Is this just me and Aspergers or... (regarding puzzle games)

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am I just really insanely good with tetris and other similar puzzle games.

I say that because I won a big Tetris tournament at an anime con thinking I would not do good, but rather on a spare whim and I won it all. I don't know, it's like I can find where to put everything really easily and I am also able to make quick recoveries really well when I think I am going to die, but then a minute later, I have no blocks left on the screen pretty much.

It's strange and I am like that with similar puzzle games like Kirby Star Stacker that I obtained recently for my Gameboy, and well, I find even Insane mode to be really, really simple... I don't know why... it is either the game is really easy or it is just me...

My mother thinks I might just be really visual and can see things that other people cannot or if they do, not fast enough to take action as the blocks fall down faster and faster as the game progresses.

Are any of you like this? Do you guys have those puzzle games that you are really, really good at and you like?

I'm very good with anything that involves visual manipulation, with the exception of parallel parking and gauging distance.

I played with a lot of blocks as a child.

I once made it to level 105 on Columns and then I had to turn it off because it was bed time. I was 15 then and never played a game that long. I usually get bored and turn it off.

I like other puzzle games I have played. I have played this one block game on SNES Super Scope and played this other game on this Disney plug n play TV. I don't remember what they were called.

I'm not very good at Tetris, I don't think fast enough.

I process things too slowly to be good at games that require fast-reactions. But I do like Tetris on occasion.

yeah, back on the original gameboy i played tetris. i won the game (fireworks, yay!). don't know what my high score was anymore, but i think it took about 20 hours or something.

i recently played Zuma and got quited addicted, and i love 3-colour matching games. i can't play anything that involves too many buttons or functions or distractions, like complicated shooting games.

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Last edited by chaotik_lord on 17 Oct 2010, 8:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Games like Tetris and Supercolumns require a visual thinkers' peripheral consciousness, which I embrace. I've had many multi-hour sessions cut short by RL intrusions.

Might be the same problem with me, I am pretty good at games but I have difficulty when I am forced to make quick decisions like where to put a zig zag in Tetris, or when I played Final Fantasy X2 I could not keep up with the fast pace of combat and going through menus quickly in strategy. I can be quite good to say think in a firefight or RPG where I can be good at conserving equipment, but put me something like tetris, space invaders or pac man and I faulter.

Though I also hate to have to overthink, I have a tendency when I want to figure something out is to see every possible move, the most likely possibility, my average luck logical choice and what would have been the right choice. Then throwing another human in the mix I want to build a mental psych profile of habits, likely moves, facial expressions, reactions to my choices, etc , so much so that I get a head ache and no longer fun and I rather do random moves with occasional thought out moves. Effects me from such puzlze games as: rubix cubes, chess, guess who, poker, fighting games that require heavily on combos and countering, and occasionally Sudoku though I can usually write notes with Sudoku on the DS and eliminate to get the right answer.

Nope, this is where I panic and screw everything up even worse =/

I have a Fifteen Puzzle I can solve in under 30 seconds. Not much of a puzzle really, when there's a simple method for solving it.

Wow, I didn't realize puzzle-solving was a symptom, but it makes sense. I have always loved puzzles, and I'm actually quite good at them. When Tetris came out for the original Game Boy (anyone remember those?), I was the only one I knew who managed to clear the highest puzzle level at the highest speed, and make the space shuttle launch.

I once took an entrance exam for a computer college that included a lot of mathematics (something else I have always been good at) and spatial relationships. "Here are four shapes ... which shape comes next?" After completing the test I was told that in the nearly twenty years the test had been administered, I was the only one on record who had ever aced it. Perfect score. Now I know why.

I'm good at tetris, but I'm easily board with it. I prefer games like Rush Hour and Chess, which require you to think about multiple things at one time.

Yes, when it comes to Tetris I am better than pro haha maybe not, but I'm good. It's one of the few games I like.
And in my IQ test, the lady testing apparently said I had a perfect score for puzzle solving, and she hadn't seen anyone like me before when it came to puzzles