Puzzle Games
Baba Is You Explained: Puzzles Where You Rewrite the Rules
How Baba Is You works: nouns, IS and properties like YOU, WIN, STOP and PUSH, the tricks the game teaches, and how to think through levels without spoilers.
Nora Whitfield
Nora Whitfield is the pen name of the small independent editorial team behind Virtual Post Gaming.
Puzzle Games
The Witness Without Spoilers: How to Approach Jonathan Blow’s Island of Puzzles
A spoiler-free guide to The Witness: how its line puzzles work, how the island teaches without words, and how to get unstuck without looking up answers.
Puzzle Games
Portal and Portal 2 Explained: How the Portal Gun Puzzles Work
How Portal's puzzles work: linked portals, momentum and flinging, portal surfaces, cubes, buttons, lasers, light bridges, funnels and gels, and how Valve teaches it all.
History & Design
The History of Tetris: From Alexey Pajitnov’s Prototype to a Global Classic
How a puzzle written at a Soviet research center in the mid-1980s became a global classic, through a licensing tangle, a Game Boy bundle and The Tetris Company.
Puzzle Games
How Modern Tetris Works: Hold, 7-Bag, SRS and T-Spins Explained
The rules behind modern Tetris: the 7-bag randomizer, hold and next queue, SRS rotation and wall kicks, lock delay, T-spins, combos, back-to-back and garbage.
Card Games
CCG, TCG, LCG, Deckbuilder: Card Game Categories Explained
What separates a CCG, a TCG, an LCG and a deckbuilder? Clear definitions, constructed vs limited formats, digital differences and a comparison table.
Card Games
Marvel Snap Explained: Locations, Energy, Cubes and Six-Turn Games
How Marvel Snap works: 12-card decks, three random locations, six turns, energy, power, and the snap and retreat cube system that drives ranked play.
Card Games
Magic: The Gathering Arena for Beginners: How to Start Without Wasting Wildcards
Learn Magic's basics (lands, mana, creatures, the stack, turn phases) and how Arena's wildcards, starter decks and quests work, without spending money.
Card Games
Hearthstone for Beginners: Mana, Heroes, Minions and Your First Decks
A plain-English guide to Hearthstone: how mana and turns work, what minions, spells and keywords do, and how to start with free decks.
Deckbuilders
How Balatro Works: Poker Hands, Chips, Mult and Blinds Explained
Balatro turns poker hands into a scoring puzzle. Here is how chips, mult, blinds, antes, Jokers and the shop fit together, with no real money involved.