Color Flood: Odyssey

About Color Flood: Odyssey

Classic flood puzzles ask you to turn the whole board one colour. Color Flood: Odyssey changes the goal. You only need a sea lane: a chain of blue tiles linking Odysseus's port in the top-left corner to Ithaca in the bottom-right, moving up, down, left and right but never diagonally. The rest of the map can stay any colour, and a winning board is often mostly dry.

Each move, you tap a colour already touching your region, and the region plus every connected tile of that colour switches to it. Moves are limited to the par shown at the top, which is both your budget and your scoring target. Run out before the corners connect and Odysseus is adrift. Sea is scarce, and the final move of any solve has to be blue, so flooding away all the blue can strand him with no way to finish. A colour blind mode marks each terrain with its own shape, and Odysseus can narrate the voyage.

Color Flood: Odyssey is one of the daily games on Greatest Games, a site of word and logic puzzles. A new puzzle goes up every day at midnight US Eastern, the same for everyone, and it plays free in the browser with no account or download. A free account opens the Color Flood: Odyssey archive of every past puzzle by date.

How to play Color Flood: Odyssey

1. Open Color Flood: Odyssey on greatest.games.
2. Tap a colour touching your region in the top-left; the region and all connected tiles of that colour flip to it.
3. Grow your region toward the bottom-right corner.
4. Keep enough blue tiles to finish: the last move must be sea.
5. Connect the two corners with an unbroken line of blue before you run out of moves.

Tips

• Plan a narrow path, not a full flood; only the route home matters.
• Ration blue: do not flood away the sea tiles you need at the end.
• Diagonal contact does not count, so check every corner of your lane.
• Count the moves you have left against par before each tap.

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