Echoes

About Echoes

Echoes is played on a small square grid with a few green chips, one yellow chip and a red target dot. You never move the yellow chip yourself. Tapping a green chip lights up every square it can reach, and tapping one of those squares slides it there in a straight line.

Every time you move, the yellow chip echoes you: it slides in the same direction until a chip or a wall stops it. The puzzle is to arrange the green chips as blockers and pick your directions so the yellow chip comes to rest on the red dot.

The score is efficiency, the number of moves you needed, and the result screen also shows a slide profile with a coloured square per move for how far the yellow chip slid. A perfect echo needs every move to carry the yellow chip some distance. You can copy the result, undo and redo, ask where the yellow chip will land, and play yesterday's board.

Puzzles refresh daily at midnight Eastern Time. It suits players who like short move-count puzzles in the style of Ricochet Robots.

How to play Echoes

1. Tap a green chip to see every square it can reach.
2. Tap a lit square to slide the chip straight there.
3. Watch the yellow chip slide the same direction until a chip or wall stops it.
4. Repeat until the yellow chip rests on the red dot, using as few moves as you can.
5. Copy your efficiency and slide profile to share.

Tips

• Place a green chip where you want the yellow chip to stop before sending it that way.
• Use the show-where-it-lands option to check a move before committing.
• Moves that do not slide the yellow chip cost efficiency, so try to make every move count twice.

Questions