What is N-Puzzle?
N-Puzzle is a free website with daily puzzles about Nintendo games. It hosts two games, NintenDoku and Perfect Game, both drawing from the same database of over 1,350 titles that spans every console generation, from the NES era of the 80s through SNES, N64 and GameCube to Wii, 3DS, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. Each game gets a new puzzle every day, identical for all players worldwide. No account and no app required, just open the page and play. It has nothing to do with the classic numbered sliding puzzle that happens to share the name.
What is NintenDoku?
NintenDoku is a 3x3 grid where each cell needs a Nintendo game that matches both its row and its column category. You have 12 guesses, every entry counts, and no game can be used twice. Categories include platforms (Switch, SNES, Game Boy), franchises (Mario, Zelda, Pokémon), genres, release decades, Metacritic scores and sales figures. It works like PokeDoku or the Immaculate Grid, just with Nintendo games. Everyone solves the same daily puzzle, and an Unlimited mode offers endless random grids.
What is Perfect Game?
Perfect Game is a daily card game played over three rounds with three Nintendo games each. Your job is to pick the title with the highest value in that round: worldwide sales, the Metacritic user score and the critic score, with the round order changing daily. You play all three rounds and get a single attempt in each. The three games you picked become your own Perfect Game, with a mashup title and a cover to share. Get all three rounds right and the cover turns into the fancy version. The format is related to Higher or Lower. A new puzzle drops every day, with an Unlimited mode for extra rounds.
What does the name N-Puzzle mean?
N-Puzzle stands for "Nice Puzzle" and is a platform for daily puzzles about Nintendo games. There are currently two games: NintenDoku and Perfect Game. It has nothing to do with the classic sliding puzzle from computer science that is also called "N-Puzzle".
Which games are on N-Puzzle?
NintenDoku: A 3x3 grid where each cell needs a Nintendo game that matches both categories. Inspired by PokeDoku and the Immaculate Grid.
Perfect Game: Across three rounds, pick the Nintendo game with the highest value: sales, user score and critic score, in a new round order every day. Your three picks build your own cover. Related to the Higher-or-Lower format.
Both games share the same database of over 1,350 titles from NES to Nintendo Switch 2.
Are the games free?
Yes, every game on N-Puzzle is completely free. No account, no app, no installation. They run directly in the browser on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android. The project is run as a hobby by a single developer, support is welcome via Ko-fi.
How often are there new puzzles?
Each game has a new daily puzzle every day, identical for all players worldwide so you can compare your result with friends. On top of that there is an Unlimited mode where you can play as many random puzzles as you like with no limit.
What does "Streak" mean?
The streak counts how many consecutive days you have played the daily puzzle. It is saved locally in the browser. If a day is missed, the streak resets to zero. Each game keeps its own streak.
Can I share my results?
Yes. After each solved daily puzzle you can share your result, as an emoji grid in NintenDoku and as a cover put together just for it in Perfect Game. This lets you show your result without spoiling the solution for others.
Is there more on N-Puzzle than the two games?
Yes. From the entries in NintenDoku, the page Best Nintendo Games is built every day, a ranking of the best loved Nintendo titles by franchise, genre, platform and release year. The more often a game is chosen as a correct answer in the puzzle, the higher it ranks. There you can compare categories head to head and guess the number 1 in a small quiz.
Who is behind N-Puzzle?
N-Puzzle is built and run as a hobby project by a single developer from Germany, with no studio and no publisher behind it. The game database is maintained by hand: review scores come from Metacritic, playtimes from HowLongToBeat, sales figures from official statements by Nintendo and publishers as well as Japanese trackers like Famitsu and Media Create. Corrections and suggestions go through the in-game feedback form or the community on Reddit (r/N_Puzzles). N-Puzzle is a fan project and is not affiliated with Nintendo.
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