Turlock Holmes

Turlock Holmes is a single-player lateral-thinking puzzle game with 48 puzzles created by 15 authors, ranging from easy to hard. An AI quizmaster presents each puzzler’s surprising ending, and you work out what led to it. The puzzles include suspenseful stories with dark themes as well as humorous ones; you can skip any you do not like.

Solve the puzzles

Enter keywords that might explain a puzzler; synonyms are accepted. You can ask the AI whether your keywords are relevant, and spend coins to reveal the correct keywords if you get stuck. As you uncover keywords and hints, each story becomes clearer visually.

Stories and collectibles

One story follows a girl trapped in an underground mall with a body and turtle soup, apparently caught in a mysterious loop. Other puzzles ask what happened to a boy found dead on a sidewalk with only his underwear and an umbrella, or why a pilot with broken legs is afraid of the stewardess who splints them and brings him fresh seafood each day.

Completing each puzzler or story earns a collectible that you can have your little Turtle wear.