A little help, when you need it.

Rules and practical starting points from the games themselves.

Cozy worlds

Build a comfort before filling every seat

Misty Bathhouse · Check both the guest preference and the task. A basic bath earns coins, but it does not count as a preference match. Restore a needed comfort before sending that guest elsewhere.

Plan one useful recycling trip

Tideline · Read the active restoration goal before collecting. A full bag of the wrong material creates extra walking.

Choose a stack that fits the route

Cloud Courier · Look at the lowest arch on your planned road before filling the stack. A shorter load can reach a house with less detouring.

Follow the courtyard’s next useful action

Ghost Inn — The Lantern Road · The main action changes with the place and your supplies. Read it after arriving instead of repeatedly clicking while still walking.

Read the order before filling the pot

Moss & Broth · Start with the recipe rather than the nearest ingredient. Two different requested soups can share an ingredient but still need different partners.

Repair for the next useful delivery

Toytown Tinker · Look at the task before filling your carrying capacity.

Soften the patch before repeating the tool

Mossback Awakening · A stubborn patch may need water before cleaning. Check the prompt instead of spending time repeating an ineffective tool.

Plan the water at its arrival temperature

Ember Springs · Check both volume and temperature. Water at the right temperature still needs to meet the pool’s requested amount.

Feed the next machine, not every machine

Lunar Salvage Works · Trace the required output back to its input. Filling a machine unrelated to the current goal uses transport space without finishing the project.

Match your team to the narrowest passage

Tiny Colony · A food’s carrying requirement and a passage’s width are separate constraints. A large enough team can still be too wide for the shortest path.

Puzzles

Keep a corner and room to merge

Cozy 2048 · Choose a corner for larger tiles and keep a consistent direction.

Leave space for the whole tray

Woodblock Calm · Look at all available pieces before placing the first one.

Trace the chain before you push

Cascade Isles · Follow the starting direction through each tile. An arrow leaving a tile must reach a valid input on its neighbor.

Read the head before the bend

Arrow Escape · Read direction at the head, not from the longest section of a winding body. Follow that head’s straight lane to the board edge.

Give the whole boat room to leave

Paperboat Harbor · An open cell in front of a boat is only the beginning. The entire boat must travel through clear space to the matching exit.

Make space without trapping the tray

Drawer Unwind · Work backward from the exit. Decide which item blocks the final line, then look for room along that item’s own axis.

Read the room in Dismantle Desk

Dismantle Desk · Brass means correct in the teach stages; green means "looks safe", which is not the same thing.

Read the room in Lying Lawn

Lying Lawn · Start from the corners and edges you can only reach one way — they decide the route.

Read the room in Dial Desk

Dial Desk · Painted gaps look almost right — if the bolt jams, that gap was fake.

Read the room in Lamplight

Lamplight · Start from numbered plinths with only one legal neighbour set.

Sudoku & word logic

Use repeated-letter clues carefully

Harbor Words · Each clue corresponds to this guess, including how many copies of a letter the answer contains.

Write possibilities, then find a reason to cross one out.

Classic Sudoku · A note records an option, not a commitment. If a cell sees 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 in its row, column or box, its only candidate is 3. Read all three units before filling it.

Treat a diagonal as a complete extra unit.

Diagonal Sudoku · Only the two marked corner-to-corner diagonals apply. A smaller parallel diagonal has no special rule. Select a diagonal cell and compare its ordinary units with the marked diagonal.

Read the boundary before you read the candidates.

Jigsaw Sudoku · A thick outline encloses one nine-cell region, even when the region bends across where a familiar box would have ended. Row and column rules still apply. Ordinary 3 × 3 boxes do not.

Use the total and the current unit restrictions together.

Killer Sudoku · A two-cell cage totaling 3 contains 1 and 2, in some order. A cage totaling 10 does not make every sum-to-10 pair available: any digit excluded by a row, column or box is unavailable in that cell.

Read the bulb before the tip.

Thermo Sudoku · Digits strictly increase from the filled round bulb along the drawn path. Bends do not reset the order. On a four-cell thermometer the bulb is at most 6 and the tip is at least 4.

Separate the circle from the sum.

Arrow Sudoku · For a circle containing 5 with a two-cell shaft, the shaft may contain 1+4 or 2+3 in a legal order. The circle itself is not part of the sum. Start at the circle and follow the arrow tip.