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Escapement: Clockwork Puzzle
Cozy logic games: fix a watch
You've taken over old Mr. Aldous's watch-repair bench. The clients' letters keep coming: a milliner's father's pocket watch, a lighthouse chronometer, a widow's chiming mantel clock. Every movement arrives with its wheels loose.
Mesh wheels from the mainspring to the hand until the hand turns at exactly the speed the work order asks for, in the right direction. Every wheel must fit its gap: too big and it collides, too small and it never touches. Every mesh flips the direction; the tooth counts set the speed. Then the train ticks to life, wheel by wheel.
• 250 movements in seven drawers, each one proven solvable by a solver, with a proven fewest-moves par. Match it for the third star.
• New rules drawer by drawer: fixed bridge wheels, jewelled pins that stack two wheels, one-way ratchet wheels, two hands on one train, a slider pin that must work in both positions, and the tourbillon finale.
• Hands-on workshop lessons teach each rule on a real board.
• Sixteen letters from the clients whose watches you mend.
• No timers, no lives, no ads. Undo is free; a hint costs only a star.
The first two drawers (70 movements) are free. One purchase opens the full workshop: no subscription, nothing else to buy.