Burrow Shape Match

A block-style woodland animal holding a wooden shape beside a burrow entrance

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Match block shapes to restore woodland shelters. Rotate or mirror pieces and save your stars as you explore.

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Burrow Shape Match

Restore woodland shelters by reading block silhouettes, rotating and mirroring pieces, and filling missing openings. A calm spatial puzzle with safe retries and saved stars.

Spatial puzzleShape matching

A shelter worth looking closely at

A hedgehog and rabbit are preparing a woodland shelter. Each opening is drawn on a five-by-five grid, and you must choose the one piece that belongs there. This is not a reflex race: the target stays visible, there is no countdown, and a wrong answer never takes away a completed room. The expedition introduces a new kind of comparison in each chapter rather than asking you to memorize where the correct button sits. Piece order changes between attempts at a chapter; the first option is not a privileged answer.

From outlines to missing pieces

Begin by matching a whole silhouette. Later chapters introduce clockwise rotation, horizontal reflection, and missing patches surrounded by fixed stone. The final chapters combine these operations. In repair rooms, solid green cells are already occupied and must not be covered again; the dotted amber cells are the opening you need to fill. A correct patch plus the fixed stones recreates the full target. All candidate pieces contain the same number of cells, so counting alone will not distinguish them: inspect an asymmetric corner, the longest edge, and the position of a notch.

Make a deliberate move

Tap or click one of the three piece cards. When rotation or reflection is available, use the labelled buttons to change only the selected piece. Reset returns that piece to its original orientation; choosing another card begins with that card's original orientation. Check fit compares every grid position. A wrong check marks differences and leaves the room open for another attempt. On a keyboard, Tab reaches the cards and controls, and Enter or Space activates the focused button. A successful fit settles into the opening before the next room begins. Reduced-motion preferences remove the travelling and shaking effects without changing the rules.

Stars without a time limit

A first-check solution without a hint earns three stars. Solving within three checks without a hint earns two; later solutions earn one. A hint points to a row worth comparing and caps that room at one star for the current attempt. Turning, reflecting, selecting and resetting do not count as checks. Each chapter ends with a summary and a choice to continue, replay that chapter, or return to the menu. Replaying can improve a room's best stars but cannot lower them. There is no paid retry, energy meter, or penalty for taking time to study the target.

Progress and browser storage

Completed rooms and their best stars are saved in this browser when storage is available. The main button resumes at the first unfinished room; after completing the expedition it begins a fresh run without deleting your best stars. Leaving an unfinished room restarts that room, not the whole expedition. No account or cloud synchronization is used. Clearing site data, switching browsers, or using private browsing can remove or separate the record. A storage warning appears when saving is unavailable; play still works, but that session's progress remains only while the page is open. The earlier three-room record is left untouched.

Why these shapes behave this way

The design focuses on observation, not on hiding the target or rewarding fast clicking. Candidate pieces have equal cell counts and remain connected, while the generator rejects any distractor that could become correct through the allowed transformations. Only one candidate can solve a room, though a symmetrical piece may fit in more than one orientation. The grid itself never mirrors when you change interface language: numbered rows run from top to bottom, and columns run from left to right. Playing together works best when one person describes a distinctive corner and the other checks it; it is not a developmental test or a guaranteed learning intervention.

Can I rotate every piece?: Only rooms that introduce rotation show the Rotate control. Mirror follows the same rule. In earlier rooms, choose the piece already facing the correct direction.

Why does a similar shape fail?: A missing corner, an extra cell, the wrong orientation, or a shifted position is enough to fail. Compare the highlighted differences; the grid must match cell for cell.

Will hints erase my earlier stars?: No. A hint caps this attempt at one star, but the saved best result never decreases. Replay the chapter without hints to improve it.

Burrow Shape Match

Burrow Shape Match

Burrow Shape Match

Burrow opening

Choose a piece

Shelter restored!

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Burrow Shape Match

A shelter worth looking closely at

From outlines to missing pieces

Make a deliberate move

Stars without a time limit

Progress and browser storage

Why these shapes behave this way