Ideas for (simple) games

Matrix based games

Blind tetris

Normal tetris, but you don’t see the pieces at the bottom. You may rotate and move them, but you don’t see the state of the game at the bottom.

Starting from small game field as it might be very hard to play at first.

A-maze (Memaze)

Testing implementation.

You find a way through a maze, but everytime you misstep (fall into lava or bump into a wall), you are returned back to the start. If you don’t remember the route, you will need to find it again. And next time, try to remember it, it will help you get through the maze faster.

Wordomino

You have a matrix with two points: start and end. You are given random words and your task is to join ends and starts of the words so there is a string of word connected by first and last letters and the string begins at start and ends at end.

Filling letters into matrix

You are given random letters (though they are generated according their frequency in language) and your task is to create words in the matrix (horizontal and vertical). Every time a word is created, all its cells are cleared and the respective columns fall down, like in tetris.

The game ends once there is no empty cell in the matrix.