52Challenges52 puzzle and board games. Race a real stranger on the same puzzle.
Number puzzles, word puzzles, logic puzzles, codes, memory games and traditional board games from around the world, in one app. Duel an anonymous stranger, invite a friend, play the machine, or play on your own.
For players aged 18 and over.
Ways to play
The same puzzle, against a real person
In a duel, you and another player solve exactly the same puzzle. The faster time wins, or, in scored games, the higher score.
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Duel a stranger
Your opponent is a real person who played that same puzzle. You see each other only as an animal.
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The Arena
Three rounds, three strangers, one after another.
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Play with friends
Send a code. Everyone who has it plays the same puzzle, and you all see how everybody did.
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The machine, or on your own
Play the machine, and the app tells you when you are. On your own, there is no clock against anybody.
No accounts, no names.
Other players see you only as an animal picture. There is no chat.
Inside the app
Words, numbers and boards
Mini CrosswordA handful of clues, two minutes
Number PlaceEvery row, column and box holds each number once
SungkaA board game from the Philippines
Games with a history
35 of the 52 came from other people and other places
Some of them are centuries old. Each one says where it comes from and who plays it.
Traditional board games
- OwareGhana, and across West Africa and the Caribbean
- SungkaThe Philippines
- PallanguzhiTamil Nadu and across southern India
- Ashta ChammaAndhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka
- Bagh ChalNepal
Learn as you play
Every game has a worked example you can watch before you start, and some puzzles end with a short fact.
Nine of the games are our own formats, made for 52Challenges: Root Builder, Estimation Ladder, Error Hunt, Venn Drop, Chain the Concept, Order the Steps, Three Circles, Chain Recall and Analogy.
All 52 games
Six families of games
Words & letters10
- WordWeight
- Mini Crossword
- Codeword
- Anagram
- Odd One Out
- Word Ladder
- Ladder Break
- Longest Ladder
- CrossBattle
- Word Hunt Battle
Numbers11
- Number Place
- Cage Arithmetic
- Futoshiki
- Reach the Target
- Magic Square
- Number Pyramid
- What Comes Next
- Split the Target
- Order of Magnitude
- Skyscrapers
- Missing Signs
Pure logic8
- Picture Logic
- Mine Count
- Binary Puzzle
- Balance Scales
- Code Breaker
- Turn Two
- Sliding Tiles
- Digit Span
Codes & ciphers7
- Secret Writing
- Caesar Shift
- Morse Code
- Binary Lamps
- Pigpen
- Braille
- Letter Sums
Our own formats9
- Root Builder
- Estimation Ladder
- Error Hunt
- Venn Drop
- Chain the Concept
- Order the Steps
- Three Circles
- Chain Recall
- Analogy
Board games7
- Bagh Chal
- Three to Spell
- Yoté Sums
- Oware
- Sungka
- Pallanguzhi
- Ashta Chamma
52Challenges is a Connectzz product, run by Connectz Digital Services. For players aged 18 and over.