FormeLock

Twenty formes waiting on the imposing stone. A frame of steel, a case of loose metal, and one rule: the frame has to end up with no gap anywhere in it. Take a piece out of the case, turn it in your hand as often as you like, and set it down. Turning is free - fiddling with a piece before you commit is not a commitment. Setting it down is. Take one back off the stone and it costs you a lift, and lifts are the only thing you are short of. EVERY FORME REALLY DOES CLOSE This is the promise, and it is checked rather than asserted. Each chase was made by carving its open area into connected blocks and calling each block a piece - so a perfect packing exists because the level was cut from one, not because a search went looking and gave up. The shipped test lays every piece into its own home on all twenty and refuses to pass unless the frame closes solid with no lift spent. You are not held to that particular packing. Any arrangement that fills the chase wins. TWENTY FORMES From a five-by-five handbill to eight-by-eight night editions, with furniture already locked into the frame that you have to work around. Five pieces at the start, ten by the end. FOUR TOOLS Rule outlines where one loose piece belongs, and only ever picks one whose home is still clear - advice you can actually act on. Backstep takes back your last move. Impose sets a piece straight into place for slugs rather than a lift. Reglet buys back a lift, though the record still shows it. A SUPPLY BENCH Four permanent tracks - an extra lift, better score, free Rules, richer pay - three tiers each, drawn on the next forme you open. Plus eight awards, a daily draw that grows with a streak, and a daybook of your last twenty formes. MADE TO BE LEFT ALONE WITH No timers. No lives. No energy meter. No network, no accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking of any kind - the whole game lives in one file on your device and nothing about you leaves it. ACCESSIBILITY An optional cast glyph on every square so a piece reads apart from its neighbour without colour, a ghost footprint under the held piece, a reduced flash mode, and a warning on your last lift.