Bimble is a daily path puzzle set in the countryside. The field is a square grid with a few numbered stones. Draw one walk that starts on stone 1, passes every stone in number order, finishes on the last stone and visits every square of the field exactly once. The walk moves up, down, left or right, never diagonally, and can never cross a hedge.
Put your finger on stone 1 and drag. Drag back over your walk to rub it out, or tap any square of it to cut it back to there. On harder days you will meet stiles, which the walk crosses in a straight line, and oaks, where it has to turn.
The week gets harder as it goes: Easy on Monday and Tuesday, Medium on Wednesday and Thursday, Hard on Friday and Saturday, and a bigger Ramble on Sunday. You start on 1,000 points and lose a point a second (three quarters of a point on Sundays) and 50 for each hint. A new field appears at midnight UK time, the same for everyone.
No. Every field has exactly one walk and is checked by a solver that only uses steps a person can see, such as a square with only two ways in left, or a turn that would trap part of the field.
A hint lights up the next square of the walk and says why it has to go there. If your walk has already gone wrong, the hint shows where, first.
Yes. Endless mode has hundreds of extra fields at four levels, Easy, Medium, Hard and Ramble. The archive also keeps the last seven daily fields.
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