The Amazeing Labyrinth is a curious little puzzle of a game for up to 4 players. In The Amazeing Labyrinth players must be the first to move their pawn onto the series of treasures as found in their hand of treasure cards. Players also get to move around an ever shifting board – which is the cleverest thing about the game.

The board is made up of some fixed and some loose tiles, the fixed tiles create a series of passages along which the loose tiles are moved. Each tile shows part of a corridor with a treasure in it, these corridors sometimes link up (creating longer corridors) and sometimes don’t. It is the players task to try and manipulate the corridors so they can moves their pieces through the corridors and onto their appropriate treasures before any other player.

The Amazeing Labyrinth is a clever little game but is surprisingly easy to learn, with a very simple set of rules. This makes The Amazeing Labyrinth perfect as a family game where everyone can join in together.

Blokus is an intelligent and puzzling game with a set of rues so simple they are printed on the back of the box. Best played as a solo puzzle, or with an even number of players (2 or 4) this game is all about being clever in how you play your pieces.

In Blokus each player has a number of variously sized shapes (polyominoes), each shape is made up of a number of squares (from 1 to 5), when you play a shape onto the board it can touch any other players pieces in any way, but must touch at least one of your other pieces, and only corner to corner.

A quick game, and one that requires a good sense of space, Blokus is both a competitive puzzle and a fun game. Players try and cut each other off, as well as play as many of their pieces as they can. For such a simple game this one is quite deep and certainly a lot of fun!

Techno Witches is actually a series of rules that can be used to play a variety of games of varying complexity. The same basic rules apply to each of the games, although what you do in those games depends on which game you pick.

The rules in Techno Witches are about picking funny shaped movement pieces (called spells), and placing them into your spell book, once you feel you have what you want (or are getting nervous about having too many banked up) then you can let your ‘Witch’ go – you do this by taking the first of the move pieces in your spell book and putting where your witch was, you then place your second move piece after this one and so forth – laying down a track that shows where your Witch has moved (and it is never quite where you thought it would move), of course there is always the distinct possibility that your Witch could crash into something, even another Witch!

There are four different games that come in the rules book, most of them involve racing around an obstacle course of some sort or other and are all extremely fun and funny.

Techno Witches is a great game that requires a good sense of distance and shape, as well as being a hoot to play.

Hey! That’s My Fish! Is different from the other games on this list – with the other games the puzzle aspect is borne through how game pieces are added to the ‘board’ (whether they are tiles as in Carcassonne, or otherwise). In Hey! That’s My Fish! The puzzle aspect is in how the board is taken apart.

To begin the game players set up the gameboard and place their penguin pieces on tiles. Following this set-up players may make one move per turn. With their one move a player may move any one of their penguins, penguins may move like Queens in Chess, but may never jump over a hole in the board. When a penguin moves, the player removes the tile their penguin was on before it moved, and keeps the tile. Each tile shows a number of fish – and at the end of the game the player with the most fish wins the game.

This is a surprising game for something so quick and so simple – there is a lot of depth here, and the game works very well for 2, 3 or 4 players.