Crosswise Arrows: Tap Puzzle

DDI Games

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About this game

Crosswise Arrows is a tap puzzle with a single rule and a lot of room to think.

Every cell holds an arrow lying along its own axis. Tap it, and it fires both ways at once, sweeping the line clear until it meets a partner of its own colour. Two arrows cross, both leave the board. Nothing flies away, nothing falls — the field only gets emptier, and the order in which you empty it is the whole puzzle.

HOW TO PLAY
• Tap an arrow that has a partner of its colour on its axis. Both go, and everything between them goes too.
• The board is meant to be cleared completely. Every arrow has a place in the order — find it.
• Clear an arrow: +2. Sweep up a star: +3. Every arrow left behind: −1.
• Three lives. Tapping an arrow with nowhere to go costs one.
• Stuck? Two boosters, three of each: Rotate swings an arrow onto the other axis, Recolor paints it in a neighbour's colour. One of them almost always unties the knot.
• The Analysis view marks how many ways each cell can still be cleared. Nothing here is guessing — the board tells you the truth if you ask it.

WHAT'S INSIDE
• Five baked levels that teach in order: the rule, then why order matters, then when a booster saves you, then looking ahead, then a real exam.
• After them the boards keep coming, generated and always solvable.
• No timer, no lives to wait for, no turn you have to take. Put it down mid-level and come back.
• Plays offline.

Every level is proven solvable before it ships: a solver clears each board start to finish, and a simulated attentive player runs it a hundred times over. If a level is unfair, it does not reach you.

Made for people who like their puzzles honest: one rule, visible information, and a board that can always be emptied.

What’s new

First release. Five baked levels, endless boards after them, and the Analysis view that shows how many ways each arrow can still be cleared.