How the garden works · credits
Move one half-square per step. Open or close the checkerboard hinges in 11.25° steps. Each tile stays rigid: rotating the tiles opens a central gap and expands the whole carrier in both directions. The tiles and their entire motion must avoid stones and the frame. Match the target position and opening exactly to deliver your flowers.
Arrow keys or WASD: move. O/E: open. C/Q: close. Z: undo. Touch: use the buttons or swipe the board. Every route is solvable, and a nudge finds a shortest path from where you are. Earn three petals at par, two within par + 5, one for any delivery. Nudges cap that delivery at two petals. Replay any route. Your collection is saved on this device; sound is optional.
This is an original puzzle inspired by 2026 pivoting-colloid metamaterials research. It is an idealized rotating-square mechanism, not an engineering simulator. Bistable Auxetic Studio is a research reference only; no code or artwork reused. Original code MIT. Artwork generated with a GPT image model. License.