Darkwaar11 - Rune Lock

Slide the runes into the seal order before the lock burns out.

grid logic sliding a few minutes

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Posted Aug 30, 2026 by Mathieu Ledru

Darkwaar is an experiment in creating and publishing small playable ideas regularly.

Today's puzzle

Today's Darkwaar is Rune Lock, a small sliding puzzle.

Slide adjacent runes into the empty slot until the seal order is restored.

A tiny browser puzzle for a few minutes of play.

How to play

  • Tap or click a rune next to the empty slot to slide it
  • Restore the 1–15 seal order (A through O)
  • Correctly placed runes glow green
  • Use Restart to reset the board
  • The move counter tracks how many slides you used (limit 48)

Play on itch.io

Play Rune Lock in the browser: https://darkwoodcom.itch.io/darkwaar11

Development note

One fixed 4×4 board, Godot primitives only, touch/click sliding with a move limit and win/fail states.

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