IQ Circle

Gameplay

IQ Circle is a colorful logic puzzle designed to test your visual problem-solving skills. The game comes with a circular gameboard, 10 colorful game pieces, and a hardcover instruction booklet. With 120 challenges to choose from at five different difficulty levels, it’s an entertaining one-player game that’s fit for anyone to play.

To begin, set up the game board. At the Starter, Junior, Expert, and some of the Master levels, the challenge booklet will provide the correct orientation of the game board, which is important because of the vertical ribs. The game board is split up into five sections by vertical ribs, and pieces can’t overlap with the ribs. Some of the Master levels and all of the Wizard levels don’t provide the correct orientation of the game board, adding an extra challenge to the already difficult levels.

Then, add the starter pieces. Each challenge will start you with at least one piece on the board that cannot be moved—the rest of the pieces must be placed around it. At the easier levels, you’ll start with multiple pieces on the board, while at harder levels, you might start with only two.

Now you must find a way to fit all the pieces on the game board without moving the starting pieces at all. You can flip the remaining pieces every which way, but the starting pieces stay put. Every puzzle has only one solution, with the answer key in the back of the challenge booklet.

History

IQ Circle is brought to you by Smart Toys & Games! The game was released in 2024 and was designed by Raf Peeters. Raf attended SHIVKV-Genk for university and graduated with a Master in Industrial Design. His senior year, he needed a mentor for his graduation project, which is how he met the founders of Smart Toys & Games. He’s now worked at Smart Toys & Games for nearly 30 years. Raf lives in Lier, a small city in Belgium, with his wife and two sons.

Variations

Smart Toys & Games has many variations of these one-player logic puzzles, including IQ Square, IQ Pentagon, and IQ Hexagon. IQ Circle has the lowest difficulty rating at 3/5, followed by IQ Square and IQ Pentagon with a 4/5 rating, and finally, IQ Hexagon with the highest difficult rating: 5/5.