Glide

About Glide – Daily Sliding Puzzle

Glide is a daily route-finding puzzle on a small board of ice. Pick a direction and your token slides until something stops it: a wall, a block, or the edge of the board. It never halts in the middle of a run, so a move is a commitment to travel as far as that direction allows, and the board has to be read as a network of stopping points rather than a grid of steps.

Reaching the flag is usually easy. Reaching it in the fewest moves is the game, and that is why par stays hidden until you finish — knowing the target would turn a search into a countdown. You get one submission per day, but the board in your browser is a free sandbox until you make it: plan as long as you like, undo and reset cost nothing, and only the route you send counts.

Boards are generated by searching rather than by folding a random route, and rejected unless they need between six and twelve moves, use at least three distinct directions, and have a nearly unique shortest solution. Finish within one move of par and you win; finish at all and your streak survives. The leaderboard ranks on moves, and the shared result gives away your margin, never your route.

How to play Glide

Slide to the flag in as few moves as you can. The token never stops halfway.

1. Pick a direction; the token slides until something stops it.
2. Plan as long as you like — undo and reset cost nothing.
3. You submit once. Beat par, or come within one move of it, to win.