Ikat Dot Connect

Ikat cloth is dyed before it is woven, so every thread has to land exactly where its colour belongs. Eight rooms of an old dye works hold 240 looms, from the Linen Room to the Grand Loom, and every pair of beads waits for its thread.

Join matching dots with threads and fill every tile. 240 boards in eight rooms add bridges, warp gates, one-way tiles, knots and seams.

Drag from a dot to the other dot of the same colour to lay a thread between them. Threads may not cross or share a tile, and a board is solved only when every pair is joined and every tile is filled. Drawing over another thread cuts it back; retracing your own thread takes tiles back. A thread drawn from its dot to its partner with no other colour in between is set: other strokes cannot cut it until you tap it to loosen it. Later rooms add missing tiles, bridges that carry one thread over and one under, warp gates to the opposite edge, one-way tiles, brass knots that hold two threads and seams that close the side between two tiles.