Join the path
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can you reconnect the path?
№ 1Rotatey is a free daily path-rotating visual puzzle. Everyone gets the same grid of tiles each day: straights, corners, T-junctions and dead-ends, all turned the wrong way. Turn them until the whole grid joins up into one connected path, with every opening meeting another and nothing pointing off the edge. There's only ever one way to do it.
Tap a tile to turn it a quarter. The direction button switches between clockwise and anticlockwise, so you never have to go the long way round. Tiles that join up, side to side, back to the start tile ◉ change to show they're connected, so you can see the path growing. When every tile is joined, you've solved it. Each day has its own look (water pipes, a garden path, a circuit board or a railway), and the colours are only decoration.
Each day is Easy, Medium or Difficult, shown on the badge. About half of all days are easy, on a 4×4 grid. About a third are medium, on a 5×5 grid. Roughly one day in seven is difficult, on a 6×6 grid with more junctions. Mondays are always easy, and difficult days mostly land at the weekend.
The game knows the fewest taps needed to solve the grid (par). Solve it in par and you earn 12 points. Every turn in the wrong direction costs a step (it takes two extra taps to undo), so one wrong turn earns 10, then 8, 6, 4 and 2, and a sixth wrong turn ends the day. Stuck? The helper turns one tile to its correct position and locks it, and its turns don't count against you. It halves the day's score and is only available until your third wrong turn.
Your play streak counts the days in a row you've played, and your solved streak counts the days in a row you've solved the puzzle. Play seven days running and you earn a 7-point bonus, or 14 points if you solved all seven. Miss a day and the streaks start again. A new puzzle arrives every day at midnight UTC.
Rotatey never relies on colour: tiles that are joined to the start change shape or texture as well as colour (a dashed centre line in pipes and circuits, solid stones on the garden path, filled sleepers on the railway). The start tile is marked ◉, and every tile can be reached and turned from the keyboard (D switches direction). Turn on High contrast for plain black-and-white tiles. Your setting is remembered. There's no clock, and the gentle flow when you finish switches off if your device asks for reduced motion.
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