Rotaboxes

About Rotaboxes

Rotaboxes takes a single photograph each day, credited on the page (often from Unsplash), and cuts it into a grid of square tiles. At the start every tile is turned by a random quarter, half or three-quarter turn, so the picture looks like a patchwork.

Clicking a tile turns it by 90 degrees. Clicking on the right side of a tile turns it clockwise and on the left side counter-clockwise, which matters because the game counts your clicks and shows the ideal number for the day. You win when every tile sits the right way up.

A preview button lets you see the finished photo at the cost of one extra click. The page also shows how many tiles are left to rotate.

It is a quiet, low-pressure daily puzzle, suited to anyone who wants a minute or two of visual sorting rather than words or numbers.

How to play Rotaboxes

1. Look at the day's scrambled photo.
2. Click a tile to rotate it 90 degrees; right side turns clockwise, left side counter-clockwise.
3. Turn each tile until it fits the picture around it.
4. Use the preview if you need to see the whole photo, at the cost of one click.
5. Finish when every tile is in place, close to the ideal click count.

Tips

• Start with tiles that show clear edges or horizons; their orientation is obvious.
• Pick the rotation direction that needs one click instead of three.
• Leave plain areas such as sky until last, when neighbours make them clear.

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