Sha Puzz

The mascot is adorable. The puzzles are not. Shape logic: no number clues, and no pieces to drop — you draw every region yourself, with your finger. There is exactly one solution. The game tells you when you're wrong, and it still isn't easy.

Meet the four-year-old in charge

Sha is four. Her distant big sister is a family legend — and, in fact, an archaeologist. Sha misheard the job, and picked her own career on the spot. But the screen says otherwise. Every puzzle you solve brings color back to a faded ruin and wakes the jungle. Sha never notices. Not once. You're the one companion who sees what's really going on.

You don't place pieces. You draw them.

Each puzzle gives you only a few shapes (polyominoes) — usually two or three. Swipe to draw a region. It has to match one of those shapes exactly — rotated or flipped is fine. Drawing the regions yourself, no number clues, one unique solution — as far as we know, no other app has all three.

Knowing you're wrong doesn't make it easy

Draw a shape in the wrong place and it dims right there. We won't leave you lost. But knowing you're wrong isn't knowing what's right. There's still one solution to find. If a board can be brute-forced, our checks catch it and it never ships. Every board has its own difficulty, 1 to 4 — measured per board, not per chapter. (The first teaching boards go unrated.)

Get it right, and it keeps going

Get regions right back to back and your combo climbs, and the score with it. Score carries across boards. How long you keep a run going is its own kind of win. The only rival is yesterday's you. No leaderboards.

It keeps getting steeper

• Pieces run from 3 to 5 cells; the combinations deepen as you go • The first 9 boards hold your hand through the controls and rules. After that, you're on your own • Boss stages sit midway through the chapters. Most boards never rush you. Bosses do.

Three stars aren't the end of it

Later on, boards you clear flawlessly (3 stars) reopen as bonus ruins — same board, but the parts you get right melt away. Clear that flawlessly too and you earn an amethyst. Amethysts unlock Sha's outfits — the best ones need ads on top. Sha isn't a tour guide — Sha leans over the board next to you, taking full credit for everything you solve.

Fair warning

Undo and hints are there for when you're stuck. They're not free: undo is limited per puzzle, hints cost Coins. We could have made it easier. We chose to protect the feeling of solving it yourself. Save this one for a day when you have time to think.

This is for you if

• You're looking for the next logic puzzle after sudoku and nonograms • You like brain puzzles you work out, not guess at • You underestimate cute games — and then stay much longer than planned

Offline play

The core puzzles work without an internet connection.

Purchases

Free to start, with ads. Optional in-app purchases: Coins (in-game currency), heart refills, skip passes, ad removal.

Privacy

This app uses Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics, and the AdMob SDK. Data collected: app activity, diagnostics, and advertising ID. See the privacy policy for details.