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Prototype is playable

LIDO

Basin planNo. 2

A calm logic puzzle about glass tanks. Fill the tanks: water rests on each tank's floor and its top is flat across the whole tank.

The numbers on the edge count the wet squares in that row or column.

Prototype · playable in your browser
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An eight by eight basin plan partly filled with deep blue water
Basin plan No. 2, filling to the finished pool. Real captures from the prototype.

How a basin fills

Prototype captures · 8×8
The empty basin plan with numbers along the top and left edges
The planWalls mark the basins. Edge numbers count wet squares.
Several basins partly filled with water, 16 of 33 squares wet
Water finds its levelTap a square to bring that basin's water up to it.
Every basin correct and a Pool open sign
Pool openEvery row and column matches. The pool opens.
You are not shading cells. You are filling a basin, and water can only do that one way.

Lido is an Aquarium puzzle. It came out of a trial of six themed one-level demos, where a version with the same rules in plain black and grey just didn't feel the same. The theme is the rule: water can't hang in mid-air or tilt, so every basin fills from the bottom and sits level.

The board is glass tanks on warm paper. Water eases to its level and ripples, bubbles rise, plants sway, and fish swim in once the puzzle is solved. Day and night themes, soft water sounds, and drag to fill or drain.

Genre
Aquarium
Boards
6×6 and 8×8
Levels
2, each with one solution
Status
Prototype

Still to come

Rough order
  1. 01Saves for progress and unfinished boards, then a level list with a gentle difficulty curve.
  2. 02A first-level teaching flow, and a bigger moment when the pool opens.
  3. 03Hints that explain the next logical step instead of giving it away.
  4. 04Ranked play on the same leaderboard as every Shokode game, with one player and one friends list.
Lido or Moss?

Both are candidates for Shokode's second game.

Play Lido See Moss Play Slime Squares now