Jonathan Keefer
Game Curator

Favorite Coolmath Games: Clicker Heroes, Block the Pig, Tube Master
Jon is a strategy game fanatic - his favorite games are open-ended puzzles with strategic, complex systems and creative solutions. He loves that games allow anyone to share in unique experiences, like designing a subway system in Mini Metro: London or building a civilization in Pre-Civilization Bronze Age. He has been helping discover and design games that make you think for Coolmath since 2014.
In his free time, Jon enjoys biking, playing board games, card games, Nintendo, Xbox and PC games. In past lives he has helped design board games and card games, including the Chaotic Trading Card Game and the Twilight movie (yes, that Twilight) board game series.
Jon is a graduate of NYU’s Stern School of Business and is deeply passionate about using games as a way to help people think, learn, and grow. His accomplishments in the web gaming space have given him opportunities to share his insights as a speaker and panelist at industry events such as GDC, Gamescom and Pocket Gamer Connects.
Games Reviewed By Jonathan Keefer
Hour Glass
December 31, 1998This classic logic game takes a little math and LOTS of thinking. You have hour glasses with different amounts of sand. You need to use them to find another time.
Stained Glass
December 31, 1998This is one of my all-time faves. Yeah, it's hard and takes time (past the first level), but I love figuring stuff like this out. You just have to match up all the edges.
Eight Queens
December 31, 1998This is a class logic puzzle. The goal is to place eight queens on a chess board so that no queen can attack another queen.
Magnets
December 31, 1998If you want a good challenge, this one's for you. You have to rotate pieces of this puzzle to connect like colors.
Memory 3
December 31, 1998This game take a lot of concentration. The pods open for just a second to show you what's inside... Then, you have to remember and match the color pairs up.
Venture: Capital
December 31, 1998How well do you know your US state capitals? This game gives you three ways to test yourself: choose it, spell it and locate it!
Lizard Row Slide
December 31, 1998I like this one because it's easier than those nearly impossible "slider" games. With this one, you can deal with one row at a time. I can actually solve this one!
Pattern Memory
December 31, 1998The computer briefly shows you a pattern on the board... Then, it disappears and you have to reproduce it.
Monkey Banana
December 31, 1998You have to find the path for the monkey to get the banana. Mmm bananas. The trick is that the monkey takes a turn every time he can, so you have to plan ahead.
Four Piece Tanagram
December 31, 1998A classic puzzle game where you have a set of weird shapes and you have to put them together to form a given, bigger weird shape.