XYZZY Award for Best Individual Puzzle (XYZZY Award)

XYZZY Award

Check all the winners of XYZZY Award for Best Individual Puzzle presented under XYZZY Award since 1996 .

An Act of Murder

(Identifying the killer)

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	An Act of Murder Identifying the killer
	Child's Play The toy in the cabinet
	Orevore Courier The thermostat
	Slap That Fish The shark
	Suveh Nux The vault door

Delightful Wallpaper

(Navigating the mansion)

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	Delightful Wallpaper Navigating the mansion
	Floatpoint Choosing the present
	Madam Spider's Web The piano puzzle
	Moebius The reactor puzzle
	Strange Geometries Final puzzle

Beyond

(Following the murderer)

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	Beyond Following the murderer
	All Hope Abandon Moving the stone (after escaping the labyrinth)
	Chancellor Finding something to eat
	Distress Beating the creature
	Mystery House Possessed Identifying the killer

All Things Devours

(The time puzzle)

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	All Things Devours The time puzzle
	Blue Chairs The toilet
	Future Boy! Cracking Eno's computer
	Necrotic Drift The poltergeist
	The Dreamhold The cistern

The Recruit

(The purple room)

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	The Recruit The purple room
	Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus Escaping the quicksand
	Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus Making the sandwich
	Risorgimento Represso Creating the black powder
	Risorgimento Represso Getting into the farm

Lock & Key

(Setting the traps)

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	Lock & Key Setting the traps
	Constraints The maze
	Forever Always Entering the church
	Savoir Faire Decoding the letter
	Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish out of Me! The computer password

The Gostak

(Deciphering the language)

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	The Gostak Deciphering the language
	All Roads The birds
	Pytho's Mask Switching the glasses
	Silicon Castles The chess game
	Textfire Golf An unspecified puzzle
	Vicious Cycles Disarming the bomb

Rematch

(The whole game)

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	Rematch The whole game
	9:05 The whole game
	Adove and Beyond! The mannequin
	Ad Verbum The letter rooms
	Being Andrew Plotkin The recursive room

Darkness

(The maze, in Hunter)

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	Darkness The maze, in Hunter
	For a Change Stopping the flood
	The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man The clone puzzle
	Break-In The water puzzle
	The Mulldoon Legacy Getting the light upstairs

Spider and Web

(Getting out of the chair)

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	Spider and Web Getting out of the chair
	Little Blue Men The snack machine
	Losing Your Grip The granite cube
	Photopia Getting out of the maze
	The Plant Entering the warehouse

The Edifice

(The language puzzle)

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	The Edifice The language puzzle
	Heist Setting the digital clock
	Pick Up the Phone Booth and Die The whole game
	Sins Against Mimesis Defeating the Kunkel
	Sunset Over Savannah Building the sand castle

So Far

(Opening the gate)

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee	Nominated Work
	So Far Opening the gate
	Fear The crystals
	The Meteor, The Stone, And A Long Glass Of Sherbet The elephant
	So Far (cramped, crawling)
	So Far Riding the creature

XYZZY Award for Best Individual Puzzle