FuTiLE

FuTiLE is a sliding tile game where the object is to assemble like colors and get letters and numbers in their proper order. FuTiLE shuffles four nine-tile color quadrants and counts the number of moves it takes you to collect the colors back into quadrants. Slide the tiles around until you get all four colors separated.

FuTiLE has four levels of play: Pretty Easy, Kinda Hard, Brain Buster and FuTiLE. Each level increases the difficulty of the puzzle by adding patterns of numbers and letters to the color quadrants, making the solutions more exclusive. If tiles have numbers or letters they must be arranged in a certain order to solve the puzzle.

The Pretty Easy level only has colored tiles.

The Kinda Hard level has colored tiles with the numbers 1, 2, or 3 on them.

The Brain Buster level has each tile of a given color with a number 1 thru 9 on it.

Finally, the FuTiLE level has a unique number or letter on each tile.

By requiring the letters and numbers be put in order, the FuTiLE level is 36 times more difficult than the Pretty Easy level. And, because the initial shuffle is random, every game is a new challenge.

The game keeps up with the 15 best (lowest) scores in each level category and displays the lowest score to date for the level being played on the game board. The current game can be saved at any point during the game without interrupting the game and retrieved later to resume play from that point. This allows a player to explore multiple solution strategies from a given point in the puzzle. If the initial scramble is saved, it can be retrieved repeatedly to allow multiple players to take turns competing to see who is best at solving the puzzle.

FuTiLE is a great and fun way to pass time and is a challenging alternative to games like Solitaire.