My Casual Games

PictoPuzzle PictoPuzzle combines funny pictures and clever wordplay into a great family game. 

The clues are a series of clever picture clues. Double-clicking on the smaller picture brings up a larger image with a series of “fill in hte blank” squares. Look at the picture, then fill in your answer. If the letter is correct, it will be black. If it is not, it will be red. If you’re really stuck, there are 2 clues, then the answer.

And you might need the clues, and even the answer, because these pictures are plays on words. For example, one clue is a picture of men in striped jumpsuits sleeping in tents. The solution is the word “contents.” Or the picture is one of bears in a grocery store. The answer is “bear market.”

The only disappointing thing about this puzzle is that there’s no “yay” moment of completion. When you fill in the last clue, there’s nothing - no congrats or play again screen. But that doesn’t really take away from the great gameplay.

And it’s a great game to play with kids, too. My son and I solve a puzzle a day, and it’s really helping him with his vocabulary, not to mention his sense of fun!