Squared Straight

Squared Straight is a puzzle game built around cubes and rectangular prisms whose tiles move differently from those on a Rubik’s cube. You slide stickers around the puzzle to solve it, using movement that calls for new solving methods.

Tile movement

A standard 3³ twisty cube has 26 blocks, while a same-size Squared Straight puzzle has 54 tiles, creating many more possible arrangements. Twisty cubes turn in 90° increments, keeping corner blocks at corners, edges at edges and centers at centers. Squared Straight puzzles can move in one-tile increments—1/12 of a rotation on a 3³—so any tile can move anywhere. The upper band of tiles moves independently while the tiles on top remain fixed, so twisty-cube algorithms do not apply.

Puzzle types

Beaded puzzles use beads to mark each tile’s position and orientation. For example, a tile may need to sit on the orange face at the green-and-white corner, with its green bead beside the green side and its white bead beside the white side.

Unmarked puzzles have interchangeable tiles of the same color and can be generated at unlimited dimensions. You can save your place in any puzzle, including very large ones, return to an earlier state after a mistake, work on a puzzle across multiple sessions, or create and save mosaic designs. Generated tiles are preserved when you reset a puzzle, and the camera rotates instead of the puzzle to keep large puzzles running smoothly.

Track your solution

As you solve, the game identifies the largest group of tiles that could belong to a solved puzzle and tallies them. In beaded puzzles, those tiles glow. In unmarked puzzles, tiles of a color glow when more than half are on a side with the right number of tiles; for example, 10 blue tiles must be on a face with 10 tiles to count toward the solution. This tally and glow effect is visual guidance for tracking progress.

Look around the puzzle

The navigation system lets you move the view freely. Right-clicking and dragging rotates the puzzle on two axes, while arrows or an icon cube change which pair of faces is on top and bottom. The two-axis rotation leaves the same opposing faces—yellow and white, blue and green, or red and orange—on top and bottom until you switch the pair.

Story and ending

An info page includes a backstory about how you ended up floating in space and solving the puzzles. Unlock the ending to find out whether there is a way out of this celestial purgatory.