Creep Paths

What is Creep Paths?

Creep Paths is a free path puzzle made with twikoi's creatures. Two of each creature sit on a square board, and you drag a line from one to its twin.

Lines can't cross or share a square, and a board is only solved when every square is part of a line. That last rule is the puzzle: the short way between two creatures often leaves squares that no other line can reach.

Every board is checked before you see it: it has exactly one answer, counted twice by two different methods. There are 180 boards from 5x5 to 10x10, sorted from easy to hard, plus a daily board.

How to play

1. Drag from a creature to its twin. Your line follows your finger, square by square.
2. No crossing: lines can't cross or share a square. Drag across another line and it is cut back (slide back and it comes back).
3. Fill every square: a board is only done when every square is part of a line.
4. Change your mind: slide back along a line to shorten it, start at a creature to draw its line again, ↶ undoes and ⟲ starts over.
5. Stuck? The 💡 hint finds a wrong turn and explains why it can't work, or shows the next sure step and why. Show me draws it.
6. On a phone a little magnifier shows the squares under your finger. On a computer: drag with the mouse, or use the arrow keys and Space.

Features

• 180 boards in six sizes, from a 5x5 Sprout to the 10x10 Deep woods, each sorted from easy to hard.
• Every board has exactly one answer, counted by the maker and checked again by a second counter that works a different way.
• A lesson you play, not read: it accepts only the move it is teaching and says why another move doesn't work.
• Hints that teach: a wrong turn is pointed out with the reason it can't work, and sure steps come with the reason they must go there.
• Made for fingers: lines follow your finger, a magnifier shows what is under it, and big squares even on a 10x10.
• Her creatures react: a joined pair hops and turns to face each other, and the creature jumps up big beside the board.
• Stars for no hints and few moves, a Perfect badge for one move per pair, picture pages every 5 boards, a book of every creature you have joined, and a daily board to share.

Modes, levels and unlocks

Boards

5x5 and 6x6 are open from the start. Each bigger size opens after a few boards of the size before it.

Daily board

One board a day, the same for everyone, with the same creatures. 7x7 early in the week, up to 10x10 on Saturday.

Lesson

A little 5x5 that teaches joining, not crossing and filling every square, one move at a time.

Tips

• Start with creatures in corners and along the edges: they have few ways to go.
• Look for narrow gaps one square wide: only one line can pass through them.
• If two creatures of a pair sit side by side, the short way is usually wrong: their line probably goes around something.
• An empty square with only two open sides must have a line passing straight through it.
• Plan a line before you draw it: three stars need only a few moves, and one move per pair is Perfect.

Who will like Creep Paths?

Creep Paths is for anyone who likes a calm puzzle with a satisfying click at the end, from a first 5x5 to a 10x10 that takes some thinking.

It is also for fans of twikoi's art: her creatures sit on every board in pairs, waiting to be joined.

Questions

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