The game offers 110 unique puzzles, which are very easy to start with, but get more difficult as you progress through the puzzles. Full instructions are provided within the game as well as options to control the experience.

Starting the game

The first time you start the application, you will see the help screen, which explains how to play the game. Scroll through the instructions to read them and press the OK button to start with the first puzzle. The help screen can be returned to at any stage by pressing the help button on the game screen.

Help screen Game screen showing help button

When you start the application again, it returns to the puzzle you were on, in the state that it was in when you left the application - useful for when the phone rings and you're in the middle of solving a puzzle!

Settings

To view and/or change the game settings, push the settings button on the game screen.

Game screen showing settings button Settings screen

The volume of the in-game sounds are the same as the master volume on your device. Sound effects may be turned on or off by changing the sound effects option, or by muting your device with the hardware switch on the side.

The game may be played using swipe gestures by turning on the swipe control option and the game may be played by tilting the device by turning on the tilt control option. Both options can be enabled, but both cannot be disabled - one will be re-enabled if you disable both. When on, the sensitivity of the tilt control can be changed with the tilt sensitivity slider, with least sensitive to the left and most sensitive to the right.

Game play

The aim of each puzzle is to join the colored blocks, which are special magnets that stick to other blocks of the same color. The blocks may be joined in any fashion - many puzzles have more than one solution. Blocks are moved by tilting the whole puzzle - all blocks that are not prevented from moving by other blocks or by walls slide as far as they can in the direction of the tilt.

Magnetic blocks on either side of a wall stick to each other and are considered to be joined. White, transparent blocks are not magnetic they do not need to be joined. They often get in the way, but are vital in helping solve some puzzles.

Two magnets joined through a wall Puzzle with many non-magnetic blocks

The last move played may be undone with the undo button and the whole puzzle can be reset to its starting state with the reset button.

Game screen showing undo button Game screen showing reset button

All 110 puzzles are available to be played. A different puzzle may be selected with the select puzzle button, which takes you to the puzzle selection screen.

Game screen showing select puzzle button Select puzzle screen

On the puzzle selection screen as well as on the game screen an icon indicates whether you have previously solved the puzzle (a green tick) or have previously solved the puzzle in the minimum number of moves possible (a green tick with a yellow star).

The number of moves you have made so far when solving a puzzle as well as your best score (the lowest number of moves) for that puzzle are displayed on the bottom left of the game screen.

Last site update 01 November 2009