Lantern Trek

Ninety-one floating islands in three volumes, new ones in the far north and the Arabian Nights. Turn each one to find the way up, and light the great lantern.

Each island is a little world you can turn in your hands, drawn in ink on rice paper, cut in woodblock or painted as a Persian miniature. Find the way up, and light the great lantern waiting at the top.

Pip is a small traveler in a straw hat, carrying a paper lantern, and every floating island is a puzzle.

How it plays

• Tap the ground and Pip walks there
• Drag to turn the island, pinch to look closer. What you need is often on the side you haven't seen
• Touch the world: stones, magnets, gears, mirrors and bells answer a tap
• No quick fingers needed to clear an island. The answer is an idea, and it clicks when you see it

Volume I · Paper and Ink: fifty islands

• Tides that rise and fall, a lake that is summer one moment and ice the next, snowballs that grow as they roll, a mirror twin who takes every step the other way, an echo of yourself that walks your last steps again
• Puzzles from old games and crafts: a chess board where a pawn becomes a queen, sliding blocks, movable type, folded paper, a bronze mirror, shadow play
• Later islands bring two ideas you already know together in a new way
• A final island at daybreak

Volume II · The Northern Night: twenty islands

• Cut like old woodblock prints, in a winter the sun no longer rises on
• Thor's hammer, the Norns' thread, the ribbon that held the wolf, and a new sun at the end

Volume III · A Thousand and One Nights: twenty-one islands

• Painted like Persian miniatures, under one full moon
• On the last night a little sister blew out the lamp, and every story stopped where it was: Sindbad at sea, Ali Baba at the rock, Aladdin with his lamp

More to find

• Three small treasures hidden on every island: paper cranes, Idun's apples, pomegranates
• A red seal on every island for its bonus challenge, such as fewer moves, a race against the clock, or not a scratch
• A small curio on each island for your curio cabinet

Made with care

• Each volume has its own hand: ink and wash, woodcut, miniature
• Music played on real instruments: zither, harp, cello, psaltery, ocarina and chimes, slow and quiet
• Hints when you want them, a little at a time, so the idea stays yours
• The first eight islands of Volume I cost nothing, and the first four of each later volume; each volume is one purchase
• No ads and no account. Plays without a connection
• English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional)
• Portrait or landscape, phone or tablet