Wendspire — Turn the Top, Settle the Spire

Turn the top. Settle the spire.

stack-turning face-flip ordering planning 2–6 minutes

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Wendspire — Turn the Top, Settle the Spire cover

Tap a disc to turn it over with every disc above it. Settle the spire narrow to wide, every rune lit.

A spire out of order

A column of rune discs stands on its plinth, jumbled. Some runes face up and glow gold; others face down, dark slate. You never move one disc alone. Tap any disc and it turns over together with every disc stacked above it: the whole block flips, its order reverses and every rune in it changes face.

Wendspire Four Wards at the start, with two dark runes

Settle every rune

A spire is settled when it reads narrowest on top to widest at the base, with every rune lit. A green pip marks each disc already resting in its final place, so you can see the spire take shape.

Wendspire The Crown mid-solve

The trick is that a disc you settle at the bottom must have been on top, facing the right way, one turn earlier. Bring the widest disc up, turn it so it lands lit, then sink it with one long turn. Every turn has a cost: each spire has a par and a strict turn limit.

Wendspire The Crown with the widest disc dark on top

Five spires

Five spires grow from a first two-disc turn to a five-disc crown. Undo takes a turn back, even after you run out; Restart rebuilds the spire. Finish at par for a perfect settle, then tap Next. On the last spire, Again returns to the first.

Wendspire Upturned settled at par

Controls

Tap a disc to turn it and everything above it. Tap Undo, Restart or Next as needed. On desktop, click instead of tapping.

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