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Zen Puzzle Garden

Zen Puzzle Garden is a geometric puzzle game set in Japanese rock gardens. The goal of each puzzle is to rake all of the sand without turning corners or breaking raked lines. Play through 64 carefully designed…

1 February 2003

Zen Puzzle Garden is a puzzle developed by lexaloffle, released 1 February 2003 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Zen Puzzle Garden is

Zen Puzzle Garden is a puzzle game developed by lexaloffle and released in 2003. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

If you thought that you could never reach enlightenment by playing a computer game? Well... you're probably right. You can, however, fry your brain by trying to solve seemingly impossible puzzles that take place in a relaxing zen garden.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective.

What it launched against

Zen Puzzle Garden launched on 1 February 2003, within three weeks of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, SimCity 4, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness and NASCAR Racing 2003 Season.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, SimCity 4, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, NASCAR Racing 2003 Season.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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When did Zen Puzzle Garden come out?
Zen Puzzle Garden was released on 1 February 2003 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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