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[[File:PQ_DS_01.jpg|frame|Enton is '''not''' the one getting an extra turn.]]
The games in the series include:
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* '''Puzzle Kingdoms''' was released in May 2009. It takes place in a remixed version of ''Warlord's'' world of Etheria and adds [[RTS]]-style troop and resource management to the mix. You play as the heir to your small kingdom's leadership. You take it upon yourself to find the source of the sudden famine that has stricken your land, only to stumble across a plot by the god of famine. It features a puzzle style similar to ''[[Pokémon]] Trozei''.
* '''Puzzle Chronicles''', was released mid-April 2010 for many systems, featuring a desert theme and a gameplay style similar to ''Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo''. In it, you play as a member of desert tribe looking to free his enslaved people and gain revenge on the slavers that captured them. ''Puzzle Quest 2'' appears to be based on this game.
* '''Puzzle Quest 2''': a true sequel to the original; styled more on [[
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== Tropes present throughout the series
* [[Boring but Practical]]: Several starter spells and weapons which players will use throughout the game
* [[Cap]]: Level 50 in ''PQ'' and ''Galactrix'', 20 in ''Kingdoms'' - though you have up to 12 Heroes to level up there.
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* [[Support Power]]
* [[Unpredictable Results]]: Multiple spells/attacks destroy random gems on the board for various effects. Some other skills randomly transform gems into a certain color, skulls, or even wildcard spaces. In ''Kingdom'', units with Ranged attacks will attack a random enemy unit.
* [["Wake
* [[X Meets Y]]:
** Challenge of the Warlords:''Warlords'' meets ''[[Bejeweled]]''.
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** [[Full-Contact Magic|Full contact]] [[Bejeweled]].
== Challenge Of The Warlords contains examples of
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: The Gobshooter. It hurls ''Goblins''.
* [[All Powerful Bystander]]: The elder dragon Kelthurax, who would rather sleep than find out who kidnapped ALL of his dragon brethren (save Flicker).
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* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]
* [[Dragon Rider]]: Elistara. Do the sidequests properly and she'll form a bond with Flicker.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: You only get two female [[Optional Party Member
* [[Expansion Pack World]]
* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Drong. He even eats {{spoiler|''Bane''. Or at least a portion of him}}.
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* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: The arkliches come equipped with an item that turns one random tile into a +5 skull for each 8 points of damage they take. However, if the skulls explode immediately because they were spawned in alignment with the skulls already on board, it will count as part of your turn and the enemy will take damage (and spawn more skulls). If you get lucky, your random attack may cause the arkliche to (figuratively speaking) spontaneously explode mid-battle.
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: The elder dragon Kelthurax is not only extremely old and powerful, but also a loner who doesn't like to be awakened or bothered. In one of Elistara's quests, she feels honor-bound not only to wake him and tell him of her mount's death, but ''ask him to be her new mount''. Amazingly, he lets her live.
* [[Horse of a Different Color]]: Many monsters can be captured and used as mounts. Including [[Giant Spider|giant spiders]], [[Rodent of Unusual Size|giant rats]], wyverns, [[Our Gryphons Are Different|griffons]]... Also, we meet a
* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: One of your [[Optional Party Member|optional party members]] is a young dragon named Flicker.
* [[It Was with You All Along]]: The {{spoiler|Shield of Albion}}, which is really the {{spoiler|broken shield your father gives you early in the game}}.
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* [[Sealed Good in a Can]]: {{spoiler|Lord Sartek… at least compared to Lord Bane. A variation, though, as he was broken into 101 pieces rather than actually sealed somewhere.}}
* [[Shout-Out]]: A few.
** Khalkus the dwarf looks remarkably like [[The Lord of the Rings|Gimli]] from the movies.
** Another for the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'': In the film of ''The Two Towers'', Aragorn tells Eowyn that it's hard to tell male dwarves from female dwarves because of their beards, and she laughs. In the game, the player character meets a female dwarf named Khrona… who has a beard.
** The elves are ruled by [[A Midsummer Night's Dream|King Oberon and Queen Titania]]. (You only meet her, but one of the rumors you can learn in a tavern identifies the king.)
* [[Smug Snake]]: Emperor Selentius.
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== Galactrix contains examples of
* [[Beehive Barrier]]: the shields in ''Galactrix'', at least as represented on the menus.
* [[Con Man]]: Pezt
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** Or not. Nobody ever says it a theft after all... {{spoiler|And if you attempt to set Beta Prime free during the endgame, she instead chooses to stay with you, under the guise of Kirine Thwaites. Kirine was Beta Prime all along!}}
* [[Humanity Is Superior]]
* [[Humans Are
* [[Idiot Hero]] / [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: See [[Omniscient Morality License]].
* [[Mega Corp]]: Several, each with defining traits, while still being 'corporations'. [[The Empire|Lumina]], the religious and political capital of humanity, is not led by a CEO, but by an Emperor. Trident, a weapons company structured more like a military, complete with generals. The MRI, a faction dedicated to furthering Psionic potential in humans. And Cytech, who do robotics. And not much else. Not surprisingly, Cytech is EASILY the [[Humans Are
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Just a minor one, but a choice at the end affects one thing and determines whether you get a epilogue about [[Humans Are Special]] or [[Not So Different]] [[Humans Are
* [[Omniscient Morality License]]: Apparently trying to save the galaxy justifies all manner of atrocities. All manner being about two.
* [[Portal Network]]
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== Puzzle Chronicles contains examples of
* [[Barbarian Hero]]: The protagonist is a paper-thin Conan imitation. In fact the whole game is basically one long homage to Conan. Including the snake cult!
* [[The Beast Master]]: The protagonist's spells in this game come from your warbeast (a nasty-looking dog).
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== Puzzle Kingdoms contains examples of
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: The various Vice Boxes.
* [[A Commander Is You]]: The battles are your army against the opponent's army, rather than one-on-one battles in Puzzle Quest.
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== Puzzle Quest 2
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: The AI will do whatever the help arrow shows, even if it doesn't help them. It will also collect mana it CAN'T USE. And if your hp is low enough to be finished off by a weapon attack, sometimes it will use a spell.
* [[Barrier Warrior]]: The Assassin class is a mix of this and [[Glass Cannon]]. His/her primary ability is to use purple mana to go into "stealth" mode, which is really just using your purple mana as a shield against damage. While in stealth, all of your "-Strike" abilities do double damage. (Strike abilities turn gems into purple gems on the screen as well as damage the opponent, so there's a lot of synergy between covering yourself and hurting the opponent).
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* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]: Vampires. They have stupidly high rates of shield criticals (cutting damage taken in half, no matter how much or how little), have the egregiously overpowered spell Blood Drain (does damage equal to your current Red Mana total, heals itself for an equal amount, AND knocks your Red Mana down to zero), and spam their special weapon, Vampire Fangs (which inflicts the stackable Poison effect.)
** That said, Blood Drain is pretty much ''all'' they've got. The Vampire Lords, on the other hand... they have Charm (destroys all Skulls and gains life equal to the number of Skulls destroyed) and Bat Swarm (halves your defense and causes you to take 5 damage per turn for 3 turns) in addition to the aforementioned Blood Drain and Vampire Fangs. Good luck, ''you'll need it.''
* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: Beating the [[Bonus Boss
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: {{spoiler|Brek the orc shaman}}, which makes sense really.
* [[Evil All Along]]: {{spoiler|Your in-game guides, The Mother, The Maiden, and The Crone,}} were all a part of the [[Big Bad]].
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* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: The Gorgon.
* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: The Yeti. Thanks to its high Strength stat, one cascade can grant him enough red mana to cast [[One Hit KO|"Crushing Kill"]]. Five normal gem matches will get him there as well.
** On the other hand, clearing red gems (whether that's done by you or the Yeti) will actually hurt it. But it will be healed anytime blue gems are cleared. To make matters worse, it has a spell called "Ice Breath" that changes 14 random gems to Blue
** The Arch-Lich is also stupid-annoying, thanks to its absurdly high Morale stat making it near-impossible to cast spells. Putting ''every single skill point into your Intelligence stat'' is the ''only'' way you'll have a reasonable chance of using your spells, so if your play style relies on them, '''''you're screwed eight ways to Sunday, no questions asked'''''.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Templars, especially later when you gain access to Templar-only plate armor and the Tower Shield. You'll be able to outlast anything short of [[Bonus Boss|the Green Dragon]]. (And you'll even be able to outlast the Green Dragon with the right setup.)
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