Saddle Mark Paths

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About this app

Saddle Mark Paths is a quiet route puzzle about one horse and one rule: land on every open square exactly once, and never repeat a step.

A knight stands on a board of tooled leather. It moves only in an L - two squares one way, then one square across. Your job is to walk it over the whole hide until nothing is left untouched. Tap a glowing square to hop across. The trail stitches itself in behind you as a numbered cream ribbon, so you can always read the route you have taken.

WHAT IS IN THE BOX
- Four board sizes: 5x5, 6x6, 7x7 and the full 8x8 field.
- Notched boards with squares tooled shut, which must be avoided rather than visited.
- A closed-loop bonus mode where the last square has to sit one hop from the first.
- A hint that follows the old rule of thumb: step to the square with the fewest onward moves.
- Undo one step, or tap any number on the ribbon to rewind the whole route back to it.
- A live warning the moment the squares left over can no longer all be reached.
- A ledger of routes finished, closed loops, dead ends met and your fewest-tap records.
- Twelve tooled badges to stamp into the leather.

EVERY BOARD CAN BE SOLVED
No board reaches you on a guess. Before a puzzle is shown it is put through a full route search, and the starting squares you are offered are only the ones a complete route was genuinely found from. Layouts that fail the check are thrown away and re-cut. You will never be handed a puzzle that has no answer.

MADE TO BE QUIET
There is no sound of any kind. No music, no clicks, no chimes - just the board, an optional haptic tick and the trail. Play it anywhere, without headphones, without disturbing anyone.

COMPLETELY OFFLINE
No internet permission, no network calls, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, no accounts and no sign-in. Your ledger and your settings live on your device and nowhere else. Nothing is ever uploaded. It works in a tunnel, on a plane and in airplane mode.

Portrait, one hand, drawn entirely with vector graphics in a warm palette of saddle tan, cream stitching and deep brown. Nothing to buy, at any point.

Pull up a stool, pick a corner square, and see whether you can cover the whole hide without ever doubling back.