Switch Spots

Switch Spots is one of the games the Puzzle Society, Andrews McMeel Universal's puzzle site, began making in-house in 2022. It is played on the GoComics puzzle pages. The Puzzle Society describes it as a twist on the classic tile-match game, made more interesting by its asymmetrical side arrows and corner buttons.

The board is a square of dots in two colours, white and red in the game's art. Pressing an arrow on the edge of the board flips the dots in that row or column, so each one changes to the other colour; the arrows sit on different sides for different lines, and the corner buttons add moves of their own. The goal is a board of one colour, reached within a set number of moves.

A day's game has three levels, each harder than the last. Because flipping a line twice undoes it, the puzzle is really about choosing which set of flips to make, and in what order matters less than which. Its designer, Abigail McNaghten, also made a colour-blind version that adds high-contrast shapes on top of the dots.

Switch Spots is included with a GoComics subscription. It suits players of Lights Out and other flip puzzles.