Between 2003 and 2007, a good chunk of the French gaming web looked like this: a saturated blue or orange background, a quickly-drawn but endearing mascot, and dozens of Flash mini-games presented like handheld console cartridges. It was the era of "free online games" sites, before YouTube, smartphones and mobile games completely changed how people consumed light entertainment on the internet.
Minesweeper looks like a game of chance the first time you play: you click, you hope. In reality, a large part of the game is pure logic — the best players rarely guess, they deduce. Here are the basic techniques that make the difference.
Quiz Gozo is a general knowledge quiz — geography, history, science, arts, sports — designed to never give the exact same round twice in a row. Here's how it really works, behind the scenes.
The 2048 available on GozoGozo is a reimplementation of the original game, but its history is worth a detour: it's one of the rare viral web hits that never had a single ad.
Snake Gozo revives a concept most people associate with an old Nokia phone. In reality, this game is much older than that — its history begins nearly 20 years before a Finnish engineer first programmed it for mobile.
Whack-a-mole is one of those games so familiar you'd never imagine it has a real origin story. Yet the story of Whac-A-Mole (its international name) begins with a Japanese prototype that, at first, didn't even work.
Despite its Japanese name, Sudoku wasn't born in Japan — and it isn't even that old. Here's the real story of a puzzle that became a daily ritual for millions of people.
In Memory, some players seem to remember the position of every card without apparent effort. It's not an innate gift: these are memorization techniques used well beyond the game, including by memory champions.
Fast mental math isn't about genius: it's about shortcuts. Here are five concrete techniques that save precious time, especially useful for beating your record on GozoGozo's Mental Math mode.
You're looking at two nearly identical grids, certain you're seeing everything... and yet an obvious difference escapes you for long seconds. It's not an attention problem: it's a well-documented phenomenon in cognitive psychology, called change blindness.
Solitaire (the version played on GozoGozo is the Klondike variant) is arguably the most-played card game in computing history — not thanks to a casino or a games publisher, but thanks to Windows.
Faced with a number sequence, the temptation is to stare at the last digit and hope for intuition. In reality, there's a systematic method that works for the vast majority of sequences — including the ones in the GozoGozo game.
GozoGozo's True or False game deliberately includes several very widespread myths. Here are some of the most persistent ones, and why they're false.