Tuft Rescue

The tufts walk wherever their feet point, over cliffs, into tide pools and straight at thorns. Four places stand between them and their burrows: Fernbank, Tidewell, Kilnstone and Glowcap Hollow. Every hill they cut through comes back to them as the next bridge.

Guide a stream of walkers home through 24 hand-made levels. Assign diggers, blockers and climbers, and turn every bit of dug earth into bricks.

Walkers drop from a hatch and keep walking, turning only at walls. Pick a role on the toolbar, then tap a walker to give it that job. On a phone, press near a walker, slide until the ring sits on the one you want and lift; on a computer, click it, or press 1 to 8 to pick a role. Climbers scale walls and Floaters drift down from any height; both keep their skill. A Blocker stands still and turns the others back; give it Blocker again to let it walk on. Diggers dig straight down, Bashers tunnel ahead, Miners tunnel down at a slant, and steel stops all three. Builders lay a rising stair of up to 12 bricks, and they have no count of their own: every pixel of earth or old brick that any role removes goes into the brick store, and each brick a Builder lays comes out of it. Burst curls a walker up and clears a ring of earth around it; that walker is lost, but the crater fills the store. Water, thorns and long falls are fatal. Bring the number of walkers shown on the level card through the burrow door before the clock runs out. Pause still lets you give roles, and the speed button runs the level at 2x or 3x.