Reproduce a target picture by noticing which blocks repeat, defining each as a recipe once, and stamping it everywhere.
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How to play
Recreate the target image on your build grid. In the studio you paint a small block, save it as a recipe, then arm it and stamp it onto blocks of your canvas. The picture is made of repeating blocks, so the elegant solution reuses a few recipes rather than painting everything fresh.
Paint a block in the recipe studio and Save it to your library
Click a saved recipe to arm it, then click build blocks to stamp it
Matching the target with the fewest unique recipes beats par and scores highest
Controls
Desktop: click a palette color to paint, click studio cells, then click library recipes and build blocks
Phone & tablet: every paint and stamp action is a tap
Game modes
Difficulty: Easy, Medium or Hard pictures
Daily for a shared image, Practice for fresh ones
Tips & strategy
Scan the target for blocks that recur before painting anything, abstraction is the whole game
If two blocks look identical, define one recipe and reuse it rather than saving a near-duplicate
What you'll learn
Think Tiles is a puzzle about decomposition and reuse, finding repeating structure and capturing it once, the heart of good code.
For parents & teachers: decomposition and reuse, the heart of programming.
About Think Tiles
Think Tiles is a puzzle about decomposition and reuse, finding repeating structure and capturing it once. It is an original, free browser game built in-house for PlayPendium.
A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.
