Match Blox

A logic puzzle of nine blocks in a three-by-three square, each orange or light blue, dealt at random. First choose one of five goal patterns: UNI-COLOR, all blue; CROSS, the middle row and column blue with orange corners; NO CENTER, all blue but an orange centre; 4 CORNERS, only the corners blue; or 5 POINTS, corners and centre blue. You may only press an orange block. Pressing it turns it blue and flips its neighbours: a corner flips its two edges and the centre, an edge flips the two corners beside it, and the centre flips the four edges. Every press counts as a move. Reach the goal and you see YOU SOLVED IT IN n MOVES; turn everything blue without reaching it and the game is over.

Controls: Use either joystick. On the title, push up and down, or left and right, to choose a goal and press a button to play. In the game the stick moves the cursor and a button presses the block.

ColecoVision version credited in the source to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a reimagined adaptation of the published rules. From COMPUTE!'s Gazette, November 1986: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.