PLAY: Match Move
Ever wonder what it feels like to have your mind explode? Wonder no more thanks to randomly generated match puzzles. My mom used to set these up for me at dinner when I was young. I don’t think I’ve ever solved one. Here’s hoping you can do better. Click the pic to get the game.




June 23rd, 2009 at 9:03 am
done in 12:51….that was tricky.
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:37 am
3:30.
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Is figuring out what they mean by “get the correct formula” part of the puzzle? Because I don’t get what the object is.
June 23rd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Ok, I’m an idiot, nevermind. I didn’t think you could move matchsticks on the left side of the puzzle. You can! 4:00
June 23rd, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I’m an idiot. What does “get the correct formula” mean?
June 23rd, 2009 at 2:52 pm
I’m glad I’m not the only one who was confused by that – it means make the math correct, so move one matchstick to make the digits right. and if they’re already right then just pick one up and put it back down where it was.
June 23rd, 2009 at 3:49 pm
11:04 !!!
daaaaaaaang
that was more frustrating than fun lol
June 23rd, 2009 at 5:38 pm
When this was first posted today I couldn’t make it past 2 or 3. I came back now and sailed through with 3:07 the first time.
June 23rd, 2009 at 6:34 pm
8:10 – A+++++++++++++
June 24th, 2009 at 12:40 am
After several tries I managed 2:54. Yay me! (I should mention that my first try was over 11:00)
June 25th, 2009 at 10:05 am
2:53 my first time through…not that hard…
June 25th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Done in 5:43 first try. Not too hard, but fun.
June 25th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
3:55
June 25th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
2:56 my first try
June 25th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
There’s an exploit. When presented with an equation that is already solved, sure you can move a stick to make a second truth. But you can also pick up and drop a match to recreate the same equation. Got lucky, was able to do this twice to get 2:01.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
2:41 first try
June 25th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
2:44!!!
June 25th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
8:15.
I might be bad at these.
June 25th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
2.55
though maths GCSE yeterday
June 25th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
8+7= 15
true.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
2:16
June 25th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
1:09
June 25th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
1:33 on my third try. Really easy after a few rounds.
June 25th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
3:04 not too hard
June 25th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
1:48 BOOM! second time around. first time was 4:30 something, took me over a minute to realize you had to take an existing match and move it, not add another one. DUR
June 25th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
yeah… 2:19. that was fun.
June 26th, 2009 at 12:43 am
2:59 suckas
June 26th, 2009 at 1:23 am
fuck you I got it in 7:39 and I still dont know what I did.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:24 am
shit on you my friends I got it in 7:39 and still dont know what I did.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:33 am
11:51 on my 3rd try…I’m surprised I actually got through it!
I’m generally TERRIBLE at all things math and logic!!
June 26th, 2009 at 1:42 am
I got one in 2:25, not my first though
June 26th, 2009 at 11:46 am
1:51. First try today. Third try overall.
June 26th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
4:53 first try ever, booyeah
June 27th, 2009 at 7:31 am
First try 7:28 (half of that was spent on the first two puzzles ‘getting the hang of it’ and from there i blazed through the rest.)
June 29th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Yeah after you figure out what you’re doing it’s not too bad.
June 30th, 2009 at 5:55 am
Took me a few minutes of not paying attention to figure out wtf you’re supposed to do. Finished around the 8:25 mark.
June 30th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
I tried this a week ago and couldn’t figure it out, and now I finally figured out what the game is about.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
3:51 the same question in 8 and 9
June 30th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
2:26
October 4th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
1:02 and 1:10 back to back. Boom!
October 4th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
59 seconds. I think there should’ve been some kind of sweet music playing after this one.
June 18th, 2011 at 5:45 am
30 sec.