Rotating Grimace

Why We Picked Rotating Grimace

Rotating Grimace has no timer and no lives, so the only pressure is the space you have already spent. The difficulty is spatial rather than mechanical, which is the harder kind to fake. The loop is rotating pieces until they fit, and the tension comes from watching your own space shrink move by move. We kept it because the rule is visible from the first screen and still holds at the last level. The page's own numbers: 327 plays, 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, and 134 of 172 on the puzzle shelf.

How to Play

Three rules cover almost everything this game asks of you:

• Rotate the piece until the outline matches, then drop it.
• The board arrives solvable and leaves solved, and the middle part is your own planning.
• Stop while the puzzle is still interesting; it will still be solvable later.

Editor’s Note

A coffee-break game: a board, a sitting, and nothing to keep up with between visits. The category assumes nothing about your history with games: the rules are on the screen, or they are the screen.

Written by the UGFJD editorial team for this page. The publisher’s own description follows below, unedited.