The Blot Thickens
A one-level watercolor puzzle. To finish a painting, please return your brush to the edge of the canvas. You wouldn’t just leave your brush in the middle of a painting and call it done, would you?
X / Return - Start Game
Arrows / WASD - Movement
Z / U - Undo
R - Restart
Part of the 2023 Confounding Calendar at https://confoundingcalendar.itch.io/
Palette from https://lospec.com/palette-list/gothic-bit
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Very clever! I'm stuck at first but able to solve it logically.
Great puzzle! I tried to draw the pattern in the thumbnail expecting to reveal some secret easter eggs or something, but there is none lol.
The easter egg is a great idea! I'll try to remember for next year!
Glorious! Even better than your 2022 submission. Can’t wait for 2024!
Thanks!
Oh I forgot to comment when I beat this. I learned some deep secrets of the universe about trapdoor mazes when I finally proved this possible.
I confess I have no idea what a trapdoor maze is, but I’m delighted if my little puzzle reveals the secret to anything. Glad you liked it!
'Trapdoor maze' is a reference to Deadly Rooms of Death (DRoD), where an entire archetype of puzzles is 'a bunch of tiles you can only step on once; step on all of them'. In this context, the darker blots are like multi-step trapdoors, and the logic for 'how to traverse them' is still deeply related.
Interesting! I can see how the same type of logic might apply!
Extremely clever!
Thanks!
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What? Been using rot13 encryptions, don't understand this one 🤔
I love bridge puzzles.
I don't see why you had to encode that...?
Just in case. I dunno, not really sure, but just in case it might've helped people I just... yeah
I thought this puzzle was fantastic!
Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Suitably confounded — a nighttime reindeer on a black background is totally within my powers, but I can't ever seem to get that center square to the right shade otherwise :/
Really cool game however i dont see how to get the middle square!