Pipe Dream
Puzzle · One-handed · Progressive reveal
No download. No sign-up. Just play.
About this game
Pipework laid over the picture. Tap a piece to turn it and get the flow from the left edge to the right — and every cell the flow reaches uncovers what is under it. So the route is the reveal, and the two things you want are in tension: the shortest connection wins the phase fastest and shows you the least of her, while the long way round is worth more of her and more points for exactly the same win. Deciding how greedy to be is the whole game. Boards are dealt by laying a working route and then turning every piece at random, so there is always a way through — a board with no route at all looks exactly like one you have not solved yet, and this cannot deal you one. A turn budget rather than a clock, tightening each phase until a wrong turn starts to cost. Eight sequences drawn at random each game. One thumb, a few minutes, nothing to install.