Gate Weave
Slide the colour carts to their matching gates — read the order and the whole board unravels.
ARCADE / CHOP CHAIN
Chop Chain
Tap the left or right half of the screen (or ←/→) to stand there and chop
Chop Chain hands you two zones — left and right — and a trunk that only falls as fast as you can read it. Tap the side without a branch to step there and land a chop; tap the wrong side and that branch stops you cold. Land chops in a steady rhythm and a tempo chain builds, scoring more per chop the longer it runs — but rush the taps or dawdle too long between them and the chain resets to the ground floor. Clear the fixed 80-chop budget and the run ends in your favor. Every run draws a fresh seed, so the branch pattern is different each time — no run plays quite the same, and an instant restart is always one tap away.
How to play
Rules
Tap the side without a branch (left or right) to stand there and chop the trunk. Tapping the side with a branch ends the run. Clear the fixed chop budget to win.
Controls
Tap the left or right half of the screen (or press ←/→) to stand there and chop. That is the entire control scheme, on desktop and mobile alike.
Tips
A chop lands a tempo bonus only when it keeps a steady beat with the one before it — mash the taps or wait too long and the chain resets. Reading one branch ahead and committing to a steady rhythm usually beats going as fast as possible.
Behind the game
Chop Chain makes a whole lumberjack challenge out of two choices. Each chop asks for the left or right side of the trunk. Choose the side without a branch and your character steps there and cuts; choose the blocked side and the branch stops the run immediately. The rule is legible at a glance, which leaves room for the real game: reading the next shape quickly enough to keep a deliberate beat instead of reacting in a panic.
Speed alone is not the score strategy. A successful chop contributes to a tempo chain only when it arrives in the allowed rhythm after the previous one. Mash both sides and the timing is too fast; wait until the picture feels comfortable and it becomes too slow. Either mistake drops the chain back to its starting value. Keeping a steady cadence adds more value to each chop, so a player who reads one branch ahead and stays composed can outscore a faster player who repeatedly destroys their bonus.
The run has a fixed budget of 80 chops. That makes progress tangible: every correct tap takes a piece from the trunk and every preserved rhythm makes the eventual total richer. It also makes recovery interesting. After the chain resets, the safest response is usually to re-establish the beat on the next clear side, not to make up imaginary lost time with frantic taps. There is no opponent or hidden automation deciding the result; the screen and your input are the entire contest.
A fresh seed draws the branch pattern for every new run. The left-right rule stays instantly understandable, but the sequence that tests your rhythm changes, so memorizing one tree is never the point. Chop Chain is a tiny piece of forest percussion: identify the open side, strike on time, and turn a clean run of 80 cuts into a score built from calm attention.
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