Tilework Game

How to play

New to these puzzles? Press Learn to play on the start screen to solve a small picture one step at a time.

1. The numbers beside each row and above each column are the clues. Each is a run of shaded tiles in that line, in order, with at least one clear tile between runs. 3 1 means three shaded tiles, a gap, then one more. A 0 means the line is clear.
2. Tap a tile once to shade it, twice to mark it empty, three times to clear it. A mark is only a note for you. Drag along a line to paint several tiles at once.
3. Start with the long clues. A run longer than half its line always covers the tiles in the middle, wherever it starts.
4. Shade the last right tile and the picture shows in color. Next puzzle deals a fresh one.

Choose a level on the start screen. Easy is a 5 by 5 board, and a line's strip turns green when your tiles match its clue. Normal, the default, is 8 by 8. Hard is 10 by 10. On a keyboard, the arrows move, Enter or Space cycles a tile, X marks one empty, Backspace clears it, and Shift with an arrow paints the run. Escape pauses.

Scoring

The clock starts when the board appears and stops when the last tile is right. Each level keeps its own records.

• Your best time.
• How many pictures you have solved.

Next puzzle deals a fresh picture at once, as many as you like. Every picture has exactly one solution and can be worked out line by line, with no guessing. Once you have seen every drawn picture on a level, and each one's mirror image, the game deals tile patterns. Your records are saved in this browser only.