Beaming

The core gameplay involves selecting a hexagonal tile, which will bring up a toolbar at the bottom of the screen that contains actions that can be used to manipulate the items in the puzzle. The solution for each puzzle varies. The requirements for solving a puzzle will be displayed in the upper right corner of the screen.

When looking at the toolbar, you will notice there are two sets of icons on the left and right sides. From here on I will refer to the set of icons on the left side as attributes and on the right side as actions. Attributes define behaviors which belong to a tile. They cannot be interacted with, they are strictly informational. Actions define behaviors which belong to the items inside a tile. A tile which contains at least one action or attribute will have a small, hexagonal indicator displayed towards the top of the tile.

The actions on the right side of the toolbar can be interacted with in the following ways:

• By tapping on them. This will execute the action on the items in the currently selected tile.
• By pressing and holding them. This will select the action, if it is valid to do so, which allows it to be moved to another, valid tile. Different actions will have different requirements about which tiles they can be moved to.
• By swiping them (pressing and holding while moving the finger outside the action button). This will toggle the action, if it is valid to do so. This is currently only applicable to the Rotate action, in order to change the direction of rotation.

Some actions utilize a mask which covers invalid tiles (they will appear darkened). While a mask is active, the action can be cancelled by clicking or tapping outside the puzzle area or on the currently selected tile.

As previously mentioned in The Basics above, attributes are the icons on the left-hand side of the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. Click or tap on an icon below to learn more about it.

As previously mentioned in The Basics above, actions are the icons on the right-hand side of the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. Click or tap on an icon below to learn more about it.

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Troubleshooting

You might be wondering what all that stuff in the URL is. Each URL parameter is separated by a forward slash (/). The parameter after the hash (#) symbol is the puzzle ID. The parameter after that is the state of the current puzzle, stored base64 encoded and compressed. Both of these parameters are optional and will be automatically updated when you load and interact with the game. In addition to storing state in the URL, which is useful when sharing the state of a puzzle with others, state is also stored locally in your browser's localStorage cache. If for some reason you need to clear cache for a puzzle, you can insert ?clearCache=[puzzle ID] in the URL right after the opening forward slash. If you want to clear all cache, omit the =[puzzle ID], or execute localStorage.clear() in your browser's console.