Quiltoku guides

Quiltoku is a daily puzzle played with colours, shapes and patterns instead of numbers. These guides explain how it works, from your first square to the toughest boards, and tell the story of the quilt that started it.

• The tutorial, step by stepThe seven guided lessons from the game, written out with pictures. Start here if you have never played.
• How to solve a puzzleFour techniques that solve almost every board, with worked examples.
• The variationsLatin, Double, Scramble, shapes and patterns, turned boxes: a guide to each, plus the maths of Euler.
• Levels and worldsTwenty worlds, two thousand levels, and how the climb is paced.
• Inside the logoA ten-by-ten Graeco-Latin square in fabric, with a finished puzzle hiding in its corner.
• The quilt behind QuiltokuCity Limits, a quilt from 1985, and how it became a puzzle.
• Move or back up your gameCarry your streak and levels to a new device with a game code.
• Your data, in plain languageWhat stays on your device, what reaches us, and how it is protected.
• Questions and answersStreaks, hints, offline play, your data and more.

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