icolink

So, fancy some bite-sized brain-teasers? 😀

icolink is a logic puzzle game 🧩 about chaining icons to go from one thing to another, like:  🔥 > ❄️ > 💧.

But it might not always be as easy as you think! 'Cause this chaining isn't just about identifying stuff that is similar in the real-world. Sometimes, you'll need to look at the icon names themselves to find the link, or think about which thing could be contained by another...

The game currently contains 999 short puzzles of varying difficulties (depending on the length of the chain to reconstruct) ⭐

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How to play

In icolink, your goal is to create a chain between a start icon and an end icon.

Each link 🔗 in the chain has a specific type. Two icons can be connect by 0, 1 or more link types. When you've placed an icon, the game will tell you what links it can create if its neighbours (if any) - hover/click on those to know specifically why these connect (e.g. what category links them)!

To solve the puzzle, you need to use the exact amount of link types given at the top of the screen (but not necessarily in the order they're displayed). This might mean tweaking your icon order a bit :)

There are 6 possible link types:

• Category: things of the same group (e.g. 'food'), like 🍎 /🍖
• Cause/Effect: causes/is caused by the other one, like 💣 /💥
• Part/Whole: includes/is included in the other one, like ⛈️ and ⚡
• Opposite: are some contrasting things, like 🔥 / 💧 or ☀️ /🌙
• Prefix: share the same 2 first letters (exclude parentheses), like 🚗 (car) and 🐱 (cat)
• Suffix: share the same 2 last letters (exclude parentheses), like ⚠️ (warning) and 💍 (ring)

You can click/hover the required link types at the top to get a reminder of what each one means!

To-do

Since this is still early dev, there are a few things I already know I want to add to make the game more enjoyable 😀

• Switch placed cards with drag-and-drop to easily re-update the chain.
• Make the music loop a bit longer to create an even more atmospheric ambiance.
• Add even more icons!