Sliding Slide

Why We Picked Sliding Slide

The rule in Sliding Slide is one sentence long — clicking to place and confirm — and the rest of the game is working out what that costs. Most of the thinking happens before you act, because clicking to place and confirm rewards looking a step ahead. It is quiet in a way that most of this library is not. We kept it because the board stays readable from the first move to the last, which is rarer than it sounds. On the record: 120 of 172 on the puzzle shelf, 4.1 out of 5 from 22 ratings, and 729 plays.

How to Play

Three rules cover almost everything this game asks of you:

• One click selects, the next confirms, and the game waits as long as you do.
• There is no fail state beyond an unusable board, and an unusable board is usually your own doing.
• Work the awkward shapes first while the board still has room for them.

Editor’s Note

A short session suits it best, since progress rarely saves and leaving usually means starting over. These pages keep the game and its text side by side, so a rule that reads obscurely can be checked against the board.

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