Activities/Paths

What is Paths?

Paths is a sliding tile game where the goal is to create closed paths.

How do you play?

64 tiles are to be arranged onto the 8×8 grid, positioning the tiles so that paths are created.

8 tiles at a time are place to the left of the grid in a staging area (on the left side of the screen). Move (by dragging) and rotate (by clicking) one tile at a time onto the grid. Connect the lines that run across the tiles to the lines on the other tiles on the grid to make paths. You cannot let a line run off edge of the grid, nor onto another tile without connecting to a line on that tile. An X will appear over connections that result in broken paths.

Note: Once a tile is in position it cannot be moved.

The game is over when all tiles have been played or there is nowhere to place a tile without creating a broken path.

If you play against the computer, you must click off somewhere off of the grid to indicate you've finished your turn.

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  Start by dragging a tile onto the grid.

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  Drag more tiles onto grid squares that are highlighted.

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  Paths must be connected across the tiles.

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  Keep going until the grid is filled. More tiles will appear on the left in groups of 8.

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  Broken paths: the lines do not connect on abutting tiles.

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  A completed grid

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  Whenever you close a path, it is highlighted in your 'XO' colors.

Where do I get Paths?

Paths can be downloaded from http://activities.sugarlabs.org/addon/4409

The tiles

Tile shape	No. of tiles
	16
	4
	12
	16
	4
	8
	4

Misc

There is not yet a trac component for Paths, so please report bugs by adding a comment to this page.

The source code for Paths is available on gitorious.

Features to be added:

• multiplayer
• custom tiles