Quilt

🎮 About This Game

Quilt is the calm one. There is no timer, no opponent and no way to lose — two of you share a single board, take turns laying tiles of your own colour, and try to make something worth looking at. The score is shared and it rewards togetherness quite literally: every connected patch of one colour is worth its size SQUARED, so six tiles in one patch are worth thirty-six while six scattered tiles are worth six. You are not competing. You are trying to leave each other room. The thing that stops it being a pleasant nothing is one rule: you must play in the same row or column as the last tile either of you placed. That single constraint is why the board is a puzzle instead of a colouring book. You cannot always reach your own patch, your partner's last move decides where you are allowed to go next, and a tile laid without thinking sends the two of you somewhere neither of you wanted. It is deliberately a game you can play while talking about something else, and equally a game you can lean over and take seriously. Nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever under pressure, and the only thing at stake is whether the quilt you made together is better than the last one.

🎯 How to Play

Take turns. On your turn, place one tile of your colour on any empty square that shares a row or a column with the last tile placed — the legal squares are lit up for you, so you never have to work it out. The very first tile of the game can go anywhere. Every connected group of same-coloured tiles scores its size squared, and each patch shows its own size on the board so you can see what you are building. The header shows the running total and, when you hover or move the cursor, exactly what the square under it would add. The game ends when the board is full — thirty-six tiles, eighteen each — and your finished quilt gets a score and a name, from SCATTERED up to MASTERWORK. In two-player mode each of you owns a colour. On your own, you lay both colours in turn and chase your personal best, which is saved between visits. Tap a square on a phone, or use the arrow keys and SPACE.

💡 Tips & Strategy

• ▸Squared scoring means the difference between a good move and a bad one grows as the game goes on. Joining two patches of four is worth far more than starting a fifth patch somewhere new.
• ▸Think about where your tile sends your partner, not just what it scores. The row and column you leave them is the only choice they get.
• ▸Leaving a gap next to your own patch is not a waste — it is an invitation for your partner to come back to you later, and they cannot do that if the row is already full.
• ▸A single tile stranded on its own is worth one point for the rest of the game. There is no way to rescue it, so it is worth a moment's thought before you create one.
• ▸Late in the game the legal cross gets short and the choices get sharp. Try to arrive at that point with your patches touching, not with tidy holes to fill.
• ▸Playing solo, remember you control both colours, so the row-or-column rule is a rhythm rather than an obstacle — you can set up two moves ahead in a way a pair cannot.
• ▸A random pair scores around 215 and a careful pair well over 500. If your quilts are landing in the low three hundreds, the usual cause is starting new patches instead of joining old ones.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions