Abandonware DOS title

The most popular abandonware puzzle games

Puzzle games are about solving logical or strategic puzzles, jigsaws, mathematical brain teasers, and quizzes. The player can control one or more characters (as in Lemmings) or interact with static or moving objects (as in Tetris).
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X-Tetris

Windows XP/98/951996NSFW falling blocks
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Chip's Challenge

DOSWindows 3.x1991 sokoban
Chip's Challenge is an abandoned top-down puzzle game designed by Chuck Sommerville, developed and released by Epyx in 1991. Chip's Challenge was released on DOS, Windows 3.x and many other home computers such as Atari ST, Amiga, C64, ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC.
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Tetris 2.0

Windows XP/98/951990 falling blocks
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Tetris Classic

DOSWindows 3.x1992 falling blocks
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Lemmings 95

Windows XP/98/951994 action puzzle
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Centerfold Squares

DOS1988NSFW tile-matching
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Pipe Dream

DOSWindows 3.x1989 tile-matching
Pipe Mania (also known as Pipe Dream is a tile-matching (sort of) puzzle game about flowing liquids developed by The Assembly Line in 1989. You must build a path made of pipe pieces to let a green liquid (sewer goo?) flow. It's simple, original and addicting, that's why Pipe Mania was cloned a number of times.
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Soko-Ban

DOS1984 sokoban
Sokoban is a classic puzzle game first released in 1982 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi for the NEC PC-8801 in Japan and later ported to a number of platforms, including DOS, as Soko-Ban. The name "Sokoban" translates to "warehouse keeper" in Japanese, which perfectly describes the game's premise. You control a warehouse worker (the Sokoban) who must p...
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The Incredible Machine 2

DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/951994 physics puzzle
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The Incredible Machine

DOS1993 physics puzzle
The Incredible Machine (part of The Incredible Machine series) is a single-player peculiar DOS physics-puzzle game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line in 1993. The goal of the game is to build strange complicated contraptions using the few pieces at your disposal. When you feel pretty sure that your contraptio...
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Sherlock: The Game of Logic

DOS1991protected tile-matching
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Color Lines

DOS1992 tile-matching
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Lemmings 2: The Tribes

DOS1993 action puzzle
Lemmings 2: The Tribes is an abandoned puzzle game part of the acclaimed Lemmings series. It was developed by DMA Design and released by Psygnosis in 1993. Lemmings 2: The Tribes runs on DOS but was also published for Acorn, Amiga, Atari ST, Game Boy, Genesis, SNES. 
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Rodent's Revenge

Windows 3.x1991 action puzzle
Rodent's Revenge is a puzzle video game originally released in 1991 as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows. Developed by Christopher Lee Fraley, the game is simple, with gameplay revolving around a small mouse character attempting to outwit cats by trapping them using movable blocks. The primary goal is to trap the cats by pus...
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Late Night Sexy TV Show

DOS1994NSFW trivia / quiz
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Wheel of fortune

DOS1987 word puzzle
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Pushover

DOS1992 action puzzle
Pushover is a puzzle platformer video game developed by Red Rat Software and released by Ocean Software in 1992. It was initially available for the Commodore Amiga and later ported to various other platforms, including MS-DOS and SNES.In Pushover, players control a character named G.I. Ant, a marching ant with the goal of arranging a set of dominoe...
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Tetris

DOS1987 falling blocks
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The Incredible Toon Machine

Windows 3.x1994 physics puzzle
The Incredible Toon Machine is a puzzle video game developed by Jeff Tunnell Productions and published by Sierra On-Line in 1994. It serves as the successor to the game Sid & Al's Incredible Toons and is part of the The Incredible Machine series. The game tasks players with solving puzzles by assembling Rube Goldberg-style contraptions. Ea...
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Lemmings

DOS1991 action puzzle
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Logical

DOS1991 falling blocks
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Super Solvers: Operation Neptune

DOS1991 math puzzle
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The Sentinel

DOS1989
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3D Ultra Lionel Traintown

Windows XP/98/952000 action puzzle
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Super Solvers: OutNumbered!

DOS1990 math puzzle
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Porntris

DOS1993remakeNSFW falling blocks
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Marble Cooking

DOS1994NSFW action puzzle