Darkwaar26 - Signal Leap

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

Today's puzzle

Today's Darkwaar is Signal Leap.

A frog carries one lamp across a dark swamp. Lily pads are the only places to land. The beam shows a hidden pad, and it wakes the next relay.

How to play

The swamp is a small grid of water. Eight boards. Each one ends when the beam reaches the ring.

• The lamp points up, right, down, or left, and reaches three cells
• A reed stops the beam. The reed is a stand of leaves with a bar across it
• Turn left or right. The frog stays on its pad
• Tap a ringed pad to hop. A hop reaches one or two cells, including a diagonal
• A dashed pad is hidden until the beam touches it. Only then can the frog land there
• A relay is a diamond. It stays hollow until the beam reaches it, then it fills and sends the light on in its own direction
• The receiver is a ring on a post. The level is done when any beam covers it
• Z steps back. R starts the level again. Mute turns the clicks off
• Next appears when the ring lights

Left and Right turn the lamp. Tab picks another landing. Enter hops.

The wildcards

• Flashlight: the lamp is aimed, and a reed blocks it
• Double duty: the same beam reveals a pad and carries the signal
• Feeling froggy: the frog hops from pad to pad

There are no mirrors. The relay repeats the beam. It does not bounce it.

Play on itch.io

Play Signal Leap in the browser: https://darkwoodcom.itch.io/darkwaar26

Screenshots

The core

The first board only asks for a hop. The lamp is already aimed, and it does not reach the ring until the frog is closer.

Later boards hide the next pad behind a relay, and a reed cuts the straight line. You light the pad, hop, then aim again. The last board needs both: the first relay reveals the pad, and the hop from that pad wakes the relay that reaches the ring.