Porchlight (Dayzle)

About Porchlight (Dayzle)

Porchlight is one of the eighteen daily games on Dayzle, a site of original puzzles from TLL Studios in Valencia. Each day at local midnight it sets one town, the same for everyone.

The town is drawn at a 45 degree angle: streets between houses, shops, parks and a fountain square. The van starts on the yellow pad by the orange-roofed warehouse with a full tank. Drag it along the streets, tap a street next to it or use the arrow keys, one block per move. A house with a parcel badge has a dashed ring on the street in front; drive onto the ring to deliver.

Every move burns one unit of fuel, and the tank holds fewer units than the whole round, so you must stop at a petrol station, which fills the tank to the top. At zero the van cannot move and you undo. Later in the week roadworks close a street, a one-way block forces a direction, and some towns have dead ends you drive into and back out of.

Par is the fewest moves possible. Matching it gives three stars, up to three over gives two, more gives one; since every round has an even number of moves, the next score after par is par plus 2. Undo and Start over are free, and the dashed orange line shows your route so far.

The shared result shows your moves, par, a parcel per delivery and how many times you refuelled, never your route. Past editions stay open for practice and never count.

How to play Porchlight (Dayzle)

1. Look at today's town: the depot by the orange-roofed warehouse, the houses with parcel badges, the petrol stations and the par beside the move counter.
2. Drag the van along the streets, one block per move, and drive onto each dashed ring to deliver that parcel.
3. Watch the fuel gauge and drive onto a petrol station to refill before it runs out.
4. Return to the depot once every parcel is delivered; at par the day ends by itself.

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Tips

• Count before you set off: the gauge equals your moves left, so if the round is longer than the tank, plan the station stop first.
• Nearest first is rarely best; try the round the other way or start with the parcel next to the station.
• Refuel late, since a stop with a nearly full tank wastes the detour.
• Fetch a parcel down a dead end when you pass that corner anyway, because it always costs a there and back.

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