Lovatts and YouPlay.com Puzzles
Print and Online Games, Trivia, Crosswords, Sudoku and Puzzles
Established for 30 years, Lovatts Publications is Australasia’s market leader in puzzle publishing. With the head office located in Australia and branch offices in New Zealand and the UK, Lovatts puzzles are syndicated in major print publications and digital outlets around the world.
Lovatts YouPlay Online PuzzlesYouPlay.com offers brainteasers to suite all tastes and abilities. Many puzzles are available at a range of skill levels and puzzles are updated daily to ensure a constant supply of new challenges and entertainment.
Crosswords
Six different crossword formats offer something for everyone from beginners to experienced crossword fans. Christine Lovatt is well known for her cryptic crosswords and these are included along with quick mini crosswords, classic, giant, knowledge and an elevenses crossword in 11 x 11 format that is an ideal accompaniment to a cup of coffee.
Number Puzzles
Fans of the ever popular sudoku will find plenty to keep them occupied at YouPlay.com with not only standard sudoku grids in four skill levels, but also X sudoku, shapeshifter and sudoku combat, an online one-on-one challenge game available in real time. Regular 3-day sudoku combat challenges are held where members can compete for prizes in each of the four skill levels.
Other number puzzles include a variety of addoku formats, kakuro and the number logic puzzles Hitori Island and Ripple Effect.
Word Puzzles
In addition to the range of crosswords, YouPlay.com also offers four word puzzles: alphabet mix, wild words, code cracker and wordsearch. The action puzzles Bookworm and Bookworm Adventures also utilise word skills.
Action Puzzles
YouPlay.com provides access to several popular Popcap Games favourites including Chuzzle, Zuma, Bejeweled, Peggle and Insaniquarium.
As much games of reflex as logic, several of these games in this category particularly could be played by school-aged children. The family friendly YouPlay.com environment ensures that they can do so safely.
TV, Trivia and Memory
A variety of trivia games, two memory matching games and a fun Deal or No Deal imitation are available in this section. A trivia tease question appears to the left of the screen in most of the general access pages offering members the opportunity to keep a tally of their trivia success on a casual basis.
Free Membership and Premium Membership BenefitsWith puzzles updated daily, general members taking advantage of the free membership option can enjoy a range of new puzzle challenges every day. Completing puzzles allows players to accrue points and tokens, which can be used to access puzzles at different difficulty levels.
Most areas of the website are accessible at some level to general members with only a few games reserved for premium members only. Members are able to create an avatar, choosing from a selection of profiles, facial features, clothing and backgrounds.
All members have access to the general chat room and onsite email as well as a facility to save incomplete puzzles. The chat room feature can be turned off if desired.
Premium membership, at a cost of only A$4.99 per month or A$39.99 per year, includes the following additional benefits:
- Entry into the daily, weekly and monthly prize draw for cash prizes available with selected puzzles.
- No ads during game play.
- Additional items available to personalise avatars
- Access to every puzzle and game category
- Extended access to game archives
Free Online Puzzle Fun
For fans of Lovatts print publications, YouPlay.com offers a daily fix of the familiar Lovatts puzzle fun. For newcomers to the world of Lovatts puzzles, it won’t take long for a visit to the YouPlay.com website to become part of the daily routine. With new games and challenges added regularly, YouPlay.com is ideal for fans of word, number and logic puzzles of all kinds.
