What is happening at N-Puzzle

New: the NintenDoku Archive to look things up. For every past day it shows the categories and the community results, in the daily puzzle and in Hardcore mode. The old puzzles cannot be played there.

New page “News and roadmap”: recent changes, planned features and a vote on what comes next.

Fixes based on community reports: The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords is now included, River City Ransom counts as a beat ’em up, Disney Illusion Island as a Metroidvania and Breath of Fire I and II as turn-based. The data for Pokkén Tournament has been corrected as well. On top of that, every fighting, beat ’em up, hack and slash and Metroidvania game now also counts as action. Thanks for the reports!

The broad before and after 2000 categories now only appear in the daily puzzle and in Unlimited Easy. In Hardcore mode and Unlimited Hard they were too easy.

Big database expansion: more than 850 new games were added last week, from Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan to Bomberman and Gundam.

Scores and playtimes added for 148 games, plus fixes such as Super Mario Maker 2 and Pokémon Champions.

Game data fixes, many of them based on community reports, including Super Mario Bros. 2, Mega Man Battle Network and Kirby's Toy Box. Red Steel 2 and Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic are new. Thanks for the reports!

N-Puzzle is now on Bluesky, Threads and Tumblr: a post about the new NintenDoku and Perfect Game puzzles every day.

Based on community feedback, every category built on Metacritic scores now only appears in Hardcore mode. In the regular puzzle they were hardly solvable without looking things up. Thanks for the feedback!

Official launch of the Discord bot: NintenDoku and Perfect Game every day in your own server, with results, leaderboards, recaps and reminders.

New collection reward in NintenDoku: the three most named games in every category, plus the most named games of the previous day in the recap.

The daily puzzle now leans more on well-known games. Titles hardly anyone knows are no longer required answers, but they still count as correct.

New design for the start screen with the daily puzzle, Unlimited and Hardcore mode.

The big database expansion begins: whole series such as Puyo Puyo, Crash Bandicoot and the Final Fantasy spin-offs are added.

New recap in NintenDoku and Perfect Game: the community results of the previous day, compared with your own result.

Bug fixed: connection problems sometimes led to a different stand-in puzzle. Now a notice appears instead, with an option to try again. Thanks for the report!

Search suggestions now appear in a fresh order in every puzzle and no longer hint at when a game was added to the database.

New page Perfect Game in Numbers: how often players pick the real winner, split by sales, user score and critic score.

The Perfect Game collection now only counts games that can win a round. That makes it about a third smaller and easier to complete.

Full release of Perfect Game: three rounds every day about which Nintendo game sold better, is more popular or was rated higher.

Perfect Game now shows three cards per round instead of six.

New page NintenDoku in Numbers: solve rates, score distribution and how often everyone lands on the same title.

New pages About N-Puzzle and Contact, plus detailed guides below NintenDoku and Perfect Game.

The “Paid DLC” category is now called “In-Game Purchases” and covers every real-money offer in a game.

Games that lack the data needed for a cell now show a notice in the search instead of silently costing an attempt.

Perfect Game launches as an alpha.

“Discover Nintendo puzzles” now lets you switch directly between the games.

New categories in Hardcore mode: critics and players agree or disagree.

Unlimited mode with two difficulty levels: Easy and Hard.

The daily puzzle is now generated on the server in advance and is the same for everyone worldwide from 6 am German time.

Games released in several versions, such as Pokémon Red and Blue or Fire Emblem Fates, now count as a single game.

NintenDoku launches with 600 games: a new grid every day, to be filled with matching Nintendo games.

n-puzzle.com goes online.