Slide from either end
A run is the beads of one colour at a cord's end. It leaves from the left or the right — which end is the whole puzzle.
The game
Beads on cords, with a little room to spare.
Slide a run of one colour off either end of a cord onto a cord whose end bead matches, or onto an empty cord. A cord that fills with one colour closes into a bracelet and goes to the shelf. Close every colour and the level is done.
Room is the whole game. An empty cord is where a colour can wait, so spend it on the colour that unblocks the most — and remember a run can come off the other end. When nothing slides, undo a move, or add a cord.
How it plays
A full cord closes
Fill a cord with one colour and it closes into a bracelet, lifts to the shelf, and its cord opens up again — room you did not have a moment ago.
Room is the whole game
Every level starts with a little slack. Spend it on the colour that unblocks the most. When nothing slides, undo — or add a cord.
A bead from every place
They say magpies steal shiny things. This one is giving them back.
A girl saved her from a tangle of thread; every morning after, she brought a bead to the windowsill. Now she is threading the world — one bead from every place, five to a bracelet, a thread all the way back to the window.
Ten regions of felt and embroidery, each with a landmark at its end, and a cord stitched through all of them. The next ones are being sewn.
Made by hand
Every piece is something you could pick up off a craft table.
Linen under everything. Felt for every panel and tag. Glass beads on a cotton cord between brass hooks. A running stitch on every edge that would otherwise be a hairline.
The materials were photographed once and the geometry is drawn — so a bead sits on the cord the way a bead sits on a cord, and a sheet lies on the table the way felt lies on linen. One light, from the top left, for the whole game.
The facts
Short levels. Every one built to be solved.
New cords as you go: one with a pinned bead, one knotted at an end, cords of different lengths, a cord that asks for a pattern, a pouch that deals beads in order. Five levels make a bracelet, six bracelets make a set, and nine charms wait on each set's hooks for the player who wins a certain way. Three hundred levels are in the game today, and the thread keeps going: more regions are on the way.
Every bead is readable by its shape alone, not only its colour; there are no timers; the text follows your size setting.
Your guide
Pica.
A magpie who collects shiny things and threads them rather than hoards them. She is on the map, on the current bead, with a needle in her beak; she looks where a bead belongs; she is proud of the shine, tidy about the cord, easily delighted, and never disappointed in you.
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