Something Blue

How To Play

Goal:

Remove all of the blue blocks from the board and finish on the 'end' block.

Removing Blue Blocks:

• Blue pieces are removed when their face count is reduced to zero.
• A blue piece's face count is reduced when you move your player/puck across it.
• A blue piece's face count is also reduced if you move the player/puck onto and then off of it.

Special Blocks:

• Multi-pass Blue Blocks - Blue blocks with a 2, 3, or 4 must be moved over multiple-times to remove them from the board.
• Restricted-Movement Blocks - Some blocks (with red-edges) can only be entered and exited along their grey edges.
• Forced-movement Blocks - Blocks with animated white arrows force the player/puck to move in the direction of the arrow.
• Teleporters - There are red, blue, and green teleporters. Moving onto a teleporter will send the player/puck to a same-colored teleporter elsewhere on the board.
  • If there are 3 or more teleporters of a color, moving onto one of these teleporters sends you to a random same-colored teleporter.
  • In the case of random teleportation, the player/puck is never sent back to the previous teleporter. (i.e. It is impossible to loop with 3 or more teleporters).

Additional Goals:

• You are timed as you solve the puzzle.  This time is saved and displayed on the level start buttons.  Try to beat your best times!
• Your touches are counted.  Your total touches are graded as follows:
  • One Gold Star - You solved the puzzle, but you weren't even close to the best known touch count.
  • Two Gold Stars - You solved the puzzle, and you were only one touch away from the best known touch count.
  • Three Gold Stars - Good Job!  You have matched the best touch count found by the game's author.
  • Three Gold Stars and a Red Star - Awesome!  You have found a solution even better than the games' author.  How?  Well, some puzzles have multiple solutions and you clearly are a better player than the author.  Congratulations!

About The Game

"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue."

Something Old - The art-style is semi-retro line-based and minimalistic, all of which can be considered old.

Something New - The platform is, well it's the iPhone/iPod which is (not brand-spaking, but still pretty darn) new.

Something Borrowed -  Blocks are removed from the board when you move your player across them.  This is borrowed from: Irritable .. SensitiveDS .. The Game .. ? (Read more here.)

Something Blue - My expansion of the idea adds additional mechanics in the form of new block types: multi-pass blocks, restricted-movement blocks, forced-movement blocks, and teleporters.