Rope Draw

About Rope Draw

A pattern-matching puzzle made of ropes. The arrangement you are aiming for is displayed above the board and you push the ropes about until yours matches it, which is a clearer goal than most puzzles of this kind manage. A hint covers the opening moves, and a free-form mode unlocks later.

How to play

• The target arrangement is shown above the board throughout.
• Push the ropes around to rearrange them into that pattern.
• A hint is available and shows the first moves rather than the whole solution.
• A freer mode unlocks later on, in which ropes can be added and moved at will.

Tips

• Compare the target with your board one rope at a time rather than as a whole picture. Which single rope is misplaced is a far easier question than which arrangement is wrong.
• Use the hint for its opening moves and then stop. Puzzles like this are decided at the start, and the rest usually follows from it.