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A block puzzle for iPhone and Android

Protwig

Surround a tree on all four sides.

An untimed block puzzle on a 7×7 pond: place pieces, surround trees on all four sides, close more trees in one move for a bigger burst.

  • No timer
  • No ads
  • Plays offline
  • Coming soonApp Store
  • Coming soonGoogle Play
Blocks bursting as a tree is surrounded on all four sides, with the points gained.
Protwig game screen: score, burst trees and best score at the top; a 7×7 pond with orange blocks and trees in the middle; three pieces below.

How to play

No timer on the 7×7 pond. Find the right spot for the right block.

A tree closed on all four sides bursts.

  1. Place your blocks

    Drag a piece, or select it and tap the square on the pond where its top-left corner should go. Place the piece in the orientation shown.

  2. 1 tree: +1 per surrounding block

    When all four sides of a single tree are complete, the tree and its four neighbouring blocks burst. Each of those four blocks bursts at most one extra block touching it from above, below, the right or the left. The same extra block is not counted twice, and a surrounding block shared by two trees also gets only one extra. Extra blocks do not burst other blocks. Diagonal contact does not count.

  3. Don't place trees side by side

    Trees cannot be placed next to each other above, below, to the right or to the left. Touching at a corner is fine. With a single tree, distant blocks remain. A two-tree chain does not pass through the trees. Trees are not placed on the outer edge.

  4. How many trees did you close in one move?

    1: each surrounding block takes at most 1 extra block. 2: a chain through connected blocks; incomplete trees remain. 3: all trees and the blocks connected to them burst. 4 or more: the whole board is cleared. The tier is chosen from the trees completed at the start of the move; those cleared by the bonus do not raise the tier.

All the rules

Pieces come at random from fixed shapes. Tree pieces start with only one neighbouring block; you have to complete the other sides. After move 12, five-square pieces arrive too. When you are stuck, you are not handed a single square or a tree that is ready to burst. Tree positions change with every new game. While 4 trees wait on the board, support blocks arrive. Once trees burst, new trees come in the next hands. If none of the remaining pieces fits in the orientation shown, you lose. Each block is worth 5 points, each burst tree 100. Surrounding trees in a row earns a streak bonus.

From the game

Every image is taken from the game itself, played on a phone.

  • Game screen: score counters, a 7×7 pond with trees and three soil pieces below.
    The pond and the pieces
  • A piece being dragged over the pond, with a green preview of the squares it will land on.
    Drag a piece
  • A tree closed on all four sides bursts while the points gained rise over the board.
    Surround and burst
  • The how-to-play window: four numbered rules and the button to keep playing.
    Rules at hand
  • The game-over window: the game's score, the number of burst trees and the restart button.
    It ends when nothing fits

Frequently asked

  • Do I need an internet connection?

    No. Protwig does not connect to any server; it plays in airplane mode too.

  • Where is my progress kept?

    On your phone only. The board, the pieces, your score and your best score are saved after every move, so you pick up where you left off.

  • Do I need an account or to share any details?

    No. There is no account, sign-in, advertising or analytics in the game, and it never asks for personal information.

  • Which devices does it run on?

    iPhone and Android phones, in portrait. On iPad it opens in the iPhone layout.

  • What language is the game in?

    Turkish.

Coming soon to the stores

Links will appear here once Protwig is on the App Store and Google Play.

  • Coming soonApp Store
  • Coming soonGoogle Play