Jonathan Keefer

Game Curator

Jon wearing Miata slippers

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

Civiballs: Christmas Edition

January 1, 1999

A Christmas edition of one of our most popular games! Cut the chains to help Santa put the colored balls into the gift boxes that are the same color. 

Bloxorz Gameplay

Bloxorz

January 1, 1999

Flip the block over this way and over that way to get it to fall in the hole. You'll be flipping blocks in your sleep!

Orb 2

January 1, 1999

This is a sequel to Orb and it's a more polished version than the first. Man, some of these levels are HARD -- and I'm proud to say that I've beat them all. Can you?

Word Scramble

January 1, 1999

This game does what you'd think: It gives you a row of letters and you have to rearrange them to figure out what word they make.

Math Lines

December 31, 1998

This is just like our Marble Lines game, but we've made it an addition game. You have to shoot the ball that makes the right sum.

Magicians

December 31, 1998

A great level puzzler. Control multiple magicians while you collect playing cards and avoid hazards to get through each puzzling level.

Hour Glass

December 31, 1998

This 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, 1998

This 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, 1998

This 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, 1998

If you want a good challenge, this one's for you. You have to rotate pieces of this puzzle to connect like colors.