Interlocked

By Chiktionary | February 21, 2011

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Rating: 4.3/5 (649 votes)

Platform: Flash

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Chiktionary Got those Monday morning blues? Well here's a nice little cure; a fresh and unique 3D puzzle from We Create Stuff. Looking very familiar, Interlocked is like those wooden block puzzles that challenge you to put them back together, only this time you get to pull them apart. Much more fun!

The controls are simple; use your mouse to rotate each block and examine it from all angles. Press the [spacebar] to engage the hand tool then click and drag with your mouse to move pieces and pull them out. Hit the spacebar again to return to examination mode. The difficulty curve ramps up nicely, beginning with some easy blocks to whet your appetite that are quickly followed by some tough puzzles to solve.

Also available for mobile devices! Check out our Interlocked (mobile) review and walkthrough.

Interlocked's gameplay is sublimely smooth with beautifully rendered 3D graphics, and surprisingly this has all been achieved on a flash platform. With 14 levels followed by 6 Hardcore puzzles, Interlocked is simple to play but highly challenging, and you may find yourself tugging at pieces in the vain hope that they'll move just one millimeter more.

So forget it's Monday for a while and engage the gray matter with some engrossing puzzles. What better way to kick off another week?

Play Interlocked

Interlocked Walkthrough now available!

Walkthrough Guide

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Interlocked Walkthrough
For the mobile-version walkthrough, go here.

General Information

The goal is to dis-assemble the blocks in each level.
Click and drag on the blocks to rotate them.
Press the spacebar to engage the hand icon, to enable manipulation of the pieces.
When the hand icon is active, clicking on a piece will display a set of coloured arrows around the hand:

Red - moves pieces right and left
Blue - moves pieces diagonally
Green - moves pieces up and down

Move the mouse to highlight the set of arrows according to the direction that you wish to move pieces.
You may need to rotate the block slightly to adjust the way pieces can be moved.
When a piece has been successfully removed it will fade out of view.
Press the spacebar again to go back to rotation mode.
There's a hint icon in the top right corner of the screen, indicated by an 'i'.

Walkthrough

Levels 1 - 14

Level 1

The first piece to remove is the BLUE piece.

Rotate the block so that the blue piece is at the top.

Screenshot.

With the blue arrow highlighted pull the blue piece upwards until it's out of the block.

The 2nd piece to remove is the WHITE piece.

While in the same view, pull the white piece to the left.

Level 2

The first piece to remove is the PINK-ORANGE piece.

In the opening view grab the pink-orange piece and pull it to the right.

Screenshot.

Click on the same piece and pull it back towards you.

The 2nd piece to remove is the PURPLE piece.

Click on the purple piece and you may have to move it a touch to the right before pulling it back towards you.

Level 3

The first piece to remove is the BEIGE piece.

Rotate the block so that the larger part of the beige piece is visible.

Screenshot.

Pull the bottom left darker green piece to the left.
Pull the beige piece back towards you.

Final Moves.

In the same way as the beige piece, pull the upper light-green piece towards you.
Pull the yellow piece to the right to remove it.
Remove the white piece.

Level 4

1st piece to remove is the ORANGE piece.

In the opening view, drag the lightest coloured piece to the upper left so that it's nestled further inside the orange piece.

Screenshot.

In the same view drag the blue piece up as far as it can go.
Drag the orange piece all the way to the left.

Separate the last two pieces by dragging the blue piece up, or dragging it back towards you.

Level 5

1st piece to go is the LIGHT-GREEN block.

In the opening screen, drag the light-green block that's sitting on top of the dark-green block either towards you or push it away from you out of the main block.
Screenshot.

2nd block to remove is the ORANGE block.

Drag the orange block up and away.

3rd - DARK-BROWN block

Drag the dark-brown block up and away.

Last move.

Now you can either push or pull the dark-green piece to remove it, or separate the two vertical blocks from the green block by dragging each to the sides.

Level 6

1st piece to remove is the RED piece.

In the opening screen pull the lightest coloured piece about halfway up then rotate the puzzle to the left.

Screenshot.

Pull the red piece to the left and away from the block.

Last move.

Pull the green piece either all the way up or all the way down.

Level 7

1st piece to remove is the ORANGE piece.

Either push or pull the orange-coloured piece to remove it.

2nd piece - GREEN

Pull the green piece all the way to the right and then push it back away from the other pieces.
Screenshot.

3rd piece - BLACK

Push the black piece back, diagonally up right.

4th piece - RED

Push the red piece to the left away from the puzzle.

Final move.

Separate the gray and biege pieces by pushing the gray piece back from the beige piece.

Level 8

1st piece that can be removed - DARK-PURPLE piece.

Pull the dark-blue piece all the way to the right.

Screenshot.

Rotate the puzzle to the left until you have a full view of the dark-purple piece.
Pull the dark-purple piece all the way to the left, then move it either up or down away from the rest of the pieces.
Screenshot.

2nd piece - YELLOW piece.

Rotate the puzzle back to the original view, until you have a full view of the vertical yellow piece.
Pull the vertical yellow piece to the right, then move it up or down to remove it.
Screenshot.

3rd piece - YELLOW-GREEN piece at the top of the puzzle

Rotate the puzzle so that the green piece is closest to you.

Screenshot.

Remove the upper yellow piece by pulling it to the left.

Final moves.

Remove the green piece by pulling it all the way up.
In the same view remove the blue piece by pulling it up.
Remove the mauve piece by pulling it to the left.

Level 9

First piece that can be removed - WHITE piece.

Rotate the puzzle until you can see a small white piece, and pull it out to remove it.
Screenshot.

2nd piece - BEIGE piece.

In the same view pull the yellow piece to the left as far as it can go.
Remove the central beige piece by pulling it out towards you.

3rd piece - BLUE.

Pull the blue piece all the way to the right to remove it.

4th piece - ORANGE

Pull the orange-coloured piece down, to the left and then down again to remove it.

Last move.

Pull the light-brown piece up to remove it.

Level 10

1st piece - RED.

Rotate the puzzle so that the red piece is on the left and the yellow piece is lying vertically across the middle of the puzzle.

Screenshot.

Pull the red piece to the left as far as it will go then pull the yellow piece up.
Rotate the puzzle to the right and pull the red piece all the way out.
Screenshot.

2nd piece - LIGHT-PURPLE

Rotate the puzzle so that the lighter purple piece is closest to you.

Screenshot.

Drag the yellow piece down as far as it will go and then pull the lighter-purple piece back out towards you to remove it.

3rd piece - DARK-PURPLE

Pull the yellow piece up as far as it will go and then rotate the puzzle so that you're looking at it from the top. Move the yellow piece part way to the right so that the vertical part of the dark-purple piece has a gap to fit through.

Screenshot.

Pull the purple piece towards you to remove it.

Level 11

1st piece - MAGENTA-PINK

Rotate the puzzle to the right so that the ends of the green and yellow pieces are to the left of the screen but facing you, with the magenta piece also closest to you.

Screenshot.

Drag the yellow piece down as far as it can go.
Pull the green piece up as far as it will go.
In the same view pull the magenta-pink piece towards you to remove it.
Screenshot.

2nd piece - GREEN

Rotate the puzzle to the right so that the green piece is uppermost and closer to you, with the yellow piece being furthest away.

Screenshot.

Pull the green piece all the way down and then back towards the left and towards you to remove it.
Pull the yellow piece all the way up to remove it.

Level 12

1st piece - DARK-RED

In the opening screen view, move the light-yellow piece, situated under the green piece to the left as far as it will go.

Screenshot.

Drag the puzzle to the left and down so that you're looking down on the ends of the red and pink pieces.

Screenshot.

Move the darker red piece to the left and push the orangey-pink piece upwards and away from you.
Drag the darker red piece all the way to the right to remove it. You may have to pull the darker red piece down towards you further to free it.

2nd piece - LIGHT YELLOW

Rotate the puzzle so that the yellow and green ends are closer to you.

Screenshot.

Remove the lighter yellow piece by dragging it to the side of the screen away from the puzzle.

Final Moves.

Drag the darker yellow piece back towards you, or down, to remove it.
Remove the green piece by dragging it all the way to the right.
Pull the orangey-pink piece, which is at the back, down to remove it.
Pull the light-pink piece all the way down or all the way up, or to the left, to remove it.

Level 13

1st piece - GRAY.

In the opening view, pull the gray piece all the way up to remove it.

2nd piece - LIGHT-PINK.

Rotate the puzzle so the the black piece is at the top of the puzzle and the two pinkish pieces are sticking out from under and to the left of the black piece. The bottom half of the white square should be closer to the bottom of the screen.

Screenshot.

Move both the dark-pink and light-pink pieces as far to the left as they will go.
Move the black piece as far right as it will go.
Rotate the puzzle to the right so that both pink ends are vertical and facing you.

Screenshot.

Pull the light-pink piece all the way to the left to remove it.

3rd piece - BLACK

Rotate the puzzle so that the dark-pink piece is pointing to the left of the screen, the white piece is bottom right and the black piece is upper-right.

Screenshot.

Drag the dark-pink piece upwards as far as it will go.
Pull the white piece towards you as far as it will go.
Drag the black piece to the right to remove it.

Last move.

Pull the white piece towards you to remove it.

Level 14

1st piece - LIGHT YELLOW

Rotate the puzzle until you can see the gap into the very center of the puzzle.

Screenshot.

Push the lighter yellow piece towards the upper left of the screen, then pull the light-gray piece diagonally down left.
Push the darker greenish yellow piece so that it sits alongside the lighter-yellow piece.
Pull the dark-purple piece diagonally down right as far as it will go.
Push the dark-gray piece diagonally up left as far as it will go.
Push the light-purple piece diagonally up left as far as possible.
Rotate the puzzle so that the greenish-yellow pieces have their ends facing you, with the dark gray vertical closer to you than the light-gray vertical, and the light-purple piece is underneath the puzzle running horizontally.

Screenshot.

Push the light-purple piece as far to the right as it will go.
Push the light-yellow piece to the right as far as it will go.
Spin the puzzle leftwards and pull the light-yellow piece all the way to the left to remove it.

Screenshot.

2nd piece - DARK-GRAY

Spin the puzzle back to the right and drag the dark-gray piece all the way to the right to remove it.
Screenshot.

3rd piece - LIGHT-PURPLE

Spin the puzzle back to the left and drag the light-purple piece all the way to the left.
Screenshot.

Final moves.

Drag the dark-gray piece all the way to the left to remove it.
Drag the light-gray piece all the way up to remove it.

Hardcore Levels 15 - 20

Level 15

1st piece - LIGHT-YELLOW.

In the opening view, pull the dark-yellow block to the right as far as it will go.
Pull the purple block up as far as it will go.
Drag the green block left as far as possible.
Pull the pink block down as far as it will go.
Pull the light-yellow block at the bottom, down as far as possible.
Drag the puzzle to the right so that the light yellow block is at the bottom and running horizontally.

Screenshot.

Drag the light-yellow block to the left.
Drag the puzzle a little to the right so the end of the light-yellow block is closer to you.
Pull the light-yellow block towards you and to the right to remove it.

2nd piece - ORANGE piece.

Drag the orange piece all the way down.

3rd + 4th pieces - PURPLE + GREEN

Drag the puzzle a little to the left and down so that the top of the purple block and the green block are closest to you.

Screenshot.

Pull the purple block towards you to remove it.
Do the same with the green block.

Final move.

Pull the pink block to the left.

Level 16

1st piece - GRAY.

Drag the puzzle to the right so that the square part of the blue block is to the right, and the square of the green block is to the left of the puzzle.

Screenshot.

Drag the blue piece upwards as far as possible.
Drag the puzzle two faces to the left and drag the green block as far as possible to the right.
Drag the puzzle down to get a clear lock at the top where the gray square is, and drag the gray piece down left.
Pull the green block to the right as far as possible.
Drag the puzzle back to a side view and to the right a little.

Screenshot.

Drag the puzzle so that you're looking at the top again and drag the gray piece diagonally down right.
Turn the puzzle by dragging to the left so that the gray piece is left-most, then pull the gray piece towards you, and remove it.

Final move.

Drag the green piece all the way down.

Level 17

1st piece - BLUE-GREEN piece.

In the opening view, drag the light-gray piece all the way to the left.
Push the light-yellow piece away from you, diagonally up right.
Pull the earthy-green piece, which is towards the back, to the right.
Pull the puzzle to the left so that the grey piece is sticking out, right of the puzzle and the dark yellow piece is also to the right, under the gray piece.

Screenshot.

Push the yellow piece diagonally up left as far as possible.
Push the blue-green piece back from the puzzle, then drag it down.
Drag the puzzle down and to the left to get a full view of the blue-green piece.
Pull the blue-green piece towards you to remove it.

2nd piece - LIGHT-GRAY.

In the same view, pull the dark-yellow piece to the right.
Push the remaining green piece back and then to the right.
Pull the light-gray piece up to remove it.

Final moves.

Pull the black piece down to remove it.
Pull the light-yellow piece towards you to remove it.
Push the dark-yellow piece away.

Level 18

1st piece - VIVID-GREEN.

In the opening view, push the two lightest green pieces diagonally up left.

Screenshot.

Pull the vivid-green piece, which is directly under the darker green piece, down to remove it.

2nd piece - DARK-BLUE.

Move the two lighter-green pieces back to their original positions, making sure there's room for the light-blue piece to be moved upwards. You may have to rotate the puzzle to get a clearer view.
After moving the light-blue piece up as far as possible, move the dark-green piece down.
Move the light-blue piece as far as possible to the right.
Move the dark-blue piece to the right and up so that it's next to the light-blue piece.
Move the dark-green piece to the right under the blue pieces.
Move the dark-blue piece to the left and then down.
Pull the dark-blue piece back towards you to remove it.

3rd piece - LIGHTEST-GREEN/YELLOW.

Drag the puzzle to the left so that the remaining blue piece is still at the top of the puzzle, but to the left.
Ensure that the dark-green piece leaves room for the lightest-green/yellow piece to be move upwards.
Move the blue piece to the right so that it's bottom part is sitting in the gap of the lightest-green/yellow piece.
Pull the lightest green-yellow piece upwards and to the right to remove it.

Final moves.

Move the dark-green piece diagonally up right a little to ensure it can fit through the gap of the remaining light-green piece, and then pull the dark-green piece down to remove it.
Pull the light-green piece up and to the right to remove it.

Level 19

1st piece - GRAY.

Pull the beige piece towards you.
Pull the gray piece downwards.
Drag the beige piece to the right.
Drag the puzzle to the left so that the red piece is closest to you.

Screenshot.

Drag the red piece downwards.
Push the beige piece back left.
Drag the puzzle to the left so that the gray square is facing you and pull the gray piece down to remove it.

Final move.

Pull the red piece to the left.

Level 20

1st piece - DARKER-GREEN.

Drag the puzzle to the left so that the deep-red piece is closer to you, with the ends of the green pieces facing you as well.

Screenshot.

Drag the dark-red piece downwards.
Pull the darker-green piece across to the left.
Drag the puzzle a little to the left so you have a clear view of the salmon-pink piece.
Drag the upright salmon-pink piece down, but only part way.

Screenshot.

Drag the dark-pink piece, which is behind the dark-red piece, to the right.
Pull the salmon piece back up and drag the darker-green piece across to the right.
Pull the dark-red piece back up.
Pull the dark-yellow piece down. You may have to adjust the darker green piece to line up the gap for the dark-yellow block.
Drag the lighter-yellow block across to the left.
Pull the salmon-pink piece all the way up.
Drag the darker-green block up, then pull it back towards you.

Screenshot.

Pull the green piece to the left to remove it.

2nd piece - DARK-RED

In the same view, pull the salmon-pink block down, and the light-yellow block to the right.
Drag the puzzle a little to the left, so that the dark-red piece is to the right, and drag the dark-piece all the way to the right to remove it. You may have to adjust the light-yellow block to allow the dark-red piece to pass over it.

Final moves.

In the same view, pull the dark-yellow block towards you to remove it.
Pull the lighter-yellow block in the same direction to remove it.
Drag the dark-pink block to the left.

Thanks, chiktionary, for the walkthrough!

Posted by: Mike | February 21, 2011 7:34 PM

57 Comments

symar

• February 21, 2011 11:12 AM

Takes a lot of fiddling around for a disconnected piece to decide to disappear. Annoying.

Undine • February 21, 2011 11:16 AM

Would have been a really nice game, but I've found some trouble with moving or removing the pieces around.
Some pieces are stuck by others even if they're out. I even made those pieces far out of the puzzle, but they wouldn't disappear yet.
I had to struggle to turn the camera so I could push them even farther so they would disappear and it would magically set other pieces free (it wasn't holding them long before already).

There was even one simple puzzle I've been stuck because I couldn't move one of the piece even if there was nothing to prevent moving it.
I had to start it again, do teh same thing and it worked.

While testing a bit more I've found that pieces put faraway would disappear while getting them back into place...

If it wasn't for those problems, it would have got one more star for me.

GQWeasle

• February 21, 2011 11:33 AM

Puzzles are fun and challenging but a few flaws make it more of a chore and less fun than it could easily be.

Delay while it 'zooms' in between grab and rotate mode.

Need to line things up precisely on certain levels with controls that move in varying jumps.

mezzanote

• February 21, 2011 11:49 AM

In real life I hate these kind of puzzles, but this was really fun. I suppose the soothing music didn't hurt :}

Neddo

• February 21, 2011 1:21 PM

I ran into some clipping problems where I appeared to pull a piece through another, but the other pieces acted like the one was still there, just invisible.

little_geoff

• February 21, 2011 1:23 PM

This was great fun to play, but i found it irritating to use the space bar. It would be nice to have used the mouse buttons to "drag and release". Or just some options to choose either. (to click the icon to switch just isn't practical on the later levels.)

twinter

• February 21, 2011 1:28 PM

#14 is hurting my poor brain. I can slide one piece (the lighter... taupe?) and that's it, unless I'm missing something. I'm having a harder time with these than I do IRL because it's so much harder here to see what's going on in the middle of the pieces.

Didn't have problems with the spacebar switch or a delay in "zoom" though. Some finicky line-ups, and the directions of the axes aren't consistent/clear enough for my tastes, but overall good puzzles well done.

Back to 14...

twinter

• February 21, 2011 1:30 PM

Heh, re-read my comment - "unless I'm missing something". Of COURSE I'm missing something, else the level'd be moving along ;)

TATTOO

• February 21, 2011 1:35 PM

wrong link with the pic -

hhttps://jayisgames.com/games/interlocked/

argyblarg

• February 21, 2011 1:36 PM

Maybe it's my machine, but boy, did I get bugs:

On the first three or four puzzles (all I could stomach), I got clipping errors. On all of them after the first. That is, it somehow allowed a block to move inside another block, freezing everything. Reset.

Then, it would often never decide to make my freed blocks disappear. I had two as far apart as they could possibly get onscreen (it wouldn't let me move them further away), and still nothing I could do would make them disappear. Reset.

That, with the very odd control system made this a nice effort, but overall, a pass.

cabbit

• February 21, 2011 1:53 PM

I would love to play all the levels but the delay with the spacebar and dragging is annoying, I gave up after the 5th puzzle.

HeroForge

• February 21, 2011 1:54 PM

Once they clear up the technical issues, this could really be worth expanding and porting to the NintendoDS. (It doesn't have to have the whole fancy 3D stuff they're coming out with, but a version specifically for that can't hurt.)

Tracian • February 21, 2011 2:05 PM

Urgh. Breezed on until I hit 14, then hell closed down on me.

What's the trick I'm ignoring?

Cerulean

• February 21, 2011 2:27 PM

I may play this when the bugs are fixed. Pulling a free piece one, two, three screen lengths away, trying to get a vantage point to pull it further when the camera is pointing at the big empty space in between, and finding that when I pull it laterally instead, it collides with something invisible... does not give me confidence that the game knows something I don't when I try to move a piece and it doesn't come out. Sometimes there's a hidden obstruction, but sometimes there definitely isn't.

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 3:10 PM

Agree with most of above: very good game, very hard to pull out pieces at times.

4 stars from me.

bio

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 3:35 PM

#9 is officially killing me :)

bio

argyblarg

• February 21, 2011 4:06 PM

Well, I tried it too, and got no bugs at the Armor Games site, either. Go figure.

That said, it's not so bad at all now that it works.

twinter

• February 21, 2011 4:55 PM

@bioLarzen, on 9,

Once you get the little white cube out, see if you can get the big yellow piece to slide to the side, away from the teal piece. It'll move on an axis perpendicular to the teal piece. From there, things just slide off and away.

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 5:06 PM

Oh, twinter, thanx!

The power of posting worked though, I solved it right after posting what i did :)

Right now I'm at level #14.

But thanx for the hint!

bio

jargon

• February 21, 2011 5:52 PM

I followed argyblarg's advice and tried the game out at ArmorGames instead of the port through JIG (which i usually try to use to increase their ad revenue).

It took me 10 minutes to get very painfully to level 9. That time was cut in half on AG.com, and not because they were puzzles i'd already solved.

If AG.com could figure out a better way to let people host this game without all the bugs, that's be excellent. Otherwise, it's not worth playing except at their site.

[I cannot reproduce this issue. Please tell me what OS, browser, and Flash Player versions you're using. Thanks. -Jay]

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 5:55 PM

Anyone knows if the game auto-saves my progress or do i have to start from the beginning the next time I load the game?

bio

Jay

• February 21, 2011 6:06 PM

I am working to figure out the difference in embedding technology that I'm using here at JIG versus what they're using at Armor Games. I have hosted hundreds of games without issue. If only I could reproduce the issue, I'd be able to test it.

What OS, browser, and Flash Player versions are you using?

If someone who was experiencing issues with it would like to contact me, someone who could run some tests for me, I would greatly appreciate it. Send an email to our contact address found in the site footer. Thank you!

twinter

• February 21, 2011 6:21 PM

I'm still stuck on 14, too. Anyone else make it that far?

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 6:28 PM

I haven't experienced any bugs so far. I'm on level #13 and have been playing for about 4 hours - not continuaously, but the game's been open for the entire time.

XP, Firefox 3.6.13, Flash 9.0.124.0

bio

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 6:29 PM

twinter,
I'm on that level, too... And seem to be stuck pretty much, too..

Or, not me, but the pieces :D

bio

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 6:33 PM

twinter,
if you want help, there's the walkthrough button ("?") top-left on the game screen.

I haven't yet given up hope :)

bio

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 6:54 PM

There must be something with level #14... I was through the first 13 levels in about a minute each - and I've been unable to remove any pieces for about an hour now... The first 13 puzzles doesn't indicate #14 should be that hard...

Either that or there's something basic I failed to notice, of course :D

bio

(Of course I'm trusting the power of posting here :D)

Cyberjar88

• February 21, 2011 6:55 PM

There is way too much lag here. Every time I try to turn the puzzle, I somehow click on one of the ads on either side of the game.

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 6:58 PM

(Haha, checked some other gamin forums and sites and EVERYWHERE ppl are complaining about level #14 - so at least we know it's not only us :D)

bio

Tom W.

• February 21, 2011 7:20 PM

Good challenges, but annoying movement controls.

One recommendation to developer: when switching from Pull tool to Glance tool please do NOT make the puzzle zoom in and out. Please let the puzzle in exactly the same place and just switch tools. The zoom just adds to the mental confusion with already difficult controls.

Also very annoying how many times my Pull tool went outside the game border and opened up the sidebar ads. Jay, maybe you could think about when some games like this could NOT have ads so close to the game border? Thanks, Tom

[Noted. I am working on a solution for JIG members to see fewer advertisements. Hopefully soon. Thanks for the feedback! -Jay]

twinter

• February 21, 2011 7:29 PM

@bioLarzen, if you're still trying to work out 14, I have resorted to the walkthrough to at least get things moving - here's a hint.

The first block to leave is the light tan/taupe one. You have to move, fractionally, every other block in the piece in order to do this. Once each (I think!), except the light purple one, which moves twice.

After that one,

things pretty much move, though the pattern of "tweak every other block" seems to be repeated.

WHEW.
I wonder if the hardcore ones will be worse! o.o

Mike

• February 21, 2011 7:34 PM

Interlocked Walkthrough
For the mobile-version walkthrough, go here.

General Information

The goal is to dis-assemble the blocks in each level.
Click and drag on the blocks to rotate them.
Press the spacebar to engage the hand icon, to enable manipulation of the pieces.
When the hand icon is active, clicking on a piece will display a set of coloured arrows around the hand:

Red - moves pieces right and left
Blue - moves pieces diagonally
Green - moves pieces up and down

Move the mouse to highlight the set of arrows according to the direction that you wish to move pieces.
You may need to rotate the block slightly to adjust the way pieces can be moved.
When a piece has been successfully removed it will fade out of view.
Press the spacebar again to go back to rotation mode.
There's a hint icon in the top right corner of the screen, indicated by an 'i'.

Walkthrough

Levels 1 - 14

Level 1

The first piece to remove is the BLUE piece.

Rotate the block so that the blue piece is at the top.

Screenshot.

With the blue arrow highlighted pull the blue piece upwards until it's out of the block.

The 2nd piece to remove is the WHITE piece.

While in the same view, pull the white piece to the left.

Level 2

The first piece to remove is the PINK-ORANGE piece.

In the opening view grab the pink-orange piece and pull it to the right.

Screenshot.

Click on the same piece and pull it back towards you.

The 2nd piece to remove is the PURPLE piece.

Click on the purple piece and you may have to move it a touch to the right before pulling it back towards you.

Level 3

The first piece to remove is the BEIGE piece.

Rotate the block so that the larger part of the beige piece is visible.

Screenshot.

Pull the bottom left darker green piece to the left.
Pull the beige piece back towards you.

Final Moves.

In the same way as the beige piece, pull the upper light-green piece towards you.
Pull the yellow piece to the right to remove it.
Remove the white piece.

Level 4

1st piece to remove is the ORANGE piece.

In the opening view, drag the lightest coloured piece to the upper left so that it's nestled further inside the orange piece.

Screenshot.

In the same view drag the blue piece up as far as it can go.
Drag the orange piece all the way to the left.

Separate the last two pieces by dragging the blue piece up, or dragging it back towards you.

Level 5

1st piece to go is the LIGHT-GREEN block.

In the opening screen, drag the light-green block that's sitting on top of the dark-green block either towards you or push it away from you out of the main block.
Screenshot.

2nd block to remove is the ORANGE block.

Drag the orange block up and away.

3rd - DARK-BROWN block

Drag the dark-brown block up and away.

Last move.

Now you can either push or pull the dark-green piece to remove it, or separate the two vertical blocks from the green block by dragging each to the sides.

Level 6

1st piece to remove is the RED piece.

In the opening screen pull the lightest coloured piece about halfway up then rotate the puzzle to the left.

Screenshot.

Pull the red piece to the left and away from the block.

Last move.

Pull the green piece either all the way up or all the way down.

Level 7

1st piece to remove is the ORANGE piece.

Either push or pull the orange-coloured piece to remove it.

2nd piece - GREEN

Pull the green piece all the way to the right and then push it back away from the other pieces.
Screenshot.

3rd piece - BLACK

Push the black piece back, diagonally up right.

4th piece - RED

Push the red piece to the left away from the puzzle.

Final move.

Separate the gray and biege pieces by pushing the gray piece back from the beige piece.

Level 8

1st piece that can be removed - DARK-PURPLE piece.

Pull the dark-blue piece all the way to the right.

Screenshot.

Rotate the puzzle to the left until you have a full view of the dark-purple piece.
Pull the dark-purple piece all the way to the left, then move it either up or down away from the rest of the pieces.
Screenshot.

2nd piece - YELLOW piece.

Rotate the puzzle back to the original view, until you have a full view of the vertical yellow piece.
Pull the vertical yellow piece to the right, then move it up or down to remove it.
Screenshot.

3rd piece - YELLOW-GREEN piece at the top of the puzzle

Rotate the puzzle so that the green piece is closest to you.

Screenshot.

Remove the upper yellow piece by pulling it to the left.

Final moves.

Remove the green piece by pulling it all the way up.
In the same view remove the blue piece by pulling it up.
Remove the mauve piece by pulling it to the left.

Level 9

First piece that can be removed - WHITE piece.

Rotate the puzzle until you can see a small white piece, and pull it out to remove it.
Screenshot.

2nd piece - BEIGE piece.

In the same view pull the yellow piece to the left as far as it can go.
Remove the central beige piece by pulling it out towards you.

3rd piece - BLUE.

Pull the blue piece all the way to the right to remove it.

4th piece - ORANGE

Pull the orange-coloured piece down, to the left and then down again to remove it.

Last move.

Pull the light-brown piece up to remove it.

Level 10

1st piece - RED.

Rotate the puzzle so that the red piece is on the left and the yellow piece is lying vertically across the middle of the puzzle.

Screenshot.

Pull the red piece to the left as far as it will go then pull the yellow piece up.
Rotate the puzzle to the right and pull the red piece all the way out.
Screenshot.

2nd piece - LIGHT-PURPLE

Rotate the puzzle so that the lighter purple piece is closest to you.

Screenshot.

Drag the yellow piece down as far as it will go and then pull the lighter-purple piece back out towards you to remove it.

3rd piece - DARK-PURPLE

Pull the yellow piece up as far as it will go and then rotate the puzzle so that you're looking at it from the top. Move the yellow piece part way to the right so that the vertical part of the dark-purple piece has a gap to fit through.

Screenshot.

Pull the purple piece towards you to remove it.

Level 11

1st piece - MAGENTA-PINK

Rotate the puzzle to the right so that the ends of the green and yellow pieces are to the left of the screen but facing you, with the magenta piece also closest to you.

Screenshot.

Drag the yellow piece down as far as it can go.
Pull the green piece up as far as it will go.
In the same view pull the magenta-pink piece towards you to remove it.
Screenshot.

2nd piece - GREEN

Rotate the puzzle to the right so that the green piece is uppermost and closer to you, with the yellow piece being furthest away.

Screenshot.

Pull the green piece all the way down and then back towards the left and towards you to remove it.
Pull the yellow piece all the way up to remove it.

Level 12

1st piece - DARK-RED

In the opening screen view, move the light-yellow piece, situated under the green piece to the left as far as it will go.

Screenshot.

Drag the puzzle to the left and down so that you're looking down on the ends of the red and pink pieces.

Screenshot.

Move the darker red piece to the left and push the orangey-pink piece upwards and away from you.
Drag the darker red piece all the way to the right to remove it. You may have to pull the darker red piece down towards you further to free it.

2nd piece - LIGHT YELLOW

Rotate the puzzle so that the yellow and green ends are closer to you.

Screenshot.

Remove the lighter yellow piece by dragging it to the side of the screen away from the puzzle.

Final Moves.

Drag the darker yellow piece back towards you, or down, to remove it.
Remove the green piece by dragging it all the way to the right.
Pull the orangey-pink piece, which is at the back, down to remove it.
Pull the light-pink piece all the way down or all the way up, or to the left, to remove it.

Level 13

1st piece - GRAY.

In the opening view, pull the gray piece all the way up to remove it.

2nd piece - LIGHT-PINK.

Rotate the puzzle so the the black piece is at the top of the puzzle and the two pinkish pieces are sticking out from under and to the left of the black piece. The bottom half of the white square should be closer to the bottom of the screen.

Screenshot.

Move both the dark-pink and light-pink pieces as far to the left as they will go.
Move the black piece as far right as it will go.
Rotate the puzzle to the right so that both pink ends are vertical and facing you.

Screenshot.

Pull the light-pink piece all the way to the left to remove it.

3rd piece - BLACK

Rotate the puzzle so that the dark-pink piece is pointing to the left of the screen, the white piece is bottom right and the black piece is upper-right.

Screenshot.

Drag the dark-pink piece upwards as far as it will go.
Pull the white piece towards you as far as it will go.
Drag the black piece to the right to remove it.

Last move.

Pull the white piece towards you to remove it.

Level 14

1st piece - LIGHT YELLOW

Rotate the puzzle until you can see the gap into the very center of the puzzle.

Screenshot.

Push the lighter yellow piece towards the upper left of the screen, then pull the light-gray piece diagonally down left.
Push the darker greenish yellow piece so that it sits alongside the lighter-yellow piece.
Pull the dark-purple piece diagonally down right as far as it will go.
Push the dark-gray piece diagonally up left as far as it will go.
Push the light-purple piece diagonally up left as far as possible.
Rotate the puzzle so that the greenish-yellow pieces have their ends facing you, with the dark gray vertical closer to you than the light-gray vertical, and the light-purple piece is underneath the puzzle running horizontally.

Screenshot.

Push the light-purple piece as far to the right as it will go.
Push the light-yellow piece to the right as far as it will go.
Spin the puzzle leftwards and pull the light-yellow piece all the way to the left to remove it.

Screenshot.

2nd piece - DARK-GRAY

Spin the puzzle back to the right and drag the dark-gray piece all the way to the right to remove it.
Screenshot.

3rd piece - LIGHT-PURPLE

Spin the puzzle back to the left and drag the light-purple piece all the way to the left.
Screenshot.

Final moves.

Drag the dark-gray piece all the way to the left to remove it.
Drag the light-gray piece all the way up to remove it.

Hardcore Levels 15 - 20

Level 15

1st piece - LIGHT-YELLOW.

In the opening view, pull the dark-yellow block to the right as far as it will go.
Pull the purple block up as far as it will go.
Drag the green block left as far as possible.
Pull the pink block down as far as it will go.
Pull the light-yellow block at the bottom, down as far as possible.
Drag the puzzle to the right so that the light yellow block is at the bottom and running horizontally.

Screenshot.

Drag the light-yellow block to the left.
Drag the puzzle a little to the right so the end of the light-yellow block is closer to you.
Pull the light-yellow block towards you and to the right to remove it.

2nd piece - ORANGE piece.

Drag the orange piece all the way down.

3rd + 4th pieces - PURPLE + GREEN

Drag the puzzle a little to the left and down so that the top of the purple block and the green block are closest to you.

Screenshot.

Pull the purple block towards you to remove it.
Do the same with the green block.

Final move.

Pull the pink block to the left.

Level 16

1st piece - GRAY.

Drag the puzzle to the right so that the square part of the blue block is to the right, and the square of the green block is to the left of the puzzle.

Screenshot.

Drag the blue piece upwards as far as possible.
Drag the puzzle two faces to the left and drag the green block as far as possible to the right.
Drag the puzzle down to get a clear lock at the top where the gray square is, and drag the gray piece down left.
Pull the green block to the right as far as possible.
Drag the puzzle back to a side view and to the right a little.

Screenshot.

Drag the puzzle so that you're looking at the top again and drag the gray piece diagonally down right.
Turn the puzzle by dragging to the left so that the gray piece is left-most, then pull the gray piece towards you, and remove it.

Final move.

Drag the green piece all the way down.

Level 17

1st piece - BLUE-GREEN piece.

In the opening view, drag the light-gray piece all the way to the left.
Push the light-yellow piece away from you, diagonally up right.
Pull the earthy-green piece, which is towards the back, to the right.
Pull the puzzle to the left so that the grey piece is sticking out, right of the puzzle and the dark yellow piece is also to the right, under the gray piece.

Screenshot.

Push the yellow piece diagonally up left as far as possible.
Push the blue-green piece back from the puzzle, then drag it down.
Drag the puzzle down and to the left to get a full view of the blue-green piece.
Pull the blue-green piece towards you to remove it.

2nd piece - LIGHT-GRAY.

In the same view, pull the dark-yellow piece to the right.
Push the remaining green piece back and then to the right.
Pull the light-gray piece up to remove it.

Final moves.

Pull the black piece down to remove it.
Pull the light-yellow piece towards you to remove it.
Push the dark-yellow piece away.

Level 18

1st piece - VIVID-GREEN.

In the opening view, push the two lightest green pieces diagonally up left.

Screenshot.

Pull the vivid-green piece, which is directly under the darker green piece, down to remove it.

2nd piece - DARK-BLUE.

Move the two lighter-green pieces back to their original positions, making sure there's room for the light-blue piece to be moved upwards. You may have to rotate the puzzle to get a clearer view.
After moving the light-blue piece up as far as possible, move the dark-green piece down.
Move the light-blue piece as far as possible to the right.
Move the dark-blue piece to the right and up so that it's next to the light-blue piece.
Move the dark-green piece to the right under the blue pieces.
Move the dark-blue piece to the left and then down.
Pull the dark-blue piece back towards you to remove it.

3rd piece - LIGHTEST-GREEN/YELLOW.

Drag the puzzle to the left so that the remaining blue piece is still at the top of the puzzle, but to the left.
Ensure that the dark-green piece leaves room for the lightest-green/yellow piece to be move upwards.
Move the blue piece to the right so that it's bottom part is sitting in the gap of the lightest-green/yellow piece.
Pull the lightest green-yellow piece upwards and to the right to remove it.

Final moves.

Move the dark-green piece diagonally up right a little to ensure it can fit through the gap of the remaining light-green piece, and then pull the dark-green piece down to remove it.
Pull the light-green piece up and to the right to remove it.

Level 19

1st piece - GRAY.

Pull the beige piece towards you.
Pull the gray piece downwards.
Drag the beige piece to the right.
Drag the puzzle to the left so that the red piece is closest to you.

Screenshot.

Drag the red piece downwards.
Push the beige piece back left.
Drag the puzzle to the left so that the gray square is facing you and pull the gray piece down to remove it.

Final move.

Pull the red piece to the left.

Level 20

1st piece - DARKER-GREEN.

Drag the puzzle to the left so that the deep-red piece is closer to you, with the ends of the green pieces facing you as well.

Screenshot.

Drag the dark-red piece downwards.
Pull the darker-green piece across to the left.
Drag the puzzle a little to the left so you have a clear view of the salmon-pink piece.
Drag the upright salmon-pink piece down, but only part way.

Screenshot.

Drag the dark-pink piece, which is behind the dark-red piece, to the right.
Pull the salmon piece back up and drag the darker-green piece across to the right.
Pull the dark-red piece back up.
Pull the dark-yellow piece down. You may have to adjust the darker green piece to line up the gap for the dark-yellow block.
Drag the lighter-yellow block across to the left.
Pull the salmon-pink piece all the way up.
Drag the darker-green block up, then pull it back towards you.

Screenshot.

Pull the green piece to the left to remove it.

2nd piece - DARK-RED

In the same view, pull the salmon-pink block down, and the light-yellow block to the right.
Drag the puzzle a little to the left, so that the dark-red piece is to the right, and drag the dark-piece all the way to the right to remove it. You may have to adjust the light-yellow block to allow the dark-red piece to pass over it.

Final moves.

In the same view, pull the dark-yellow block towards you to remove it.
Pull the lighter-yellow block in the same direction to remove it.
Drag the dark-pink block to the left.

Thanks, chiktionary, for the walkthrough!

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 7:52 PM

twinter,
I can move all the pieces in #14, I just cannot remove any...

bio

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 7:54 PM

(BTW, some of the comments on other sites said something like "#14 was very hard, but the hardcore ones were impossible" - so good luck woth them :D)

bio

Tracian • February 21, 2011 7:59 PM

14 is not too difficult... if you go in a zen state and slide things around without thinking. That will get you to the end in a minute. (Seriously: same technique I used with the classical "two nails knotted together" metal puzzle... let your hands - virtual or not - do the thinking).

14 is way more hostile than 15-19 however.

Then you'll get to 20...

I'll wait for you there. I'm the one with the ripped hair, crying miserably in a corner.

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 8:07 PM

OK, I gave it up now. It's clear that the difficulty of #14 was very poorly judged by the developer of the game - just google up the game and you'll see many, many forums where all sorts of ppl complain about it - and virtually no other levels, just this one.

Also, walkthrus don't really work for me because it's hard if not impossible to do a good textual walkthru for this. I tried both ones offerd for #14 here (by twinter and Mike) but was unable to understand what i should do - not because they did a bad job, but because this job (doing a written walkthru) is bordering impossible here.

This very badly understimated difficulty level should deduce one from my rating of 4, but I have already submitted it...

Shame, because up until #14 it was a very enjoyable game in which the difficulty in moving the pieces around and the (IMHO) unndeccessary and sometimes confusing zooming when switching to pull tool were easily counter-balanced by the good puzzles and nice 3D presentation. But that last level... just killed 90% of the fun for me.

Dear developer, I think you should either move #14 to the hardcore level or otherwise remve it from the game because you got a lot of your players complain about it...

It could so easily be a 5-star game...

bio

bioLarzen

• February 21, 2011 8:13 PM

Epilogue: Mike, I gave a last try by your walkthru and this time it worked - your walkthru is really bordering impossible :D)

This level still was badly judged, I think.

bio

Procrastinateher • February 21, 2011 10:39 PM

So I enjoyed playing it to start with, but issues in terms of trying to drag and look around the pieces - especially pieces not wanting to disappear after I've freed them - quickly made me feel more meh about it.

If you don't want to use the spacebar you can just click on the icon at the bottom left to switch between looking and pulling.

Interesting, but needs to sort out its bugs and such.

cevgar • February 21, 2011 11:55 PM

Ok, anyone have any hints for 18? I've twiddled my way through all the rest, but the best I can do here is remove the lower horizontal green (move the two light green wide verticals, drop the mid green horizontal). Then I am completely stumped. Walkthrough link seems to be broken.

cevgar • February 22, 2011 12:19 AM

Power of post. Follow mid green horizontal with purple, then light green, and whatever. I'll be damned if I can remember how I did it though.

Chiktionary

• February 22, 2011 3:12 AM

The walkthrough has been updated and includes all 20 levels now.
Hope it helps!
:~)

chris • February 22, 2011 5:05 AM

Yeah. 14 stopped me dead too.

(Walkthrough instructions don't seem to work either.)

MdB

• February 22, 2011 8:35 AM

18 was my favourite. Most of the puzzles were easy once the first piece was removed, for 18 though I difficulties removing the first three pieces.

A good game but would be better with an improved interface and full screen!

Aegeus

• February 22, 2011 10:15 AM

This is silly. If you don't pull a block far enough for it to disappear (which is a pretty darn long distance), it will magically prevent the other two blocks from moving even though it's not touching either of them. How was I supposed to figure that out, Mr. Game Designer?

Jakkar

• February 22, 2011 11:21 AM

It's rather broken, sadly. Almost every puzzle clips through itself at some point with an ugly flicker of triangles, and some of them 'jam' on things that aren't there :( In this, real wooden pieces win.

clickety6

• February 22, 2011 11:46 AM

Way too buggy. Spending more time trying to get unlocked pieces to disappear than I am actually unlocking them. Very frustrating as otherwise it seems like it could be an interesting puzzler. Level 8 I unlocked all the pieces but they just will not disappear no matter where I move them.

Aegeus

• February 22, 2011 12:33 PM

After fiddling for a bit, I think it only makes pieces disappear if you drag them in one direction for a certain distance in one motion. Of course, trying to drag them out smoothly like that tends to make you click on the ads on the side of the page.

The fact that they have these problems at all shows that something very silly is going on inside their code. Would it really be that difficult to check if one piece was some distance away from all the others?

Anonymous • February 22, 2011 3:02 PM

I think that if this game was "grid" based and perhaps allowed the arrow keys to move the shapes, it would solve a lot of the clipping/removal issues. I understand that it'll look a lot cheaper without all the 3d effects that come with allowing a mouse to remove the shapes, but if simplicity allows the game to work better, one should go for that.

Jay

• February 22, 2011 4:16 PM

New version just uploaded.

Reload the page to get it. Latest version should address bugs reported earlier.

chipmunk

• February 22, 2011 5:45 PM

I just loaded it for the first time. I'm having same issues other players reported earlier. In particular, moving the mouse outside the game window while dragging a piece causes problems, including opening the sidebar ads if I mouse up over the ad, and the piece being stuck in a state where it's disengaged but there's no way to make it disappear.

Pingz • February 22, 2011 10:05 PM

I want this game on my iPhone. :)

mr1black

• February 23, 2011 2:52 AM

Very nice game. Particularly liked the zen music and sounds. I didn't experienced the mentiond bugs (chrome, win 7 32bit), and when I want to remove the tile, I just make a quick jerk to the screen edge and the tile dissapeares..

Giggles

• February 24, 2011 7:09 PM

The only thing more frustrating than the puzzles, which really weren't that bad, was the controls. Often times I had to sort of 'refresh' the puzzle because a piece that could clearly move, wouldn't. Despite the annoying glitches, it was really fun and the music was fantastic.

AaronzDad

• February 24, 2011 9:51 PM

This is no longer the dark ages of computing.
LET ME TURN OFF THE SOUND!!!! GAAAHHH!!

Hespetre

• March 8, 2011 3:53 PM

The puzzles are nice, but the controls are bleh

meyathisguy • January 19, 2012 2:38 PM

Loved this game.

elleClicks

• May 13, 2012 9:59 AM

Nice to know that the developer listened to user comments and made the updates. I'm playing in 2012 and I haven't experienced any of the bugs or "clipping" problems, so I definitely recommend playing. This game is stellar now. Beautiful graphics, easy controls, super-challenging puzzles. My only grievance is no sound off/on button. That's about it. Great work.

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