

* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'': The true route ends with such a puzzle. In the original UsefulNotes/NintendoDS release it's sudoku[[note]]in the later re-releases it's a number-base puzzle[[/note]] that needs the console to be [[ParadiegeticGameplay held upside-down]] to be solved. Since the bottom part of the screen represents Junpei, it means that it's him who is cracking the puzzle instead of TheProtagonist Akane (who is in the middle of a nervous breakdown due to the impossibility of the challenge and the previous reveals).

* ''VisualNovel/NineHoursNinePersonsNineDoors'': The true route ends with such a puzzle. In the original DS release it's sudoku; in the later re-releases it's a number-base puzzle.

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': One of the Joke SCPs, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-in-a-box-j SCP-????-J]], is a box that produces different locking mechanisms each round that the Foundation agents have to solve. There's a sudoku locking whose FlavorText describes as "Prints and receives from the same slot and must be completed within ten minutes. Considered "fucking difficult".

[[AC:Traditional Games]]
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_square Latin Square]] puzzles such as Sudoku, Futoshiki, and Kenken.
* Nonogram, variously known as Griddlers, Pic-A-Pix, and other names. In it, an assortment of numbers in a chart at the side determines the cells to be colored. This creates of pixel {{art}}-like picture.