XYZZY Award for Best Puzzles

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The XYZZY Award for Best Puzzles is one of the annual awards given by XYZZYnews to works of interactive fiction. This award has been given since 1996. The award for Best Puzzles recognizes the game with the most well-crafted, clever, and appropriate puzzles.

Below, the winners of the award for each year are listed, followed by the other finalists for that year.

  • 1996: So Far by Andrew Plotkin
    • Frobozz Magic Support by Nate Cull
    • Lost New York by Neil deMause
    • The Meteor, the Stone, and a Long Glass of Sherbet by Graham Nelson
    • Time: All Things Come to an End by Andy Phillips
  • 1997: The Edifice by Lucian P. Smith
    • Babel by Ian Finley
    • Everybody Loves a Parade by Cody Sandifer
    • Heist by Andy Phillips
    • Zero Sum Game by Cody Sandifer
  • 1998: Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
    • Anchorhead by Michael Gentry
    • Enlightenment by Taro Ogawa
    • Losing Your Grip by Stephen Granade
    • Once and Future by G. Kevin Wilson
  • 1999: The Mulldoon Legacy by Jon Ingold
    • Lunatix: The Insanity Circle by Mike Snyder
    • Not Just an Ordinary Ballerina by Jim Aiken
    • Varicella by Adam Cadre
    • Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
  • 2000: Ad Verbum by Nick Montfort
    • Augmented Fourth by Brian Uri
    • Dinner with Andre by Liza Daly
    • The End Means Escape by Stephen Kodat
    • Heroine's Mantle by Andy Phillips
    • Metamorphoses by Emily Short
    • Nevermore by Nate Cull
  • 2001: First Things First by J. Robinson Wheeler
    • Degeneracy by Leonard Richardson
    • The Gostak by Carl Muckenhoupt
    • Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country by Adam Thornton
    • Vicious Cycles by Simon Mark
    • The Weapon by Sean Barrett
  • 2002: Savoir Faire by Emily Short
    • Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky by Paul O'Brian
    • Lock & Key by Adam Cadre
    • Out of the Study by Anssi Raisanen
    • Tookie's Song by Jessica Knoch
  • 2003: Gourmet by Aaron Reed
    • Inevitable by Kathleen M. Fischer
    • Risorgimento Represso by Michael J. Coyne
    • Scavenger by Quintin Stone
    • The Erudition Chamber by Daniel Freas
  • 2004: The Dreamhold by Andrew Plotkin
    • All Things Devours by "half sick of shadows"
    • Future Boy! by Kent Tessman
    • Goose, Egg, Badger by Brian Rapp
    • Square Circle by Eric Eve
  • 2005: Distress by Mike Snyder
    • Building by Mike Tullock
    • Cheiron by Sarah Clelland and Elisabeth Polli
    • Finding Martin by Gayla Wennstrom
    • Vespers by Jason Devlin
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